Armor Penetration
Armor Penetration
No, it’s not. Armor is “Melee Resistance”.
ArP is Melee Penetration.
Just because no one wears resist gear (which makes Spell Pen. useless), that doesn’t change the fact that the mechanic is the same.
Also, it’s not a flat increase, as armor is non-linear.
Wrong.
Spell pen ensures that your spell hits, and does not get mitigated. It does not increase the damage your spells do.
Example: Mob has 200 fire resistance, if I have 0 pen i will be getting partial resists. If my fireball does 2000 damage, it will never exceed this damage. The damage can however be lowered now by incremetents of 10%.
Armor pen, increases your damage.
Example: Mob has 20000 armor and I have 1500 armor pen. My hits will be hitting the mob as if it has 18500 armor, thus resulting in damage increase.
See the difference? So do not claim they are the same.
Spell pen is more so like the weapon rating used to be.
Higher weapon rating the lower chance of glancing blows. Since glancing blows were in essence physical resistance.
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