Question about end-game soulstones

i recommend you build your toon with the gear you want on the pwcalc tool, and play with the different shard options.. then you should run the different resultant builds through the "effective health" formulas which can be found on the "damage" article in the pwi wiki.

as a general suggestion I would shoot for having about 30 defense levels at a minimum to "break even" with jones blessing - use Jade of Steady Defense for that (not DoT, those are for attack levels - you want defense.) DoD shards are kinda meh with only 1 defense level. if you have a piece of gear that is only g12 that you don't want to replace with a higher grade piece of gear (I'm likely to keep my g12 dominating waterforce which at +5 with with 3 immac citrines and the +7 vit mod i have on it, is damn close to a Warsoul Helm +4 with 3 immac citrines) ranting aside now.. use Vit stones in your g12 pieces i would say is the best option there.

anywho.. you can run those build options through the formulas to see which route will actually benefit you more / be better balanced.

First of all you'll have more than 9k with JoSD.



Second, according to the calculator thing asterelle made, it depends on who is attacking you.

If it's someone with a lower attack level, as in someone with just a jones blessing and maybe a few DoT, then the JoSD are better.

If it's someone with a higher attack level, as in someone with R9, then vit stones are better.

Sakubatou - Sanctuary wrote: »

Not to mention our arma is based on hp, not defense levels.

In all honesty, Arma is the skill Fuzzy probably uses the least in pk. Even with 2 amber gems in the panda's weapon (2x accuracy +225) and 2 +7 Frost Chaos rings (2x accuracy +50%) the chance of missing the opponent outweighs the OMGWTF damage it is capable of.

Pretty much the only time Fuzzy uses arma to any extent is Rebirth and combined with the aura levels in there, having extra hp from vit stones is almost pointless anyway.

Anyway, back to the OP's question...

PWpedia gives the attack level vs. defense level formula as:

If attack level < defense level then:

damage taken = { damage delivered / ( 1 + (1.2 * ({ defense level } - { attack level }) / 100 ) ) }

This says to Fuzzy that you gain increasing returns the higher you can manage to grow your defense level. The amount of damage taken starts to greatly decrease when you get into the double digit difference between their attack level and your defense level.

Just for argument sake, Fuzzy supposes someone deals 1000 damage on the panda.

If they have 30 attack levels (ie: Jones Blessing) and Fuzzy has 31 defense levels, they actually manage to hit for 988.

Sharded with JoSD, right now Fuzzy has 52 defense levels. Heck, just for illustration purposes, suppose the panda throws on a +8 def lvl school teacher blessing as well to get it up to 60. The same person with the same jones blessing again manages a 1000 hit. This time, it would actually only manage to damage Fuzzy for 735.

The increasing returns from the level difference is what sold Fuzzy on the JoSD shards for end game.

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