Arkaine's Valor needs rewording

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Basicly thinking it will give you 50% of your total char def is nonsense.
Barbs can get up to 1,5 million def. So how would this char look like? Balanced
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"Total Character Defense 100%" is poorly worded to begin with considering there is no verb.

Change it to "50% of Your +% Total Character Defense Added as Vitality" would clear up 100% of hte confusion
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If you speak English: Total Character Defense means Total...character...defense.
If you speak MedianXL: Total Character Defense means TCD%
If you speak Dev: Total Character Defense means 'Look at all the money they're spending on this item' :flip:
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%TCD is a stat given from items, and can be seen in D2Stats and on many skills. Spirit Guide, Bear Stance, Lioness, Tainted Blood, Dragonheart, Terror Strike, Death Ward, Baneblade, Trap Rat morph, the list goes on. Regardless of what character you're playing, there's about a 0% chance you haven't seen the stat previously if you're at the point of farming Arkaine's armor
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Bagboy_Brown wrote:"50% of Your Total Character Defense Added as Vitality"

So, if your total character defense is 300k, u get 150k hp? If not the case, it definitely needs rewording.

The only other scenario I can imagine is this: you have gear and MOs that give xx% to Total Character Defense. And this chest takes 50% of whatever that number is and gives you it as Vitality. Which is low. AF. Probably not even 1k.



This is exactly how it works. You can use the D2stats program to see your Total char defense. I used Arkains and through on some Oroboros and Nephalem Kings rings, plus every bit of MO'd and SU gear I could find to rack up my defense and base Vita.

In tree form you can get a ton of life, but good luck doing any damage.
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it's even in capital letters "Total Character Defense" aka TCD.

You think I would get 500k vitality on a barb? You must be stupid to think this honestly, read up before complaining. Such an item would never excist because it would break the game, might as well give it superbeast morph as well while we are at it.
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ppl are bidding at the auction arkaine valor like a crazy, atm 17 (!!!) bids. Everyone thinks, me too, wow, aproximately 100-150k hp. yeah. Bid ! Bid bid ! But after a while I was thinking, maybe not all def but TCD -50% ? It went for 250...
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RandomOnions wrote:it's even in capital letters "Total Character Defense" aka TCD.

You think I would get 500k vitality on a barb? You must be stupid to think this honestly, read up before complaining. Such an item would never excist because it would break the game, might as well give it superbeast morph as well while we are at it.


You understand people are playing this game for the first time, right? To honestly believe that everyone has an firm understanding of what every character can achieve - maybe they never played barb you fucking retard. Maybe the the phrase 'Total Character Defense' is ambiguous to those just starting. Get off your high horse, and realize not everyone is a no-lifer like you. You act like it's the first time in gaming history that people buy their way to the top without fully understanding the game they're playing.
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all in all, it is a nice defensive armor, on my paladin it doubles my vitality (hence dragonheart and other stats), no need to overcomplicate it, if it fits your playstyle then use it. No need to rage here, most people are helpful. Just get more familiar with the game and read the bloody docs.
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This is confusing, as this can mean 3 things

1) Based off your TCD% stat which is actually true - if you have 1000% tcd you get 500 vit. Kinda sucks but it is what it is.
2) Based off your total defense - silly, 500,000 vit on barb are u srs
3) Based off BASE defense - powerful but plausible, like +20k vit or so