Your Thoughts on Class Balance?

[AngellicDiety]

I was doing comparisons with full end clerics and fighters.

Full end clerics and full end fighters under the same condition stock equipment with a fighter using a shield - the fighter has less defense than the cleric despite the fact that the defense from the armour adds up to a greater sum...

I dont know exactly how outspark achieved this, but it appears as if fighters just "lost" some of the defense points from the armour into some void.

The clerics defense stat sums properly. The fighters does not.

The clerics will have more defense than a fighter if the fighter is using a 2-handed weapon no doubt. And it should remain that way.

However, when a fighter is using a shield it shouldn't be possible that a cleric has more defense.... (stock equipments same build.)

Its not anything to do with the cleric class. No the cleric class is fine. The fighters have some serious stat issues since the raise of the level cap which is still unresolved. The defense just doesn't sum properly...

For instance as a 1-handed fighter :

My armour (non stock) and everything adds up to 789 defense.

My stat reads 666. (I know, this just so happens to be my defense stat with my shield at the tender level of 66)

Somewhere I lost 123 points in defense.