Quote Originally Posted by Vinez View Post
I really don't think the 9 points make that huge of a difference, however does damage reduction come in tiers? ex. from 1-100 you get a 10% reduction from 101-200 you get 14% reduction something along those lines?

If that's the case it makes sense b/c he may of broken into another tier, if that's not the case i'll continue to hit my head on the desk trying to figure out how 9 pts is so huge hehe.
I highly doubt that Defense is divided into tiers because, seriously, that would just be wonky as hell.

Someone did some math that found that Defense is actually a stat that becomes more valuable the more of it you have so that the smaller incremental gains you get going from 70>90 gear compared to 60>70 actually end up meaning more. Essentially, Defense doesn't have linear growth but rather exponential growth. As such, that 9 Defense could actually mean a *lot*. I'm kind of curious how you managed the same parry rating, STR, DEX, and shield block rate/value while still having a 9 point Defense discrepancy. Normally, when you have a discrepancy on something based entirely upon i-level like Defense, the secondary stats follow suit.