So I was just wondering. Is it still worth going for R upgrades on knuckles now that certain monsters have got more protection now?Several monster's Defense, Protection, Magic Defense, and Magic Protection has been altered.
R upgrades and the monster protection buff
R upgrades and the monster protection buff
I was just looking through the patch notes on the wiki and noticed that some monsters got their Protection buffed up.
Re: R upgrades and the monster protection buff
Something to understand is that there is a Protection Value and a Damage Reduction Value now.Majimari wrote:So I was just wondering. Is it still worth going for R upgrades on knuckles now that certain monsters have got more protection now?
An example would be say 20 Protection => 22% Damage Reduction.
Prior to the update 20 Protection => 20% Damage Reduction.
Critical Rate now goes by the Damage Reduction Values now, and the formula is the same as before. So a Monster may have 250 Protection but that is only 50% Damage Reduction, which require you to have 130% Critical Hit to have 30% critical.
*Values used here are just examples.
In general, monsters in shadow missions should have gotten weaker excluding some of the "tougher" monsters.
Re: R upgrades and the monster protection buff
Ah, ok. I had read that the Critical Rate formula was still the same as before. So I had thought that meant if a monster had 100 protection that I would need 230% Critical Hit just to have a 30% chance to get a critical. But that seemed a little excessive so I was worried that R upgraded weapons might be worthless unless you could reach obscenely high critical chance. So I'm glad to hear that's not the case. Thanks for clearing up that misunderstanding.