Damage Threshold and Damage Reduction

[CrameKnight]

Hi guys. If you know anything about DT and DR please feel free to share your thoughts and knowledge.

 

Here are my questions;

 

1. What is the limit of DT?

 

2. Is it true that the greatest DR is just 85%

 

3. If I am hit for 80 Damage and my life is 200 with 35 DT and 70% DR what would be the actual Damage?

 

Thank you in advance good sir and kind madams.

[Zalman1337]

As far as I know, there is no limit for DT, although the most you can get would be around 52 (or 69 while Nerd Rage is active). The most you could get after consumables with Nerd Rage active would be 73 (2 from Whiskey with Cass as a follower and 1 from Datura Hide). DR is capped at 85%, just like radiation resistance and poison resistance. An 80 damage shot would only do 13.5 damage (45 after DT, 13.5 after DR). However, DT can never completely negate damage: at the most it can only reduce it by 80%. For example: you have 50 DT and are shot with a 50 damage projectile. You would receive 10 damage.

[CrameKnight]

Thank you very much for clarifying that up.

[devinpatterson]

Thank you very much for clarifying that up.

 

CrameKnight I should point out that the 85% maximum is for the player. You can go under game settings and alter it.

As an example of a high (well insanely high) DR check out the aliens from Zeta. They use a Inertia suppression field, and when the aliens are level 30, it grants a whopping 110% DR. Here is the interesting part; "A damage resistance of 110 does not render the alien immune to damage, but rather increases their durability by slightly over 400%."

 

But honestly DR plays such a minuscule part in FONV, I don't think you really have to give it any serious consideration. A few actors have it (mostly 10%, but veteran rangers and nightkin have 30%) and a handful of items grant some small bonuses.