Tree of Savior Forum

Should I just wear cloth (and get DEX) for PvE?

Class and Rank Swordsman
#1

In all honesty, Magic Defense seems somewhat scarce. I think chest armor can get up to 3 sockets/slots whereas boots can only get up to 2 (correct me if I’m wrong on this). Not only that, but there is Aspersion buff as well as Guardian defense boosts to greatly improve defense.

In terms of bracelets, most of the good/meta ones are overly expensive to get in the first place and there doesn’t feel like there’s anything decent in-between. Necklaces also suffer from the same issue.

I used to have 342 STR but I switched to have a more balanced amount of STR and DEX. I’m dodging much more often now and I don’t need to repair/potion as much anymore, even though my damage was cut down a bit. I think I’ll stick with this stat distribution since full STR does indeed have drawbacks.

So considering the fact that I have access to higher evasion and more physical defense increases/multipliers… should I just wear cloth armor?

Serious question.

#2

IIRC leather doesnt improve evasion anymore…it gives critical rate and accuracy

#3

Guardian gives 150 Evasion at max attributes, and DEX boosts evasion, too. I wasn’t referring to the old Leather Armor mastery, otherwise the topic would have been labeled “Should I just wear leather?”

#4

lol sorry i misread it, i thought you were talking about leather

but based on my experience, evasion is not reliable and monster will still consistently hit you, especially in pvp where the meta is high str(high accuracy), so i think high dex is not worth getting if your intention is to get evasion, and i think you could never go wrong wearing plate since there are more physical classes than magic classes if we’re talking about pvp

#5

Oh it wasn’t clear, but I was referring to PvE.

Pretty sure nobody goes Pelt for PvP unless they are Rod/Murm (maybe)

#6

yup, just wear cloth. 4x yellow gem on top and bottom is sufficient to cover the lack of pdef, meanwhile there are only 2x blue gem on shoes to cover mdef