Paladin Shields

[Zohar_Lahar]

A Kite shield is the middle of the road. It is the best option if your Parry rate is roughly equal to the Block Rate.

How do you calculate the Parry rate from the current number?

[ZDamned]

How do you calculate the Parry rate from the current number?

You honestly don't... It's mathematically dumbfounded how badly parry ends up scaling. Currently it's supposed to be 1% for 13 Parry rating points, but testing has found it to be significantly worse off. Like, closer to 75-100 per 1% parry.. =(

[Zohar_Lahar]

You honestly don't... It's mathematically dumbfounded how badly parry ends up scaling. Currently it's supposed to be 1% for 13 Parry rating points, but testing has found it to be significantly worse off. Like, closer to 75-100 per 1% parry.. =(

That makes it impossible to know if a kite shield block rate equals parry rate.

[Lothar808]

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To clarify, the mitigation percentages mentioned are mitigation rates, not total mitigation. The actual % mitigated of each attack blocked depends on your shield (block strength) and your actual strength. The actual % mitigated of each attack parried is based on your strength alone. Not sure about the formulas for % mitigated for each, but the strength works on a tired system for both, which means there are strength break points for each % mitigated.

[Donjo]

To clarify, the mitigation percentages mentioned are mitigation rates, not total mitigation. The actual % mitigated of each attack blocked depends on your shield (block strength) and your actual strength. The actual % mitigated of each attack parried is based on your strength alone. Not sure about the formulas for % mitigated for each, but the strength works on a tired system for both, which means there are strength break points for each % mitigated.

I don't think it sounded like anyone was confused by my little calculations, but I took a page from this and added a few more instances of the word "rate" to make it clear that it's always the rate being affected