Of course it's not perfectly scientific but that 60%-70% result seems pretty solid to me. As an example I did the exact same test on Drowners and I had a 0% increase in the damage, so it's completely and utterly useles against that type of foe.Īnyway, call me out if you think something is wrong with the test. I did this test on a Earth Elemental so it probably only holds true for that specific enemy. I think it goes without saying but please remember enemies have different armors and resistances from one another. I know the crit is way off on that math but I'm pretty sure that's because the one without Melt Armor was a counter attack (high damage) while the one with Melt Armor wasn't. That's about 160-170% of the normal damage (60%-70% of damage increase) For example if you hit the front of the enemy while he is blocking you do reduced damage, and if you hit him on the back or while he's attaking/dodging (counter attack) you do bonus damage. The reason for that is because beyond the normal damage fluctuation there are also specific scenarios where the damage is modified, which are out of my control.

I made comparisons of 3 diffrent damage types: Low, Normal and High.Quen was active during the first part of the test but that has no effect on the damage output at all) I made sure that there were no damage increasing effect on the different tests other than the Melt Armor itself (you will notice Adrenaline is maxed out throughout all the tests.So for the tests I did 6 shots of Igni (not just 5, to be sure) to get it to max armor reduction. I read somewhere that each shot of igni would reduce the armor by 15%.The Melt Armor skill is upgraded to the max level (lv 5), meaning it has up to 75% armor reduction.So this skill is 100% useless if you're doing a strong attack build. Fast attacks only because strong attacks completely bypass armor.I'm leaving this post unchanged for documenting reasonsįirst some notes about how I conducted the tests:

EDIT: please see my other post below for my follow up on this test and my conclusion.

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