I’m not sure and I can’t find exact information about what damage pool does armor piercing convert. If I take a particular example like Markovian’s advantage, where there’s a lot of % weapon damage and native physical damage that belongs to the skill, which damage is being converted by a 100% armor piercing weapon? Only the % weapon damage part or the entire physical damage of the WPS?
Armor piercing is a global physical to pierce damage conversion that only applies if a skill has weapon damage attached to it. In your case, the flat physical damage on markovians will be converted and any extra flat physical damage applied via weapon damage (ex. deadly momentum, steel resolve, temper etc).
Do note tho that this global conversion is the last in order of conversions. For example. if you have 100% global physical to fire, armor piercing still applies after that. Since all physical damage is now fire, there’s no damage left to convert to piercing so it doesn’t do anything.
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This might help.
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Ok, thanks for the answer. So the only uncertainty was whether the native flat physical damage of Markovian’s advantage gets converted too, or only the % weapon damage part. You’ve said that both (and all) damage portions are converted. Also, what if the % weapon damage is lower than 100%, does the entire damage still get converted? Or is the percentage of weapon damage applied to the entire conversion?
Not all damage. Armor piercing is only physical damage converted to piercing damage. It doesn’t matter the amount of weapon damage on the skill as long as the skill has it. The only thing that changes the amount of damage converted is the amount of % armor piercing value. If a skill has 10% weapon damage and your weapon has 100% armor piercing, then all flat physical damage on that skill and any other flat physical damage added to that skill via weapon damage is converted.
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Ok, I think I have the exact picture now, thanks.
Just for clarity’s sake, I believe armor piercing weapons were changed to always have 100% armor piercing, so this is always the case.
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yeah i know. it was just an example