Medusa player shredder

Proposed build involves 50 points of "flat protection reduction" thanks to the Stone Cutting Sword and Void Shield. With the Titan's Bane, these points are calculated before its 33% of penetration, which is a sub-optimal option, because flat penetration/reduction works best at the lowest amounts of protections, and percentage penetration/reduction on the other hand, provides maximum of its potential at the highest levels of protections.

So what I mean basically, is that the items would provide the maximum possible amount of combined penetration if they were calculated the other way round- which is unfortunately impossible, but that's where another option comes into play: The Executioner. Its effect is a percentage reduction, which means it'll be calculated before flat amounts of Stone Cutting Sword and Void Shield. As if it wasn't enough, the percentage amount it provides is 36% as opposed to 33% of Titan's Bane, so it'll reduce the protections by an even greater amount which'll make the flat reductions even more effective! As an added bonus it gives 25% attack speed, and power it provides is the same as Titan's Bane, sitting at 30 points.

So, as to better visualise this I believe a bit chaotic flow of thought, let's test some scenarios; firstly let's assume a target has 100 protections. Let's not use our ult, as the only thing it would do would be to reduce our target's theoretical protection level by half.

100 - 36% of that from The Executioner - 30 from Stone Cuting Sword - 20 from Void Shield and -10 from Jotunn's Wrath. That's a bare 4 (!!!) points of protection left.

If it was Titan's Bane, the formula would go like:

100 - 30 - 20 - 33% of that - 10, which would result in 23 points of protection.

You see what I mean? It's all about the hierarchy in which the calculations are taken into ocnsideration. Such change would be even more impactful on a higher protections level, for example 200.

With The Executioner: 200 - 36% of that - 30 - 20 -10, equaling 68 points.
With Titan's Bane: 200 - 30 - 20 -33% of that -10, equaling 90 points.


Now let's imagine we're attacking a mage with 100 protections and include the ult:

100 - 50% of that -36% of that - 30 - 20 - 10, that's TRUE DAMAGE, with a 28 points reserve.


That means, that when including the ultimate you'll deal true damage to targets with up to (X meaning target's protection level):

X - 0.5X - 0.18X - 60 = 0 , which equals 187 points of protection with The Executioner included in the build

but

X - 0.5X - 50 - 0.33(0.5X-50) - 10 = 0, equaling 142 points of protection with Titan's Bane included in the build.