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Diamagnetic's debuff is affected by AV/GM debuff resistance, which makes it trivial and much weaker than a DoT interface against any target with enough regeneration to care about. :/

I meant the pants look like Retro SciFi 3. The top in GuyPerfect's screenshot is of course the tux, but Samuel_Tow wasn't asking about that top, he was asking about the top that matches the pants.

According to paragonwiki, Oppressor and Interrogator are now awarded for defeating Ms. Liberty and Penelope Yin, respectively. So it's still the same badges whether you earned it before i23 or after.

46.88% is an oddly specific number, but 46.5% is one small purple from the Incarnate softcap. 45.875%, if you have the increased insp effectiveness from the rewards tree.

But yeah, that extra 1.88% defense will generally not be transformative.

Perhaps, but then I have no idea why it's affecting AoD but not TS. They're both 10-foot, 120-degree cones. And it doesn't help explain Whirling Smash at all.

So, I'm doing some testing on the beta server, and getting some weird results.

I am using a TW scrapper (only character with Hybrid unlocked, as of yet) and the Assault Radial Embodiment. Crushing Blow, Follow Through, and Rend Armor appear to have 100% proc chances as expected, and their doublehit procs deal the expected amount of damage. Titan Sweep also behaves as expected (I don't have a large sample size, so I can't be confident of the proc chance, but it appears to be a high-but-not-100% chance as expected, and the proc damage matches precisely). Brawl and Boxing deal the expected damage, and have low proc chances as expected (although again, I'm not yet precisely confident of the percent chance).

However, Arc of Destruction appears to not be applying its areafactor to its doublehit damage - its doublehit deals 152.49, rather than the predicted 94.13, which is exactly the amount it would deal if it were acting like a single-target attack.

Whirling Smash also appears to have roughly the right proc chance, but doublehits for 37.11 instead of 34.27.

I've ruled out enemy resistances (I'm testing against Nemesis with 0% energy resist), debuffs (I have avoided using Rend Armor before other attacks, and unequipped my Reactive Interface, and have no other sources of -res), and level differences (I have an alpha shift and I'm testing against 51s in a tip mission).

So, one cone works as expected, another cone thinks it's a single-target attack, and a radial AoE deals very slightly too much damage, but single-target attacks seem to work as expected. I can't test with other powersets myself, because I only have the one character with Hybrid so far; more data and/or more eyes on the problem would be helpful to figure this out.

There was a time when only the highest-end melee builds, in the hands of the most skilled players, could manage to solo even the easiest AVs. That time is long past now. You basically need 3 things to defeat an AV:

1) DPS higher than the AV's regen. AVs regenerate ~100 hp/sec, so you need >100 DPS. With Interface and etc etc, almost any melee build can break 200 DPS without much effort, and some can get MUCH higher, so even AVs with high resistance are not out of reach. If you use Lore pets, this part becomes laughably easy; most Lore pets can outdamage AV regen by themselves.
2) The ability to survive. AV fights are long (although not so long as they once were), so you can't just count on defense, some hits WILL get through. You need to be able to reliably survive an AVs attention for minutes at a time.
3) Endurance. AV fights are, again, long, so you need to be able to fight for a long time without breaks.

Note that "damage, survival, endurance" are the same three things ANY decent melee build will include, and with Incarnate powers, they'll usually have them in spades. Soloing an AV with almost any good melee build isn't even particularly challenging.

To my surprise, I was able to do it, but it required some absurd silliness. Shield Wall unique, Purple ATO set, five sets of Gladiator's Strike, one set of Analyze Weakness, Resilient Core Paragon, six 50+5 resist IOs in Charged Armor, and four 50+5s in Tough.

You could probably reach the 70-80% range without devoting so ridiculously many powers/slots to it, but I'm still not sure it would be cheaper or more effective than, say, building for defense.

It's worth mentioning that, even if the game doesn't auto-validate your name on transfer and forcibly change it, there are only a very finite number of possible two-character names, so there's a decent chance your name is simply already taken on the destination server. Unless you've already checked that.

The proc chance uses cycle time, but the proc damage uses just recharge time. This is consistent with what we know about PPM procs, and also what we know about doublehit (it's based on the "normal" formula for attack damage, which is a function of recharge time and doesn't care about animation). This is also why the doublehit formula on City of Data looks so clunky: the 2*(.8*recharge+1.8)/10/aoefactor part is just the regular formula to determine an attack's damage scale, which means the whole formula is really just "damage scale times purple proc damage times .4".

I'm quite alert, but given my odd sleep patterns, it was a reasonable question ;P

It's not clear if you're saying the buff display should work differently, or that damage buffs themselves should work differently?

The display will be "lying" in some way whether it does or doesn't subtract cap 95% sooner to account for enhancements. If the display turns blue at 205%, it's still lying about your unenhanced powers, which is quite relevant when you have a power that deals damage but isn't (or can't be) enhanced for damage. The difference between +205% of buffs and +300% of buffs is quite important when, for example, using a Warburg nuke. This setup might arguably lie to you in less important ways, but it's still lying, especially when you get into type-specific buffs, or the way damage debuffs interact with resistances.

If you want to change the way damage buffs work so that the damage cap only includes buffs, and enhancements are outside that - well, that would not necessarily be impossible, but it would have non-negligible effects on gameplay and balance that are not necessarily good, while providing minimal benefit. The players who know enough to be aware that there's a damage cap, care about whether they've reached it, and know how to use Combat Attributes to monitor stats and pay attention to them, but can't handle the damage cap display being a bit unintuitive in its interactions with enhancements, is a group with such a small and specific intersection of traits that I'm not sure they actually exist, and changing fundamental game systems while probably breaking other things and providing benefit to zero actual people is, if I recall, something you usually rail against.