Widow Defense Debuff Resistance
first and foremost forsight is SUPER important towards your defences
get it fast and slot it up. that base 7.5% def (at no end) with your
defence debuff resistance, and your elusivness (if you dont pvp dont
ask, you wont need to know, also this one isn't listed that we can see)
its likely the most important part of your def package ahead of mindlink
and manuvers.
A widow realy gets it def power for being at the soft cap and only with
those powers and one or two more (or nice IOs) will get you there
then the little def buff res you get in forsight will help you the few times
you do get hit if they lower def. Warning it wont do you great work vs
a rad but most of those gun attacks will not kill you so bad once all def
is in place.
for a build rules I like the following on all my widow/fort toons
4 manuvers
22 forsight
24 mindlink
26+ stealth or mask
combat jumping in there likely if the build is SS or SJ
forsight and mindlink would be 20 and 22 if I didnt love stamina so much
edit (i belive your debuff resis is enhanced as you enhance the def part of
the power, might be wrong but dont think so)
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But someone on the forums said that SD's defense debuff resistance was enhanceable and it's actually possible for an SD toon to cap defense debuff resistance. I don't know if that statement is true, but the whole thing has me thoroughly confused.
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You absoutely can not cap the resistance.
It is enhancable, and it also scales with level (it's only 17.3% at level 50 - it starts at a whopping 7.5% at a theoretical level 1). At level 50 with full slotting it's going to be around 27% resistance.
It's helpful, but it's still very easy to suffer cascade defense failures on a Widow, especially against +2/+3 foes.
Blue
American Steele: 50 BS/Inv
Nightfall: 50 DDD
Sable Slayer: 50 DM/Rgn
Fortune's Shadow: 50 Dark/Psi
WinterStrike: 47 Ice/Dev
Quantum Well: 43 Inv/EM
Twilit Destiny: 43 MA/DA
Red
Shadowslip: 50 DDC
Final Rest: 50 MA/Rgn
Abyssal Frost: 50 Ice/Dark
Golden Ember: 50 SM/FA
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But someone on the forums said that SD's defense debuff resistance was enhanceable and it's actually possible for an SD toon to cap defense debuff resistance. I don't know if that statement is true, but the whole thing has me thoroughly confused.
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SD Brutes can cap defense debuff resistance. Forts/Widows can not.
Mids is saying that there is only 1 power for widows that gives defense debuffs resistance: foreisght. It also says this in unenhanceable. Is this correct? A fully-slotted out night widow is only going to have 17.3% defense debuff resistance like mids says?
I'm asking because everytime I try to build a SD brute in mids I get the same results. But someone on the forums said that SD's defense debuff resistance was enhanceable and it's actually possible for an SD toon to cap defense debuff resistance. I don't know if that statement is true, but the whole thing has me thoroughly confused.
My widow is level 26 and does not have a shred of defense debuff resistance. I do not yet have foresight though. Picking it up at level 28. I've never actually played an SD toon to any level. So I really just don't know about this yet. Can anyone confirm or deny?
And if widows don't have any defense debuff resistance, aren't they kind of squishie pre-perma-mindlink?