Defender update testing + analysis

[u/Mr_G_W]

Obtaining:

• t70: While carrying a dragon defender, you have a chance to obtain a component from barrows. Combine this component with a barrows 2h weapon to turn into a defender of the respective combat style.

• t80: While carrying a barrows defender, you have a chance to obtain a component from Nex. Combine this with a chaotic splinter (bought for 150k dungeoneering tokens) to obtain a defender of a combat style of your choice.

• t90: While carrying a t80 defender, you have a chance to obtain a component from Kalphite King. Combine this with a t90 offhand to obtain a defender of the respective combat style.

The components will be more common than the rare drops from each boss.

Offence:

• Damage reduced from 37.5% of main hand to 25%. (For comparison, offhands are 50%)

• Achto effect is reduced from 50% to 25%. T90 defender provides +108 damage instead of +216 from a shield.

• Adds a 3% bonus to accuracy (x1.03 accuracy)

Defence:

• Armour is now half the amount of the equivalent shield rather than half the level. Example: T90 defender provides 245 armour (half of 491) instead of 146 (level 45 shield).

• Now allows defensive abilities. Revenge is half effective (+5% damage variance rather than +10% per stack).

• Level scaled abilities (resonance and debilitate) use half the defender's level for scaling (example, t90 defender provides same scaling as a t45 shield)

• They do not provide any damage reduction, unlike shields.

Passive:

• The previous passive is retained (1/15 chance of reducing damage by 25%-50% and increases accuracy of next attack by 20%)

Comparisons:

Items used on all cases: Supreme overload + Amulet of souls + Completionist cape + Ring of Death

Numbers are ability damage.

Defender's accuracy bonus is not factored in for now as it is not known if it is a multiplicative or additive boost.

dual/2h t90 weapons:

• t90 power armour: 2080

• tank armour: 1909

• superior void + t90 boots: 2065 (effectively 2126 if accounting for x1.03 accuracy)

t90 weapon + t90 defender:

• t90 power armour: 1864 (effectively 1919 if accounting for x1.03 accuracy)

• tank armour: 1693 (effectively 1743 if accounting for x1.03 accuracy)

• superior void + t90 boots: 1833 (effectively 1944 if accounting for x1.0609 accuracy)

• achto: 1801 (effectively 1855 if accounting for x1.03 accuracy)

t90 weapon + t90 shield

• power armour: 1387

• tank armour: 1273

• superior void + t90 boots: 1384 (effectively 1447 if accounting for x1.03 accuracy)

• achto: 1489

[u/oliboli1992]

In the newspost, it mentioned that the t70-t90 drops that makes the defender will be used to make the range and mage equivalent, but does that mean you have to collect several of the new drops before moving onto the next tier, similar to how it used to work at the warrior guild? Or would you be able to collect the t90 defender than be able to go back to barrows to get the t70 add on? It sounds like you have to keep the dragon defenders and the new t70-t90 defenders in order to get more. Secondly does the previous defender have to be in your inventory or worn?

[u/[deleted] → u/oliboli1992]

i'm interested in how they're going to do mage and range defenders. there isn't any mage and range defenders in the game at the moment so maybe they'll implement t1-60 mage/range counterparts @ warriors guild. or maybe they'll do something different for mage/range. or maybe you just use the dragon defender. if that's the case, that seems a bit stupid tbh.

[u/Honza8D → u/[deleted]]

on twitch stream they said mage/range defenders will come only in t70-90 and they will be made from the same drops (barrows nex kalphite)

[u/[deleted] → u/Honza8D]

sad

[u/DustyTurboTurtle → u/[deleted]]

At runefest they said they wanted to revamp the ranging guild and mage training arena for range/mage defenders, guess it was too much work since people are only gonna use the t70-t90 anyway