Do Armour had any effects at all on physical spells?

[srulz]

Several basic questions:

• 1. It's common knowledge that Armour will affect melee and ranged (archery-type) physical attacks. Does Armor affects physical spells?
  2. If the answer to 1 is "No", does Stone Warden skill (Stone Fortress) work on spells? The description:

  When you use your Resilience of the Dwarves racial power your skin becomes so thick that it even absorbs damage from non physical attacks. Non physical damages are reduced by %d%% of your total armour value (ignoring hardiness).

  3. Where can I find the formula for Armour in-code?

Thanks!

[greycat]

1. Do you mean things like Earthen Missiles? I could be mistaken, but I believe the answer is "no".

2. Stone Fortress... err, I'm not entirely sure how that works. I thought it applied to all non-physical damage you received (mind, fire, cold, slime, acid, darkness) from any source. But I'm not sure.

3. ./modules/tome/class/interface/Combat.lua (specifically the _M:attackTargetWith function):

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                local pres = util.bound(target:combatArmorHardiness() / 100, 0, 1)
[...]
                print("[ATTACK] raw dam", dam, "versus", armor, pres, "with APR", apr)
                armor = math.max(0, armor - apr)
                dam = math.max(dam * pres - armor, 0) + (dam * (1 - pres))
                print("[ATTACK] after armor", dam)

[jilladilla]

Armor does not apply to physical spells, it only applies to melee and ranged(archery) attacks.

Armor DOES apply to non-physical melee/ranged damage though, so you cant cheese your way past armor with a mindstar or a staff or an artifact sword that deals non-physical damage (although mindstars do have very good armor penetration).

As for Stone Warden stuff... I don't know...

[Mewtarthio]

I believe that Stone Fortress protects against everything. It's quite handy against DoT effects.