Many shields in Spiral knights have status resist in their stats. What exactly does this mean? Does it only resist when using the shield, or whenever it's equipped? I have seen from experience that status effects only work when the shield is down or broken. Is this so?
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Status resists on shields
Fri, 05/03/2013 - 03:56
Fri, 05/03/2013 - 07:28
#2
Well just like damage, for example a shield with fire resist will survive better against fire enemies.
Fri, 05/03/2013 - 07:48
#3
right, but hides the surprise
Little-Juances is right of course, but I would stress it differently:
To a knight, damage and status are very different things. Damage lowers your health. Status doesn't lower your health, but instead does weird things such as locking your feet (freeze) or preventing healing (poison). Of course, some statuses (fire, shock) cause damage to happen, and that damage lowers your health. But it is still clearest to say that the status itself doesn't directly lower your health.
What's confusing about shields is that, to a shield, damage and status are both forms of "damage", that both lower the shield's health. For example, if a shield takes a piercing+freeze attack, it doesn't get frozen; rather, the piercing and freeze combine to lower the shield's health, by an amount that depends on how much piercing and freeze protection the shield has.
Fri, 05/03/2013 - 12:24
#4
Thanks for your input.
I'm not a new player, Bopp, but I just wondered about exactly what a status resist on a shield did, and I thought that this would be the best place to find answer to my question. I also understand how status effects work. If I understand you correctly, the shield's damage and status resist will lower the amount of damage done to the shield, making it last longer, and therefore keep you alive longer. If a monster attacks your shield with a damage type that the shield doesn't defend against, then it will break the shield faster, lowering it's health much faster than when the shield absorbs an attack (attack damage, possibly with a status) that it is resistant against. I will check the wiki for good measure, though.
Thanks,
Unless my explained version is wrong, or someone just wants to add something, this thread is officially over.
Fri, 05/03/2013 - 14:07
#5
sorry, and yes
Sorry to "talk down" to you, if I did. Yes, you have the shield idea right. Cheers.
Shields are often confusing to new players. Check out the wiki articles "Shield" and/or "Shieldbearer Guide". They explain how shields work. The short version is: Whenever a shield blocks an attack from you, it gets weakened, by both the damage content of the attack and the status content of the attack. You want your shield to have status resistance, so that it can take more of that kind of attack without breaking.