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Originally Posted by Timeshadow

Unfortunately it can't be done. A macro can deactivate multiple toggles simultaneously but can only turn one on at a time. It's an intentional bit of design that helps to prevent people from creating bots.

Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba

Read the guide to defense in Arcanaville's signature block.

Originally Posted by Silverado

When people say "softcap" on the forums, they usually mean "defensive soft cap to a given type/position".

The Defense Soft Cap is when you reach a high enough number of defense that, barring defense debuffs or to-hit buffed enemies, you are effectively capped, and raising your defense beyond that point will not attain further benefit. The defense soft cap for players is 45%

The Hard Cap is the maximum number that the game allows you to reach in any given stat. The defense Hard Cap is somewhere along the lines of 200%, and there's usually not much point in getting such a high defense number

For more information about the defense softcap, I recomend reading Dechs Kaison's guide to defense

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

Yes, the devs choose not to balance the game around a build most players don't have.




They don't, won't, and shouldn't. They balance around what players *use*. The devs datamine player performance in the game, and balance around the averages. Those averages do include what the average players slots with, and undoubtedly includes some level of invention enhancements. I guarantee you the average SR player is not running around with 45% defense.

As to:

Oh, I'm very sure the average player doesn't fully understand how defense works, much less what softcapping involves or how it works. Right now I think the 45% number is being
thrown around much like the 2:1 rule was in the past, with equally deleterious
consequences.

I still get questions from people who think the +56% in their slotting means they have 56% defense.

Originally Posted by BrokenPrey

It will work, to make PB perma you need only 66% recharge. So even if you don't put the Recharge IO in you will still have perma PB. With most of my SRs at 50 I don't even put a Recharge IO in I put an Endurance Reduction in because my recharge bonus is high enough to make it perma. With only 67% I would still put the Recharge IO in.

Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba

If you take all 6 SR defense granting powers and slot them with 3 defense SOs, you sit at around 31% defense to melee, range and aoe.

If you take no other defense granting powers and don't have any SetIO bonuses giving you more defense, the 45% defense from elude will be incredibly beneficial. Well... kind of.

For 95% of the game only 14% of elude's defense will be beneficial and you'll have to deal with the end crash. While it's up, though, you'll also get very nice recovery and run speed boosts.

If, however, you take weave and combat jumping and stick the Steadfast +3% to all defense IO in tough, get a bit more from other SetIO bonuses and are sitting at 45% defense to all without elude, there is no reason to take elude.

In PvE.

Especially since you can get massive recovery and run speed boosts from other SetIO bonuses.

In PvP, however, it's not a bad idea to go with a max recharge build which includes elude because of all the tohit buffs flying around in there.

I haven't had elude in my build for a very long time. And I do ok in PvP.

Originally Posted by Doomguide

Without know what sets you are planning to use ...

You can free up 1 or 2 slots from Practiced Brawler.

If you soft cap Elude becomes a very nice +recovery and run speed buff ... i.e. you really don't need it if soft capped, you are essentially running at Elude level defenses 24-7 at that point.

Quickness is probably overslotted on most builds when slotted beyond the base slot.

Conserve Power - I'd be trying to eliminate the need for the power outside of an infrequent "oh crud" button. 4 slots is definitely overkill, a 4th recharge would gain virtually nothing in terms of down time. Shoot for 1, maybe 2 tops here. Conserve Powers base recharge is too long to make its use anything other than as an "oh crud" button.

I have very little MA experience (and a ton of /SR) and none at all since i18 changes to MA
but I'd guess you have several attack powers beyond what you "need" that will fall into the
"for fun and concept" category. The number of attacks is getting in the way of the goal of soft-capping when I start making changes.


And what is the attack chain of choice now for MA?

Originally Posted by Hejtmane

Can you sure I did it with my Katana/sr before but ti came at a cost.

I gace up other IO's of + rech and + regen and + end to cove my 8% of defense I lost by not being able to use the +3% defense IO and weave slotted out

So your decision

Originally Posted by anvil_NA

Fine then.. I'll say it. Get rid of the wife! Look, I used to fight with mine about the 15 bucks a month i would spend on this game. She leaves me (not because of the game) the kids (maybe cuz of the kids) and now I have much more money! And much happier

P.S. yes I still have my kids.

Originally Posted by cohRock

Well, I guess you're half right, or whatever percentage of the community pre-purchased. I pre-ordered, and will pick up my box tomorrow, meaning I can't enter Praetoria today.

(Maybe I'll finally have a CoH that doesn't cause windows to tell me Every Time I Start It, "I don't know where this came from. Are you sure you really trust it?".)

Originally Posted by Nerfed2Hell

Its funny, when someone finds an exploit, its all hush-hush while they rush to fix it... and anyone that takes advantage of the exploit in the meantime is subject to punishment. But when they do something wrong that only exploits the player, just tell the players to enjoy it because its new content.

Whoop-de-freakin'-doo. I did do the new mission content already on other characters. So having to do it again on a character I shouldn't need to is rediculous.

Especially when I have older characters that have auras and no cape. That's right, before the new content, you didn't have to complete the cape mission to get to the auras... you only had to be eligible (level requirement). So why is it that now after this new content is in place, the aura mission is dependant also on completing the cape mission first?


Its B.S.