About Bone Armor

I have two questions:

1. Do synergies provided by item do have an effect? I have 1 point in
   Bone Armor and +2 to all skill points. This gives 3 points in
   Bone Armor or 50 points absorption. When I use a
   Wand with +2 to
   Bone Prison, I get 4 points in
   Bone Prison. My expectation is, that
   Bone Armor now absorbs 50 + 4 * 15 = 110 points. But the game shows still 50 points. Is this a display error or have I misunderstood something?
2. Does the term "absorbs" for
   Bone Armor do have the same meaning as it has in
   Thundergod's Vigor for lightning? Does it heal?

ceving wrote: 1 month ago

I have two questions:

1. Do synergies provided by item do have an effect? I have 1 point in
   Bone Armor and +2 to all skill points. This gives 3 points in
   Bone Armor or 50 points absorption. When I use a
   Wand with +2 to
   Bone Prison, I get 4 points in
   Bone Prison. My expectation is, that
   Bone Armor now absorbs 50 + 4 * 15 = 110 points. But the game shows still 50 points. Is this a display error or have I misunderstood something?
2. Does the term "absorbs" for
   Bone Armor do have the same meaning as it has in
   Thundergod's Vigor for lightning? Does it heal?

1: No, only hard points matter for real synergies (like

Bone Prison for

Bone Armor).

2: No, in this case it just means that it takes that much damage before your health pool.

it would be too broken if synergies worked on soft points, having 19 to skills, means you could have everything maxed with a single point lol.

MintBlancmanche wrote: 1 month ago

it would be too broken if synergies worked on soft points, having 19 to skills, means you could have everything maxed with a single point lol.

It depends on the synergy bonuses and the effect of the base skill.
Druid summons (both wolves and bear) are the exception to the hard point rule and benefit from each other's soft points. Yet the summons even with soft point synergies are weak - hell-viable, but still no match for caster builds.
Also, passive masteries (sorceress' and necromancer's) are technically synergies, and they benefit from soft skill points.