What do Defense Rating and Heroic Defense rating do?
It’s not fully known but the following is believed. Defense Rating is compared to the attacker’s Attack rating to determine how much damage a melee swing does. When there is a level difference this calculation is skewed in favor of the higher level. Heroic Defense rating comes into play here. It is believe that heroic defense will help a player’s defense rating against higher level monsters. There was also talk a while ago about heroic defense rating possibly increasing the defense rating cap. How much of an effect do the improvements to frenzy stance make Maxed out Improved Frenzy stance will increase the damage of the frenzy stance by 10%. Guarded Frenzy will reduce the immunity penalty by 10% for each point. Maxed out frenzy stance provides a guardian +60% damage -70% immunities.
