Anyone tested HP vs Def for tanks?

"Durrun;563946" wrote:
I actually am looking for what defence actually means, I equipped 3 sets of def mods on a char and only saw a 3% increase in armor, yet he saw a 6% increase when I added a mod with 20 defence stat on it.... What does defence exactly mean and control?

I'm taking an educated guess here because we've had both halves of the thing, but only had one half at a time.

Before the patch Resistance and Armor were expressed as flat numbers, off the top of my head I think "good" Armor was rated at about 100 or so, but my memory isn't very good there. We didn't know what 100 Armor meant in real terms, though. Now we know the percentage of soak your armor gives, but we don't know the flat numbers that go into creating that percentage. So does 100 armor equal 15%? Does it equal 10%? Even if we knew the exact numbers we still wouldn't know the formula because it's probably not a linear conversion, and it's entirely possible that some characters just get a flat bonus tacked on at the end as a character feature.

But, all that said, making an educated guess I would say the +20 defense gave a higher increase because it goes into the first part of the formula, which determines the percentage of soak given. Since that's a lower number, adding 20 would represent a very large increase--as I said, I remember 100 being good, so 120 would naturally be a pretty high jump. The percentage increases are added not to the number that determines the percentage, but rather to the percentage itself. So if you had (using totally made-up, hypothetical numbers here) 100 armor giving 10% soak and added three sets of Defense mods you would still have 100 armor, but your soak would now be 11.5%.