The yellow bar between your Health Points bar (HP bar) and Mana Points bar (MP bar) bar is your Armor Points bar (AP bar). It has a very important use which many will not take it seriously.

Important Functions

The AP bar woks as long as it is NOT EMPTY. Below are the benefit of having the yellow bar.

1. Reduce damage from mobs up to 50%. Also reduce enemies' damage in PK.
2. Reduce qi gong damage up to 65%.
3. Reduce effect damage from burning status (caused by fire based qi gong attacks), poison and static (caused by gold based attacks, hurt like burn).
4. Reduce special effects of qi gong like Freeze, Stun and Slow by reducing the effect time.

AP's role in your total DEF

Total DEF = total HP + TOTAL AP + DEF passive (physical defense)

Note : applicable to weapon damage only.

How AP works

The damage you receive => amount of AP depleted => amount of DEF you lost => amount of HP gone.

In short, ONE damage value will always equal to a fixed amount of AP being depleted.

NOTE : AP depletion rate is ONLY affected by THE DAMAGE RECEIVED from attacks. Other status like "character lv", "total DEF value", "weapon type", etc does not affect AP.