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Penwize has cowardly forfeited the challenge to mortal combat issued by Atalkez.
You would assume "some defence in combat", from its AB file, means damage reduction. As far as I know there is no flat damage reduction gained from Riding Defence.
What it does is effectively increase your dexterity stat while mounted. Dexterity is the stat that affects your chance to dodge attacks that can be dodged, generally in PVP. Most other methods of increasing your chance to dodge also do so by boosting your dexterity, like speed elixir (+4 dex) and the Avoidance skill (+1 dex/skill rank). Being mounted apparently gives the equivalent of +1-4 dex based on Riding skill rank, and +0-10 dex based on your mount's level, with mount level almost never giving more than +4 dex. This comes from this repost of a post by a then-current, now-former (assistant?) producer of the game, going into some rare mechanical detail.
Bear in mind that the Avoidance skill also gives you ~12.5-13% resistance to cutting and blunt type damage, in addition to its benefit to your chance to dodge. That damage reduction is separate from, not a consequence of, increased chance to dodge.
I'm not really familiar with any situations where you can specifically dodge NPC attacks. Maybe some of the very few, older ones that mimick player attacks, like the druid in the Aalen? I don't know though.
I believe Trample and possibly Jousting effectiveness are or at least used to be based on mount weight. Non-pet legendary steeds may sometimes have higher weight, which is one way that they could be more effective than pets. This may be inaccurate so you'd have to do some comparison testing for yourself.
The items will be the same each time btw.
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Results of disembowel testing | Knight limb counter | GMCP AB files
A level two regen ring is also 5% on top of what you get from the boar tattoo. A berkana rune will put you at level 3, which is the maximum amount of health regeneration level you can get.
So the complete opposite of useless.
Results of disembowel testing | Knight limb counter | GMCP AB files
But you're my favorite practically a glorified denizen out there.
Ashtan has one of those too!
Re: Riding as an avoidance boost against denizens/mobs -
In most cases, no, it doesn't increase a chance for a denizen's attacks to miss you. There is some old mob combat systems where mobs actually have physical weapons wielded, and attacking with those would function like player attacks with weapons. These attacks do use the normal dodging checks, so riding would influence the chance to hit.
That being said, there might only be one or two mobs in the game that still use this feature (I haven't looked in a long time), so it is a pretty safe assumption that in most cases, riding does not increase your chances to dodge against denizen attacks.
(ETA: Removing incorrect reference.)
Hope this clarifies the question once and for all!
And some quick testing suggests that it doesn't reduce damage against adventurers; kick was 212 with or without being mounted, backstab was 2024 with or without being mounted. I only have virtuoso riding and a medium horse, but even a 1% damage reduction should have been visible on the kick, and any damage reduction on the backstab.
Test it using an artie pet, training dummy, or humgii. I have personally never noticed anything, though
I'll probably do that eventually if Tecton doesn't clarify (it only applies to denizens, or it's meant to reduce damage against adventurers as well but it's bugged, or you need a higher skill level or stronger mount to get the damage reduction, etc.), but I don't have time to do it now.