Tactics vs Focussed Accuracy


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Hi all,
What's the difference in the two? I'm currently leveling up a DB/ scrapper and want to be able to get more accuracy/to hit for my combo's.


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You'll most likely need neither, as Blinding Feint (especially stacked) and some accuracy slotting should cap your ToHit chance at least against +3's

But to answer your question: Tactics gives a bigger +ToHit buff to you and all your teammates within 60ft range. Focused Accuracy gives you (and only you) a small combo of +accuracy and +ToHit, but it also gives you resistance to -ToHit debuffs.

They both cost a boatload of endurance


 

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Originally Posted by Silverado View Post
They both cost a boatload of endurance
Except that the degree of their endurance costs isn't nearly the same. Tactics costs .39 end/sec. FA costs .78 end/sec. Yes, they're both comparatively expensive, but, while Tactics is simply expensive for a toggle, FA is one of the most expensive toggles in the game.

In general, you'll get more real returns out of Tactics because the entirety of its contribution is enhanceable. Of the 3 things you get from FA (Acc, Tohit, Tohit resist), only the Tohit is enhanceable, and it's 5% compared to Tactics' 7%. The only times its really beneficial to have FA rather than Tactics is when large amounts of tohit debuffs are being tossed around and you have plenty of endurance to burn.

In determining which one you want to get, though, it depends on your build. If you don't want to take Conserve Power but want to get Physical Perfection, FA is a solid pick, the endurance cost irregardless (though, honestly, considering what you can get, it should be a helluva lot cheaper) because it gets you to the power you want. If you're tight on endurance in your build and would be taking CP anyway, it's better to go with Tactics since you don't particularly need FA to get to Phys Perf and Tactics is substantially better bang for your buck.


 

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Originally Posted by Silverado View Post
You'll most likely need neither, as Blinding Feint (especially stacked) and some accuracy slotting should cap your ToHit chance at least against +3's
I'll second this. Good slotting+BF is fine for nearly of the content in the game, and for that little bit that it's not, you can just pop a yellow insp. Throw in some accuracy bonuses from sets, and Tactics/FA become even more redundant.


 

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But they are good places to put GSFC sets.


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FA offers tohit debuff protection, something which Tactics does not give. That's irrelevant when fighting most mobs (Carnies and CoT are the big offenders there, as well as some of Black Swan's mobs), but it's still nice to have


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But they are good places to put GSFC sets.
This was another reason I was considering one of the two.


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