Protection and Defense

[MaxWilson]

Originally Posted by Agema

I would expect here again over 30 Def is vanishingly unlikely. That will partly be because there are much better ways to equip an SC rather than Def boosters: 30Def is made useless by all sorts of spells like earth meld, tangle vines, paralyze, and so on, and due to -2Def per attack, it quickly degrades if the SC is swarmed by many attackers.

If an attack is stopped by luck/ethereal, it doesn't degrade defense. Lucky, ethereal thugs/SCs with high defense are basically impossible to swarm unless you happen to have troops with magic weapons (like Dawn Guards). That makes high Defense a worthwhile investment, and it doesn't degrade with fatigue as fast as Prot does. (Ideally you'd have both but sometimes you have to choose.)

-Max