Teras Kasi Archive
Thread: Melee Defense/Tanking Question
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Purple_Dot
Thu Sep 15, 2005 10:29 am
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I'm trying to make sure I am the best tank that I can be. My melee defense is currently at 309 (I am TKA/Swords/Doc4000 with BE clothes and CA's) and I can hold my own pretty well.
Here is the question: Is it worth it to add more melee defense? I thought I read somewhere that when you get to a certain point you essentially stop getting much defensive bonus from the additional melee defense.
Fett402
Thu Sep 15, 2005 11:35 am
#2
yes, get more and get all that you can possibly have. The higher you get the less effective it will be per point is the way I understand it, the higher you get the less you get out of it, but you still get somthing out of it. I plan to get everything I can to get all the def. that i can.
LorinnaHellsing
Thu Sep 15, 2005 1:22 pm
#3
From my experience Defense effectiveness does not taper off as you get more, but instead will abruptly stop mitigating damage once it's reached a certain point.
There isn't an actual number that I can give you, as it's different depending what enemy you are fighting. This is because of the equation that defense factors into, asit relates your defenses and the target's accuracy. As your defenses keep increasing over their accuracy, damage reduces. Because there is a minimum damage you cannot push an attacker below, at some point defenses will completely stop reducing damage. You will reach this cap very quickly on low CL enemies, but it can be done pretty easily with the right tempate on normal mobs up to CL82. If you're fighting bosses or high CL enemies, I seriously doubt you're going to cap out your defenses.
The above only relates to the damage reducing factors of defense. I can't speak for whether there's a cap on how often you dodge an attack, since defense decides this as well.
If you're looking for the highest defense template, I think combining Master Teras Kasi, and Master Defender (Jedi) would be the best you can do. I've been considering giving this a shot just to see what it's like. I worked it up in a ProfCalc and here's the numbers it gave:
Melee Defense: 340
Unarmed Defense: 75
70 Innate Jedi Armor
Here's the breakdown as I see it if you use all the best food and attachments:
Melee Defense: 365
Unarmed Defense: 100
Force Aura: 500
Vegeparsine: 100
TOTAL: 1065 Melee Defense (yum) and 7000 armor resists...oh and Avoid Incap
And don't forget Pikatta Pie. While it doesn't actually add to you defensives directly, it does reduce damage in the same way defenses do.
You might be able to best that witha TKM and MBH template, as I heard you can stack COB and BH's defensive move. I can't say for sure since I don't know how much the BH move actually grants.
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