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Need to hit debuff explaination

Arcanaville

By Arcanaville,
Posted on: 2009-05-19 19:07 in Archetypes and Powers General Discussion

 

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Hi,

I would like to know if to hit debuff on mob is the equivalent of def on self? for example, if I have 30% def and I hit a mob with a 5% to hit debuff, is it the equivalent of 35% def against that mob?

does Dark Melee to hit debuff stack?

thanks

 

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I would like to know if to hit debuff on mob is the equivalent of def on self? for example, if I have 30% def and I hit a mob with a 5% to hit debuff, is it the equivalent of 35% def against that mob?

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Yes, unless the mobs has some form of debuff resistance. I believe all mobs that are +1 or higher has some form of debuff resistance, but I'm unsure right now. I know AVs have really high, a level 50 AV resists 85% of it.

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does Dark Melee to hit debuff stack?

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They do.

 

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I would like to know if to hit debuff on mob is the equivalent of def on self? for example, if I have 30% def and I hit a mob with a 5% to hit debuff, is it the equivalent of 35% def against that mob?

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Yes, unless the mobs has some form of debuff resistance. I believe all mobs that are +1 or higher has some form of debuff resistance, but I'm unsure right now. I know AVs have really high, a level 50 AV resists 85% of it.

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Higher ranks in general have innate debuff resistance. And on top of that any effect a player might try to apply to a target (damage, debuff, anything) is affected by combat modifiers (aka the purple patch) that reduces those effects against higher ranked targets. That last one isn't a "resistance" per se. Paragonwiki has combat modifier tables as well as I believe data on intrinsic tohit resistance of various kinds of critters.

But separate from all that, reducing an attacker's tohit by 5% is equivalent to increasing your own defense (relative to that attacker) by the same amount, since the net overall chance for an attacker to hit you is Tohit - Defense (very simplified: accuracy and floors and ceilings factor into that). Increasing one is the same as decreasing the other and vice versa.

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