Quote Originally Posted by Greatguardian View Post
Hey now, it totally does!

Except it's irrelevant because monster cRatio has a lower bound of 1.0, which is why that Tiny Mandragora outside Windurst can hit your level 99 Paladin with 5,000 defense for more than 0 damage.
I really should have included "effectively" because yeah, that is technically how defense works. In retrospect, saying "Much like my wiener is an effective device for extinguishing flames. Let me at that forest fire in rural Nevada, Chief!" would have been cleverer anyway.

I've been trying to find a decent explanation or model of monster pDIF/player defense effects/etc. so I can complain harder about this. I keep finding stuff about avatars and various pets instead. You actually have a concrete number for a concrete thing, so I'm hopeful you could point me towards some of this stuff or just provide a relatively thorough explanation if you can be bothered?