Quote Originally Posted by ty_taurus View Post
I'm not actually sure if that's true. The tooltip reads "increases magic defense" and not "reduces magic damage taken." I could be wrong because I didn't fact check this, but the wording leads me to believe Covenant used to increase the player's magic defense stat, and if that's true, I have no idea what that actually equates to in terms of how much damage is actually mitigated.
Oh my brain didn't even parse it like that, yeh in that case it'd have worked like old Foresight for WAR, which was widely regarded to be 'quite shit compared to Rampart'. And it'd have had different effectiveness based on roles, thanks to differing magic resistance levels on gear. No wonder it got changed then. This changes things, and EW SCH would definitely be more 'mitigative' in that case, my mistake