Can a dev explain this logic please

[Gen. HugglyPugglyWuggly]

Why is defense capped ? This means against any enemy that can do more than 12 damage defeats all defense builds. For instance I make a frost mage build (Con+Int) and I generate large amounts of defense because I've built a good deck I'm punished for taking cards like Superiority (blocking gives mana) because its literally impossible to block the damage and I'm already being punished because I generate way more than 12 defense over 1 or 2 turns. Damage sure as hell isn't capped, I dont get the defense cap it feels mind meltingly stupid and a ♥♥♥♥ mechanic like if your going to do this at least double the cap. Frost build is just useless because high level enemies are impossible to block.

[Ursu]

I agree, this needs some more balancing.

[westleylives]

I found that using various events on the map and in towns I could boost my HP higher, unlocking higher potential defence.

Additionally, try to find a copy of "Final Blow" (might not be the exact name, something like that), a 5 damage mid Con requirement card that destroys on use, but gives +1 Max HP if it is used to kill an enemy. I finished a recent run with well over 80 health. Could have had higher if I'd played out the whole run, but went early so I could defeat the boss before he begins the plague.

With such high health, I had very high potential defence.

[maxzakh]

Yeah defense is fairly weak, but it's stronger than the randomness of evasion. There is some correlation between your health level and how much defense you can have.