So "play how I want you to play" kinda thread? Sounds fun.
So "play how I want you to play" kinda thread? Sounds fun.
Parry got changed, and it no longer scales - at all. It's a flat 20% now. This means that you have to have 5% parry to get 1% mitigation. As a DRK, if I stack parry, I can get close to 20% parry rate, which is 4% mitigation, based on RNG. Paladins get about 5% less, iirc. I'd rather have 2% flat mitigation, tbh. Note: I like parry as DRK, but not for its own mitigation. I don't stack it, but I'm not dumping it entirely either. TBH, STR "mitigates" more damage.
VIT doesn't help your defense at all. Block does, and is a good thing, but VIT doesn't. All VIT does is give you more HP, period. If you have a bad healer and slow dps, you might need more HP, but if the healer's DPS'ing and you're still not falling below 50%, then putting on STR gear is probably a good idea. As for parry, see above.
True. That doesn't mean you can't help out a bit by using Sword Oath/Deliverance (or having Grit off) when possible and/or having STR accessories when you don't actually need the extra HP.
Most tanks carry VIT accessories. If you're on AST and get a tank that doesn't have enough hp for you to be comfortable, you should ask them (nicely) to put some extra vit on. Me? I could go full STR and you probably wouldn't even know it these days unless you examined me, simply because the amount of VIT I have with i190-i200 and full slaying accessories is nearly the same as I had with i170-i180 gear and full fending accessories.
Oh, and btw....a good WAR in full STR gear is probably easier to heal than any WAR in full VIT (good, bad, or ugly), because many of their self-healing abilities scale with STR.
--Erim Nelhah
Last edited by Erim-Nelhah; 09-02-2015 at 04:17 AM.
Member of The Cimmerian Aurora <TCA>, Gilgamesh
Level 80 DNC Main
Dancer is a physical hybrid melee/range class, not a true ranged class. I love it.
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