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GF should looking for more defense or hit points?

pife2pife2 Member Posts: 6 Arc User
edited February 2014 in The Militia Barracks
I have a GF with the set timeless this set increase his attack but decrease his defense, actually I wonder should I looking more defense or more hit points?
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  • chocobofarmerchocobofarmer Member Posts: 512 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    It would take a very long time to answer that question, but in a few sentences, what you want is to find a compromise between your effective hitpoints when damage reduction is not buffed and when damage reduction is buffed. Your effective hp will fluctuate very often, as damage reduction buffs are applied to you and expire. Play around with this spreadsheet to see how raising defense, deflect, and hp affects your effective hp.

    http://nw-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?582071-Tanking-Spreadsheet-Def-Deflect-HP-Mitigation-amp-Effective-HP

    To see the effect from common dc buffs, multiply the % of the following by 2, and adding the number on top of your AC. If using armor specialization 3/3, multiply by 1.74 instead before adding the number on top of your AC. You can add up these buffs' % to see what happens when multiple of them are up simultaneously.

    Foresight: 11%
    Astral Shield: 30%
    Hallowed Ground:40%

    A good DC can have all three of these buffs on you maybe 75% of the time on average.

    Basically, with armor specialization, you want maybe 3.5k defense, the rest into hp. Without armor specialization, 3k defense, rest into HP. If in doubt, stack primarily HP, because it is much easier to overstack defense than hp with gf gear considering most armor give good defense and that the set bonus of GF weapons is defense.
  • pife2pife2 Member Posts: 6 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    good I will get hp, thank you
  • fondlezfondlez Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    The advice is good, but that spreadsheet in the linked thread is wrong. It is applying Deflection as an additive mitigation bonus when it is in fact multiplicative, hence the spreadsheet is overstating total mitigation.
  • frariifrarii Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    you will get over cap in defense in any T2 gear, stack HP.
  • rapo818rapo818 Member Posts: 8 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    fondlez wrote: »
    The advice is good, but that spreadsheet in the linked thread is wrong. It is applying Deflection as an additive mitigation bonus when it is in fact multiplicative, hence the spreadsheet is overstating total mitigation.

    I think the formula is perfectly fine since it adds deflection multiplicatively. :)
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