What does lowering a critter's defense by 450 do?

qutsemnie

Reference a beta thread and I didn't want to post this question on that thread because I am interested in GF gear and not GWF abilities. http://nw-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?635921-Deep-Gash-Change-Ice-Wind-Dale-Expansion-Test-Shard&p=7620801#post7620801

gentlemancrush wrote: »

So I wanted to step in and clarify a few things.

First and foremost is Student of the Sword. The tooltip on live is actually very misleading. Against players (who have a stat called defense remember) it actually reduces their *DEFENSE*. Critters don't actually have defense, but just a flat damage mitigation percentage. So Student of the Sword has always had a slightly different behavior on critters, which has been a 1/2/3/4/5% negative mitigation debuff that stacked 3 times. And could be applied separately by different players. Meaning you would get 15% more damage to a target for each GWF who had the feat at 3 stacks. Which is quite a bit of bonus damage considering this is a T1 feat. It was MASSIVELY out of line.

So my question is this:
Valiant Armor says, "Set 4: When you strike a foe you have a 25% chance to reduce their Defense by 450 and increase your own by 450"

But, gentlmencrush who is a dev says, "Critters don't actually have defense, but just a flat damage mitigation percentage."



So, if we are to understand the dev comment in the context of the GF armor set, what should Valiant Armor actually say for PvE?

inthefade462

Believe its 10% dmg buff just like HV, which stacks to 3.