Veterancy (Skill)

Veterancy
Mastery:	Soldier
Tier:	3
Skill Type:	Passive
Max. Level:	12
Cooldown:	none
Associated Skills:	none

Experience in some of the toughest theaters of the colonial wars has given you the ability to survive ordeals that would be fatal to others.

Notes Edit

This skill, while seemingly subject to usual diminishing results, instead behaves almost linearly due to the way blocking. The threshold values of L1/L4 are thus of lower importance here.

With Y meaning the shield's block amount, e.g. 25% base block chance, +5% block gives 30% change, i.e. 0.3*Y damage blocked overall, but +35% gives you 60% block, i.e. 0.6*Y damage blocked, effectively doubling the blocking strength of a shield. The gain is of course more noticable on low-block-chance, high-block-amount shields, than on high-block-chance, low-block-amount ones.

Also, with -% requirement note that each additional reduction will get relatively more and more visible; still, the results are obviously very logarithmic here. If you're a shield build you'll probably want to max this skill anyway, otherwise getting L4 or L1 should suffice.

Skill ProgressionEdit