What is better regarding physical damage Lion Spellbook or Shoulder Plate?

Question

Regarding physical attacks what is better 6 points of defense or the 1% of physical damage added?

Answer 1

The Lion Spellbook is better considering physical damage. The extra 1% physical damage is always better than extra armor defence, due to it being added as a damage percentage (more dmg received = more % protection) rather than armor defence which isn't percentage-based. Percentage points always round up, whereas a solid number can have decimals = % gives more protection.

Another thing to add is that the armor defense is just against melee attacks, whereas the physical % is against both melee and long-distance physical attacks, so as a mage that doesn't really fight in close combat the lion spellbook with the more physical % is much better.

And as a personal comment, It's hard finding good eq for a mage with ice protection, so having that 7% extra ice protection is very valuable and then you can imbue it with whatever element protection and get another 15% extra. So even if you would need earth protection, having 15% earth protection imbuement is better than the free 6% you get from the shoulder plate.

Answer 2

The difference in def might look big but you have to remember mages don't have high enough shielding to make much use of the def value.

According to tibiastats, the average damage reduction in full def you get from a shield with 26 def is around 22.
Now for a shield with 20 def the avg damage reduction would be 17. For those calcs i used shielding 37, which is already decently high.
As you can see, if you were to take only the def of these shields, the Shoulder Plate would only reduce 5 more points of damage in avg than the Lion Spellbook.

Now the actual damage reduction when you actually add in the % resistance (SP = shoulder plate and LS = lion spellbook):
- If you were to take 100 damage, SP reduces it to 76, LS reduces it to 80
- If you were to take 200 damage, SP reduces it to 174, LS reduces it to 177
- If you were to take 300 damage, SP reduces it to 272, LS reduces it to 274
- If you were to take 400 damage, SP reduces it to 370, LS reduces it to 371
- If you were to take 500 damage, SP and LS reduces it to 468
- If you were to take 600 damage, SP reduces it to 566, LS reduces it to 565

In conclusion, regarding only physical attacks and in average, Shoulder Plate is better if you're gonna take hits lower than 500 and Lion Spellbook is better if you're gonna take hits higher than 500.

Comments

isn't it viceversa? more damage more important is the 1%?