Enhancing....yup....

Not sure how you are getting 49 mitigation. As jinjo posted this is the following formula:


Meaning that even at the absolute max of 506 skill you're only getting 35 mitigation. Why they had to change the formula, making it so mitigation hardly rises from what it was at 75 cap, is beyond me when you have mobs hitting 200-400 per hit.

input /ma "Barfire" <me>;
pause 4;
input /ma "Barblizzard" <me>;
pause 4;
input /ma "Baraero" <me>;
pause 4;
input /ma "Barstone" <me>;
pause 4;
input /ma "Barthunder" <me>;
pause 4;
input /ma "Barwater" <me>;
pause 4;

Copy and paste that about, oh... 300 times? Then just let the game run while you're sleeping.


This set, with Enhancing merits, is 507 Enhancing. 48 DMG reduction on Phalanx I. On lightsday, it's 510; 49 reduction. For Phalanx II, the reduction is 36. (Does not change with the 510 enhancing on lightsday)

If you use the old formula of skill/10 -2 sure but did you actually test it using 1000 needles to see the real damage mitigation?

Above 300 skill it changes and it's been mentioned several times in the thread.

507 should net you 35 reduction with phalanx I but I haven't bothered to get my rdm to 99 to confirm it myself and there's no way i'm going to merit Phalanx II in order to test it.

Phalanx II's formula was changed, at 95 it was roughly the same reduction as Phalanx I with 5/5 merits. I haven't done any testing for 99 as I still need to finish relic.