[EK] - Solo hunting: Full defense or Full attack?

Question

Since I'm back playing on an elite knight, I was making this question to some friends, and the answers varied.

The really question is, what is better on solo hunting? If you put the full defense, it will affect the spells like Exori, Exori Gran, Exori Min, or not? The logic is that when hunting on full defense you will block better the creatures, and maybe can do more exp/hour. Please show your opinion here about this.

Answer 1

i play as rp, but i got a lower lvl knight ( 270) and asked a friend why he always hunting in full atk, since you get less dmg in full defense, he told me the damage from spells arent affected by full atk or def, but the auto attacks do (mele damage), and that damage is really important since is affect by life and mana leach, if you dont autoattack properly and spam spells you will strugle more with mana and life since you will have less return from mana and life leach( you will still get the mana and life provided by the spell hitting but not by the mele atk), so i would say if you hunt solo is better to keep full atk and watch turns

Answer 2

I'm an EK, so I can tell by my own experience.

When you're using full def, you will deal significantly less damage, and you will take longer to kill the creatures. Also, if you only attack with spells, you'll spend more mana and consequently will use more mana potions. Speaking about your imbuements, your critical hits will deal less damage and you will recieve less mana and life back when you attack a creature.

So, your best option when hunting is always use full attack, you will deal more damage, kill creatures faster deal more damage with critical and receive more mana and life back from your imbuements.