Help mastery setup

Got 6 points to use not sure where to go next. Please advice whats best out of perfect block, stand your ground, petrify, pacify? Also if I should change anything elsewhere to free up more points? Any general advice for masteries would be appreciated too

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Pikolu

I recommend placing 5 of the points in any of the defense masteries, and then getting the last point into willpower

TotemCorruption

I recommend placing 5 of the points in any of the defense masteries, and then getting the last point into willpower

Yup, this is the best advice imo.
You need 5 points between Perfect Block and Stand Your Ground.
Perfect Block increases the duration of your parry stuns, which is useful if your opponents have tenacity or you're playing BG and they have the Limber mastery. Or if you're just slow like me and can use extra time to react to the opponent getting stunned.
Stand Your Ground gives you a chance at resisting heavies into your block. It's kind of useless in my opinion because you shouldn't be blocking heavy attacks, and it's not going to protect you all the time anyway. And in BG, good opponents aren't throwing heavies into your block either as that's a risky and reckless move.

Squidopus

I recommend placing 5 of the points in any of the defense masteries, and then getting the last point into willpower
Perfect Block increases the duration of your parry stuns

On this point, does anyone know how much extra stun duration you even get based off perfect block chance? I just run the points in health because I figure the 4% perfect block chance only provides a negligible increase to the parry stun duration, but I’d change my masteries if there was a relevant difference.

TotemCorruption

I recommend placing 5 of the points in any of the defense masteries, and then getting the last point into willpower
Perfect Block increases the duration of your parry stuns
On this point, does anyone know how much extra stun duration you even get based off perfect block chance? I just run the points in health because I figure the 4% perfect block chance only provides a negligible increase to the parry stun duration, but I’d change my masteries if there was a relevant difference.

On the Parry mastery pop-up it says: "Stun duration increases by up to 1 second with Perfect Block Chance."
So I assume 0.25 additional seconds per point in Perfect Block chance.
All I know is that even on Limber nodes with opponents also running Limber mastery, I use max Perfect Block and max Stupefy and the results are pretty obvious.

Pikolu

I recommend placing 5 of the points in any of the defense masteries, and then getting the last point into willpower
Perfect Block increases the duration of your parry stuns
On this point, does anyone know how much extra stun duration you even get based off perfect block chance? I just run the points in health because I figure the 4% perfect block chance only provides a negligible increase to the parry stun duration, but I’d change my masteries if there was a relevant difference.
On the Parry mastery pop-up it says: "Stun duration increases by up to 1 second with Perfect Block Chance."
So I assume 0.25 additional seconds per point in Perfect Block chance.
All I know is that even on Limber nodes with opponents also running Limber mastery, I use max Perfect Block and max Stupefy and the results are pretty obvious.

Im pretty sure you don't get the extra duration unless a perfect stun actually happens. It is most obvious with using Red Guardian who has perfect blocks while his shield is active

PickL1e89

So perfect block is a decent shout? perfect block has 4% chance to reduce parry chip damage to 0 just checked
minimum 15 points elsewhere in defense for willpower to be available. what about the other point for greater vitality or salve?
then I'll be able to put the last point in willpower

Kabam (Osaurus) Rex

Your setup is looking nice so far.
I would recommend you pop 4 points into Perfect Block, 1 point into Stand Your Ground, and then the remaining into Willpower.

As for the rest of your set up, the only suggestion I have is that you don't need 3 points in Courage.
I would move 2 of those into Despair, and you'll be looking really nice.

If you want to go a step further, I don't enjoy using Assassin as it could mess with certain Defenders abilities in unintended ways. I would suggest popping the 2 points currently allotted there into Deep Wounds, as there will be a noticeable difference between 1 and 3 points for your bleeders.