GrandMoffVixen: Also, what is a standlock? I have never heard of such a thing.

Fender_178: I have always wondered how 200% damage was applied to a weapon like on a Windforce bow because I always thought that it was double the amount of damage but according to this guy's guide it is triple the amount. He gave an example of a weapon that gave 200% damage to demon based enemies.

advowson: When a weapon says +50% damage, that means take the damage you would use, multiply by 0.5, and add the result back.

advowson: Not exactly. According to the Diablo patch notes, prior to v1.07, Mana Shield in Diablo also had this problem.[1] Hellfire has it because it is a fork of Diablo v1.04, and the fix was not applied to Hellfire.advowson: This is due to a design bug, and does not work exactly as you describe. Mana Shield does not redirect damage from life to mana. Combat still causes health loss as normal. Then, at the end of the turn, before the screen updates, the game notices that your character is protected by Mana Shield and refunds the lost health, charging you an appropriate amount of mana in return. That is a bit weird, but it probably seemed like a good idea at the time. The alternative would have been to modify every site that deals health damage to use a helper function to deal health/mana loss directly. The big problem is that the health-then-refund model breaks down when dealing with other special status effects. If your character takes damage greater or equal to character level, then you are stunned. However, if you take damage greater or equal to your current health, you are killed. Due to the implementation of Mana Shield, if you take fatal health loss, but have sufficient mana to cover the damage, then you should not actually die. Mana Shield satisfies this requirement by canceling your death state and putting you back in Stand state (instead of whatever state you would have had if the game had not declared you dead). If you were supposed to be in Stand state, you won't really notice a difference. If you were supposed to be in any other state, such as stunned, then you are in the wrong state after Mana Shield prevents your death. This leads to several exploits, all from the same bug:
- A character with health less than level can never be stunned. Damage less than level would not stun due to the normal rules. Damage greater or equal to level would kill the character instead of stunning him, then Mana Shield would cancel his death.
-- More generally, a character with current health less than the minimum damage of the attacking monster cannot be stunned, even if current health exceeds character level.
- A character cannot be knocked backward by an attack that deals fatal health damage.
- A character hit by simultaneous attacks may die from an early attack and ignore later ones.advowson: Are you sure it was a stunlock and not a standlock? How much current health did you have?

[1] https://diablo.fandom.com/wiki/Patch_1.07_(Diablo_I) section "Medium bugs (affecting gameplay)" states:
- Fixed the bug that caused Mana Shield to become less effective with increasing spell level.

Piftuka: Whoever created that, my biggest respect to her/him!

advowson: That would be the user who played under the handle Jarulf (among other handles). A name, which I think is the real name of the creator, is given on the front page of the PDF.

advowson: It looks reasonable to me. The e-mail address on page 1 points to a Swedish domain, so it's reasonable to assume that Jarulf lived in Sweden at the time of the writing, and may have been a native Swede. If so, then the validity of the name should be judged according to whether that is a reasonable name in Sweden, not whether it is a reasonable name in Germany, England, or the USA.