WF FvS DR

[Mellkor]

I am experimenting with a warforged lord of blades FvS with emphasis on DR.

My questions are: What is the best DR (adamantine) I COULD get?

I am aware of the FvS level 20 is 10, the adamantine body adds 2 and enhancements add 4. for a total of 16- /adamantine.

Are there items that stack with this or other sources of DR that will stack with those already mentioned? Is having more than one type of DR useful? (such as axblock)

I am mostly interested in trying to get DR high enough to eliminate most damage from the new grazing hits system.

Thanks in advance for your help!!

-JR

[Solmage]

Different types of DR are only useful if a creature can bypass your existing ones for some reason. For example, axeblock could be of some use if you ever faced an enemy with an adamantine weapon, but otherwise would be worthless.

The only other thing you could do is burn a feat to get a pathetic +1 more to DR, and that's it.

[Anneliese]

I think the enhancements cap at +3, so 15=10+2+3 is the max there.

You could take a feat multiple times for 1 extra at level 3-6-9-12-15-18, bringing your maximum to 21. (which would be a horrible idea)

[QuantumFX]

I am aware of the FvS level 20 is 10, the adamantine body adds 2 and enhancements add 4. for a total of 16- /adamantine.

It caps out at 15 with the enhancements alone.


Are there items that stack with this or other sources of DR that will stack with those already mentioned? Is having more than one type of DR useful? (such as axblock)

The DR feats (Which are a waste) and Shieldblocking.


I am mostly interested in trying to get DR high enough to eliminate most damage from the new grazing hits system.

Turbine’s got you covered. Your AC won’t be high enough to have the grazing hits system ever come into play.

[Dylos_Moon]

I am mostly interested in trying to get DR high enough to eliminate most damage from the new grazing hits system.

On Normal, Grazing hits only land on 17-19, 15-19 on hard, and 13-19 on elite.

This means that in order for grazing hits to hit you in the first place, you have to not be hit from 13-19 on elite, which in end game content should be what 100 AC?

You're not going to take grazing hits...ever, your AC will be too low as a pure FvS.

Even if you did manage to get your AC high enough to take grazing hits, you'd need to realize how many things decrease grazing hits besides DR. First, Grazing hits are base damage only, this means if harry does 10d10+Strength+etc. his grazing hits would be 10d10, then this would be halved because of the feat that all player characters get at first level, reducing that to 5d10, and then it gets further reduced if you are using a shield or if you are a high level monk, though I do not know by how much. And then after that, finally your DR reduces the damage that you would take. So just for speculation, lets say that the shield reduces grazing blows by half again, which would give you a damage range of 2.5-25 before DR on the theoretical numbers I am using, which would be an average of 13.75, which means if my theoretical numbers are even close to true, 15/adamantine would block most grazing blows anyway, so there would be no reason to waste further feats on DR.

However, as others have stated, max WF FvS DR would be 2 from plating, 3 from enhancements, 10 from 20 fvs, and then 6 more from taking improved damage reduction as every feat, which would result in 21/Adamantine DR, which in my above theoretical numbers would block all grazing blows bar the upper levels, however taking Improved Damage Reduction as every feat isn't a viable option.