Hm, not quite as potent as my 2449 healing power spec, but still pretty similar.
Healing power is great and all (I love min/maxing builds), but unless you’re using Magi’s gear to get it, the low health won’t do anyone any good :/
Low vitality, high toughness builds actually benefit a lot more from healing power due to being able to restore a greater percentage of their health with each heal. As such, they can be better for sustained combat.
That isn’t true at all… Damage isn’t done in % of your health. A 5k heal when u have 10k health is no better than a 5k heal when you have 20k health.
The only place it is true is keeping your health above a certain % for a benefit, like Ele Diamond Skin.
Actually, it is true, though I worded it a bit oddly. I should have said that one would heal a greater number of attacks worth of damage, rather than a greater percentage of their health. In your example you assume both guardians have the same healing potential and do not consider damage reduction based on armor (toughness) values, which doesn’t coincide with my statement. The reason it’s true is because toughness scales down damage as a percentage, but healing power provides a fixed increase to healing. Let me demonstrate…
As per the wiki (which we will assume is accurate), the direct damage (AKA “damage”) formula is as follows:
Damage done = (Weapon strength) * Power * (skill-specific coefficient) / (target’s Armor)
Since weapon strength is a uniformly distributed random number based on fixed ranges for particular weapons, and skill-specific coefficients are fixed for individual skills, we can extract what is essentially a damage multiplier coefficient:
Damage Coefficient = Power / Target’s Armor
That is, the attacker will do more damage with a given skill by increasing their power, and the target will take less damage by increasing their armor value.
Since damage is the result of a quotient, it is essentially the ratio of the attacker’s power to the target’s armor. In order for the attacker to gain a percentage increase in damage, the attacker’s power must be the same percentage greater than the target’s armor. Similarly, a target may reduce the damage they receive by a given percentage by setting their armor value at the same percentage greater than the attacker’s power.
To illustrate, here is a simple example using your numbers, with some armor values I chose:
Guardian 1 stats: 10000 health, 3200 armor
Guardian 2 stats: 20000 health, 2200 armor
Attacker stats: 2700 power
We give guardian 1 1000 more armor since a difference of 10000 health is equivalent to 1000 vitality. That is, we essentially give guardian 2’s extra vitality to guardian 1’s toughness, which allows us to compare the effects of higher toughness and lower vitality.
Assuming the skill-coefficient and weapon strength values give the attacks from the attacker a fixed damage value of 500, the damage each guardian would take from one of these attacks would be (with rounding):
Guardian 1 damage taken per attack: 500 * (2700/3200) = 422
Guardian 2 damage taken per attack: 500 * (2700/2200) = 614
As such, the amount of attacks each guardian can sustain is (rounded up):
Guardian 1: 10000 / 422 = 24
Guardian 2: 20000 / 614 = 33
So in general, guardian 2 will be more durable. However, this doesn’t consider the fact that the guardians will heal themselves. For instance, let’s say both guardians heal themselves for 5000 HP after sustaining 15 attacks. This results in the following:
