2010-11-22, 09:54 PM
(This post was last modified: 2010-11-22, 10:07 PM by octopusprime.)
Shidoshi Wrote:If you say the 50% reduction of power guard is useless. What about the reduction brought by achilles or shield mastery? They reduce way less than 50% so they are the ones you would be leaving unmaxed instead.
Point is, power guard is one of the highest damage reducing skills you've got. If you are getting hit 1 with or without it you'd rather take points off:
1) A skill that increases your defense less
2) a skill from 4th job since those points are more useful (can use on any job and 4th job is generally harder to choose what to max)
Achilles works on all damage, very notably 1/1 skills. It isn't exactly a priority either.
Shield mastery effects both physical and magical damage. And i'd rather double (oops, TRIPLE) the entirety of my defense than reduce whatever low amount of damage i may be taking ( just from touch damage mind you) to be even lower.
Lets mention guardian while we're at it. Oh wait, it reduces the effects of power guard by a blindingly obvious 42%. Oh yeah, shield mastery makes it less effective by half (not half but too complicated for me to bother being mathematically correct here) of that 42% too. Unless they change how power guard works, it's reduction comes last and basically by default is worse and lower priority than the skills you compared it to (from different jobs, rendering the comparison essentially useless). Oops, no one mentioned threaten, also obviously better than power guard while also making powerguard less useful. Stacking multiple types of mitigation is inefficient. Making a unique type of mitigation apply (last) to a type of damage that is the most easily avoided type is even more inefficient.
Please note, i'm not now or ever advocating people not get or not use the skill. I originally just casually mentioned that i thought it should be removed from paladins and heroes both for skills that were either
a. more useful or b. unique (c. both would be cool). Use it all you want. personally i might not even put it on my keyboard after a certain point. What surprises me though, is the amount of people telling me what a good skill it is. Either they don't understand this entire discussion is taking place with a post-bb mindset, or they really think it is truly reducing damage in a realistic in-game scenario by 50%.