elementalist shaper of storms shock mechanic

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MonaHuna wrote:

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TemjinGold wrote:

Yeah that isn't how Shaper of Storms works. It's similar to the elemental mastery where exposure is at least 18%. You don't start at 18 and pile things on. You calculate yours normally then compare to the 18.

Exposure and ailments work differently, hence the confusion.

Shaper of Storms checks the base shock magnitude and if it's lower, sets it to 15%. This base magnitude (15%) is further modified by ailment/shock effect.

I believe the exposure mastery also checks the base value, which is not obligatory the initial value, like -10% to Fire Resistance from Master of Fire notable. This base value calculated like say base damage (or resistances), summing all +flats first. So if we are Elementalist with "Exposure you inflict applies an extra -25% to the affected Resistance" it will result in base Exposure value of -35% to Fire Resistance. Which is then compared to -18%.

So this is very beneficial for ailments since we have modifiers for the base value to be more effective. But we don't have modifiers like this for exposure, we can only scale the base value.