Sailboat

Are you kidding?

It's Tanksgiving.

Yes, more detail is necessary to even know if this is a problem. For instance, Fake Nemeses will knock you back every time if you have only 4 pts of -knb, but that doesn't necessarily mean you need more, since they're such a small part of the game, and it doesn't mean anything is broken, either.

Although noticeably less frequent.

Not this one?

Hellions? More like "Happiness is a Warm Gun."



Paul is defeated....

Minor quibble: Psy is typed defense and, although I'm not quite sure what you mean about schedules, it works the same as other defense types. There is no toxic defense type in the game, however.

Amplification: 5% is the to-hit floor; they'll always have at least 5% chance to hit you, and even-level minions indeed have 5% chance when you're soft-capped. But LTs and bosses will have a slightly higher chance and that goes up a little if they're +level. So you might find some enemies having a 7.5% or 9% chance to hit you when you're soft-capped.

BUT that number cannot be altered by increasing your defense above the "soft cap." Once you're soft-capped, adding defense won't help (with the exception of a few enemies with to-hit buffs, like Devouring Earth Quartz emanators or nemesis vengeance, but those usually buff so much that adding a little defense is moot anyway).

Thus the usefulness of the soft cap concept is that it's the point at which you can stop adding defense bonuses and you won't be missing anything. You can then do OTHER things to make yourself more durable (taking Tough or Aid Self, slotting for regeneration and hit points, and so on.)

Yeah, that's kind of a longshot.

Right. You can, in fact, take every healing power available to you, slot them all to six slots, and you'll find you have plenty of power picks and slots left over to spend on non-healing powers.

Afterburner wouldn't hurt, either. One of the few places where distances are long enough its speed might make a noticeable difference.

Eh, I used Decimation, Crushing Impact, some purple sets, and LOTGs in mule powers like Personal Force Field and Stealth. I have +98% global recharge using pretty standard sets, and not a single point of defense bonus among them (although I do tend to run Hover when fighting). It's not as automatic as you imply.

All right, so, we know it's not Mids'. Hopefully the OP updates with more detail so we can narrow down his/her problem.

Ok, that's in-game? Now check in Mids' to see if you've "activated" Swift (the green dot next to it will be lit). That's my guess for "easiest to overlook."

Well, I'm guessing you'd classify immobilize as a "primary" effect, but most people who mindlessly spam AoE immobilizes are primarily looking for Containment damage and not thinking about freezing the mobs in place before they clump up for AoEs, so I'd argue that's as secondary as knockback is. That use of AoE Immobs is as annoying as AoE knockback, and harder to fix, since it lasts longer.

The truth is, "time lost" repositioning yourself to get good use of knockback is somewhat an illusion. Consider what can happen on big teams -- either you reach position, use your power, and all is groovy, or your teammates wipe the enemy out before you do. In that case you might be personally disappointed, but the TEAM is no worse off.

Well, I do not know about COT earthquake for certain -- but earthquake from Possessed Scientists is not resisted by DDR at all, so I'd call that unresistable.

Pics or it didn't happen? Here's my old testing.

Hence my use of the term "many" defense sets. Anything with about 50% or better DDR can be built with some cushion and do pretty well against debuffs.

And although you're right about earthquake, I think earthquake being unresistable is a bug (or it should be!)

...right up until the instant you encounter serious defense debuffs, (Romans, Longbow, anything with swords or guns, the Sky Skiffs in Sutter, and so on) at which point all of the resistance-based sets will plunge and many of the defense-based sets will remain solid.

Massive to-hit buffs (mainly DE Quartz drops, Rulaaru, Nemesis Vengeance, rad-based Longbow bosses) will cancel out defense-based sets, but all of those cases except Rulaaru can be countered tactically in ways that legions of Romans cannot.