5 Melee Def or 10% physical def

[Xequilibrium]

Which is better?

[an entire Roman legion]

depends. md affects only melee damage, physical resist affects all sources of damage (that are not magical)

[identity]

Whatever benefits you think you will see from this is inconsequential. If you're going to stack something, it should be based on whatever gear you've been lucky enough to find and the skills/attributes of the lord/unit. One item or one bonus by itself isn't worth much. It's useless meta-gaming otherwise.

[Ainess]

If you can´t get at least 30% or so total resistance to something with that 10%, I would go with the melee defense, probably. Depends on what character as well, though. A caster with crap melee stats will definitely benefit from resistance more, since they should never be in melee in the first place.

[Xequilibrium]

I got 2 blue armors , one gives Phy def % and one Melee def +5 , thats why i asked. Im playing a Khalida campaign

[MrSoul]

Originally posted by Xequilibrium:

I got 2 blue armors , one gives Phy def % and one Melee def +5 , thats why i asked. Im playing a Khalida campaign

Been while iirc she’s okay in melee but prob wanna stack on phy def before md just as stated above it covers more bases with damage, md basically just like if it’s higher than opponent attack it’ll defer attacks basically but phy def help protect khal’ from wide range of damage sources

[Lady MacBeth]

For khalida? Phys resist. It will stack with some of her other natural resists when you talent into them.

[Dagy47]

both

[fmalfeas]

Until you hit a combined 90%, Ward -> Phys/Missile -> Regen -> MD. Applies to nearly all characters.

Ward is especially important now, since Magic Resist is no more, so Ward is your only defense against magical ranged and melee damage.

[BigRockWall]

Is skarbrand already dead? And kugath. And kairos. Physical resistance is useless vs demons who have magic attacks. Not all of their units are demons of course.

[BiteSizeCenter]

Phys resist unless you're fighting a lot of daemons.

[Xequilibrium]

Originally posted by Mr.Soul:

Originally posted by Xequilibrium:

I got 2 blue armors , one gives Phy def % and one Melee def +5 , thats why i asked. Im playing a Khalida campaign

Been while iirc she’s okay in melee but prob wanna stack on phy def before md just as stated above it covers more bases with damage, md basically just like if it’s higher than opponent attack it’ll defer attacks basically but phy def help protect khal’ from wide range of damage sources

TY for explaining i will equip the Phy def. item for now :)

[Xequilibrium]

Originally posted by BigRockWall:

Is skarbrand already dead? And kugath. And kairos. Physical resistance is useless vs demons who have magic attacks. Not all of their units are demons of course.

im in turn 10 , only kicked the vamps and minor orcs next to me out. lol Skarband is very busy with Kemhri tho

[BiteSizeCenter]

Originally posted by Xequilibrium:

im in turn 10 , only kicked the vamps and minor orcs next to me out. lol Skarband is very busy with Kemhri tho

You managed to get 2 blue armors by turn 10? RNGesus has truly blessed you. But yeah, I'd equip the phys resist armor unless I was fighting Skarbrand.

The nice thing about WH3 is you can swap out gear and use it on the same turn. So say you're wearing the phys resist armor and you want to fight Skarbrand, you can just swap it out for that turn then swap it back on once you defeat him.

[Xequilibrium]

Originally posted by BiteSizeCenter:

Originally posted by Xequilibrium:

im in turn 10 , only kicked the vamps and minor orcs next to me out. lol Skarband is very busy with Kemhri tho

You managed to get 2 blue armors by turn 10? RNGesus has truly blessed you. But yeah, I'd equip the phys resist armor unless I was fighting Skarbrand.

The nice thing about WH3 is you can swap out gear and use it on the same turn. So say you're wearing the phys resist armor and you want to fight Skarbrand, you can just swap it out for that turn then swap it back on once you defeat him.

Ya i got one in the first field battle, second on first settlement battle. After that i only got ancillaries. Tomb kings can craft their own gear tho. But its a welcome gift for the start.

Im not planning on fighting skarbrand any soon , so i hope khemri can keep him in check