Armor percent rate change

[Aeroblyctos]

Hey there once again!

I have been making my campaign for over half year now. I have already released alpha tests from it. However, now I have been thinking about the armor system. I think it sucks, at least for the campaign. Can it be changed?

If you can help me, I will give some "rep" in here and credits at the campaign. Thanks beforehand.

 

[Battle_Shipper]

Could you elaborate a little more please? What do you mean by armor percent rate?

 

[Aeroblyctos]

Look at the picture I attach to the post.

 

[Battle_Shipper]

I don't know much about Campaigns, but I think that you can change that by going into Gameplay Constants > Combat and changing the values to whatever you want.

 

[Aeroblyctos]

Oh yes, I see it. Currently it's 0.06. How does it work? Because I think it works really strangely. Can you give me a example how it works?

 

[Dr Super Good]

So far it seems it works by the formula.

%Damage Reduction (in multiplyer form) = ( Armor * Armor Damage Reduction Multiplyer ) / ( 1 + Armor * Armor Damage Reduction Multiplyer )

or

%Damage Received (in multiplyer form) = 1 / ( 1 + Armor * Armor Damage Reduction Multiplyer )

This only works for positive armor thou and it seems the negitive armor uses a different formula alltogether.

%Damage Reduction (in multiplyer form) = - 1 + ( 1 - Armor Damage Reduction Multiplyer ) ^ ( - Armor )

or

%Damage Received (in multiplyer form) = 2 - ( 1 - Armor Damage Reduction Multiplyer ) ^ ( - Armor )

This is basically addapted from blizzard's site with one or 2 minor alterations. Acording to them, every positive armor unit increases the units HP by the multiplyer ammount for attacks which I believe is true. I am not sure about -armor thou as far as durability goes.

Also such a formula below could be used in Excel to work it out and display the values that would be shown in WC3.
=IF(B1>=0,(B1*C1)/(1+B1*C1),-1+(1-C1)^-B1)
Cell B1 = Armor
Cell C1 = Armor Damage Reduction Multiplyer

 

[Aeroblyctos]

Oh yes, now I understand a little. +rep + credits given