Crystal Shield

This article is about the perk. For the item, see Crystal shield.

For other uses, see Crystal shield (disambiguation).

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Crystal Shield

Description?
Has a 10% chance to activate on taking damage, lasting 10 seconds. 5% of damage taken per rank is totalled for this period, becoming temporary lifepoints afterwards. These last either 30 seconds or until depleted through further damage. (1 minute cooldown)
Release date	5 September 2016 (Update)
Gizmo type	Armour
Maximum rank	3

Crystal Shield is a defensive Invention perk that, upon activation, will add a percentage of all damage taken for 10 seconds into a pool of life points. This also includes typeless damage. For the following 30 seconds, damage taken will reduce this storage of life points rather than the player's actual life points, until the separate pool is depleted or the 30 seconds have passed. It can be created in armour gizmos.

The perk has a 10% chance of activating (11% on a level 20 item), and 5% damage taken per rank is converted into the pool of life points for the duration of 10 seconds. The hit that activates the Crystal Shield will also be added to the life point pool. This perk has a 1 minute cooldown after it has activated.

If the player would die to any "hard" typeless hit (typeless damage that cannot be reduced by defensive abilities, e.g. Vorago's TeamSplit), the player will not die; they are instead left with however many life points that were stored in Crystal Shield.

When the perk triggers, it prompts the message: Your Crystal Shield perk has activated and will begin storing damage to use as ablative hitpoints. When the stored life points deplete, it prompts the message: Your crystal shield lifepoints have been depleted! When the timer ends before the stored life points deplete, it prompts the message: Your crystal shield perk has run out! When the player doesn’t receive significant damage during the perk’s activation period, it prompts the message: You did not absorb enough damage to generate a crystal shield.

Any self-inflicted damage is also added to the life point pool. These include:

• Nitroglycerine/Unidentified liquid
• Super Zamorak brew/Zamorak brew
• Self-damaging abilities, e.g. blood tendrils
• Rock cake

Life Points Stored

Rank	Damage Taken %
1	5%
2	10%
3	15%

Calculations

• The average ratio of damage taken, $r_{avg}$, from Crystal Shield to that of without Crystal Shield is

$r_{avg} = \frac{\sum\limits_{n=0}^{\infty}\left(1-p\right)^{n}p\left[\sum\limits_{i=1}^{n}d^{(0)}_{n,i} + \sum\limits_{i=1}^{\left\lceil{\frac{t_{abs}}{t_{AS}}}\right\rceil}\left(d^{(1)}_{n,i} - \left\lfloor{.05 \times R \times d^{(1)}_{n,i}}\right\rfloor\right) + \sum\limits_{i=1}^{\left\lceil{\frac{t_{cd}-t_{abs}}{t_{AS}}}\right\rceil}d^{(2)}_{n,i} \right]}{\sum\limits_{n=0}^{\infty}\left(1-p\right)^{n}p\left[\sum\limits_{i=1}^{n}d^{(0)}_{n,i} + \sum\limits_{i=1}^{\left\lceil{\frac{t_{abs}}{t_{AS}}}\right\rceil}d^{(1)}_{n,i} + \sum\limits_{i=1}^{\left\lceil{\frac{t_{cd}-t_{abs}}{t_{AS}}}\right\rceil}d^{(2)}_{n,i} \right]}$

• The average damage reduction is then, after some rearranging,

$1-r_{avg} = \frac{\sum\limits_{n=0}^{\infty}\left(1-p\right)^{n}p\sum\limits_{i=1}^{\left\lceil{\frac{t_{abs}}{t_{AS}}}\right\rceil}\left\lfloor{.05 \times R \times d^{(1)}_{n,i}}\right\rfloor}{\sum\limits_{n=0}^{\infty}\left(1-p\right)^{n}p\left[\sum\limits_{i=1}^{n}d^{(0)}_{n,i} + \sum\limits_{i=1}^{\left\lceil{\frac{t_{abs}}{t_{AS}}}\right\rceil}d^{(1)}_{n,i} + \sum\limits_{i=1}^{\left\lceil{\frac{t_{cd}-t_{abs}}{t_{AS}}}\right\rceil}d^{(2)}_{n,i} \right]}$

