Resistance Potions

[azurerogue]

"sc_start4 SC_ARMOR_ELEMENT,1200000"

That's measured in milliseconds. For example, Concentration Potions (which last 30 minutes) have this script "sc_start SC_ASPDPOTION0,1800000,0". So that should mean that they last 20 minutes (the resist potions that is).

As for whether or not they work, allow me to make some comments on where they come into the reduction process.

Let's say, for example... you're fighting in Thor's with fire wings, a Penomena shield, and you use an Elemental resist potion (Fire). You're fighting a Salamander and it fires off it's fire attack property skill. (This causes it to use a fire property attack at 500% of it's normal attack value - which is 7.5-10k). For the purposes of this calculation, we will call it's base damage 50k. We will also assume you only have 30 Def and 30 VIT.

First, you apply Hard DEF to get 50000*(1-30/100)=35500

Then, apply Soft DEF to get (complicated) 35500-24=35476

You now apply Elemental Property calculations, reducing the total by 75%, resulting in 35476*(1-75/100)=8869

Now apply Size, Race, Element, and special reductions all at once. The formula, in this case, would be 1*(1-30/100)*(1-20/100)*1 (this is because of the Penomena Shield and the Potion) for a total of: 8869*1*(1-30/100)*(1-20/100)*1 = 4966.64

For comparison, the total damage of that attack without the fire resist potion would have been: 8869*1*(1-30/100)*1*1 = 6208.3


This is not to say that the potions do or do not work... but it would be hard to test unless you eliminate all other resistances to the race/element, because elemental modifiers are some of the last things to be applied to damage, making their percentage-based reduction less noticeable except in the case of very high damage (if I repeated those calculations without the sample character wearing fire wings, for example).