Sailboat

Issue 18 Patch Notes

• Consume: Added Recovery boost per target hit and flat Endurance Drain Resistance value.

Eh. 45% is the soft cap. Sure, in two Incarnate trials 59% works the same way, but those are less common than, say, DE Quartzes or Nemesis Vengeance, and nobody called those limited situations a new soft cap. Not to mention the probability that you'll have buffers/debuffers helping you on those trials, and the certainty that you'll at least have teammates on them. I'm still treating 45% as the holy grail, myself.

Me neither -- and that's a good reason.

I once proposed that the Devs could employ a mechanic similar to the "rule of five" code to prevent hypothetical new +resistance set bonuses from stacking too high with the current +defense bonuses. So you could have a certain amount of either, but not enough of both to be game-breaking.

As far as I know, the suggestion went nowhere.

I desperately want debuggers on my teams -- where can I get some?

I don't think so. My Invulnerability Tankers have consistently had 50% DDR when I checked the "real numbers," despite variations in slotting. Also, RedTomax says this about RPD:

• RES(Smashing, Lethal) +10% for 10.25s
  Effect does not stack from same caster
  
• RES(Defense) +25% for 10.25s [Ignores Enhancements & Buffs]
  Effect does not stack from same caster

If I am interpreting correctly, that looks like the DDR won't benefit from enhancement.

Just two 3% defenses exist, the Steadfast unique and the Gladiator's Armor unique. Both go into resistance powers.

There's also a 3% resistance IO, the Shield Wall unique, which, predictably enough is slotted into defense sets. It's generally less desirable for two reasons: it would have to give SIX percent resistance in order to equal a 3% defense unique, and there's little to stack it with, as few sets give significant resistance bonuses.

The usual answer to such a question is: make both. NA/Euro merge means more slots for alts, too, if you don't mind foreign travel.

Here's a thread I started asking whether Ice Storm is a good pick. Consensus was yes -- some players were quite emphatic.

Also, "Beginner's Luck," the free to-hit adjustment for young characters, expires at level 20.

You will for the ten seconds Build Up lasts.

I really like the BS/SD pairing.

One thing that I've found prevents me from playing some of my 50s is when their builds get very out-of-date. I still have some I need to respec into Inherent Fitness, and some old badly-thought-out builds, but it's so much work rebuilding them from scratch that I wind up putting it off indefinitely.

A great strength of this game is how different the playing experience can be with different ATs, powersets, and even costumes. I often feel like changing to a different character just for the change...but more typically, I will log onto one to check the market and wind up getting excited about the character and, once again, playing him/her the rest of the night.

That's great.

Second this -- higher-ranked enemies (not higher level, but rank, e.g. minion/LT/Boss/Elite Boss) seem to drop tips much more frequently.

And I routinely get tips on Task Forces. Got a couple last night on a Sister Psyche TF.

That shouldn't be true. Is that really the case?

Quoted for emphasis. This is the main reason the "soft cap" concept is useful -- it's the point at which (barring certain exceptions) additional defense won't help you.

Enemy to-hit buffs are one of those exceptions. You could in theory offset them by additional defense, but in practice, they're so large (like +100%, I believe, in the case of Devouring Earth Quartz drops) that you simply can't offset them with defense alone.