Shock lance proc misconception?

[Royce]

Interesting. Tell me when I should get on to test. I believe u have a lance, I do as well but I do not have a blaster

I no longer have a lance, but I have the blaster, plasma, and spear covered. We could either find another person with a lance to help, or you could lend me your lance (or you could hit me with it, but it would be a better test if all done on the same character, same armor, etc.). I am on now if you are, but we can do it whenever.

[KingFu]

I no longer have a lance, but I have the blaster, plasma, and spear covered. We could either find another person with a lance to help, or you could lend me your lance (or you could hit me with it, but it would be a better test if all done on the same character, same armor, etc.). I am on now if you are, but we can do it whenever.

Kk, Ill get on now and lend you my lance

[Royce]

The results were perplexing to say the least. The shock lance and blaster show the same animation on strike, but the blaster does not seem to have any debuff, so it seems we cannot rely on animation to determine proc any longer. Anyway, we tested lance, blaster, plasma sword, spear, and darkblade along with a couple of mage debuffs, and here are the results:

Spear - Dropped armor by 15 incrementally and can stack, so drops by 15, then 30, and I'm fairly sure 45 is possible though we didn't see it this time. Basically it acts like archer Break Armor (at what rank does that reduce by 15? 1 SP maybe?)

Lance - Dropped armor by 15. However does not stack, so is not really break armor. A new proc? Who knows...

Plasma Sword - Despite showing the lightning bolt animation, this weapon, to everyone's surprise actually appears to have no proc at all. Armor did not drop, and no other stats appeared to change.

Blaster - Despite having the same animation on strike as the lances, no effect was noticed. Seems to have no proc (I could swear it used to slow your target, but it also used to have a different animation).

Darkblade - Same effect as nightmare, but only rank 1 nightmare. Dropped armor 10 points.

Nightmare skill dropped armor as expected, 50 points at 5 SP, and did stack with the darkblade nightmare proc (combining for -60 armor). Lighting at 5 SP only dropped armor by 3 points, but also seemed to reduce damage by 4.

[LIGHTNINGLORD67]

Wow Royce, awesome results!

I cant believe plasma sword has no proc...what a fail...

[Arterra]

these results intrigue me. time to sell that thoth plasma b4 news gets out then...

[Gaabob]

Lol I should get someone to test out crushing blow with me... I swear it does armor lowering rather than damage lowering. And it seems completely useless in pvp

[Royce]

Lol I should get someone to test out crushing blow with me... I swear it does armor lowering rather than damage lowering. And it seems completely useless in pvp

I need someone to help me test mage weapon procs. If you're interested, we could also test crushing blow

[Arterra]

royce, officially putting your findings in the front, thx.

[Gaabob]

I need someone to help me test mage weapon procs. If you're interested, we could also test crushing blow

I'd seriously love to. However I have uberly long homework stuffs to do, and my FREAKING siblings won't stop making FREAKING annoying NOISES arrggggg, which makes it take longer. And my parents are no where to be found...

[Royce]

I'd seriously love to. However I have uberly long homework stuffs to do, and my FREAKING siblings won't stop making FREAKING annoying NOISES arrggggg, which makes it take longer. And my parents are no where to be found...

So this translated approximately to "maybe later" I guess?

[Gaabob]

So this translated approximately to "maybe later" I guess?

Yea :/
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[KingFu]

I believe the lances proc would be armor piercing which would explain why my armor dropped instantly. We tested this on my pally, and on my tank 2 times for each weapon so the results should be pretty solid. They surprised me as well.