Jedi Archive

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tacwraith wrote:

Aura and force armor provides2nd best protectionprotection.

Aura and force armor AND 1 branch of innate armor from defender is the BEST protection you can have for the skillpoint cost.

Its simple logic.

The game checks for damage AND applies damage reductionin the following way:

1) Dodge/Evade/Block. This is binary.. it either hits or it doesnt.

2) Your defense vs his accuracy

damage is reduced and goes through the next check

3) food buffs (aka synthsteak)

damage is reduced and goes through to next check

4) armor rating (both innate and force armor or armorsmith made armor)

final check, damage is reduced and is applied to your health bar.

NOTE: ELEMENTAL DAMAGE IS ONLY REDUCED BY ARMOR MOD

With this in mind you realize that AURA is the MOST important thing as it will be the first thing to reduce damage and thus is the most important.

By having aura and melee defense branch from defender you increase your melee def by 90 points and your innate armor by about 12 points. Aura is 500 defenses so you'll likely end up having about 650 defenses total. Force Armor adds almost mdef armor mods to all this.

So when you get hit the damage that reaches the armor will be drastically reduced by the aura, meaning your force armor will not 'burn' as much force toreduce the incoming damage even further.

you should not fear force armor if you have channel. Monitor your force and ham bars... in most fights your ham bar will likely always be under 80% so you got a full 20% 'empty' health bar to channel every now and then.

I have a timer macro tied to my channel. It tells me when my health points are back to full after a channel and I instantly channel again no matter if im winning or have near full force. Its better to have FORCE than to keep a health bar topped off.

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