A small defense skill change in 2.4 could herald larger things

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2-10-2008 @ 4:03PM

Matthew Rossi said...

Nope, this is just a tooltip change. Defense doesn't actually reduce the chance to take a crushing blow right now.

http://www.wowwiki.com/Crushing_Blow explains it in detail.

2-10-2008 @ 4:53PM

Begin Nit Picking

While Defense does not directly increase your resistance to crushing blows, each point of defense does increase your dodge, block, and parry by 0.04%. So indirectly it does help out, but not by much (unless of course, you play the min/max game... then its rather important.)

End Nit Picking

2-10-2008 @ 4:55PM

Adam Holisky said...

Edit: How could I possibly resist nit picking the master of the warrior column, The Care and Feeding of Warriors? :-)

2-10-2008 @ 5:25PM

Matthew Rossi said...

Adam - http://www.wowinsider.com/2007/12/07/the-care-and-feeding-of-warriors-making-life-easier-for-your-he/

I just didn't feel like writing over 1000 words about it again :)

2-10-2008 @ 5:35PM

Adam Holisky said...

And that is why you are the master of the warrior column. :-)

2-10-2008 @ 7:36PM

Pzychotix said...

Crushing blow chance is 15%.

No amount of defense in the game will push it off the table for warriors without Shield Block.

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