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I would like to know if anyone either knows or has a link to what the defense and resist soft caps are, and what defense range above the soft caps would be suitable for i13+ pvp.
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soft cap is 45%, good luck getting that in i13 zones or arena
My fort with full IOs in pve with all powers on is 65% def,
WAY over soft cap, in pvp zones its like 40%, if I then use
a small purple its upped to maybe 43 as apossed to the
75% or so.
As to whats sutable, get to that 40% in pve, will drop to the
low to mid 30s in pvp, that should be ok for most cases.
Though how much healing or other forms of midigation you
have still will also be important.
Ressit caps are by archtype (look on the wiki)
for brutes and tanks its like 90% cap
for squishes like 75% others ...... not sure
nor am I sure this changes much in pvp
BUT squishes do get lots of free RES in
pvp now if they have the APP/PPP shields.
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I would like to know if anyone either knows or has a link to what the defense and resist soft caps are, and what defense range above the soft caps would be suitable for i13+ pvp.
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There is no such thing as a "Soft Cap" in PvP. Your enemies in PvP will slot for accuracy and toHit. Their chance to hit you will depend on their acc and toHit as well as your Defense and Elusivity. In PvE, most critters don't "slot" for accuracy or tohit and elusivity doesn't exist (thats why we can say 45% = softcap).
The other problem is Diminishing Returns. How much Defense you are allowed to have and how much toHit your enemies are allowed to have is AT dependent. My defender with 45% defense to ranged attacks in PvE will only have 18% def to ranged in PvP b/c of DR (defenders are actually *hard* capped at around 21% defense). Compare that to my stalker that has around 45% melee def in PvE...that gets reduced to around 34% def in PvP.
It's not very straightforward, but the concept of a soft cap doesn't exist in PvP.
Ultima, you might wanna re-think IOing out that tank. From the other thread I was reading, defense is garbage now and defense debuffs will wreck stuff like shields.
http://boards.cityofvillains.com/showfla...=0#Post13251494
I would like to know if anyone either knows or has a link to what the defense and resist soft caps are, and what defense range above the soft caps would be suitable for i13+ pvp.