Capped Effects & Bonuses

Reflect and thorns

The Inscription of Reflection bounces 100% of every type of damage you take straight back at the attacker (AFFECTER_ReflectionInscription, FloatValue 100). It does not reduce the hit you take - you eat the full damage and the attacker eats an equal copy.

Calculation order matters. The game reads the hit's total damage - after your resistance and after guard, which are both part of the hit's own damage roll - and reflects it before your barrier soaks the hit. So a Barrier bubble that absorbs the damage to your health still reflects the full pre-shield amount, while a successful guard lowers what bounces back.

Monster thorns. The Spike Turtle (Spiny Carapace) reflects melee physical damage and the Crystal Turtle (Crystal Shell) reflects magic damage. The Spike Turtle's thorns return 50% of the damage a melee hit really dealt, as damage with no type; ranged and magic hits are not reflected by them.

Gold Mine inscription

The Inscription of the Gold Mine pays 10 gold every time you land a critical hit, up to a cap of 2000 gold counted by a Gold Mine counter on the wearer (AFFECTER_GoldmineInscription, FloatValues [10, 2000, 10]). Once the counter is full the gold stops, and the inscription gives +10% Critical Chance instead, for as long as the counter stays full.

Only critical hits count, so the inscription is strongest on a high-crit build; a low-crit unit may never reach the cap in a single run.

Capital Punishment (execute)

Capital Punishment: Enemies at or below 20 percent HP are finished off after they take a hit.

If the target is not dead, does not belong to the player's faction, has current HP divided by max HP at or below 20 percent, and does not carry the boss tag, the Execution effect is applied to it for 1 second. The inscription deals no lethal damage of its own. It applies a status, and that status does the killing.

• The pool read is the combined head and body health, not one of the two.
• The exclusions are the boss tag and the player's faction. Elite monsters are executable, which the tooltip does not say.
• Only the Player faction is checked. The Ally and Neutral factions are not excluded by this check.
• Before build 25846389 the faction was not checked, so a player unit hit by the wearer could be executed.

Missing-HP scaling effects

Three effects grow linearly as HP drains, each with its own ceiling. All three are 0 at full HP and reach their cap at 0 HP; the value at any point is cap × (missing HP / max HP).

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Damage-over-time stack caps

Bleeding and Burning deal a flat amount per stack, per second, and each has a hard stack cap. The damage does not scale with attack power - only the number of stacks (set by the applying skill) matters. It never misses, is never guarded or critical and goes past Barrier, but the target's Physical Resistance still cuts it (x 100 / (100 + resistance)). The same holds for Burning with Magic Resistance.

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Worked example. Bleeding at its 99-stack cap = 99 × 5 = 495 physical damage per second before Physical Resistance. Poison is the odd one out: it is percent-of-Max-HP per stack, every 10 seconds.

Shell block charges

The Inscription of the Sprouting Shell grants 1 Shell for every 60 Energy you recover, up to 20 Shell stacks (AFFECTER_SproutingShellInscription, FloatValues [60, 1, 20]). While you hold a Shell, your Damage Taken Bonus is -99. The game adds it into ONE sum with the attacker's Damage Dealt and Physical / Magic damage bonuses, so it is not a flat cut: against an attacker with no bonuses a hit keeps 1% of its damage, but against +50% Damage Dealt it keeps 51% (1 + 0.50 - 0.99). Every hit that deals damage uses up one Shell. Guard is not skipped: a guarded hit is cut by guard and by Shell, and still uses up a Shell.