2008-07-05, 08:44 AM
Threaten's best use is on ropes. Normally you'd be better off launching that extra hit instead of using threaten, but on a rope, you can still threaten, before climbing up through a mob. It will reduce the damage you take and increase the damage you deal, though not to an incredible extent, it's at least noticeable if it's maxed. Same goes for Iron Body, essentially: It's not a gamebreaker, but it does save potions, and when warriors take a lot of touch damage from being close and personal, every bit helps.
Where I train, I take approxomately 17-40 damage depending on what touches me (without IB/ Threaten/ Powerguard) where as I see other warriors recieving over 200 damage at times, and let's not forget those sauna robe users taking even more. I make good mesos there, they comment that I do 200 damage less than them (it means nothing, I still 2hko like they do) Then they whine that they're poor, call defense useless, and then call me a hacker. It's enough to make a stoic burst out laughing.
Basically, Defense is the single most underrated stat in the game. Between loweing my damage output on mobs, despite raising it on single targets, or +40 def, pineapple, I'll take the defense. I don't care if it doesn't do much on it's own, tack it on on top of the rest of my gear and boom, even more damage reduction. That damage reduction saves me a lot of money on potions, at least 6x fewer potions at my page's current 5x stages, and this money I've saved = funds towards better equipment.
Where I train, I take approxomately 17-40 damage depending on what touches me (without IB/ Threaten/ Powerguard) where as I see other warriors recieving over 200 damage at times, and let's not forget those sauna robe users taking even more. I make good mesos there, they comment that I do 200 damage less than them (it means nothing, I still 2hko like they do) Then they whine that they're poor, call defense useless, and then call me a hacker. It's enough to make a stoic burst out laughing.
Basically, Defense is the single most underrated stat in the game. Between loweing my damage output on mobs, despite raising it on single targets, or +40 def, pineapple, I'll take the defense. I don't care if it doesn't do much on it's own, tack it on on top of the rest of my gear and boom, even more damage reduction. That damage reduction saves me a lot of money on potions, at least 6x fewer potions at my page's current 5x stages, and this money I've saved = funds towards better equipment.