cleric with boots of tigar strength?

Blackula__ - Archosaur

The avatar is archer but I also have a pure cleric that just hit the 90's......i have great magic defense obviously but I was thinking how can in increase my physical defense to make an overall stronger toon. If I understand things correctly after awhile there is less and less return to your defense numbers? If this is true getting my physical defense up 300 to say 2200 (completely made up...don't know actual number)......This would be more beneficial then having say 8500 magic defense? I hope that is clear.....

Stay pure plus like 5 points strength I can add the HA boots...increase my physical defense with a loss to magic defense....Any thoughts on this?

Also does level make a big difference in how much damage you take? I notice that higher level nuke classes still smash me. Clerics have great magic defense so is this just a fact of life? Regardless of magic defense number a high level magic attack or "nuker" in general will hit ubber hard? Again I hope this is clear....

Basically at what point do I have enough magic defense...I am pure so I add almost 5 points to magic every level....At this point my defense numbers increase by 1-2 for every 5 points...this seems pointless?

Lana - Raging Tide

Makes me wonder how you can wear HA boots if you stay pure. You shouldnt have enough Str/Dex for it ever...
If you want to increase your pdef, getting pdef oranaments + refining them would be the better choice, you could also shard pdef in your armor, but you will have to sacrifice HP for it.

And youre right, the higher your def gets, the less % of damage taken you get for it, but partially wearing HA to balance it out is not really the way to go.

Damage you take is lvl dependent, altho i dont have exact numbers/lvl, im sure someone else in this forum knows Nukers like Wizzies/Psys will still hit you hard, just because their skills are so powerful. If you already think you're being hit hard, imagine being a HA/LA class with low mdef.
Adding magic isnt primarily to increase your mdef, but to increase your mattack, so dont focus on the def you gain per magic point added.

Blackula__ - Archosaur

Easy:) the tiger strength boots are only level 40 something......Oh, you know what though....I might have answered this on my own because I forgot about dexterity. I think i already ruled that outb:surrender I had almost enough strength but had forgot about dexterity hehe:)

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