2010-11-23, 01:18 AM
Stereo Wrote:PB, on my Paladin (if I had 4th job skills maxed which I don't):
22% - WDEF
1% - Iron Body
17% - Shield Mastery
9% - Achilles
25.5% - Power Guard
Guardian and Divine Shield are fairly effective too, of course.
Divine Shield with 24% chance of activation (max level of 12) activates on average every 4.15 attacks and blocks the next 6 attacks.
Throw in Guardian and it takes Divine Shield 7 attacks to activate, making the breakdown
46% - Divine Shield
21.5% - Guardian
8.7% - taken as damage
8.16% - Power Guard
7% - wdef
5.44% - Shield Mastery
2.88% - Achilles
.32% - Iron Body
In order, these are - 4th, 4th, -, 2nd, -, 3rd, 4th, 1st job skills.
The real weak link here is Achilles. For 30 points it's really trashy.
Then of course there are bosses where Threaten does work.
46% - Divine Shield
21.5% - Guardian
9.6% - Threaten
6.09% - taken as damage
5.71% - Power Guard
4.9% - wdef
3.8% - Shield Mastery
2.02% - Achilles
0.22% - Iron Body
So from what I'm getting, Achilles and Iron Body are fail tier defensive skills. Is this correct? This really changes my opinion about Achilles now. Always saw 15% mitigation as really nice. Guess it's only good for every other warrior class who utterly lacks defensive skills so Achilles suddenly become much more important.