Talk:Saurian Helm

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I've heard that this gives a 10% damage boost to BLU's breath spells. Can anyone confirm this? --Kyrie 08:43, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure all breath spells are damage based on current HP. This helm gives +50HP, that would explain a decent boost for just one item. Heat Breath does exactly 50% your current HP when unresisted, I'm camping this on and off with friends. I'll try it out; if it only gives +25 damage to heat breath, then it doesn't add damage ^^ re-posting when I get the drop. --Bekisa 16:43, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

There's no honest need to test it -- putting both "Increases breath damage" AND "Wyvern: Increases breath damage" is redundant. BLU is the only job that can use breaths themselves. --Azulmagia 17:35, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

It's obvious that it adds breath damage aside from the extra 50HP, but has it been tested how much? Is the page accurate on 10%? I've just been doing some breath testing (but don't have this hat yet) and the "Adds approximately 10%" makes me wonder if it's really been tested. --Blazza 08:02, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

From a speculatory standpoint, it's possible it says "approximately 10%" *because* of the HP, making it not a clean +10% unless your old headwear was also exactly +50 HP.

Of course, it should be easy to test by wearing no headwear, testing, then equipping it and testing again without curing yourself to full. --Taeria Saethori 17:09, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Or just doing the math. HP/2 is pretty easy, been camping this sucker a bit lately, 0/3 so far though, will test it soon, including tests against mob families (heat breath against plantoids, lizards, and all others). When I did my heat breath tests before, I changed my HP a lot via gear change and Self-Destruct, but in the end I knew exactly how much damage I was going to do before I cast it (except on a bunny, 'cause I thought it was vermin, not beast lol). --Blazza 12:56, 10 September 2008 (UTC)