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I'm thinking (hoping) he looked up the Stalker numbers and the Brute modifier is actually 0.1.

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Castle PM'd me again:

"I looked in the Brute spreadsheet and Brutes and Stalkers have the same AT mode for Defense skills. "

Castle PM'd me again:

"I looked in the Brute spreadsheet and Brutes and Stalkers have the same AT mode for Defense skills. "

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I would presume that the numbers are lower for Stalkers, but we need to consider that Stalkers also have the Defensive bonus from Hide.

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True but EA Brutes can take Energy Cloak which fully-slotted (3 SO's) I think gives around 4.68% def (could be wrong - base value of 3% ? x 1.56 for 3 SO's). I think that's what he (Castle) was referring to when saying he didn't factor in the stealth powers, as Energy Cloak is a stealth power.

<<PM him again>>

I already did. Asked him to respond here.

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I think those are Stalker numbers. Remember you're talking to the Stalker rep. The multipliers are probably different for brutes.

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Maybe, but my PM specifically asked about Brutes -- even the Subject line said Brute . . . so if he gave Stalker #s, it was a mistaken reponse to the question.

I specified Brute and the Def #s in my PM. I told him there had been a lot of questions on the Brute board about the EA #s.

If 3 SO's gives 56% more, then the S/L #s look consistent with the hero planner I have - it comes out to be 12.75% * 1.56 = 19.89% . . . which is what my planner says. You need to add 3slotted Energy Cloak in to get ~ 25% S/L. Still that's kind of low-sounding -- I thought the set was supposed to have been buffed to get closer to 35%? And then still to come is the global def buff in I7.

Here's my other post on dampening field res #s, reprinted to consolidate EA info in one thread:

Me: lvl 31 brute
Test Subject: Lvl 31 Crab Spider Longfang (Lt)

condition: no dampening field power
damage: 89.4 lethal with its claws -- call this "base damage"


condition: unslotted dampening field power, no enhancements
damage: 82.7 lethal with its claws
reduction: approx. 7.5% from base damage

condition: dampening field power, 3 slotted with even lvl SOs (30+)
damage: 78.94 lethal with its claws
reduction: approx. 11.7% from base damage

condition: dampening field power, 3 slotted with +1l SOs (30++)
damage: 78.91 lethal with its claws
reduction: approx. 11.7338% from base damage

So who can do the math and tell me what 3 +3 SOs woudl do?

Anyway, the #s seem higher than what the planners are reporting. Didn't see this anywhere else so I did it on test.

If 3 +3 SO Tough gives 17.7%, then dampening looks like it would give approx. 11.7% more for nearly 29.5% right?

I PM'd Castle about what the current EA armor defense numbers were. Here is his reply. I actually can't quite figure out what it means, but hopefully one of you can.

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Looks like 1.7 *0.075 for S/L, 2 * 0.075 for E/F/C and 1.4 * 0.075 for N.

Very quick lookup, though
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Hopefully he's not pissed that I posted.