Question about PVP damage.

[The_Animus]

"PVP Penalty - When dueling against other characters, your damage is reduced to 1/6th of what it shows on screen, so if you do 600 damage, it will do 100 damage to a player."

I got this from a 1.10 pvp guide. From what I understand though it's actually 1/2. The 1/2 was gotten from the Arreat Summit. So I'm just trying to make sure, which is right?

[Jerkazoid]

pvp dmg is set to 17%

that just happens to be real damn close to 1/6

[The_Animus]

What about the berserk barb who kill someone with 3k life in 1 hit. Are you telling me they do 18k damage?

From the arreat summit:

"When attacking other players, all damage of attacks and spells are cut in half. Minions do 1/4 damage except for Skeletons which do more damage. Some spells are special cased, such as Paladin Thorns, which will only do 1/10th the damage against other players. The duration of poison, cold, are not affected unless the player has equipment that relates to those elemental attacks."

[The_Animus]

Well I looked through the patch txt file and the newest change I found was in 1.09

"Changed PvP penalty for players or Hirelings attacking other players
to 1/4.
- Implemented PvP penalty of 1/2 for Hirelings attacking other Hirelings."

I don't see anywhere where it says 1/6.

[LLD-Vampire]

Zerk is elemental if there resist sucks it's gonna do a lot more that and zerk is just strong.

[The_Animus]

I may be wrong, but I thought zerk damage was just magic similar to bone spirit and resistances didn't do anything because its not a specific elemental type.

So the barb would still be needing to do 18k damage per hit to insto kill someone with 3k life.

But even so where does it say 1/6 pvp damage? In the entire patch txt file there is no mention of the fraction 1/6 or 1/6th at all, and only 1 mention of 17% which had nothing to do with pvp damage.

[FsF.Demon]

What about the berserk barb who kill someone with 3k life in 1 hit. Are you telling me they do 18k damage?

From the arreat summit:

"When attacking other players, all damage of attacks and spells are cut in half. Minions do 1/4 damage except for Skeletons which do more damage. Some spells are special cased, such as Paladin Thorns, which will only do 1/10th the damage against other players. The duration of poison, cold, are not affected unless the player has equipment that relates to those elemental attacks."

heres some examples

if dmg is reduced by 1/2 a 6k zerk barb would deal 3k to a player

if 1/6 the barb would b doin 5k dmg to a player becuz it says "1/6 OF dmg" not "1/6 the dmg"

[Jayaz_Forteck]

The PvP penalty is 1/6 aka 17%, I can't prove this, It's just common knowledge that it was changed from 1/4 in .09 to ~1/6 in 1.10

[mepersoner]

[color=White]9K damage, critical strike.

And I've never seen a barb 1 hit kill a 3K life character, seen 2 hit kills many times though.
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[LLD-Vampire]

Uh I ment magical! I was thinking vengance or whatever