As I was fighting a chernobog, I activated my shield of thorns and DELETED HIS HEALTH. After looking at it I did 1066 damage with that one relic. So I think I may have found a new meta or it was just pure luck that the damage he did to me was pushed back by his own damage. So I have to ask this question, does spear of the magus go along with shield of thorns or is it just my imagination that this was never a thing?
Full clip:
https://gamerdvr.com/gamer/zero-x-deadfang/video/75538851
Go to 1:00 to see the thorns part
Otherwise only protection reduction items will
At that point, the only mitigations applied would be any magical protection or general mitigation (e.g.
Now, the way that
Is getting Magus worth it to help apply more
Honestly, I didn't bother looking at the video. I've done so now. I'm glad you're using the right skin. The best skin. The ONLY skin.
Here's the breakdown using maths.
At level 20, with his build of
With no protection items, his base magical protection at level 20 is 48 (like every god in the game). Now, you hit him with both
NOW...it looks like all 4 hits he nailed you for were crits after you activated Thorns. This means the base damage should be (738.3 * 4), or 2953.2. 2953.2 * 0.4 (Thorns reflection) * 0.7812 (21.88% mitigated) = 922.8 damage...the remainder of the damage (1066 total damage per in-game death stats) is probably due to the O-Bow proc (30 + 60% scaling = (30 + 157.8) * 0.4 * 0.7812 = 58.78...922.8 + 58.68 = 981.48? But you can see my calculations are close. It's possible Chern was affected by 10 more pen/protection reduction somewhere (I don't know how), but that gets the total damage within 10.
Without Spear's 2 stacks, he would have mitigated around 32% instead of ~22% (or ~15% if he had 3 stacks of Magus applied). Using the calculation of my value of 981.48, it would be 854 damage instead. The difference here, due to the Magus stacks, was worth 127 damage. That's not worth it IMO. Granted, you got the kill (I think you would have gotten the kill anyway without the 2 Magus stacks but I'm not sure), but in the end, I will maintain my opinion that:
1) I'm not sure why you were attacking the enemy Chern near his own base where Hel (coming back from healing at the base) could finish you, when the rest of your team was behind you continuing to fight the enemy
2) You would have been better served IMO with a tankier build. No
You got lucky (as lucky as you can be when you still die) because the Chern built 0 pen (at which point if he'd gotten
And yes, the skin was my very first REAL limited skin, and I love it so much.
Back to the point at hand, looking at how that chernobog attacked me, his O-bow did do 156 as my soul reaver may have also been a cause to the backfire, I would need to do more testing in this as this was a very weird experience for me.
Thorns can be very effective, especially against crit damage...but often, it's not worth it, at least against decent competition that knows not to continue attacking once it's activated.
https://smite.guru/match/938259972
The clip:
https://account.xbox.com/en-us/Profile?xr=mebarnav&rtc=1&activetab=main:mainTab4
(Go to captures, the second smite clip is the full clip)
Also the Thorns part is at 1:00 until 1:18
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