Cant say if Reed in the Wind I is required for RitW II, but it is useful for training it anyways even if it isnt. I had to go by myself to Dargun's to learn it so it was very helpful to have. You can go into defensive stance then opt for total defense versus one of the roaches with Reed in the Wind and Swaying Step, tank for a while until you get the "Your knowledge of Reed in the Wind has advanced" then feign death the mob. Jump up and go rest if needed, then repeat the practice until you advance or complete your lesson, killing the mob isnt needed. So can just keep practicing on a single roach. It usually takes like six updates or so before you actually learn the skill.

I think it has been stated before, but I am pretty sure we only learn Reed In the Wind. RItW 1 =  spiders in RoTK. RItW 2 = roaches in Dargun's.

I've heard rumors RiTW 3 is learned in graystone when you are lvl 46........ unable to verify.  sorry all i can offer now is hearsay =(     The rumor is all classes can learn an ability in graystone at either 42 or 46, im 42 (but i dont' tank) and i have yet to learn anything.

Hmm.....I should be heading into Greystone this week and I'm level 46 now so will inform if I find anything.

Hmm did greystone weapon and was there for 18 hours, none of the mobs taught me anything. It has been more than a week though so maybe it went live in this patch.

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Florendyl

It's all just simple mathematics.  There is no bonus or penalty involved.  There is no artificial soft cap.

1 - [1 * (1-avoidance1) * (1-avoidance2) * (1-avoidance3)]

Then you just have to be aware of the inherent 5.00% avoidance that we get.  If for some reason another avoidance factor is involved just add another block for avoidance4.

Your Case 1.

1 - [1 * (1-0.0774) * (1-0.0747) * (1-0.05)]

Your mathematic avoidance would be 0.1890 or 18.90%

Your Case 8.

1 - [1 * (1-0.6574) * (1-0.2047) * (1-0.05)]

Your mathematic avoidance would be 0.74115 which should round to 74.12% but the game is just displayig to 74.11% rather than rounding.

If you don't understand the mathematics behind this, I'll use realworld numbers to illustrate what is happening.

We'll use your case 8 as an example.  Lets assume you stood there while something attacked and hit you 100,000 times.

You would dodge 65.74% of the hits.  This means 65,740 hits would be dodged.  Which means 34,260 hits went through.

Of those 34,260 hits, 20.47% of them will get parried.  This means 7,013 of those hits will get parried.  So after being dodged and parried only 25,247 hits are going through.

Of those 27,247 hits, another 5% will be avoided with your inherent avoidance.  This means 1,362 more hits will be avoided, leaving a grand total of 25,885 hits get through.

Or in other words you avoided 74,115 hits out of 100,000.  A grand total of 74.115%

It doesn't matter which way you apply the various avoidance numbers it'll all come out the same.

Regards,
Croaker

See kids!  you WILL use that useless math later on in life!!! 

When I add up my % dodge-61'ish  and % parry-34'ish, it equals 95% (this is shown in character screen). Yet my Melee Avoidance combined is only 84.06%. Pretty sure there is still a cap in place.