Talk:Defense Augments/@comment-72.140.37.143-20141125170923/@comment-6016076-20141125184729

The closest I could get was 16.4 seconds and was kind of convoluted. In fact, it's so complicated it seems unlikely. My first assumption was that 100% rescucitation equals 15 seconds reduced. This is because 130% is possible through max skill alone, so it only makes sense if the first 15 seconds is 100%--at least, it can't scale linearly because then 100% would reduce recovery time to zero, and 130% would give you "negative recovery time." Based on this, I modeled recovery time exponentially, where each 100% is equal to 0.5 ^ 2 * 30 seconds.

This could all be very wrong, but I then treated each iteration of recovery time individually:

a) 0.65 * 15 seconds = 9.75.  This is the bonus from your helmet, leaving you with 20.25 seconds remaining. 20.25 - 15 = 5.25

b) 0.7 * 5.25 seconds = 3.675.  --> 3.675 + 9.75 = 13.425.  This is from your vest; 30 - 13.425 = 16.575 seconds remaining.

c) 0.1 * 1.575 = 0.1575 ---> 0.1575 + 3.675 + 9.75 = 13.5825.  This is from your skill.  30 - 13.5825 = 16.4175 seconds.

Of course, the implication is that you can't get below 15 seconds without having at least one source over 100%, which seems kind of wrong. I don't know why I bothered to type all this lol.