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I've actually answered this question before and I still have the paper that I wrote all the math on when I answered it.

A Core Flaylock (at the time) with 3 Complex Damage Modifiers and Proficiency 5 will dish out 597 direct damage to Armor.

Whereas, adding Direct and Splash damage together = 590

Being as there is no in-game mechanic that could allow the combination of both direct and splash damage (both having different efficiency ratings, for one example) it might appear this way but there's nothing out of the realm of believable that this fit was potentially used.

A source other than anecdotal evidence would be the best thing.

You have also couched your argument with "has no shields" when all foes have some level of them and explosive weapons only do 70% to shields. If what you said was true then a direct hit would wipe out most (if not all) of the lower shielded foes and it doesnt.

We need clarification from CCP or at least from people who have extensively tested the scenario.

One of the guys I play with frequently did not use a set up like you mentioned....not at all....and he noted (back before the flaylock had become the FOTM) that the flaylock was doing WWWAAAYYYY more dmg than it should based on the numbers involved. We did testing and he was pretty much removing all shields from shield heavy suits with a single shot when it was a direct hit. Testing could be done more extensively if the corp battle option was still available.....but its not..... so its very difficult to actually sit down and truly test weapons out and obtain numbers. However I dont really understand how people can question this.......How does my standard MD that does 225 direct dmg (I use no dmg mods on it and have only lvl 1 so no proficiency) OHK standard suits with a direct hit when they have full HP? Even assuming that they have absolutely no HP mods on them (which is a rediculous assumption) these suits have standard more HP than the direct dmg gives out. Even the lowest HP suit (minmatar) has plenty of HP to absorb a single direct hit....but it doesnt. Instead it gets OHKed (and I am sure that they are using some sort of HP mod too surely every single person i OHKed did not use only dmg mods that thought is just rediculous).

The problem with this is that CCP has "clarified" many things before...just for testing to prove them incorrect...then CCP does more testing on their end...and the next thing we know CCP comes back and mentions that things are not working properly. So yea CCP "clarification" means about as much as cow poop. They can tell us how they are wanting it to work...but how they are wanting it to work and how it actually works can and many times is two extremely different things.

Well you still havent given me any proof but this post I do agree with. Though I rather them have to go on record and then have to clarify if proven wrong - much better than tin-foiling it

I do hope Aeon does some testing as he has done some with the MD re splash.

Testing what, exactly?

He is asking you to test if direct dmg and splash dmg are added together.

Its direct hit OR splash, NOT BOTH. CCP confirmed. Ill find the post later. You AR nerds kill me.

It's not, there's no way that it can and the testing that I've already done (see videos) proves this.