Protection skill. How effective is it?

[alexandre.gambotti]

Greetings,

I have read quite a few guides. And nowhere it says to put points in protection skill.
There is a few post on the forum who speak about tribulation and protection helping with the tanking.
But beside that, is it completly useless in fight for most inner disciples??

[OverlordMae]

Qi pool is basically your HP(apart from physical cultivators getting hit without qi protection is instant death). Basically its efficiency of qi to dmg absorbtion. Lets say that protection 0 blocks dmg 1:1 while protection 20 blocks dmg 1:10. Together with qi regen and large qi pool it makes for a world of difference in the amount of hits you can take(numbers here are totaly pulled out of nowhere, i didnt feel like looking the exact math for that).

As to tribulation it actually deals damage to your disciple, while in normal fights the artifact usually blocks enemies from attacking you directly, thats why efficiency of qi barrier was mentioned in context of tribulation.

[alexandre.gambotti]

Thank you. I guess i ll start pumping point into protection.

[Weyrling]

You can look at the exact barrier power in one of the expanded menus (whatever one default hotkey Z opens up).
If you're about to get into a fight, taking the Barrier pill can help enormously.
Also if you ever wondered why Beasts are tanky for their amount of Qi, they have more than ten times the barrier power of an average GC disciple.

[VoiD]

Keep in mind the artifacts don't have your level of protection, that's why equiping them can actually cause your death in tribulations, sure, they can hit for you and lower the tribulation's Qi, but they often lose all of their own Qi in return, which you'll have to recharge, which means you're using up your own "HP" as well.

[Normal Paradox]

Thanks for the tip VoiD !

[Normal Paradox]

Does removing the artifact before tribulation matter for the metal law ?
I mean, they are specilized with combat artifact, can they deal with the tribulation fast enough ?

[Kain Yusanagi]

Originally posted by Normal Paradox:

Does removing the artifact before tribulation matter for the metal law ?
I mean, they are specilized with combat artifact, can they deal with the tribulation fast enough ?

Depends on how good your artifact mastery, artifact quality, and other cultivation strength aspects are like qi sense, protection, and max qi.

[Nimrod]

How would I defeat the tribulation without an artifact to attack? Will it just bleed itself dry?

[Oskatat]

pretty much yeah. A protection master can just sit under it and wait, their natural qi regen dealing with any damage dealt. The tribulation will dissipate after a while