Change 'damage taken' to pre-mitigation 'damage soaked'

March of Dimes·7/29/2014, 8:35:23 PM·7 votes·2,938 views

I'm assuming that the current 'damage taken' chart is showing post-mitigation (damage you actually receive) damage because 1) it's probably easier to keep track of and 2) it seems that way empirically. If this is the case, I think it'd be much more informative to show how much of the enemy team's damage you soaked, something that gets lost in the 'damage taken' graph if you actually itemize defensively. Beyond my personal interest in having that knowledge, I think it would benefit the community as well - in the same way that a 'wards placed' tracker might encourage players to buy wards, this value could encourage players to take the defense part of their builds more seriously.

PS: If 'damage taken' is already pre-mitigation, I apologize ahead of time & thank you (anyone) for pointing my error out.

3 Comments

Antium8/30/2014, 6:00:24 AM2 votes

Was just about to write a thread about this myself, and thus want to bump it up. Damage soaked would be a terrific stat to see, rewarding those of us that love to play tanks by giving us nice appetizing huge numbers to look at. I would say that it would be interesting to have both damage taken, and, if were calling it that, damage soaked` as stats that we can see.

Blupepc2/28/2015, 6:18:03 AM2 votes

I am never on the forum but this idea came to me and I love that you already posted it. Bump for the common interest.

C9 Sn3aky6/24/2016, 3:50:56 PM1 votes

We should create a common sense department .