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First, it means that the armor has high resistance to thermo. It takes something like .2 damage per unit of thermonuke damage that hits them.

The blind immune means that they are immune to the blinder cannon, which is post St. Kats. It makes your screen go to static.

Longzhu crystals will enhance anything but armor and reactors (and it doesn't enhance things like barrels, obviously) The effect can stack up to 150% just from Longzhu, plus device enhancers (Laser collimator, Bushido weapon enhancer, ect. I got a hanzo blaster to 225% once (14 longzhu, Bushido enhancer, particle accelerator) So it can get shields to +150%. Great fun with a Kaidun shield. Not even the ICS can breach that!
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Longzhus do work on shields and do stack with existing +% enhancements.

Diamond Field Crystals also provide +10% and stack with similar enhancements.
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Technically longzhus only work on weapons labeled "energy weapon" (not sure on spaces or capitalization). The nice thing is the first sphere increases damage (and perhaps hp in the case of shields) by 20% instead of the usual 10, so if you have a sphere and an enhancer use the sphere first.
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It's the first sphere you use. If you have an enhancer that enhances 25%, then using the sphere will still bring it up to 45%.
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This is misleading. It enhances the weapon to +20% if it's unenhanced. If you apply an ion capacitor followed by a longzhu you only get +10% from the latter.

A weapon cannot be at +25% because the weapon enhancement codes only support 10% increments. Other values can only come from enhancer devices which are applied independently of weapon enhancements and stack with them, even if not of the same type. Since in the given example the weapon would still be unenhanced (since there are no +5% or +15% enhancers to provide ambiguity) the longzhu would give +20%.
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Here's an omnilaser with +75% see, you can have 5% increments.
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Drako Slyith wrote:First, it means that the armor has high resistance to thermo. It takes something like .2 damage per unit of thermonuke damage that hits them.
I'm getting more confused. My question about the octocarbide entry in the Wiki again: The quote from the game says “The most advanced armor produced by the Taikon corporation, octocarbide can absorb almost 1500 units of ion damage before collapsing.”, but the table below gives 225 adjusted HP vs ion, from a base of 400. How is this meant to be read? Is the quote wrong and the armor is actually more vulnerable to ion damage?
The blind immune means that they are immune to the blinder cannon, which is post St. Kats. It makes your screen go to static.
Hmm, don't think I've encountered that. Just the static from the defective ROMs.
Atarlost wrote:Diamond Field Crystals also provide +10% and stack with similar enhancements.
Ah, yes. Forgot about those since I didn't find any in my current game.
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It must be an incorrect description. As I remember Oxacarbide says it can take mega thermo damage, not ion.
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Drako Slyith wrote:Here's an omnilaser with +75% see, you can have 5% increments.
The way I read what he said was that the applied enhancers that become intrinsic to the device only go in 10% increments and all enhancers that do in 5% are because of devices. Like a laser collimator.
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I meant in my first mention of 25% is the same as a particle accelerator. I meant that the sphere does +20% the first time on top of devices.
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Most enhacnemnets work out to about 150%
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I know that's why I was surprised it let me go up to 225% :D I had two devices (Particle accelerator and Bushido enhancer) for my Hanzo blaster. It went right up to 225% with 14 longzhu spheres.
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