A question on Aran involving survivability and party skills.

i don't have anywhere near enough potential for capped defense, but with several skills i reach just short of 5.5k, add DrK achilles (QQ), high defense from aran, and advanced blue aura, and i don't see how that number is impossible.

that was on chaos.

Don't forget that this is with the empress set, and also, Aran has a lot of small def buffs now. 500 comes from Adv bless, aura almost doubles it. All of this is without potential.

High defense doesn't affect the number at all. It only increases HP and has 20% damage reduction. Did you mean Blessing Maha and Combo Barrier?