Dechs Kaison

However, seeing as Scorpion is the only defense based shield, it makes sense to pick this one.

Every time you activate dwarf, and once every ten seconds while in dwarf form, you will have the chance to gain 10 endurance.

You can actually repeatedly toggle on and off for extra chances at the +end.

Fine. Nemesis and Devouring Earth Quartz.

Also: Nictus Essence autohit mire and other autohit attacks such as burn patches. And I think Earthquakes do unnresistable -def.

Except against Cimerorans and tower buffed Recluse.

Seriously though, despite the math I did, my tank is resist based and I carry two columns of purples and one of oranges, but that's because I've added defense to the tank. My very worst defense attribute is 23%, so a single medium purple puts me at the softcap to everything. And I do mean S/L/E/N/F/C/Psy/Melee/Ranged/AoE everything.

I find the purples do more for me in more situations.




But the math does prove that if you've only got one inspiration to use, the best one for you is the one that will push you closest to whatever cap you can reach.

Who ever uses only one inspiration at a time? To hell if I know.

Please tell me which size purple inspriation gives 45% defense again?

How about I throw some math out there.

Small inspiration usage when you already have 80% resist:

No inspiration: Taking 20% damage of all attacks that hit. 50% attacks hit, so we're at 10% of incoming damage gets through.

Small orange: Taking 10% damage of all attacks that hit. 50% attacks hit, so now it's 5% of incoming damage that gets through.

Small purple: Taking 20% damage of all attacks that hit. 50%-12.5%= 37.5% attacks hit, so the result is 7.5% damage gets through.

In the case of 80% damage resistance, a small orange is better than a small purple.

Further study:

You can see that the two situations are comparable. The small purple is 50% less effective than the small orange. But what about medium inspirations?

Again, no inspiration: Taking 20% damage of all attacks that hit. 50% attacks hit, so we're at 10% of incoming damage gets through.

Medium orange: Same as before, in fact, some of the orange is wasted. Taking 10% damage of all attacks that hit. 50% attacks hit, so now it's 5% of incoming damage that gets through.

Medium purple: Now it gets interesting. 20% damage from attacks that hit, 25% attacks hit. Result is 5% of all incoming damage gets through. This is the same as the small orange.

So you can get the same result from a small orange that you can from a medium purple.



Yes, all this is making an assumption that all incoming damage is the resisted type of damage.

You are correct for the simple reason that each % of resistance or defense is more valuable than the % added before it.

Added resistance/defense does not scale linearly with effective mitigation.

You still have to consider that a medium purple inspiration is like adding 50% resistance. While not enough to make you a god on its own, it's contributing more towards the cap than a medium or even a large orange.

If you gobble 2 medium purples, you're at the softcap. If you gobble 2 medium oranges, it doesn't do much. But considering that it only takes one orange to push you into the hardcap for resistance as an elec tank, the oranges are doing more for you.

This.

I believe the term "Server List Merge" means nothing more than putting all the servers into one list so that Europeans can roll characters on Virtue and the rest of us can roll characters on Union.

Toe-MAY-toe, toe-MAH-toe.

Likewise. I got that little idea of mine while playing my warshade and setting up the shapeshifting binds to switch my tray1 to the active form.

Unless they're /dark miasma or /storm.

At least, I think you can slot the recharge intensive ones in T-storm and dark servant.

Yeah, you'll be nigh impossible to kill, just watch for mez attacks.

As Spitting Trashcan said, it won't stack, but even Health negates the self damage. Suppress Pain is going to be overkill (in a good way, of course). Having no minions able to attack you is great, and the pseudo-taunt effect will help you "tankermind."

I'm a bit rusty, since I haven't actually made the macro in a while, but what I think you want is this:

/macro kill "petcompow Demon_Prince attack$$petcomname [Hellfire Gargoyle's name] attack$$petcomname [Hellfire Demonling's name] attack"

If there's spaces in the pet names, replace with underscores.