07-04-2005, 10:11 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-04-2005, 10:11 PM by MongoJerry.)
swirly,Jul 4 2005, 01:48 PM Wrote:I'm not sure this is a bug though. I have heard warriors talking about getting a high defensive skill so that they get less crits done to them while tanking. It makes them take more even damage and so be easier to heal. It stands to reason that if it makes crits happen less often for tanks being hit by mobs, that it would effect all other crits being done to them as well. So, to me, it feels like a purposeful choice rather than a bug. This way one has to decide if stopping damage crits is worth also stopping healing crits.
No, this is clearly a bug. +Defence is supposed to stop you from being hit so hard, but it's not supposed to affect how positive effects affect you. The balance side to +defence is simply that to get a lot of it, you have to sacrifice in other stats.
This bug makes me wonder about how +defence affects damage spells on the tank. My impression had always been that +defence only affected physical attacks and that +resistance were what affected magic attacks. However, if +defence reduces the rate of healing crits, then it stands to reason that it affects magic attack crit rates as well.