PIRI Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 Arcane veil mechanic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enoch Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 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.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PIRI Posted May 9, 2018 Author Share Posted May 9, 2018 (edited) That strange, coz it's looks like it doesn't do anything Edited May 9, 2018 by PIRI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gr8fuldave Posted May 25, 2018 Share Posted May 25, 2018 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abbzug Posted May 25, 2018 Share Posted May 25, 2018 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Witness41920 Posted May 25, 2018 Share Posted May 25, 2018 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arnegar Posted May 25, 2018 Share Posted May 25, 2018 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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