Magic Defense

Description

• Magic Defense (sometiems abbreviated to M.DEF) is the stat which calculates how much damage you recieve from a magic attack.
• The higher the Magic Defense, the less damage you will recieve.
• Magic Defense is NOT an ability, meaning that you cannot increase it through adding Ability Points.

Where Magic Defense is required

• All classes find Magic Defense to be useful, but more so in the later levels, because low level monsters generally do not have magical attacks.
  • Magicians in general have the most Magic Defense of all classes.

Gaining Weapon Defense

• For the most part, Magic Defense is boosted when you equip armor. Generally, most Magician armors give Magic Defense boosts. Earrings, some capes also give Magic Defense boosts.
• Scrolling your equipment:
  • There are DEF scrolls for the following. 60/70% boost 1 M.DEF and 10/30% boost 3 M.DEF.
    • Topwear
    • Bottomwear
    • Overall (INT and LUK)
    • Helmet
    • Shield
    • Cape for W. DEF
    • Cape for M. DEF (100% scroll gives 1 M.DEF, 60/70% gives 3 M.DEF and 10/30% goves 5 M.DEF)
  • Some weapons' 10/30% scrolls add +1 M.DEF to the equipment should the scroll pass.
• List of useable items/skills that grant a temporary boost to Weapon Defense:

Name	Image	M.DEF boost; Duration
Iron Will	File:Iron Will Icon.gif	M.DEF +20 for 300 seconds (when maxed)
Bless		M.DEF +20 for 200 seconds (when maxed)