Fleeting Whisper

Your final chance to hit is clamped between 0.05 and 0.95, and the sum of (your base tohit + your tohit buffs - your tohit debuffs - target's defense) is also clamped between 0.05 and 0.95. That sum is multiplied by your accuracy to get final hit chance, which is why it gets clamped a second time.

That's true for up to enemies +5 levels above you. Enemies that are +5 and higher have a static +0.5 acc. Enemies that are +6 and higher also get +tohit in addition to the +acc. +6s to +9s get +0.05 tohit per level. +10s get +0.2 tohit above and beyond the +9s (and I believe it continues increasing at that rate each level).

This statement is misleading and not necessarily true.
Each attack has zero or more attack vectors which correspond to Defense types, and one or more damage ticks which correspond to Resistance types.
The attack vectors are:

• Smashing_Attack
• Lethal_Attack
• Energy_Attack
• Negative_Attack
• Fire_Attack
• Cold_Attack
• Psionic_Attack
• Melee_Attack
• Ranged_Attack
• AOE_Attack

The damage types are:

• Smashing
• Lethal
• Energy
• Negative
• Fire
• Cold
• Psionic
• Toxic

Attack types and damage types can come in any combination, and just because they are named similarly doesn't mean an attack with one (eg, Smashing_Attack) must have another (eg, Smashing damage). When the game checks to see if an attack hits you, it compares all of the attack vectors of the attack to your Defense values. Your highest applicable Defense value is used in the hit calculation. If the attack hits, all of the damage ticks hit you. Even if you have Smashing Defense and Melee Defense, a melee attack with Smashing and Lethal ticks of damage will deal both ticks of damage, whether it gets through the Smashing Defense or it gets through the Melee Defense.

An example of why Sardan's statement is wrong is Fire Ball. Assuming you have Smashing Defense as Sardan's example supposes. Fire Ball has 2 ticks of damage that are guaranteed to hurt you when you get hit (22% Smashing, 78% Fire), and 1 DoT that has an 80% chance to hurt you when you get hit (100% Fire). However, even if you have 200% Smashing Defense, it doesn't matter. Fire Ball has attack vectors AOE_Attack and Fire_Attack; the game will never look at your huge Smashing Defense when a Fire Ball is launched at you, only at your AOE Defense and your Fire Defense.

No. The only difference is that the Tanker might get powers in their pri/sec which grant them defense, so they don't have to build up as much from IO sets or power pools.

It is generally sufficient to accumulate either the softcap in smashing/lethal/energy/negative/fire/cold/psionic Defense, or in melee/ranged/aoe Defense. There are a handful of powers which do not have attack vectors for one of those two groupings or the other, but those powers are few and far between. The vast majority will have at least one vector from the first set and at least one vector from the second set.

They add directly to the defense value of your shields.

The paragonwiki article doesn't address it because people don't generally talk about the term soft cap with regard to accuracy. This is mostly due to the fact that you hit chance is a combination of the power's inherent accuracy, the power's accuracy slotting, any global accuracy buffs, your level (levels 1-19 have higher base tohit), the target's level relative to you, any global tohit buffs/debuffs, and any global defense buff/debuffs your target has. In PvP, Elusivity makes it even more complicated, and in all cases, the streak breaker throws off the prefect mathematical averages.

The login message will count for every respec you haven't used. If you're 44+ and you've done 3 respec trials, and you've completed your patron arc and you have a freespec, the login message will say that you have 5 respecs available.

No, it's pronounced "CAKE•'em"

Yup. Being able to hold on to 10 dropped enhancements may be an arbitrary number, but being able to keep enhancements at all after a respec was a very specifically made design decision.

Reiterating stuff I've posted before...
1. The Shard currently consists of:

• Firebase Zulu
• Cascade Archipelago (contains Ruladak the Strong)
• The Chantry (contains Faathim the Kind)
• The Storm Palace (contains Lanaru the Mad)

2. We know that there are 7 aspects of Rularuu:

1. Ruladak the Strong
2. Faathim the Kind
3. Lanaru the Mad
4. Chularn the Slave Lord
5. Kuularth the Scavenger
6. Aloore the Watcher
7. Uuralur the Mirror

3. Villains have no access to the Shard

Solution:
Give villains a set of zones to correspond with the hero Shard zones:

• Firebase [some NATO phonetic alphabet letter]
• Factory Cubes (contains Chularn the Slave Lord)
• The Repository (contains Kuularth the Scavenger)
• The Garden of Memories (contains Uuralur the Mirror)

Additionally, create a zone which can be used by both heroes and villains (either co-op or PvE competitave):

• The Palace (contains Aloore the Watcher)

Some of their powersets can do things at range (Claws and Spines, for example), and they can get ranged powers in their EPP at 41+ (Gaussian is 45+). Additionally, Vanguard aren't so bad in melee that a melee character can't handle them one-on-one or usually even two-on-one. Careful pulling or a teammate with AoE immob/stun/hold can keep you standing.

Yes, Vanguard Sword are more difficult for melee characters to defeat. But when they can doze their way through just about every other enemy in the game, I don't see that as a bad thing, especially since the non-melees generally have little trouble with Vanguard Sword.

Me. My first encounter with them was on a Thugs/Dark, though, so I'm not sure I count :3

Yeah!

I clicked the link and I still don't know what it is...

2, but nice try.

That... or they didn't want us to be flooded with "Buy Inf at XXXXXXX.com today!!1!!!!!" arcs. Probably a combination of both.

Or going very, very right!

Power Build Up + Vengeance + Fallout = Love

KittyKrusader? Is that you?

I wouldn't be surprised if the guy that got the rights to the movie had no intentions of making a movie at all.

Sally is a myth! A myth I say!

Note that [Surveillance] (Bane Spider Soldiers, Munitions Mastery Blasters) does the same thing as the Power Analyzers, as well as apply a debuff. (And it doesn't have a limited number of uses)

Dunno what you're talking about. Last STF I was on we had an AR/Dev tanking Recluse's inner circle