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AC or Defense? - What is most important and what is the difference?
tcheluelu
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Hi!
I have searched in the forums and could not found a topic about this.
So, what is most importante to a GF? AC or Defense? and what is the difference between this 2 stats?
thanks!
I have searched in the forums and could not found a topic about this.
So, what is most importante to a GF? AC or Defense? and what is the difference between this 2 stats?
thanks!
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Think of it as the innate toughness of the item you're wearing (like wearing plate armor vs cloth armor in any mmo).
Defense and AC both contribute directly to damage mitigation and nothing else afaik.
So roughly 33 defense = 1 AC.
A better question is... Defense vs. Deflect.
AC is now the base rating of the chestpiece, and it only changes if you find a better chestpiece with a higher rating.
Defense contributes directly to how much incoming damage you can withstand, from all sources. Deflect contributes to your chance to avoid (mitigating 50%) of incoming damage.
For a tank class, the better choice would be defense, since the returns are more consistent. But there is likely an optimal combination of Defense vs. Deflect that i'm sure the genuis mathematician theorycrafters will inform us of eventually
However until then I am shooting for a 2:1 Defense : Deflect ratio. Meaning 40% defense resist to 20% deflect (though as a halfling my real goal is 25%)
This will do two things:
Reduce that 10k hit to 6k (yes I know the math doesn't work like that but keeping it simple)
Then 1/4th of the time that 10k hit is reduced to 3k (that is an average of 750 reduction per hit or compared to damage resist ~7%)
Given that math 3:1 is the over all damage resist ratio of deflect or 3% deflect = 1% damage resistance
Remember heals are small and fast in this game and the likely hood of getting 1 shot is little. In the end it is all going to come down to how much damage can be avoided one way or another.
That might be true at endgame but is a very possible scenario when levelling.
Can we get enough Deflect end game for it to work the majority of the time?
The second question is based on the unique block mechanic (guard) of this game. When something hits a guard, we lose stamina, which we can only generate a certain amount per second. If Deflect is calculated before the guard, it might work out to be better than Defense since it will effectively reduce how much stamina regeneration is needed to sustain guard. At the same time, the same question goes to defense: is the reduction before or after the hit to our guard? Defense will most likely be better if it reduces the damage done to our guard, assuming we can't get our avoidance to a very high percent end game.
I'm not high enough level to answer either of these questions, so someone else will have to give the additional information I am missing.
This is not the case for my GWF. 2 AC = 1% damage resistance.
What you say is true. As you level you need more a stat to produce a similar result.
Defense also has a more complicated formula I haven't bothered to try and figure out but here's some numbers (at level 60):
Defense = Damage Resistance %
1,924 = 27%
1,774 = 25.9% (150 less = 1.1% less)
1,424 = 23.2% (350 less = 2.7% less)
1,274 = 21.8% (150 less = 1.4% less)
1,054 = 19.5% (220 less = 2.3% less)
Basically it's the usual MMO system for defense/mitigation stats. The more you have the more of the stat you need to get 1% mitigation but because of more complicated math stuff it isn't actually diminishing returns in a real way. The numbers on paper just make it "appear" like diminishing returns but your net survivability gain per point of defense will remain roughly the same all the way up.