Damage Cut?

I think yes but its unnecessary to use Specia AL, Large shield and the unreleased add gear. you can compensate it by doing Max Sr on your Armor/Add gear ◇Wizard ◇Iniliba on armor

I don’t think they’d allow 100% anything (mostly everything is capped at 95%)

It’s fine to try I guess. Some thoughts:

At 50 equip def you take 50% melee damage compared to 0 equip def. With the big shield skill with 25% all damage cut you would take 37.5% (honestly a big leap) with 50 equip def, 75% damage with 0 def.

See where I’m going? Bump that equip def up to 60 you’re down to 30% damage. Because they stack multiplicatively, you can focus on the easy one to build and then receive a huge boost in its effectiveness from the other. I didn’t know bone knight gave that much but if he does, that’s why your defense is so much notably better. You’ve got to watch out if you build this way though, there are diminishing returns the higher the percentages are. Essentially once you get to 70-80%ish with 2 or 3 layers of defense, every percent higher is kind of splitting hairs, at that point 10% melee res might only be contributing to 1% overall damage received. Essentially you’re not going to get as much stronger with 1% dmg cut (or any defense metric; res, eva, ele r, etc.) the stronger you become.

I don’t think that building purely for all damage cut is feasible right now because the resistance gears are plain just better balanced, but I like where you’re going 👍 that skill alone is probably fine enough for what you’re trying to do (maybe the add instead if you can’t stomach the dps drop from the skill)

Wait, how do we get the specia Al?