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Edit  Does anyone know what the damage reduction from armor is?
I know it changes across levels but someone must know the
formula... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by WoWWiki-
Orb (talk · contr).  Damage-Reduction = armor / (armor +
85*level + 400) Taken from —The preceding unsigned comment was
added by Feysharnalie (talk · contr).  On the main page I
submitted a more precise number for defense skill-per-rating;
here, I offer the data from which I derived that number. The
first column is taken directly from the character sheet with
different gear combinations; the second column is taken from the
"GetCombatRatingBonus(2)" API function in-game. The output of
this function appears to be floating point, which only allows
for a certain number of significant digits; this is why the
decimal precision drops as the number o