There are several possible answers for you:
- Attacks with no positional component (i.e., melee/ranged/AoE), these are few and far in between, but they exist.
- Secondaries granting to-hit buffs. If you're just at the softcap, a small to-hit buff can increase dramatically the amount of damage you take.
- Aim/Buildup-like powers. These are usually found in the harder difficulty settings, and can grant a large to-hit buff for a short period of time (5-10 seconds IIRC), and the mobs tend to activate them just as they aggro you. That can make the alpha-strikes of the harder mobs a heck of a lot more dangerous.
Basically, to-hit is going to work directly as a defense-kryptonite, and harder custom mobs in MiA have it much more readily available than non-custom regular mobs. You may need more defense to have more wiggle room, and/or to take purple inspirations to get a temporary boos in defense against the Aim/Buildup powers.
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There are several possible answers for you:
- Attacks with no positional component (i.e., melee/ranged/AoE), these are few and far in between, but they exist.
- Secondaries granting to-hit buffs. If you're just at the softcap, a small to-hit buff can increase dramatically the amount of damage you take.
- Aim/Buildup-like powers. These are usually found in the harder difficulty settings, and can grant a large to-hit buff for a short period of time (5-10 seconds IIRC), and the mobs tend to activate them just as they aggro you. That can make the alpha-strikes of the harder mobs a heck of a lot more dangerous.
Basically, to-hit is going to work directly as a defense-kryptonite, and harder custom mobs in MiA have it much more readily available than non-custom regular mobs. You may need more defense to have more wiggle room, and/or to take purple inspirations to get a temporary boos in defense against the Aim/Buildup powers.
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I made the missions, I know what they have and I'm talking about minions scrappers and leutenants tanks mostly and it's not with builtup that they can pass thru my defense like that...it's only a 20% tohit buff after all.
Also, the in-game content I can take 8 man spawn alpha without much trouble and in there, I'm going solo (both at invincible, I've been playing at invincible for quite some times now)
For example, never a group of 7-8 minions and leutenants came near to bring me to 50% of my health but in my mission, they almost killed me, I actualy had to flee after killing half of them. They were built at Hard. Similar experience against a boss an 2 or 3 minions.
I think I understand now, that 20% from Builtup plays directly against my defense if I understand well ParagonWiki
so they all had 25% chance to hit me, more since I'm playing at invincible level, for the duration
Am I correct?
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I think I understand now, that 20% from Builtup plays directly against my defense if I understand well ParagonWiki
so they all had 25% chance to hit me, more since I'm playing at invincible level, for the duration
Am I correct?
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45% defense - 20% tohit = 25% yes. But a +2 minion also has an accuracy buff of 1.2
1.2*25 = 30 chance to hit
The +2 LT also gets the LT acc bonus of 1.15
1.15*1.2*25 = 34.5% chance to hit.
Arcanaville's Guide to Defense has all the info.
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You can also see exactly what tohit is required on each roll using combat logs. There's a separate channel for tohit rolls; you can set up a separate tab, add that channel to it, and then see exactly what the tohit rolls are for enemies against you, and your attacks against enemies. I do this on all my def-based toons for my own sanity.
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A lot of it depends on the power sets.
If you have, to give a hell-on-earth example, Broadsword badguys:
Broadsword has a to-hit buff
It has a defense DEBUFF (So once they hit you, they keep hitting you)
And it has Build Up. Which, I think, is straight double damage on top of that +20% to hit.
My first character was BS/INV and I never slotted more than 1 Accuracy... and I pretty much never missed.
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I've experienced what felt like the OP's issue too but I chalked it up to 50 percent what Fulmens said and the rest to bad luck.
Hi,
I'd like to know why AE mob's pass thru my soft cap defenses(/SR and lvl 50) like hot knife thru butter. That's hard and extreme builts for custom mobs but standard elite bosses also.
Thanks