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The actual benefit of a mob boosting their defense levels is that they take less damage overall, even if it might seem negligible at a glance.
>Frankly this whole combat system pisses me off with how alien it is.
It essentially boils down to taking and dealing less damage. I might've been doing it a lot of lipservice with all of this talk, but at the end of the day, you either take more damage or take less damage. And taking less damage is always good.
>I haven't noticed that but maybe it's not blatant. Do you have an example?
Here. Leisault's S3-2. The numbers next to the sword are the Offense Level, and in brackets, the modifier.
It also seems that I was wrong in the end, the +6 modifier isn't a FSHeath exclusive after all.