UltraPrime

I think they'll nerf the keyboard. When you press a key, you never know what will happen.

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If you have 40% Lethal defense, and 20% fire defense, and are hit by a fire/lethal attack, you get the higher of the two applied: you get 40% defense, even if the attack is 99% fire damage and 1% lethal.

If you have 40% lethal resistance and 20% fire resistance... Each component is modified by the appropriate amount.

Fire Sword is 62.12% fire. If you get hit for a 100 damage fire sword attack from an even con minion, the defense character mentioned has a 10% chance to get hit-- therefore taking 10% damage over time, which averages to 10 damage per attack.

The resistance character has a 40% resistance to 37.88 damage, and a 20% resistance to 62.12 damage. When he gets hit, he takes .6 * 37.88 + .8 * 62.12 = 72.42 damage.

He also has a 50% chance to get hit, so he takes half of that over time, or 36.212 damage per attack.

So, the resistance character is taking 3.6 times the damage the defense character is.

Resistance of the same type stacks just the same as defense of the same type stacks, but you get to pick the higher defense type when you are hit by a dual typed attack. This is an advantage over resistance, NOT a drawback.

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You're educated reasoning and mathematical proof has no power here!! People are mad cause their defense got lowered and they will whine about it for a while. Just gotta let it die down.

I just love reading threads like this and see a few people give accurate information, and the nay sayers NEVER respond to that person, only to the ones that have vague information and continue the "yes it is. no it isn't. yes it is." posts.

Let's not forget that the not all arena maps are going to be open. If the camera positions are fixed, the fight might be behind a building. As for number of cameras, there has to be a limit, it is going to probably be fairly high.

Idealy, the devs will allow people to specify if they want a private match or not (meaning not observers).

OMG, you used my idea that I just posted, and even had time to make it better. You work fast!! I guess that's why you're Positron. Great job. I can't wait to watch some battles.

I bet a lot of people who don't want to PvP will be spectators and use that to eventualy try it out for themselves.

I second that. The boards are so negative, and it's usualy from the minority of power gamers that want more, more, more. I for one, love this game. It's an excellent balance for power gamers, and the rest of us. I don't have to look at other chars and say, "I'll never be able to find that kind of gear and be that good."

Also, as a software engineer, I know what it's like with users. They don't see the big picture. They only see the scope of what they're involved in. You guys handle them very well.

This is the greatest game I have ever played, and hope to keep by 2 accounts open till CoH 2 (6 years down the road). At which point, I might have to move to it