Its such fake difficulty lowering hp and toghness

[Frish]

@Ol_Jakal

@Frish

Would someone please explain “toughness gating”? I don’t understand what exactly it is referring to

if you have full toughness, it blocks health damage if the hit would normally deal health damage through the toughness.

OK, just making sure I’m understanding – I think Jakal is right…

The only other reference to roughness gating on this forum:

@Kalthea

Toughness has a “shield gate”, meaning if you have any amount of toughness left over (even as little as 1), you will basically “block” the damage from the next attack (minus chip damage from melee attacks).

Some random reddit post talking about gating: Reddit - Dive into anything

… were the only references I could easily find to “toughness gating” with a quick search. FWIW Copilot also agrees.

@Zoralink

Toughness gating is when your toughness is broken, you take dramatically reduced damage for the next second, on a hidden cooldown dependent on difficulty. What they refer to as a toughness grace period in the modifiers.

This mechanic is toughness grace period, not toughness gating as far as I can tell!

Sorry for the fuss peeps, it was late and I was too tired to research when I initially asked

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Which anyway leads me to my next question, how does Havoc affect toughness gating?

So, the grace period is removed relatively early on, I know that: Steam Community :: Guide :: Havoc Modifiers

• Toughness Grace is removed: On damnation it is 50% damage reduction every 8 seconds upon toughness break [lasts 1.5s]

((This is actually an incredible DR boost that I never realised existed holy crap))

Besides this and significantly lowered toughness/replenishment, is there another factor that specifically alters the toughness gating mechanic?