Reduce Physical Damage Taken or More HP?

RockSkin - Sanctuary

Probably there's more threads asking this and I'm sorry I hadn't the time to check them all...

After searching for some armor pieces at the auctioneer the same doubt came up and I need to understand how this works.

What does this mod "Reduce Physical Damage Taken 1%" really do?

I have a Helm of Aqua Viciousness and a Equine Talisman which both have that mod and I moved them to my inventory and when I put the cursor above my physical resistance it still displays damage will be reduced to 60%. If I take them off...it should display 58% right? Or am I getting the wrong idea?

Is it wise to give priority to items with this reduce dmg mod or hp/vit items should be a priority for a pure tanker build?

I hope you guys can give me some feedback cuz I'm almost reaching level 70 and I feel that TT70 armor pieces don't fit my needs...thoug Army Commander's Armor has a nice +5 str bonus. Other pieces aren't that good. I might aim for decent ☆☆☆ pieces rather than spending coins in **** gear with poor mods.


Thanks in advance! b:victory

Regards,

RockSkin

TheGoliath - Heavens Tear

uh, lol I actually don't know...

I know for sure that the reduction from equips is not shown if u hold the pointer on ur phys def... but I think that a good sage high level barb with.. like 85% damage reduce in tiger form and equips with phys reduce can arrive near 90+ that would be awesome, dunno how much reliable it is tho, I never did care phys reduce damage bonuses till now

aniway, I would say hp all the way, most of the hard bosses u'll tank will have high damage magic skills, so get urself magic ornaments an hp bonuses :P

for 70 I suggest the tt70 plate, the tt70 wristguard (mainly for the soulegde needed for the 80) and if u really want the tt70 boots, refine them +1 or +2 and u should be k

RockSkin - Sanctuary

TheGoliath - Heavens Tear wrote: »

I know for sure that the reduction from equips is not shown if u hold the pointer on ur phys def...

Yeah...I can't see any change in my Character Panel. Is this another bug? b:laugh

TheGoliath - Heavens Tear

RockSkin - Sanctuary wrote: »

Yeah...I can't see any change in my Character Panel. Is this another bug? b:laugh

no but that panel show u the reduction u have with ur PHYS DEF, the phys reduction damage bonuses are a different thing

RockSkin - Sanctuary

TheGoliath - Heavens Tear wrote: »

no but that panel show u the reduction u have with ur PHYS DEF, the phys reduction damage bonuses are a different thing

That's a great info dude. I thought it was the same! So it ain't that bad to have this mod in my gear.

One more question just to make sure...does it stacks?

Gabriil - Lost City

It does stack. That's why he said if you have 85% because of your gear, +5% from -1% damage bonuses, you might have 90% p damage reduction. Which would be awesome xD

Edit: "he" being TheGoliath

Stickygreen - Heavens Tear

you dont want phys damage reduction. its useless. go for HP, and make sure to get elemental resistance accesories for PvP. it also helps with boss spikes.

Wolfgang - Dreamweaver

Minus phy damage taken isn't as good as adding hp as hp will cover both phy damage and mag damage. Negating phys damage is what a barb does naturally, it's the mag damage that hurts. There are also skills which are dependant on hp, so adding more hp will help those skills as well.

RockSkin - Sanctuary

Wolfgang - Dreamweaver wrote: »

Minus phy damage taken isn't as good as adding hp as hp will cover both phy damage and mag damage. Negating phys damage is what a barb does naturally, it's the mag damage that hurts. There are also skills which are dependant on hp, so adding more hp will help those skills as well.

Cape of Tauran Chieftain FTW! b:victory

Thank you everyone for nice feedback.

Dominatiger - Sanctuary

RockSkin - Sanctuary wrote: »

I hope you guys can give me some feedback cuz I'm almost reaching level 70 and I feel that TT70 armor pieces don't fit my needs...thoug Army Commander's Armor has a nice +5 str bonus. Other pieces aren't that good. I might aim for decent ☆☆☆ pieces rather than spending coins in **** gear with poor mods.


RockSkin

But there is nothing left on 7x...

Unless you wanna use the level 77 leggins and 78 or 79 plate that give magic and dexb:shocked

Use the TT 70 (except leggins, you won a 3 star leggins at 70). The worst thing are the rings at 77... misty rings are expensive, but for 14 millions you can buy 2.

Wolfgang - Dreamweaver

Dominatiger - Sanctuary wrote: »

...The worst thing are the rings at 77... misty rings are expensive, but for 14 millions you can buy 2.

14 mill for 2? Awesome, wish Dreamweaver had such low prices for Misty's ^.^

_Shalimar_ - Sanctuary

Wolfgang - Dreamweaver wrote: »

14 mill for 2? Awesome, wish Dreamweaver had such low prices for Misty's ^.^

I personally haven't seen a Lingyun under 12 mil for one, but I also don't bother much.

Stickygreen - Heavens Tear

misty rings go for 6m on HT atm

Thc - Harshlands

they go for 5m on HL, because of the high amount of HJ's

RockSkin - Sanctuary

Dominatiger - Sanctuary wrote: »

But there is nothing left on 7x...

Unless you wanna use the level 77 leggins and 78 or 79 plate that give magic and dexb:shocked

Use the TT 70 (except leggins, you won a 3 star leggins at 70). The worst thing are the rings at 77... misty rings are expensive, but for 14 millions you can buy 2.

I ain't that dumb :P

When I said the ☆☆☆ decent stuff I was talking about gear with vit/hp mods. Btw what leggings are you talking about? Name and stats? I'm curious now.

I've been also trying to get Vambraces of Blood Moon but there's no one selling them in our server. b:sad

About the rings...isn't just one misty enough?

Stickygreen - Heavens Tear

wtf is an HJ?

Pnut - Lost City

ok, well i didn't read everything.. mainly the title. As a werebeast, never worry about your pdef reduction, please. You will always have enough, you want hp.

It may have already been explained, but ill clear try and clear it up, if it already has been. The pdef reduction stats on items, they give you more pdef reduction, self explanatory imho. How does the pdef reduction work?? Well ill try and give some numbers, not logged on so ill try off of memory. Lets say you have around 7k pdef in human. lets say this gives you 72% reduction. When you go to tiger form, you have about 11k pdef. This will give you roughly 76% reduction (like i said, my numbers may be off). so that is only 4% reduction increase from 3-4k pdef increase. The +1% pdef, just gives you another reduction without any addictional physical defense actually added, it would do the same as if you had more pdef.. Now some people may be wondering why you only get 4% reduction from so much more pdef? Well that is because you have so much of it already. Basically if you have less, the more you get will give you more reduction. In rebirth (godless valley) the physical defense buff at wave 9 pumps my pdef up to about 28k, if i remember right, and that only gives me about 84-86% reduction in tiger. But when i go into human form i lose a lot of pdef, around 5-6k or something, but only 2% reduction because you have so much pdef already. That was a huge wall of text, maybe answered some of your questions b:bye

Rakthor - Lost City

if someone already said this, I didn't go trhough the whole thread :P
I think reduce 1% phys. damage means it takes away 1% of the damage that the mob has dealt on the spot.

Ironhammer - Lost City

If u use mixed items Lunar, Legendary, HH u can get more reduce bonus.
Chceck all items Armors, Accesories, Weapons, Helm, Cape + Mystical Tome if u count all u will see u can have at level 97-99 a 20% bonuse reduce dmg.
I'm still thinking what is better this extra bonus reduce ore the hugh HP.
And yes magic mobs are pain in the **** -.-