This is a collaborative thread where you put test data on the tortodrone shields.
Facts so far:
•The attack can hit twice, once from the initial bash and once from the AoE explosion at the end.
• AoE increases in radius as the levels go up.
• Stun seems to have a stronger effect. (Not tested correctly yet)
• Has a bigger hitbox than normal shields.
• Faster than normal shield bash.
• Contains dangerously high amounts of sexiness. Use at your own peril.
• 5 tiles more of knockback
• It hits once, plus the explosion. Under certain situations it can hit twice, and in some extreme situations I've gotten it to hit up to 4 times on one enemy, excluding the explosion.
• As far as I see, the explosion gets bigger as your star level gets higher, though this may just be me being paranoid.
• Stun looks stronger than the regular shield bash stun.
• Looks like it has a much larger hitbox than a normal shield bash.
• Looks really really cool.
• Not an expert on shield bashing, but it seemed to be doing quite a formidable amount of damage, 4* moreso than 3*, and I assume 5* follows suit.
HP is the same as all other non-omega-shell shields.
The explosion can go over low walls, but not through high walls (tested in adv training near the firepots).
If someone wants to test the damage, it would be best to do so on a T3 depth (either GH training or clockworks).
Shield damage does not scale with armor bonuses (but might with damage boost)
Lvl 6 Grand Tortoise deals 70 damage in the T3 GH training. (other non-torto 5* deals 70 damage, 4*=68 in the T3 GH training.)
So, at someone times, it'll hit 4 times. So does it always hit twice because of the explosion, or does that do nothing? And does the slam do stun?
Things I know:
-Faster than normal shield bash
-Goes further (slightly)
-Explosion gets bigger as the star levels go up.
So, it does not inflict more damage per hit, but it hits multiple times and then there is the explosion, right?
-Health indentical
-Slow condition
So, slightly decreased defense than their counterpart?
Hard to decide if i'll get it or not..
"• AoE increases in radius as the levels go up."
Just proved this to be wrong.
EDIT: Further testing proved this to be true. My bad.
"Excluding the dash, it'll hit twice or 4 times in a few cases."
Proven that this was just from bugs. Exclude it from the list, if you will.
"• Has a bigger hitbox than normal shields."
Proven true.
"• Does more damage than normal shields."
Proven false.
"• Faster than normal shield bash."
Proven true.
"• Contains dangerously high amounts of sexiness."
Proven 100% true.
How the list should be as it currently is:
•The attack can hit twice, once from the initial bash and once from the AoE explosion at the end.
• AoE increases in radius as the levels go up.
• Stun seems to have a stronger effect. (Not tested correctly yet)
• Has a bigger hitbox than normal shields.
• Faster than normal shield bash.
• Contains dangerously high amounts of sexiness. Use at your own peril.
I feel that it also has a stronger knockback or my mind is just playing tricks on me... and if you want the specifics, the 5* shield explosions diameter is about 5 tiles
Does the Stun advance as the shield upgrades, or is a a constant [blank], where blank is minor or something?
it's a beautiful thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqyAmIrCyG8
I've only ever got it to hit twice.
The hitbox for the shield bash does indeed seem larger. dashing alongside a line of boxes breaks them all, you don't have to go through them.
I'll measure the radius on the 4* and 5*, if I Can get another 3* I will do that too.
EDIT: going to test stun as well.
I remember Zeddy once stating that there is tier 1, 2 and 3 variants of statuses, with weapons inflicting their tier of status. This gets downscaled to the tier the weapon is in, but it does not get upscaled. this prevents, say, the red saber from killing things in T3 with it's fire.
Again, I shall test the 4 and 5 star shields until I can get another 3 star.
Did this in the training hall, against the gremlin punchbag. To my knowledge they don't have stun resist, but I could easily be wrong. at least it's all against the same.
Using sudaruska and ancient plate shield charge as other source of stun. I'm not sure what stun it is, but going by the rest of the line it's moderate.
basic timings, I hit things and hit a stopwatch, then hit the stopwatch again when the stun expired. so it's all very rough.
At tier 1, suda stunned for around 4.5 seconds
the 4* feral shell shield bash stunned for about 2 seconds.
Ancient plate shield also stunned for 2 seconds.
At tier 3, Suda once against stunned for around 4.5 seconds.
Feral shell stunned for around 4.5 seconds also.
Once again, Ancient plate stunned for same duration as feral.
So it seems that shield bash stun does in fact downscale a fair bit. depending on tier.
Dibs reported 4 times and an explosion with the 4* Shadow, and presumably all other 4* ones. Maybe it's 3 times for 3* and 5 times for 5*?