Glancing Blow

Overview
Glancing Blows are a form of decrease the damage of an ability. There is no innate Glancing Blow chance, so in order to glance you must receive a buff or debuff that makes a target able to receive a glancing blow.

Glancing Blow Chance
Glancing Blow chance may be gained by certain buffs or debuffs that increase a user's glancing Blow chance. This chance scales linearly up to +100%. A player with 40% Glancing Blow chance will have a 40% chance to receeve a Glancing Blow to an enemy attack.

Glance Multiplier
Upon receiving a Glancing Blow an ability is multiplied by the Glance multiplier; for most abilities the Glance multiplier is 1.5x.

An ability that deals 1000 damage that glances will deal 500 damage.

Glancing Blow Chance
Glancing Blow defense reduces the chance to be Glancely hit and can be gained by certain buffs or debuffs. Glancing Blow defense scales linearly up to +100%.

If player A has +100% crit chance and player B has +50% Glance defense chance, player A will only have +50% when attacking player B.

Glancing Blow Hit Chance
Glancing Blow increases and decreases may be gained by certain buffs or debuffs. Glancing Blow hit chance scales linearly from -100% to +100%. A glancing blow hit chance increase of +50% will effectively cancel out a glancing blow hit decrease defense of +50%.

If player A has +50% glancing blow hit chance and player B has +50% glance blow chance, player A will have a 100% to have their attack deal reduced damage as a result of a glancing blow against player B.

If player B has -50% glancing blow hit chance and player B has +50% glancing blow chance, player A will have a 0% to have their attack deal reduced damage as a result of a glancing blow against player B.