Double Belt Max Morale Black Dragon

[ckdamascus]

Originally Posted by Metathron

Wow that is a whole lotta defense. I imagine it's overkill, but since you're the KB mathematician, I'll let you tell me past which point the extra defense stops reducing the damage.

Short answer is usually around 160 defense if you plan on using him in boss fights.

My trolls do 'semi-well' with 119-127ish defense but 55% physical resistance.

Well the game has three layers of defense.

1) Magic Shield? yes or not. 50% reduction if yes.
2) Resistances? apply, capped at 95% reduction.
3) Attack/Defense check, capped at 2/3 damage reduction (it is basically about 3.33% per attack/defense difference) OR at taking up to 3X damage.

Basically the cap is +60 Attack over Defense, capped at 2/3 damage reduction.

If the attacker has 1 attack rating, and defender has 179 defense rating, his damage is only cut by 2/3s... so the attacker will still do 1/3 damage.

Ironically, this means enemies with HUGE numbers sometimes does more damage to me than big level 5 giants like Tirexes. (since lower level units have better damage per leadership).

Baal and Ktahu have ~100 attack rating, so you need ~160 defense to hit the sweet spot. Anything over that, is excessive.

Arguably, the normal enemy CAN achieve attack ratings even higher with enemy Ogres (Ogre rage! sometimes their attack rating is up to like 140), but since most enemies do not, my black dragons still die. I need the mind runes to help me restore them with phantom rune mages.

At that point, only resists helps you, so swapping Heart of the Dragon for Leather Dress does more for my defense.

Oh yeah I should have moused over to show his current physical defense... it is 60%. If I retool it with the proper items though, I can get it to about 70%, but it would hurt my giants attack ability.

@onepiece
Per Crossworld's manual (ironically sitting in the program files directory where King's Bounty is installed, haha), Scrounger's reward is ALWAYS a composite item.

When a player here mentioned he got two belts of the victor, I was shocked, as if done by normal components, the odds are probably ridiculously low, like 1 in 2 million or something.

However, he said he got the other belt, pre-built by beating Scrounger. His first belt was from components. Ah, suddenly from 1 in 2 million, to something probably like 1/4 IF you have the belt of the victor from components via scanner.

The scanner does NOT tell you what Scrounger will give you (or at least it is not apparent to me) ahead of time. So I made sure I had at least one belt of the victor. After beating Scrounger, I was quite pleased that she gave me yet another belt!

Heart of the Dragon gives me +1 Morale. Voice of the Dragon Gives me +2 morale.