I'm at 542 right now and I will drop to roughly 529 when I swap my i245 chest/helmet to T10. Most of my yellow gem slots are already 10 Def/15 Stam hybrids, so it's gonna be tough squeezing anything more out of them.
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How do I maintain 540 Defense when I upgrade my last two pieces to T10?
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Hard to tell when the rest of your gear isn't known.
But in general defense rating becomes a non-issue roughly after the first upgrades from icc. Till then you could just gem more if there's really no other choice.
Remember there's a shoulder enchant providing 30 stam/15 resil also lowering the amount of def you need by a small amount. Reduced chance to be crit from resil also works in pve.
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I can assume you have both crafted legs and boots, so the cap is already harder to reach thus the gemming.
Best course for you is to postpone the chest upgrade for now untill you get Treads of Impending Resurrection from RS25.
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My gear by name:
Head: Headplate of the Honorbound
Chest: Breastplate of the White Knight
Wrist: Saronite Swordbreakers
Weapon: Rimefang's Claw (Mongoose)
Shield: Northern Barrier
Legs: Pillars of Might
Feet: Boots of Kingly Upheaval
Shoulders: Lightsworn Shoulderguards
Hands: Lightsworn Handguards
Neck: Fossillized Ammonite Choker
Ring 1: Harbinger's Bone Band
Ring 2: Clutch of Fortification
Trinket 1: Corroded Skeleton Key
Trinket 2: Glyph of Indominitability
Relic: Libram of the Eternal Tower
Belt: Verdigris Chain Belt
I also have a Falric's Wrist-Chopper with Blood Draining and a Black Heart trinket as swaps.
My gems are generally 30 Stam for Blue (51 for the three I can use as a JC), 10 Str/15 Stam purple gems for red slots, and 10 Def/15 Stam green gems for yellow slots.
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Get your ashen verdict ring and regem would be my advice. You either gem quite a lot of hit or you're not quite honest with all those 10def/15 stam gems btw.
Also nothing wrong with just enchanting cloak/chest/shield with defense/resil. Not like you're gonna miss much if you swap those enchants if defense is too tight.
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You're right, actually. I just checked, and five of my gems are 10 Hit/15 Stam. I don't know what prompted that, I figured I wouldn't need Hit with the Glyph of Righteous Defense, but I guess I have some slots to squeeze some Defense from.
I also have 15 Resilience from Shoulder enchant.
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What's the Defense score I need with 15 Resilience? For some reason my mind is stuck on 537.
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15 Resil are 0.18% reduced chance to be crit, which is equal to 4.5 points of defense skill. So yeah 537 is a safe number to assume.
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