Talk:Combat

Under category Basics it is said that Damage Resistance (DR) has "diminishing returns". This is not mathematically correct. If, for example, you have 100 Health Points (HP) and you equip an armor with +100 Damage Resistance, you will resist 50% of received damage. In other words, your Effective Health will double to 200 HP.

If you have 100 HP, every 10 points of DR will always increase your health by 10 HP. This effect never actually diminishes as the article would have you believe. What does 'diminish' is the percentage increase, but that is true of all numbers that increase.

The only way you can actually get true Diminishing Returns is if BioWare specifically programmed it in the game's code. For example, if BioWare said: "Any DR beyond 100 points will be halved", then that is a true diminishing return. As far as I know, BioWare has not done this and, if not, there is no actual diminishing return on Damage Resistance. This is just a common misunderstanding of mathematics: a misunderstanding between Difference vs Relative Difference