Can someone confirm this 100% Its about attunment

HI! As some of you might have noticed when you raise Attunement ( lets say Death Attunement it will mark )
+ 74 Death Attunement
-37 Life Attunement

Now I was under the assumption that the -37 Life Attunement was the disruption my Opponent or enemy gets but I was recently told that it also disrupts my own life Attunement and vis versa ( meaning my life Attunement disrupts my death Attunement )

So is this really the case and can someone confirm this 100% ?

 

According to the Player Instructions it disrupts your own life attunement:

 

Actually the penalty is only for you and has nothing to do with your enemies.

 

ONLY YOOOUUUUU

 

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As Kara pointed out, your attunement only affects you. Negative attunement only has negative effects for you. You take more damage from and deal less damage with that particular school.

 

This is not entirely correct.

If someone has a super high death attunement and uses death magic against someone with (for example) -37 life attunement, then this essentially makes that person's death attunement that much more powerful. Meaning it's not just "YOU" that can be effected, it's all relative to what you're fighting against.

 

So in the opening example, would he both 1) heal himself less with life magic due to negative life attunement, and 2) receive less incoming life-magic-healing from others because of the negative attunement as well?

 

Sorry guys, it IS BLACK and WHITE, no need to "read into" it

DEATH ATTEUNMENT - - - INCREASES YOURS ((AND ONLY YOURS)) DEATH ATTEUNMENT AND DECREASES YOURS ((AND ONLY YOURS)) LIFE ATTEUNMENT.

Any trying to read into it or interpreting it is just plain foolish.

 

Yes to both.

 

I want to know this as well.

 

Cool

 

I find it hard not to confuse attunement with resistance. In SOTA, one might have some notion that if we are investing to be a stronger water mage that we could resist the opposing fire magic school better. Its what we see in the movies, right? Water mage blocks fire mage. But it is the opposite with the attunement system. By making ourselves stronger with water, we also are stronger against water but lesser against fire?

If that is true, then where I get most confused is in the confluence of attunement and debuff skills in a tree. Take the douse skill, for example. If I am a water mage, I can increase water attunement to make my douse ability to squelch fire DOTs stronger. Yet by taking water attunement, did I also just do the opposite by lowering my fire attunement and make myself more vulnerable to fire attacks? Or am I confusing attunement with resistance?

 

Incorrect. You aren't doing anything to another person. You are just weaker. That's not the same.

 

These are my thoughts as well. It's the conceptualization I find more confusing than the mechanics. On one hand, I like having additional layers of strategy and character design for players to work with to differentiate themselves -- I definitely want to be encouraging and supportive and not complaining about that -- but I have a hard time understanding how this particular implementation works other than just saying 'that's how it is.'

 

YES YOU ARE CORRECT - READ IT, IT IS NOT CONFUSING - -


You are lowering you Fire Attunement which WILL LOWER your Fire resistance, so yeah if you go fight the Fire Elemental - yes you WILL kill it ALOT faster and YES you will take more damage from it fire spells.

Not very hard to understand it is there in BLACK AND WHITE, like I said. No interpretation needed.

INREASE IN WATER LOWERS FIRE . . . . WHY IS IT CONFUSING?

you CAN offset this . . .
1. don't fight Fire Critters . . .
2. Raise fire attunement to offset the negative and 1/2 your water attunement but still have a water attunement ((do the math to figure it out I am not going to explain))
3. DO NOT ATTUNE TO WATER IF YOU ARTE GOING TO FIGHT FIRE.

It all comes down to building a template you want and are comfortable with and playing smart . . this is not a open box, grab weapon, run out and kill everything game . SORRY

 

You're not paying attention to what I said.

We'll use the example in the OP.

+ 74 Death Attunement
-37 Life Attunement

Suppose you and I have the exact same attunement stats (above). If you attack me, your attack now has a net 111 Death Attunement against me. My negative life attunement impacts how much damage your death magic attack has on me. That's the point I was trying to make.

 

I realize that the effect is the same. It's the semantics I'm pointing out. Your attunement does not affect others. It affects your ability to withstand their attacks.

 

I don't think that's inconsistent with what I said before.

 

Incorrect you only get a net 111 Death Attunment if the attacker has +74 Death attunment and the defender has -37 Death attunment