What are optimal protection imbuements for a knight at fire library?

Question

EK 800 (Axe), Nice skill, 4 members party.

We know Guardian of Tales deals a strong death strike, but there is only a few at the resp. Is it worth to imbue with death protection? Or is it better to prioritize fire protection?

We are trying to improve our XP/h.

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That's perfect, thank you. Please turn youtr comment into an answer.

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I do not know how to turn it into answer. But please take a screenshot of your data after hunt together with resistance and mitigation. It will be somehow useful for all :D

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The damage taken is mostly fire followed by physical with spikes of death and, possibly, earth if you're taking ink blobs. Out of the available shields the best choice would be soulbastion with fire protection imbued ( 10% phys, 15% fire, 10% death ) followed by falcon estuchion with death protection imbued ( 7% phys, 15% fire, 10% death ). In both cases, you'll grab some additional death protection here.

- If your only goal is to take as little *total* damage as possible, you just want to stack fire and physical protection - the death and earth damage amounts in the total damage are so low that this is the best way to reduce total damage *but* the damage you take will be very spiky and if you get low hp you could get killed by an unlucky combo.

- If taking ink blobs, you could take an elven mail imbued with life / fire / earth instead of a falcon plate with life / fire to reduce the earth damage spikes
-  If not taking ink blobs and you want to reduce the death damage, you could take an elven mail imbued with life / fire / death.

For reference, when I was around level 800 ( we always have taken the ink blobs in the crossroad pull ) I used:
magma amulet, cobra axe, spiritthorn ring, falcon coif, elven mail ( life / fire / earth ), falcon graves, pair of soulwalkers, soulbastion ( fire ) and moon mirror ( just to grab a little extra death protection ); this gives good all round fire and physical protection while helping to take the edge off the death and earth combos. Hope this helps!

Answer 1

The damage taken is mostly fire followed by physical with spikes of death and, possibly, earth if you're taking ink blobs. Out of the available shields the best choice would be soulbastion with fire protection imbued ( 10% phys, 15% fire, 10% death ) followed by falcon estuchion with death protection imbued ( 7% phys, 15% fire, 10% death ). In both cases, you'll grab some additional death protection here.

- If your only goal is to take as little *total* damage as possible, you just want to stack fire and physical protection - the death and earth damage amounts in the total damage are so low that this is the best way to reduce total damage *but* the damage you take will be very spiky and if you get low hp you could get killed by an unlucky combo.

- If taking ink blobs, you could take an elven mail imbued with life / fire / earth instead of a falcon plate with life / fire to reduce the earth damage spikes

-  If not taking ink blobs and you want to reduce the death damage, you could take an elven mail imbued with life / fire / death.

For reference, when I was around level 800 ( we always have taken the ink blobs in the crossroad pull ) I used:

magma amulet, cobra axe, spiritthorn ring, falcon coif, elven mail ( life / fire / earth ), falcon graves, pair of soulwalkers, soulbastion ( fire ) and moon mirror ( just to grab a little extra death protection ); this gives good all round fire and physical protection while helping to take the edge off the death and earth combos. Hope this helps!

Answer 2

Elements:	% at Experiment:	Experiment:	Before Pray:	With EQ:	DMG % recievied:	Without EQ:	DMG %
fire	57.85%	1865555	2133916	2133916	53%	4029495	66%
physical	24.67%	795408	910420	910420	59%	1535393	25%
earth	12.61%	406605		406605	100%	406605	7%
death	4.88%	157267		157267	90%	174741	3%
Total	100.00%	3224835		3608208		6146233.99

The last column is hypothetical damage % without EQ.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1qaI0gXVuo

from 28-Mar-2023

Assumed Rage Squid does 70% fire damage 30% physical

Assumed he had 2x Powerful Dragon Hide

No wheel included

No mitigation included (base mitigation on youtube around 2,5% - 45 DEF, 110 Shielding, balanced). Might be higher. 

Without more data from you, further calculations are useless. Idk how you hunt there, if you skip ink blood. ETC need your data and your EQ and your desire EQ. 

For now, death damage looks completely irrelevant.