Hover has pseudo knockback protection (because you still do the backflip) and a small amount of defence. Combat Jumping has immobilization protection and also a small amount of defence. Combat Jumping doesn't provide any knockback protection at all, but Acrobatics from Leaping pool has real knockback protection. In other words, with Acrobatics you don't even notice the knockback.
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Hover doesn't say it offers knockback protection because technically it doesn't, knockback just affects you differently when you're flying.
CJ is way better than Hover for Brutes. Take it, love it, and dont forget Acro.
BTW, if you are planning to take Fly, Air Superiority is gold for Brutes. It has -Fly and 100% Knock-Up.
i'm aware that hover provides protection from knockback (i seem to do a quick backflip instead) even though the tooltip just says it provides "defence from all attacks", the tooltip for combat jumping says this as well so does combat jumping provide knockback protection, or is it just missing from the hover tooltip?