Obsidian Armor Damage Bonus?

[Blutters]

Well, with all of the changes to how Obsidian armor operates, I'm a bit lost.

I've been told in-game that it works much how Elite Void Knight equipment did, and provides a nice bonus to accuracy and damage outside of TzHaar.

Is this true? What pieces must you wear for this supposed bonus? Does this affect ability damage, or only autoattacks? How does degradation work?

[chenw]

From what I have read, the armor's damage bonus do not work outside of Tzhaar, since the bonus only works against Tzhaar. Only the helm is required to gain the accuracy in your respective attack type. Also the damage bonus only works if you are on a task while wearing the helm, otherwise only accuracy is increased.

 

As far as I am aware it increases ability damage and Auto attacks .

 

The way it degrades is that (at least the last time I used it) is whenever you receive a red splat, there is a 50% chance that the armor will degrade by one charge (not sure if blue splats now also decreased the charges, I know before it didn't, making it decay very slowly). The pieces are checked individually (IE on any given hit, some pieces may not degrade, while others may, thus you will end up having different charges on each piece, even if you started with the set on the same charge and took the same number of hits).

 

After reading Wiki on it, I am starting to think Obsidian armor may not actually be worth it, according to them, the set only lasts 3-4 kilns (before the 3rd update it could last 10 kilns, easily). This is entirely my uninformed opinion though, I have not been back inside the kiln since the 3rd update, I'll update this if I get a chance to do kiln this weekend with the armor.