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Some Facts. (Destiny)

by Ragashingo ⌂, Official DBO Cryptarch, Sunday, February 08, 2015, 00:04 (3802 days ago) @ someotherguy
edited by Ragashingo, Sunday, February 08, 2015, 00:37

As far as I can tell both your Level and your Defense Rating matter.

I tested this by engaging the Level 20 Hive by the Seeder past The Forgotten Shore. In the beta a few of us tried running this gauntlet of doom at level 8 and would be killed in a single shot. Now, wearing the base Warlock Armor brought me down to my base Level 20 with 59 Defense. A single shot from an Acolyte was enough to push my health bar just past the first tick mark... so they were doing roughly 30% damage to me. Since they weren't killing me outright we can conclude that a player's level has a significant effect on the damage they take, even when the Defense Rating does not change.

This would seem to prove Cody wrong.

Swapping to the weakest armor I could buy in the tower kept me at Level 20 but with 325 Defense. Now, it took three hits to bring me down to that first tick mark. Swapping to the best gear I have on my Warlock brought me to Level 28 / 1297 Defense. It now took seven shots to drop my health bar to that first mark. So, while your Level matters, your Defense Rating does too, apparently.


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