What is the impact of the def stats on one-handed weapons? And the influence of additions or subtractions presented on def values?

Question

What is the impact of the defense status of one-handed weapons? What do they mean and how do they add up? The +1 or -2 on one-handed weapons changes something practically?

Answer 1

Basically, the defense of one-handed weapons only matters if happens to you to use an one-handed without any shield. After you equip a shield, you will have the defense stats of these weapons ignored, and the defense of the shield will compose the overall defense value of your char.

However, if a weapon has for example a plus one on it's defense stat (for example, like the Bright Sword with +1 on def), it means that even when you get a shield, your global defense will have an extra point on it! But if you get a one-handed weapon with a subtraction after the def value (like the -2 present on the Assassin Dagger) you will have the subtraction of two points on your global defense value! So choose wisely these weapons... Having less defense and more attack with a subtractive weapon may be or may be not an advantage depending of the situation presented in-game!

Another curious thing to point out regarding one-handed weapons: The def value of one-handed is extremely good for mages, since they will benefit with item with relative low weight and bonus defense, as the Bright Sword already mentioned, being excellent if they already got a decent shield or spellbook to hunt (keep in mind that the Bright Sword is an item not restricted only to knights). Mages may have the option to imbue one-handed weapons, making a hunt even more profitable!

Comments

Why you posted a question that you already know the anwser? (just for curiosity I know it possible to you answer your own questions but it is weird xD)

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I know, it looks weird but actually it can be really useful for people looking for things on google. We got some nice traffic lately, even though we have not so many users around. Eventually, the growth of the website will probably put in disuse the "auto-answer" phenomenon :)

I thought about the question above because many people tend to question it on Tibia, so it is probably something that many rookies from internet will find very interesting to know in a succinct way while googling it :)

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I haven't seen this question once on help chat in the last 4 years on antica. Can't be that common tbh

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But well to me this site was to share questions that I didn’t know and try to find if someone else knew something about a specific topic... not like posting every answer to questions that could be frequent...

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Please see https://meta.tibiaqa.com/484/why-do-we-allow-answering-own-questions and continue any discussion related to answering own questions there.

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excellent link, Ellotris!