Teras Kasi Archive
Thread: What exactly does defense acuity do?
If it works, it works only just barely. So slight, that with a center of being on have a once in a million chance of it working. Remember, there is a big difference between a "miss" and a "Dodge", "Block", and "Counterattack".
We are missed a lot more as we improve, but that is due to our other defenses, namely melee defense and our natural cl level. Defensive acuity is supposed to increase our chances of dodging/blocking/counter-attacking, but do to the current combat system, we can do none of those so DA provides little if no benefit at all.
Its also why center of being doesn't show hardly any noticable improvement(if at all) because CoB is supposed ot great enhance our professions defensive mod, but since ours does nothing or practically nothing, neither does CoB.
As for why its not fixed yet, if I were to guess, I'd say its because increasing our defenses even more than they are now would be considered unbalancing and before the devs touch it, they want to make sure its done in conjunction with the combat balance in Publish 8.
As far as I can tell the "blocking" you're refering to is just an animation that makes combat look more interesting.
Checking my combat logs, I don't think I've ever dodged or blocked but I counter attack maybe once every 200 attacks or something. =/