How do protections work?
In Smite, certain items grant magical or physical protection. Every mythological character has some degree of natural physical protection. Mages also get natural magical protection (while other chars don't). What does protection do? How (much) does it mitigate incoming damage?
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A god's magical and physical protection values will reduce the amount of damage the corresponding types of damage apply. A god's inherent protections scale with level. For example, Ymir's total physical protection is 23 + 3.3 × level + Physical Protection From Items. Ignoring penetration for now, the formula is:
Actual damage = (unmitigated damage × 100)/(100 + protection value)
The result of this equation means that a protection value of 50 will reduce damage by 33%, 100 will reduce it by 50%, and 150 will reduce it by 60%.
For example (still ignoring penetration), if Ra's Celestial Beam is listed as doing 400 damage, and he hits someone with 70 magical protection, then the actual damage will be (400 × 100)/(100 + 70) = 235.
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How do the protections work in Minecraft?
The protection enchantment is applied after the armor's damage reduction. For example, 20 armor points provide a 4% * 20 = 80% damage reduction. If the total protection enchantment levels on said armor adds up to 10, they would provide 40% damage reduction.What does protection go up to?
The maximum level for the Protection enchantment is Level 4. This means that you can enchant an item with up to Protection IV. The higher the level, the more powerful the enchantment....Background.Enchantment NameProtectionHow to add Enchantment1. Enchanting Table 2. Anvil 3. /enchant command4 more rowsWhat does Protection enchantment do?
Uses of Protection in Minecraft The Protection enchantment does exactly that. It protects you. With Protection IV on one piece of armor, you are wearing, any source of damage will deal 16% less damage to you.How Does Protection Work? A MTG Mechanic Guide
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It can also be though of 1 protection as 1% extra max HP against that damage as 100 protection mitigates 50% of that damage. So if someone had 100 health and 100 protection they really have 200 health to that type of damage.
(Max HP)*(1+(Protections/100))
Answer 3
Protection has diminishing returns, meaning that the more protection you buy, the less effective each point of protection becomes. for exaple as you said 100 protection = 50% dmg reduction, but 200 protection = 66,6% dmg reduction. hope that makes sense
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