Mechanic Questions (Rage, Armor, Etc)

[STRFTR]

Basic question: Does Rage apply before, or after armor is taken into consideration? (And does that matter?)

 

Furthermore, does Rage actually REDUCE 40% of the damage taken or simply apply 40% of the damage taken in Energy? In other words, if I take 10 damage, will Rage reduce that to 6?

 

The reason I ask is because if Rage kicks in before armor, you'll get your 4 energy from that attack. If it kicks in after, you will actually get less per hit. That's an important distinction to me.

[Darzk]

Rage does not reduce damage taken.

 

It takes armor into account; etc only health you lose is converted to energy, not damage to health that you take.

 

Hope that made sense. To clarify;

 

If you take a hit for 10, and have 50% armor, you lose 5 health. Rage gives you 2 energy.

[STRFTR]

Got it. Makes sense.

 

I guess one other thing to consider is whether or not you have enough HP to actually fully recharge your batteries, to take better advantage of Quick Thinking. 

[Darzk]

I actually use Rage without QT and Flow in quite a few builds for emergency situations. Saryn, for example, only stops spamming Miasma when shes out of energy, so taking some damage lets her go back to spamming Miasmas >.> Same for any frame with CC abilities.

[(PSN)ShadowDancing-]

I actually use Rage without QT and Flow in quite a few builds for emergency situations. Saryn, for example, only stops spamming Miasma when shes out of energy, so taking some damage lets her go back to spamming Miasmas >.> Same for any frame with CC abilities.

 

Just Rage is handy on Rhino, Valkeryie, Frost.  Frames with a lot of health that always want to have that CC ability available.  I haven't had much success trying this on squishy frames like Nova, but that could easily be pilot error.