jcamero

That's really helpful, thanks! With the druid, I'm afraid I was being an idiot and not noticing that she had a large shield equipped (although that said, the large shield says it's only adding 20, when it appears to be adding 30, but at least it's not astronomically different now).

I haven't really played the Backer Beta yet and have mostly just been playing around with character creation. I've read the forums a fair bit and people have said base deflection has been changed from how it's listed in the wiki, but I couldn't find anywhere where it was listed, so I tried to figure it out myself. The BB Fighter has a 43 listed underneath the shield on the character record, and a listed deflection bonus of -2 (due to having only 9 deflection). So that suggests a base Level 4 Fighter deflection of 45. Cool. My Chanter has 48 deflection, off a +4 deflection bonus on intellect, suggesting a base 44 deflection for a Level 4 Chanter. Fine. Things got weird when I created a Heath Orlan Level 3 Druid. I pumped intellect to 18, which according to character record gives me a +16 to deflection. However, I ended up with an 82 deflection, suggesting that a Level 3 Druid's base deflection is 66. This seems huge compared to a Fighter. Is Druid really that much tankier than a fighter, or - as is far more likely - am I missing something? Thanks, and apologies for the probable daftness of my question.

Small point. Could you please add the precise details of a Chanter's chants into the description e.g. wizard and priest spells include information about how much damage (or other relevant effect) a spell does. This is not in place with chants. Perhaps this is because they will be altered soon? Either way, I think this would be really helpful at some point in the future.