Notes

• A calculator for this is at the top of this page.
• Assumptions :
  • The pool of life points is always depleted.
  • The enemy is always attacking at the same attack speed.
• $p$ is the proc chance of Crystal Shield to activate (.10 normally, .11 if the Crystal Shield perk is on level 20 gear).
• $\textstyle\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}\left(1-p\right)^{n}p = 1$ when $0 \leq p < 1$ or $\left|1 - p\right| < 1$. This represents summing over all possibilities where integer $n \in [0,\infty)$ represents the amount of hits prior to the proc of Crystal Shield. The probability of Crystal Shield proccing on hit ${n+1}$ is therefore $\left(1-p\right)^{n}p$.
• $R$ is the rank of the Crystal Shield perk.
• $t_{abs}$ is the time of the absorption phase of Crystal Shield. This is taken to be 16 game ticks.
• $t_{cd}$ is the cooldown time of Crystal Shield. This is taken to be 100 game ticks.
• $t_{AS}$ is the attack speed of the enemy in game ticks.
• $d^{(j)}_{n,i}$ is the $i^{th}$ random value uniformly sampled between the enemy's minimum hit and maximum hit. The $j$ describes different sets of hits. The sets are regenerated for every new value of $n$.
  • $d^{(0)}_{n,i}$ has $n$ elements with integer $i \in [1,n]$. This is the damage taken before the perk procs.
    • Clarification : This does mean that for $n=0$ that there are no elements in this set.
  • $d^{(1)}_{n,i}$ has $\left\lceil{\frac{t_{abs}}{t_{AS}}}\right\rceil$ elements with integer $i \in \left[1,\left\lceil{\frac{t_{abs}}{t_{AS}}}\right\rceil\right]$. This is the damage taken during the absorption phase.
  • $d^{(2)}_{n,i}$ has $\left\lceil{\frac{t_{cd}-t_{abs}}{t_{AS}}}\right\rceil$ elements with integer $i \in \left[1,\left\lceil{\frac{t_{cd}-t_{abs}}{t_{AS}}}\right\rceil\right]$. This is the damage taken from the end of the absorption phase until the chance for Crystal Shield to proc is no longer on cooldown.
  • The set of values in $d^{(j)}_{n}$ for integer $j \in [0,2]$ is the same in both the numerator and denominator of the ratios for any given $n$.
• The flooring function $\left(\lfloor{}\rfloor\right)$ is used in the $\sum\nolimits_{i=1}^{\left\lceil{\frac{t_{abs}}{t_{AS}}}\right\rceil}\left\lfloor{.05 \times R \times d^{(1)}_{n,i}}\right\rfloor$ term because the game truncates the amount to be added into the pool. This is important because the amount added to the pool is directly related to the amount of damage taken per hit during the absorption phase. This means that for $R = 1$, if any damage taken is under 20 during the absorption phase, it will not contribute to the shield. Similarly, for $R = 2$ and $R = 3$, any damage taken that is under 10 and 7, respectively, during the absorption phase will not contribute to the shield. If each individual hit during the absorption phase is under these respective lower limit values per Crystal Shield rank, then a shield will not form.

Simplifications

• This can be simplified if the assumption is that every value of $d^{(j)}_{n,i}$ $\forall$ integer $i \in [1,n]$, integer $n \in [0,\infty)$, integer $j \in [0,2]$, is taken to be the same $\left(d_{n,i}^{(j)} \rightarrow d\right)$. In this scenario, there is no random element and the above $r_{avg}$ is then only dependent on the proc chance and the attack speed of the enemy. This simplification is increasingly accurate in the limit of large $d$. A value of constant damage taken under 80 will have a noticeable effect. Three examples are provided ($t_{AS} = 3$, $4$, and $5$). All examples are using large enough values of $d$ such that the values should not change to 2 decimal places in percent.

Using these simplifications, the damage reduction reduces to

$1 - r_{avg} = \frac{\left\lceil{\frac{t_{abs}}{t_{AS}}}\right\rceil \left(.05 \times R\right)}{\left\lceil{\frac{t_{abs}}{t_{AS}}}\right\rceil + \left\lceil{\frac{t_{cd}-t_{abs}}{t_{AS}}}\right\rceil - 1 + \frac{1}{p}}$

Average damage reduction

Rank	$t_{AS} = 3$	$t_{AS} = 4$	$t_{AS} = 5$
1	0.70% (0.71%)	0.59% (0.60%)	0.67% (0.69%)
2	1.40% (1.43%)	1.18% (1.21%)	1.33% (1.37%)
3	2.09% (2.14%)	1.76% (1.81%)	2.00% (2.06%)

• All numbers in parentheses refer to level 20 gear.

Sources

Material		Rarity	Perk ranks with X materials
			1	2	3	4	5
	Clear parts	Common	0	1	1	1	1
	Subtle components	Uncommon	1	1	1–2	1–3	1–3
	Faceted components	Rare	1	1	1	2–3	3

Suggested gizmos

Gizmo layout	Possible perks
	Crystal Shield 3 Other possible perks: Enhanced Devoted
	Crackling 2–3 Crystal Shield 1 Other possible perks: Enhanced Devoted Ultimatums