Avoidance

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| Item [Avoidance                     ]  Type [             Combat Skill]|
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|______________________[        Description       ]______________________|
| Why absorb hits when you can just not take them? Increases your        |
| defense enhancing statuses by 15/30/45%. Also allows you to roll with  |
| blows. You will resist between 3/6/9% and 10/20/30% of an incoming     |
| attack, increasing as you are lower in hit points. Note, this power    |
| will also reduce the potency of any SELF TARGETED heals you use by     |
| 3/6/9%.                                                                |
|______________________[        Other Stats       ]______________________|
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|______________________[       Available In       ]______________________|
| Assassin            [Damage,Speed,Avoidance                           ]|
| Barker              [Taunting Strikes,Avoidance,Fast Loading          ]|
| Buzzard             [Readiness,Avoidance,Scavenger                    ]|
| Cautious Leader     [Mastermind,Avoidance,Lingering Kindness          ]|
| Commissar           [Tactician,Rage,Avoidance                         ]|
| Emergency Doctor    [Healing,Avoidance,Speed                          ]|
| Fencer              [Tactician,Avoidance,Flurry                       ]|
| Gang Leader         [Taunting Strikes,Enduring Minions,Avoidance      ]|
| Gymnast             [Roll With It,Avoidance,Endurance                 ]|
| Judo Fighter        [Reactive,Accuracy,Avoidance                      ]|
| Kickboxer           [Durability,Health,Avoidance                      ]|
| Master Decoy        [Avoidance,Warded,Front Row                       ]|
| Messenger           [Avoidance,Speed,Endurance                        ]|
| Opportunist         [Roll With It,Fast Loading,Avoidance              ]|
| Phantom Duelist     [Bewitched,Avoidance,Bleeding                     ]|
| Skirmisher          [Penetration,Avoidance,Front Row                  ]|
| Spy                 [Accuracy,Avoidance,Back Row                      ]|
| Survivor            [Endurance,Avoidance,Durability                   ]|
| Tri-Athlete         [Fast Loading,Avoidance,Endurance                 ]|
| Whirlwind           [Sacrificial Fury,Health,Avoidance                ]|
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Allegedly, the percentage-based resistance reaches its height when you are at 20% health.
This skill, along with Health and Durability, reduce the magnitude of direct heals you do by 3% per point.

Feline Agility has a Defense effect of magnitude 10, so two ranks of Avoidance would increase that to 13.

To understand Defense, you have to understand the whole defense system. The game makes a potential total of three rolls, each a 1d100, with any number at or below the target being a 'hit'. The first roll is enemy Accuracy - your Defense as the target number - 35. This number includes the enemy's attack's base. The next is just enemy Accuracy - your Defense. The last enemy Accuracy - your Defense + 40. If the first hits, 100% damage is applied, if the second hits, 75% damage is applied, if the third hits, 50% damage is applied, and if the third misses, 25% damage is applied. Here is an example! An enemy using a power with 75% and having +15 accuracy, against a Player with 25 defense, it would look like this 75 + 15 - 25 - 35, for a target number of 30. If the 1d100 comes up as a 30 or less, then this hit is a success!

There are caps of course. The hard caps are such that your target number can never go above 95 nor below 5. Next, the soft caps are at 50, 100, 150, 200, and so on. The first 50 give a 1 to 1 relation. After, 51 to 100, requires 2 points of accuracy or defense to add 1 effective point to either. Then 101 to 150 requires 4 points to add 1 effective point, and so on.