Tanking Mitigation (Passives)

[Kaedan94]

The point of this thread was to explore the possibility of why Dexterity which apparently contributes to both mitigation activation rates wasn't more prominent on armor and such.

Because every 30 points is only 1% increase. The block rate of your shield is hundreds if not thousands of times more effective than increasing Dexterity. If you think of the contribution of Block Rate (from Shield) and Dexterity, the ratio is something like 95% of the overall Block Rate comes from shield, and 5% comes from Dex (probably even less than that).

So plainly speaking, it's not worth having Dex on equipment because you'd need far more Dex than the equipment would be capable of providing to have a significant effect on Block Rate.

So put simply, it's my misunderstanding on the effectiveness of raw statistics versus focus stats. e.e thank you both for that clarification.

Pretty much Directly increasing the focus stats is far more effective than increasing raw stats. Though it does differ depending on the focus stat being affected. It just so happens that Dexterity has very little effect on Parry and Block rate. I believe Dexterity has a greater impact on Attack power for Archers.