Guide Effective Class Base Defenses

So, shaman has a base defense of 50%, and assassin has a base defense of 100%. So that means if an assassin took 100 damage from an attack, a shaman would take 200, right? Actually, that's not the case.
(Here's a thread saying the base defense of each class for reference)

Base defenses actually mean that a class takes % more damage than damage dealt. So, that means that shaman simply takes 50% more damage than assassin.

(Link to the EHP calculator I'm about to use)
So, base defenses end up looking a lot more like this:

As you can see, shaman has about 67% the EHP of assassin
(also, the warrior ehp is calculated using war scream and base def)

So, if you want to calculate base defenses manually:
Health/((2-class base)*(1-Defense reduction))
You can also add *(1-agility dodge chance) to calculate agility into it

(Also, in the context of this formula, think of warrior's base def as 136% if you're including war scream, or 120% if just calculating base)

 

oh that calc i made is still being useful c: