How does Bolster stress buff work?

[Outis]

Man-at-arms Bolster skill says "-10 stress", is a party wide skill, but I never see the stress reduced by 10.

is this a bug or does it work some how else?

Can someone please explain what Bolster does when it comes to stress.

[iPsychosis]

It's a -10% stress buff for that battle only. It does not remove a blanket 10% stress or 10 stress.

[Outis]

does that mean a Hero will only receive stress damage only if they receive stress damage greater than 10 for that battle?

[Narrowmind]

No, it means that when under stress attack, they will only get a stress damage of 18, rather than 20.

[iPsychosis]

I think not. Not sure how the rounding would work for stress below 10, or even over 10. Depends on the rounding. 10 stress received would be 9 with the buff. 9 stress received would be .9 less, but maybe 1? Therefore being 8 stress received? Again, not sure how their math works.

[Narrowmind]

I've found that the game is really reasonable with the rounding in general. I would think it would give you 8 rounding down.

[Outis]

oh ok, I understand now...Thank you

[grraf]

Bolster tends to work best when its replaced by command(hiting&criting stuf more often tends to drastically reduce the amount of incoming stress...)