Steel Plating

Engineer skill · Plating Line · tier 2

Beta 0.7.2

Plates riveted over what was already heavy.

It is only used in combat once it is placed on the hero's active bar, and its 14 s cooldown is before cooldown reduction.

Values by rank

Steel Plating scales with Defense. Its value at each rank is 290 + 83 × rank:

Rank	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Value	373	456	539	622	705	788	871	954	1,037	1,120
% of the hero's Defense	3.73%	4.56%	5.39%	6.22%	7.05%	7.88%	8.71%	9.54%	10.37%	11.2%

The value is in basis points (100 = 1%) of the hero's own Defense, before line mastery and synergies.

Defense given = round(hero's Defense × value × skill power ÷ 10,000)
skill power = 1 + 1% per point in the other Plating Line skills + 2% per rank of each skill that boosts it

How to unlock it

1
Rank 5 in Barrier Tier 1 of the Plating Line.
2
Hero level 12 at the earliest There is no level requirement, but a hero gets one skill point every 2 levels.
3
One skill point per rankUp to rank 10.

Rank 5 in Steel Plating opens Auto-Repair.

Mastery and synergies

Line mastery: every point in the other Plating Line skills makes Steel Plating 1% stronger, up to +40% with all of them at rank 10. Its own points do the same for the rest of the line.

Steel Plating has no synergies: no skill boosts it and it boosts no other skill.

Plating Line

Skill	Tier	Type	Cooldown	Scales with
Barrier	1	Shield	12 s	Absorption
Steel Plating	2	Buff	14 s	Defense
Energy Shield	3	Shield	12 s	Absorption
Auto-Repair	4	Heal over time	10 s	Regen
Mobile Fortress	5	Ultimate	16 s	Health