Ask a Warrior Thread.

I was wondering about achilles. I have 14 points in it at the moment but I really don't see much of a diffference. It appears I take just as much damage as a warrior without it. Someone suggested the damage seen does not reflect the actual damage taken. Any truth to that? I've put off putting any more points into it and will be maxing Rush instead... currently at 23. Then it'll be either Achilles or Monster Magnet. Even if Achilles doesn't do much... it's got to be better than Monster Magnet.

No it's true. The damage seen in the orange numbers don't reflect the damage you take in your HP bar. Also if I can recall right Achilles also protects against magic damage, although it doesn't say so. If you really want to see results, go on a boss run and have them use a 1/1 attack on you. You'll notice your HP won't get reduced to 1, but rather subtract the percentage and leave that much HP. So if you had 30,000 HP, and took a 1/1, you'd have approximately 4500 HP remaining instead of 1 even though your damage sustained might read as 29,999.