Hello,

Since a couple years ago, in the arcade and in missions, monsters and treasure boxes will sometimes drop temporary buffs. There is a defense one, a damage one, and a speed one.

The effect of the speed buff is pretty obvious, and I doubt anyone cares about the exact values.

The damage buff is self explanatory. You get increased damage for a short time. It should be pretty easy to figure out the math behind it since exact damage information is available on every hit. For some reason, the wiki contains close to no information about it.

And the last one, the defense buff, seems extremely obscure to me. What does it do? Defense and resistance are different stats in this game, so I would bet it only affects shields. But what's the exact difference? does it have any impact on status effects, or just pure damage?

The caption "Defense up!" doesn't really help, I can't find any information about it anywhere, not even a wiki page that aknowledges it's existence. Also, I've been playing in french for a long time (please forgive my bad english), and the caption is even weirder. It's "Défendez-vous!", which roughly translates to "Defend yourselves!". It sounds more like a boss is gonna come to attack you instead of you having just obtained a buff, but I guess it's just a terrible translation.

I didn't really care about this information before, since I try to avoid attacks anyway, so the defense buff doesn't affect my playstyle. But I recently noticed that Drakon's second spell (fire barrier or something) also gives the same caption when activated, and the same status effect appears next to your health bar. I'm trying to figure out exactly how it behaves to use my Drakon more efficiently.

Thank you very much