- Proposal
- Increase the amount of defense granted by pet ability Defensive.
- Justification
- This ability massively underperforms compared to its counterparts Bolster Armor and Dampen Pain which give 6000 armour and 25% damage reduction respectively at rank 5. Additionally the recent blanket damage increase makes having good defensive abilities even more important.
- Motivation
- At rank 5, this ability grants 40 ranged defense and 35 melee defense, which is extremely low and borderline useless for what is supposed to be the main defensive ability for many pets.
Another thing is that I'm pretty sure the ability was given placeholder values from when the ability was converted to use CU mechanics instead of NGE mechanics, but never got updated to actually be useful.
Current Defensive values at every rank
1: 10 ranged defense / 10 melee defense
2: 15 ranged defense / 14 melee defense
3: 25 ranged defense / 20 melee defense
4: 33 ranged defense / 30 melee defense
5: 40 ranged defense / 35 melee defense
Compared to original NGE values
1: 10% ranged and 10% melee glancing chance
2: 15% ranged and 14% melee glancing chance
3: 25% ranged and 20% melee glancing chance
4: 33% ranged and 30% melee glancing chance
5: 40% ranged and 35% melee glancing chance
Current Defensive values at every rank
1: 10 ranged defense / 10 melee defense
2: 15 ranged defense / 14 melee defense
3: 25 ranged defense / 20 melee defense
4: 33 ranged defense / 30 melee defense
5: 40 ranged defense / 35 melee defense
Compared to original NGE values
1: 10% ranged and 10% melee glancing chance
2: 15% ranged and 14% melee glancing chance
3: 25% ranged and 20% melee glancing chance
4: 33% ranged and 30% melee glancing chance
5: 40% ranged and 35% melee glancing chance