What do Yellow Gemstones do when slotted into a weapon?

[Gunheart]

I've been googling and searching and can't seem to find any clarrification. The in-game description is poorly-translated and makes it really difficult to tell what it's supposed to do. I'm assuming it enhances a modified weapon's elemental damage? Or lower's enemy resistence? It's hard to tell.

[D'amarr from Darshiva]

No need to do any searching. The game displays details as in:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1352458834

As you can insert and remove gemstones freely, you can test combinations. And combining gemstones to largers ones increases their effect up to +10.

[Gunheart]

Yes, I know they can be seen in game, but "Penalty Enemy Resistences" is pretty opaque. I'm assuming it's an armor pierce effect, but I was wondering if anyone was ever able to confirm.

[D'amarr from Darshiva]

If you hope for the full maths, you could have said so.

It is highly unlikely that any non-developer knows the full details. The game expects you to apply intuition and personal taste when choosing skills and equipment. It doesn't present all the numbers and doesn't want to turn you into a number cruncher either. The few shown numbers are just to give you a basis for comparison. For example, an enemy may have 200 health points or 200 base health points modified by whatever the game does to adjust enemies to difficulty mode and your own level/power.

[v0]

i'dve thought it applies to fire/poison/bleeding/etc resistances not armor but never tried it myself...

[Gunheart]

Where in my post did I ask for the math, D'amarr? I'm just saying the description is poorly translated and thus makes it difficult to tell what it does at all, not what the numbers are. It just says "Penalty Enemy Resistences", which is barely a sentence.

Now, the fact it raises your elemental resistence when equipped to your Adjutor implies that the weapon version might be something like "Ignore Enemy Resistence by [X] Points", which seems more likely then my other guess.

[LzDK14]

Originally posted by TheGunheart:

I've been googling and searching and can't seem to find any clarrification. The in-game description is poorly-translated and makes it really difficult to tell what it's supposed to do. I'm assuming it enhances a modified weapon's elemental damage? Or lower's enemy resistence? It's hard to tell.

Afaict, it's an artifact of removed feature. Since I wasn't able to tell any difference with it in or out.

[D'amarr from Darshiva]

Originally posted by TheGunheart:

It just says "Penalty Enemy Resistences", which is barely a sentence.

Now, the fact it raises your elemental resistence when equipped to your Adjutor implies that the weapon version might be something like "Ignore Enemy Resistence by [X] Points", which seems more likely then my other guess.

That's splitting hairs as it's just slightly different wording to match your personal preferences. There is no poor translation involved. Suppose there are values, such as damage reduction for different types of damage, then "a penalty" is exactly a value to subtract as to reduce damage reduction. You call it "ignore ... by [X] points", which is not more clear and concise for players who expect the word "penalty" to be clear. Some other games call it "damage reduction bypass".