From 115% to 130% armor rating, grants an additional damage reduction of roughly 3%. While in my PVP gear that went from 31% to 34%.

This tank has 0 Accuracy, and in mostly 66 gear since I’ve been slacking on gearing him up in PVE.

Oberst mentioned to me about the Dark Protection and how it increases damage reduction by 4% if it has a 4 stack. Hitting Shock and Wither getting the 3 stack of Harness Darkness followed by Force Lightning  gives the additional 4% damage reduction.

A bug I did find though, was once the Dark Protection dropped off, there was a couple of seconds where the damage reduction drops down to 31%. Its kind of minimal but its something to take note on for boss battles.

Secondly, I did notice that if Force Lightning meets any resists or misses, you do not get the full 4 stack of Dark Protection, which obviously isn’t good. Brings me to my next thought that you’ll need the full 100% accuracy to make sure that you hit all the time with your Lightning.

But for now I’m going to gear my Assassin up for PVE and do more testing and see how it goes.