General Ranged Accuracy or Melee/Ranged Def?

[Dwilah]

Which stats would be better to have: general ranged accuracy or melee and ranged defenses?

[Jabe Adaks]

Which stats would be better to have: general ranged accuracy or melee and ranged defenses?

I would take the defenses. But then again I have always been of the opinion that accuracy points come in abundance for most templates and aren't that critical. Some have argured with me on it and they may be right. The jury is still out, I guess you could say.

Jabe

[Viceroy Odantis]

i would say accuracy but it kinda depends on your template...i feel defense is kinda lame in this system until you get in the extremes like CoB and jedi defenses

[toront]

i would say accuracy but it kinda depends on your template...i feel defense is kinda lame in this system until you get in the extremes like CoB and jedi defenses

As someone that is pretty maxed out in accuracy (a full +50 between gen melee acc and dbl LS acc and the gen melee acc tree) I must say that it makes a big difference. I haven't done too much testing with numbers, but from what I can see, accuracy can directly affect your actual damage numbers. It is not only your weapon versus their defences, but things like your accuracy affect the damage modifier as well.

People with similar sabers to mine have asked how I hit so much harder, then discovered our accuracy mods were quite different.

Defence is on a diminishing return formula it looks like, so as you start getting higher and higher, it means less and less. Personally I would take the accuracy over defence.

[Zannon]

I have to agree that accuracy seems to make a bigger difference than defense. That's not to say that defense isn't important, but if you're using a ranged profession, especially pistols, I'd rather know that I'm going to hit and dictate my target's state than defened against its attack. You can always wear skill modded clothes for the defenses, if you need them.

[Krusshyk]

Defence is on a diminishing return formula it looks like, so as you start getting higher and higher, it means less and less. Personally I would take the accuracy over defence.

I thought everything was supposed to be on the diminshing return formula?

[toront]

Defence is on a diminishing return formula it looks like, so as you start getting higher and higher, it means less and less. Personally I would take the accuracy over defence.

I thought everything was supposed to be on the diminshing return formula?

True. I just mention defence because there are specials in the game that give 250-500 defence and you can see the stats making less and less difference.

Accuaracy however, seems to be far more difficult to really cap or get into the less than 1% diminishing returns area. It is for this reason that I say accuracy