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11-06-2003, 09:17 PM

Brother Laz,Nov 6 2003, 10:11 AM Wrote:out of the four defense-removing options in the game [IS, Conviction, Battlecry, CoS], IS is the worst.

Well, you can get useful levels of IS from your Rogue merc, without blowing your own skill points or having lots of +skill gear. Relevantly IS is a straight reduction, and the other three are percentage. Thus IS not having a stacking problem with BattleCry and CoS (which, iirc, are now in the via-for-curse-slot category) is potentially useful for use with one of them.

I also vaguely recall someone mentioning that IS -DR was applied after -DR% but I've not tested this myself (it would be very favorable for IS if so). Also, in PvP, -DR% can be made largely irrelevant, as it competes (direct delta), iirc, with +DR% effects, whereas IS would always be effective at its advertised level.

None of these psuedo-factoids suggest to me that IS is the worst. Clearly it is much more valuable than it was before v1.10. YMMV.

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Making Sense of the Madness - by Brista - 11-04-2003, 05:41 PM

Making Sense of the Madness - by CorwinBrute - 11-04-2003, 06:11 PM

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Making Sense of the Madness - by Pren - 11-05-2003, 01:42 AM

Making Sense of the Madness - by Crystalion - 11-05-2003, 08:31 AM

Making Sense of the Madness - by Brother Laz - 11-05-2003, 12:31 PM

Making Sense of the Madness - by Occhidiangela - 11-05-2003, 02:27 PM

Making Sense of the Madness - by Brista - 11-05-2003, 05:04 PM

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Making Sense of the Madness - by Olon97 - 11-05-2003, 07:59 PM

Making Sense of the Madness - by Hammerskjold - 11-05-2003, 09:27 PM

Making Sense of the Madness - by Brista - 11-05-2003, 10:02 PM

Making Sense of the Madness - by Brother Laz - 11-06-2003, 10:20 AM

Making Sense of the Madness - by Crystalion - 11-06-2003, 09:17 PM

Making Sense of the Madness - by Cryptic - 11-06-2003, 10:50 PM

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