Armor

Reduce enemy attack damage by 10% is always inferior to reduced damage.

Heal 10% won't save you from a fatal blow.

Block is inferior to evasion because it works only on melee attacks.

Evasion works better than accuracy because it always work.

It's between 10% evasion and reduce damage by 10%,

Lord's clothes was the most usable, albeit still shit from these five.

>>385313113
I assume this is related to a particular game, as "dmg taken" and enemy damage" makes me assume we're talking about terrain dmg or something.

But yeah, while evasion is nice when it works, for reliability, and proper scaled difficulty, -10%dmg taken is the most effective.

(in games where block actually blocks magic, it also usually only blocks a % of dmg, so its a % of a %)

>>385313459
>>385314283
healing and blocking have an ANIMATION whenever they take effect

>>385314350
i think it's probably meaning a particle effect for healing and a *raises shield* animation for blocking but neither of those actually remove input from the player

>>385314486
yeah but they look cool

>>385314350
idk what game this is from so saying "ANIMATION" in caps means nothing to me, you'll have to explain what pixels have to do with anything.

>>385314459
shit stick definitely

>>385313113
10% evasion, especially if it stacks with other sources of dodge. Anyone that's played as a tank in an mmo will agree, unless they hate their healers

>>385313459
reducing enemy attack and accuracy is better than giving yourself defense and evasion because the former helps your teammates

I choose my good ol days of ragnarok back.

>>385314605
I'm a solo player (in real life too)

Damage reduction, all day everyday.

Reduce enemy attack damage is the best because it's always going to work.

Those abilities are highly inaccurate. Did you even play RO?

>>385314596
as a healer, i hate tanks who rely on evasion over defense.

sit there, do nothing
do nothing
do nothing
tanks dead.

even in FFXIV, too many undergeared tanks who go from max hp, to dead, mid cast, is getting out of hand, when all the enemies land critical hits/direct hits all at the same time.

RNG is great when it works for u, but is a bitch when it doesnt.


id rather consistency

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>>385313113
If all equal, No need for blocking armor if you can straight evade. Reduce damage is better than healing since you have the same outcome, but right away plus you don't give away what your armor does when it works. Reduce attack compared to heal and reduce is redundant. Accuracy loss compared to evasion

>>385313459
>Reduce enemy attack damage by 10% is always inferior to reduced damage.
You fucking w0t m8?

Unless you're playing some shitty game where defense and offense aren't comparable in stat investment it's better to have the incoming pre-mitigation damage lowered as opposed to what's getting through. If you've got 50 attack vs 25 defense you' get 20 vs 22.5 damage, 50 vs 10 you'd get 35 vs 36. 50 vs 40 you get 5 vs 9. Stop being fucking dumb.

>>385313113
Reduce enemy accuracy by 10% is the same as 10% evasion, which is the same as 10% chance to block. It just means that 10% of the time you don't take damage. If you DO take a 100% damage hit, you die.
Heal 10% is the same as reducing damage by 10%, except if you take 100% damage hit, you die.
So that leaves us with reduce damage and reduce enemy attacks. Both save you from a 100% damage hit, but reduce enemy attack damage doesn't affect environmental damage such as traps.
Reduce damage by 10% is the only option.

>>385313113
What game are those icons from? I've seen them but can't recall.

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>enemy has a 1 shot kill attack with a 10% to hit
>if you wear the -10% acc armor it because a 0% chance to hit
>if you wear the 10% eva its a 1 in 10 chance to be killed every 1 in 10 chance, or for a total of a 2 in 20 chance to be instantly killed

>>385313113
>Reduce damage by 10%
Uuuh... This is way better than everything else. The rest is just good if you got other items to stack the same effect.

>>385315062
blocking doesnt save you from the 1 shot kill status effect, because you were still technically hit by it

same for the damage reduction, as it isnt doing damage, but rather changing your status from alive to dead

>>385315243
10% chance to hit
=
10% * 10% = 1% chance to hit

>>385315030
all games use multiplicative calculations, which renders "which is 1st?" arguments useless.

plus ur assuming a lot that isnt stated in the OPs question.

you dont know if any other abilities are used, or if there are teamates.

aka, shit is situational. (which makes ur statement partly true.)

>>385315062
+10% healing scales to the heals received, not to the enemies damage.

so if your healer heals for 100, and the enemy does 100 dmg.

-10% takes 90, gets healed for 100.
+10%healed takes 100, gets healed for 110.

in both cases, you get over healed by 10.

now go to a harder boss in the raid tier.
boss hits for 1,000

-10% takes 900 dmg, gets healed for 100. (800 missing hp)
+10% gets hit for 1,000, gets healed by 110. (890 missing hp)

in most games bosses dmg goes up quicker and higher than a healers heals go up, so on "average" picking -10% is "better"
(plus the tank buster issue u brought up)

>>385315132
ragnarok

>>385314740
what if you're fighting fall damage

>>385313113
It would be awesome if "reduce enemy accuracy/damage by 10%" also applied for your allies, but I don't think armor works that way.. So I don't really see a difference with their counterpart armors.

>>385313113
Reduce damage by 10% if it means even damage by traps and friendly fire and all.

>>385316567
>all games use multiplicative calculations, which renders "which is 1st?" arguments useless.
That's bullshit and you know it.
If you've ever looked at mechanics in rpgs you'd realize how fucking dumb you look.

>>385314459
dual wield for turbo shit stick

>>385314803
And reduced damage makes healing regeneration more effective (i.e, get hit for 10, automatically heal 10 next turn)

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>>385319746
i save him first and then backstab him so I can have both the armor and the cloak

>>385319746
inb4 both

>>385319746
evasion. If you got backstabbed with that armor it probably isn't very good

>>385319869
>>385319838
goddamnit anon

>>385319838
Arcanum

>>385315243
Why would a game have a one hit kill that didn't have a means for everyone to deal with mechanically? This is a dumb game.

>>385320895

Depends, do you count having a minimum HP value something that is dealt with mechanically?

If not, the PSO Dark Falz on hard and above does an attack that hits for flat HP damage depending on difficulty, no matter your defense and resistances.