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I'm playing a 50 Shield/DM, I've finally got my IOs set up to soft cap my defense.
Here are my questions: Once I'm at 45% how important/useful is it to have a little extra as a cushion? How big a cushion is desirable/worth investing in?
Thanks.
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Once you're at 45% the cushion is only useful to deal with mobs with +to-hit or defence debuffs. Depends to an extent on how much defence debuff resist you have, but I like to go a little over, 47/48 ish on my SRs, but they have 90%+ debuff resist so nothing takes more than 1% off most of the time and it's easy to avoid cascading defence failure.
DM will help a bit with the debuffs, but as a tank, you want to be able to cope with being hit by say 2-3 Cimerorans without uncapping. I believe they take c. 8% each before resists, so just calculate it back using your resist figure.
It's true. This game is NOT rocket surgery. - BillZBubba
Shield defense can easily get 90% debuff resistance as well.
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Shield defense can easily get 90% debuff resistance as well.
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Are you sure? I know my BS/Shield scrapper is only around 50% debuff resistance with the entire set. I always thought it's only Super Reflexes that can get 95% debuff resistance.
Anyway, defense over 45% applies in two situations:
1 - When you get debuffed, and def debuffs are very common; most lethal attacks and rad attacks all debuff defense. It's possible to run into a cascade failure of your defense that way; one attack hits and debuffs your def making it easier for another to hit and debuff further.....
2 - When you're dealing with enemies with tohit buffs such as Nemesis with Vengeance active. Also with Devouring Earth Quartz emmanators but the tohit from those is so insane it's pointless to worry about (100% or more tohit buff there)
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Shield defense can easily get 90% debuff resistance as well.
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Are you sure? I know my BS/Shield scrapper is only around 50% debuff resistance with the entire set. I always thought it's only Super Reflexes that can get 95% debuff resistance.
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He's correct, you can get 95% def debuff res with shield. My shield/ tank rolls with 86% and that's without even taking Grant Cover, nevermind slotting it, which would put him over the cap.
I'm running 89% on my scrapper. Based on what Seize says Tankers get higher def resist numbers so they can hit the cap as well.
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Shield defense can easily get 90% debuff resistance as well.
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Are you sure? I know my BS/Shield scrapper is only around 50% debuff resistance with the entire set. I always thought it's only Super Reflexes that can get 95% debuff resistance.
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A couple tidbits about Shield def resistance:
*) Active Defense's def resistance can stack
*) Active Defense's def resistance is slottable. (Namely, Membranes.)
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I'm running 89% on my scrapper. Based on what Seize says Tankers get higher def resist numbers so they can hit the cap as well.
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Odd. I have 77.26% defense debuff resistance on my shield tanker with grant cover and double-stacked Active Defense, and 55% enhancement in Battle Agility. 58.13% resistance otherwise.
edit: Although, that is at 40. I forgot the defdebuff resistance scales with level.
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A couple tidbits about Shield def resistance:
*) Active Defense's def resistance can stack
*) Active Defense's def resistance is slottable. (Namely, Membranes.)
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Ah, I did not know that... my BS/Shield just dinged 43 so Hami-O's are out for the moment, according to the combat numbers I'm ~50% debuff resistance. Active defense is slotted for 3 recharge IO's at the moment and Grant Cover is slotted with an endred in the base slot.
The shields are ED capped in def slotting as well; I've about 40-some % resistance slotting in Deflection. I never knew that you could boost the debuff resistance of Shield. Learn something new every day 
COH has just been murdered by NCSoft. http://www.change.org/petitions/ncso...city-of-heroes
I'm playing a 50 Shield/DM, I've finally got my IOs set up to soft cap my defense.
Here are my questions: Once I'm at 45% how important/useful is it to have a little extra as a cushion? How big a cushion is desirable/worth investing in?
Thanks.
Wavicle, Energy/Energy Blaster, dinged 50 in Issue 4, summer of 2005.
@Wavicle, mostly on the Justice server.