Is light armor really necessary?

I've been wondering about the importance of light armor to a player who already has maxed agility. It seems like the vast majority of (painful) attacks made by bosses cannot be dodged or evaded, and that the only evadable ones are just auto attacks, which are no trouble to evade. Despite that I see many builds using light armor, why increase your dodging ability if it helps so little?

By using regular instead of light armor, you could have increased defense, and save 10 skill points (light armor mastery) is there something I am missing?
Also, another question, which armors are usually used as high end (cccc7?) armor? Is it just adventure garb?

 

It all boils down to preferences. Cccc7 is a universal armor for physical type, you also save on bag space and investment by having it. It can be any armor that can fit in those stats, though most people obviously like high defense. ^_^

 

Its just the fact that def stat doesnt do much mitigation either,
In the case that you havent added any vit or int at lvl130 and with def lower than 200 on normal remodel, the difference in mdef and def of light armor and heavy armor is a mere 50 points which will give at most 4% reduction on damage taken to those non dodgeable attacks.
That little gain in the face of losing a lot of aspd I would say full agi chars should still go for light remodel.
If you want to further mitigate the damage taken refine your armor and add gear to +C first it is 24% damage reduction unlike the 4% from def better than nothing.

 

I forgot that light armor adds attack speed, silly me, but now i wonder what light armor mastery does, it says it increases the evasion rate, but by how much? Does it affect attack speed aswell? Is it really worth consuming those 10 skill points?

My wondering is, which armors can fit those stats? More prefferably, which ones are reasonable to craft and are commonly used?

 

I accidently posted the same reply twice, and I can't seem to find any delete button

 

Light mastery adds evasion rate, the blue bar that shows "evasion" when you do the side step animation, chances for that increases.
Light armor mastery adds +10% evasion at lvl10 doesnt add any aspd. Its not really needed to max it to get more evasion as theres other options to get higher evasion.

 

Minimum potential of 38 for 100% statting. From Adventure garb up to Anniversary Dress can fit those stat, provide it is covered by the pot range. ^_^

 

Yay, thank you all, I think all my questions this topic have been answered.

 

I believe light armor mastery adds 10% chance to evade.. I used this skill tree for a long time then went for more dps since intimidating power came out.. with light armor it proc'd nicely, even death hits I could evade.Light armor is just better in general.. you can get different armor sets and xtals depending on boss if you prefer..

 

It really just depends on your build and the boss. I have a DW with an evasion build, and it is nearly untouchable. Yeah, magic attacks still hit, which is why you need to keep the boss you're fighting in mind. Nure, Imitacia, and Empress can easily kill my DW if I get careless, but other bosses like Black Knight of Delusion, Iconos, and the boss in magic wasteland (forgot the name) can't land a single blow, auto or AOE, on my DW, and my Flash Blast counter attacks inflict a lot of damage on them.

High Evasion + Flashblast = OP

 

"Scrader" the mechanical crystal monster ^^

 

Light armor mastery is fantatsic