Arcane veil mechanic?

[PIRI]

Arcane veil mechanic? 

[Enoch]

Certain attacks-- most notably, firearms-- have the "veil piercing" quality.  That means that the Deflection bonus from Arcane Veil does not apply to them. 

 

Against all other attacks, it's a very worthwhile Deflection bonus.  (Plus Concentration, which is nice.)

[PIRI]

That strange, coz it's looks like it doesn't do anything

Edited May 9, 2018 by PIRI

[gr8fuldave]

On my Barbarian/Priest of Wael character the Arcane Veil (which I hoped would help offset the rage penalty) appears to do nothing.  With Arcane Veil and rage active at level 2 she had a deflection of 7.

[Abbzug]

Conditional effects don't show up in the character sheet. You can test this with stuff like boots of speed (deflection vs disengagements) and other items.

[Witness41920]

I believe you can also hold down "shift" while hovering over the modified attribute (in this case deflection) and it will show you all of the conditional effects. 

[Arnegar]

Yeah, you don't see it in the character sheet unless it's a completely plain "+x deflection." It still applies as stated in the tooltip.

 

I'm not sure how the AI interprets conditional deflection effects, though. Plain effects will affect their behaviour by making them less liable to attack someone with high deflect, and I suspect that it goes by the value displayed in the character sheet. This would mean that Arcane Veil does not make you a less juicy target, even though it gives +50 deflect against almost everything. This can be good or bad depending on whether or not you want to be attacked.

Edited May 25, 2018 by Arnegar