DEF

General

DEF (defense) protects against physical attacks. Physical attacks are generally attacks based wholly or partially on ATK. However, there are exceptions.

The descriptions used here refer to hard and soft DEF. These names are used for clarity. The vast majority of players do not use these terms in general conversation, and instead refer Armor Def (hard) and Vit Def (soft). Hard DEF works as a percentage reduction. Soft DEF is a subtractive reduction.

Hard DEF

Hard defense, also known as "armor" or "equipment" defense reduces incoming physical damage multiplicatively

(Damage after hard DEF) = (Damage before hard DEF)*(600/(600+def))

For example, a player with a 300 def will have incoming damage reduced by 1/3rd, and a player with 600 defense will have incoming damage reduced by half.

Defense has a base value of 0, and is increased by gear, skills, and items.

Additive Bonuses

• Equipment bonus to DEF: +1 per point
• Armor upgrades: +1 per point below +4, +2 per point above +4
• Argiope Card: +1
• Argos Card: +1
• Cornutus Card: +1
• Dokebi Card: +1
• Evil Druid Card: +1
• Ghoul Card: +1
• Martin Card: +1
• Megalodon Card: +1
• Munak Card: +1
• Pasana Card: +1
• Sandman Card: +1
• Stainer Card: +1
• Swordfish Card: +1
• Steel Chonchon Card: +2
• Ambernite Card: +2
• Solider Card: +2
• Tao Gunka Card: -50

Multiplicative Bonuses

• Assumptio: +100% Hard DEF
• Angelus: Soft Def, depending on level of skill.
• Grimtooth: -50% Hard and Soft DEF
• Spear Dynamo: -5% per level Hard and Soft DEF
• Spike: -66.7% Hard and Soft DEF

Soft DEF

Soft DEF is primarily based on the VIT attribute.

  BonusA = sum of additive bonuses
  BonusB = sum of multiplicative bonuses
  
  Vit-based DEF = [VIT / 2] + max([VIT * 0.3], [VIT ^ 2 / 150] - 1)
  Total Def = [(VitDEF + BonusA) * (1 + BonusB / 100)]

At less than 50 VIT, every 10 points of VIT gives 8 soft DEF points. As VIT increases further, each point gives a larger bonus to DEF.

VIT	10	20	30	40	50	60	70	80	90	100	110	120	130	140	150
Soft DEF	8	16	24	32	40	53	66	81	98	115	134	155	176	199	224

Additive Modifiers

Divine Protection: +3 per level

Multiplicative Modifiers

Angelus: +5% per level

Bypassing DEF

The skills and weapons below are known to either bypass DEF, or have a reversed effect, thus increasing damage from the amount it.

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Skills

• Acid Bomb - increase damage, but on base VIT not DEF
• Battle Chant
• Clashing Spiral
• Gloria Domini
• Gravitational Field
• Guillotine Fist
• Martyr's Reckoning
• Occult Impaction - increases damage based on DEF - see section on DEF reversal
• Soul Destroyer
• Tarot Card of Fate

Weapons

• Ahlspiess
• Brocca
• Bloody Roar
• Caesar's Sword
• Combat Knife
• Dragon Killer
• Dragon Slayer
• Executioner
• Exorciser
• Ice Pick - increases damage based on DEF - see section on DEF reversal
• Legacy of Dragon
• Slaughter
• Weeder Knife

Skills

Skills that work with the above weapons include:

• Back Stab
• Bash
• Bowling Bash
• Brandish Spear
• Counter Attack
• Flying Kick
• Grimtooth
• Holy Cross
• Mammonite
• Martyr's Reckoning
• Pierce
• Raging Trifecta Blow
• Snatch
• Sonic Blow
• Soul Destroyer
• Spear Boomerang
• Spear Stab
• Throw Spirit Sphere

DEF Reversal

In special conditions, such as for the Ice Pick weapon and Occult Impaction skill, the DEF formula is reversed.

In this special case of reversed DEF, the damage multiplier is found by (Hard DEF + Soft DEF)/100. For example, against a 5+15 DEF target, a normal 200 ATK weapon would only deal 175 damage; an Ice Pick on a character with 200 ATK, would do 40 damage. Conversely, against a 50+90 DEF target, the weapons would do 10 and 280 damage respectively.

See Also

• MDEF
• VIT