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lightmaster83
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Does anybody know and explain me in concrete terms how the deflect works and what is the difference between deflect and defense? thanks 
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Defense just filters the damage you get and makes it be less.
I believe that Defense deals with your chance to dodge out of the way of a attack. Deflection is the amount of damage that you avoid as a percentage. You may think of it a glancing blow. And you can see the numbers you stats give you by holding the cursor over the stat. You'll get pop-up into with close to real-time numbers.
Edit: And to CYA myself. I may be confused on Defense which may increase your overall Damage Resistance.
Deflect- Increase the chance that you will ignore a large amount of incoming damage.
exact...i don't understand that "large amount"...
it is clear that defense actually decreases the damage suffered as a percentage that increases with the score of defense...but deflect "ignore a large amount" and i don't understand if it allows to totally ignore an injury, or if only prevent a part of it, and how this happens ... and for those who know a little D & D rules and Neverwinternights transposition of those, making an hard comparison , I would like to know if somehow deflect takes the place, sadly left, by the real use of the AC, allowing in some way to avoid all or at least part of an attack, as in this MMO CA only increases the damage resistance .... and if deflect really avoids damage as AC in D & D. ... what takes the place of the attack roll? is it armor prenetation? finally, are armor prenetation and deflect opposite stats, like power and defense are opposites about damage?
deflect does seem to be on adds often enough to make it worth stacking, but i wouldn't try to do it as my main focus.
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Deflect = Basically be a "dodge" but you still take a tiny bit of damage.
This helps promote guardian blocking and manual player dodging over just stacking tons of Deflection as a counter to special effects.
I think so too
I believe that would be "reflect"
Deflect seems to be a stat to "dodge" some of the incoming attacks.
Though a Magical Deflect would be a bit more powerful... hmm
Deflect suggests a redirection of damage away from the victim to another source other than the attacker. Reflect would suggest returning damage to the attack.
As far as I can tell, Deflect is a damage mitigation that occurs based on a percentage, that halves the damage you normally take.
Pretty much this. Deflection is like parry in WoW, you deflect a great amount of the dmg but not all of it. I noticed during my playtime that I would periodically get a zig-zag arrow next to some dmg numbers which I think was a deflection which I invested in on my Trickster Rogue. I wanna say a bout 3/4 of the dmg was reduced but not entirely sure, the log didn't specify I thought when I looked at it.
As far as total avoidance of dmg that is you dodge ability, the shift, double tap, or sprint thing. I only got dodge numbers when I tumbled away from the mobs blows.
If this is the case, why not just stack Defense so that you get it to around 50% (or higher) and get the same benefit? Seems redundant to me.
You have something called "Deflect Severity" or something close to that in your character sheet. I'm pretty sure that is refered to as how much damage you avoid. On my GWF it is 50% but on my rogue its only 25%.
It stacks with defence though IE 25% defence DR and 50% deflect DR (assuming your a tank) = 62.5% total damage reduction when you deflect an attack.
If you're familiar with CO, Deflect = Dodge and Deflect Severity = Avoidance.