Bovine & Amp Damage

My A5 Merc with %50 physical damage reduction gets SLAPPED by bovines post

Amplify Damage curse. It's super annoying. But I guess there's no way to mitigate? This is /players7

use

Sol x 2 , jewel +life, leech wp, x

PDR% from gear and skills works additively with the -PDR% from

Amplify Damage and

Decrepify curses. The merc normally has 0% DR, so

Amplify Damage reduces him to -100% (and

Decrepify to -50%). When he has 50% DR from gear, he is reduced to -50% DR when affected by

Amplify Damage, which is the same as if he hadn’t had any PDR% and been affected by

Decrepify.

On top of that, monster damage is increased by 6.25% for each additional player, so on p7 they deal +37.5% damage compared to p1.

EDIT: You can stack PDR% higher than 50. It is capped at 50, but the extra does help when cursed. Other than that, curse length reducing effects like

Cleansing (Cure) and

Fade helps. Not sure what gear he has and what makes sense to change. Giving him flat (integer) PDR, like leox mentioned, will help a bit too.

will it help to socket 2x

Ber? 50+16

ShadowHeart wrote: 7 hours ago

PDR% from gear and skills works additively with the -PDR% from

Amplify Damage and

Decrepify curses. The merc normally has 0% DR, so

Amplify Damage reduces him to -100% (and

Decrepify to -50%). When he has 50% DR from gear, he is reduced to -50% DR when affected by

Amplify Damage, which is the same as if he hadn’t had any PDR% and been affected by

Decrepify.

On top of that, monster damage is increased by 6.25% for each additional player, so on p7 they deal +37.5% damage compared to p1.

Yeah I think the

Hell Bovine just slap way too hart combined with the curse. Is what it is. Not rich enough to x2

Ber a CoA for my merc to wear (have

Vampire Gaze + ethereal

Shaftstop).

jeweler's

Bone Visage of the mammoth ,

Ber x3

Shaftstop +

Ber,
38+24=62

12 pdr

or try cheap
vamp shaft ,

Sol x2

Sol usually act like 4 % pdr, see if it can improve

I am also use vamp

Shaftstop

Sol x 2, even if its p1 , sometimes it still get killed.

I run simulator,

Here is final possibility to anti amp scenario.

Crown of age 15 DR + 2

Ber ( 31 )

Shaftstop 1

Ber, 38
unique wp +

Amn

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You can test this by equip a regular White armor + 19DR vamp with nothing and

Amn wp.

See if your merc can hold in your scenario. p7 without curse

with previous information, the amp kick in, you will act like equip DR 19 vamp. If it still fail, then well. no solution.(hell cow, 230 x 0.8~170)

I guess, no ,

Teleport away.

Sounds pretty expected on P7 settings. Hard to say what can be done about it without knowing what build you're running. Is your merc

Frenzy Barb and what's his gear like? And what's yours?

look back, he is running

Vampire Gaze ,

Shaftstop (50)

looks like, his merc, go up , get cursed and die petty quick. Per hit 240 hp gone (5 cow, -1k hp per second), looks likely need to drink 1 purple poiton per second. not sure how can he beat up this scenario.

leox wrote: 2 hours ago

look back, he is running

Vampire Gaze ,

Shaftstop (50)

looks like, his merc, go up , get cursed and die petty quick. Per hit 240 hp gone (5 cow, -1k hp per second), looks likely need to drink 1 purple poiton per second. not sure how can he beat up this scenario.

Yes, I only read the initial post.

Shaftstop and

Vampire Gaze is about as good as you can reasonably get for gear that provides PDR without getting into super expensive/rare stuff.

Does your merc have lots of LL on his weapons? What does he have for weapons?

Is he having this trouble only against elite mobs of cows with AmpDmg, or all the time? Maybe bust out a

Wand of lifetap just for the dangerous mobs? If you have Enigma or

Teleport try repositioning your merc. Quick look at the map,

Teleport to a nearby well to uncurse, or even quick TP to uncurse?

You forgot the defense part.
The more he has, the less he's getting hit.

Tornado_OLO wrote: 2 hours ago

You forgot the defense part.
The more he has, the less he's getting hit.

Also true. If he has enough strength, upgrading the

Shaftstop might be worthwhile. Don't upgrade the

Vampire Gaze though because sometimes the defense value goes down! lol

Another possible way is to go for Fortitude in an ethereal

Sacred Armor.
Lvl 15

Chilling Armor gives a huge def bonus.
So with

Iron Skin, the cows will almost never hit him.

Edit : 23k def with

Chilling Armor up. If you're a sorc, don't forget to

Enchant him so he has more AR, so he can leech more life.