PLDs: You have Clemency for a reason.

[Barraind]

4.8% is not 10%, lol.

I expect tooltips to actually do what they say they do.

Sacred soul decreases damage taken by 10%. The tooltip is correct.

All damage reduction %'s stack multiplicativly, meaning that tanks, who have an innate 20% damage reduction, are effectively taking 10% less of 80%. A tank with a 30% cooldown popped is getting 5.6% dr from soil. A warrior stacking cooldowns of different types will get effective DR of less than 5%.

This is why tenacity is an awful stat to stack, because in places you would think tenacity is helpful, its defensive value is half of what its stat value says it is.

If DR was additive to a point, or healer DR% worked like the Vie line in EQ / tank and dps damage debuffs in 14, youd get a lot more value out of small DR packets.


You get sacred soil because it's a decent tool to deal with AE's, especially once its also is a regen field.