Shellra V

[Foustian]

I searched for this and I found stuff that said Shellra V is roughly 25% magic damage reduction, however previously all I ever heard was that it was 15%. I just wanted to get some confirmation as to which one it is.

[Atreides]

I searched for this and I found stuff that said Shellra V is roughly 25% magic damage reduction, however previously all I ever heard was that it was 15%. I just wanted to get some confirmation as to which one it is.

I'm pretty sure with 1 merit, it's 24.2%, and each additional merit adds 0.8%. Any tier shell will only give 15% damage reduction to someone with an Aegis (since it caps at 50% and aegis gives 35%) so maybe that's where you saw this?

[Foustian]

I'm pretty sure with 1 merit, it's 24.2%, and each additional merit adds 0.8%. Any tier shell will only give 15% damage reduction to someone with an Aegis (since it caps at 50% and aegis gives 35%) so maybe that's where you saw this?

Aegis is 25%.

[Atreides]

oh yeah, derr

well anyway, i think anything over shell 3 will cap an aegis pld assuming they have no other magic dmg taken gear, but I didnt remember the actual percent >_>;

[Meian]

http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Shellra_V

Claims to be 24.2% with 1 merit and then (~0.8%) with each additional merit. If this is the case, why does the merit say 1 bonus for each?

[Kaeko]

Cap is 128/256 (50%)

Aegis = 64/256
Shell IV = 56/256

Shell V (LVL1) = 62/256 , (LVL2) = 64/256 , (LVL3) = 66/256 , (LVL4) = 68/256 , (LVL5) = 70/256

Shell IV doesn't quite cap with an Aegis PLD. LVL2 Shell V or above will though.

Try checking BG / Other Wiki for exact #s on this I think.

[nivlakian]

http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Shellra_V

Claims to be 24.2% with 1 merit and then (~0.8%) with each additional merit. If this is the case, why does the merit say 1 bonus for each?

It's because much like haste and damage reduction, fractions of 256 are used to estimate percentages so despite what is said, it's usually actually less. Each merit is increasing it by 2/256 which is the best fraction for 1% without going over.