mdef+garment(or armor) resist

[SwiftStrike]

so my question is..since mdef and elemental reductions kind of work independently,(this is vs magic only, not elemental physical attacks)

is there a certain point where it is better to use pure mdef than say, a fire armor+jakk garment?
 (since usually everyone has 35mdef from sleips+kaho lets just say elemental armor+garment+35mdef).


or maybe a combination of..ragamuffin+elemental armor vs jakk+elemental


from your testings perhaps, it doesn't really need math or anything



wonder if this should go in the game mechanics section....

[exDragon]

Yes.  When the reduction from the added magic defense out weighs the percent modifier reductions.  For example, if you are trying to resist fire and have 20 magic defense.

Equipping a ragamuffin you would get 70% of the damage.  If you use jakk garment you would get (1- .2) *(1-.3) = 56% percent of the damage. 

However, if you had 85 mdef before equipping the ragamuffin, you would receive 5% of the damage after equipping a ragamuffin.  If you equipped a jakk garment instead, you would recieve (1-.85)(1-.3) = 10.5% of the damage.

[SwiftStrike]

ok thanks. guess I'l just do some math and figure out what times it'l be better

makin sure..elemental armor is counted separate from resist? (i'l just count it last)