The soft cap is called such because you can go beyond it, it just stops being as useful to go beyond it. Going above the soft cap has two uses:
1) Helps protect you against foes that use Defense Debuffs
2) Helps protect you from foes with ToHit Buffs.
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But as long as neither 1 or 2 is used against you having say souble the soft cap won't make you harder to hit?
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But as long as neither 1 or 2 is used against you having say souble the soft cap won't make you harder to hit?
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Nope.
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Unless you're fighting higher-level foes. 45% is OK for white and yellow critters, but if you're fighting orange or higher, they are no longer floored tohit.
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Effectively, they are. Higher level critters get an accuracy bonus, not a ToHit bonus*, which is where the Defense value goes in the formula. 45% Defense will floor the ToHit of enemies up to +5. They WILL have a higher than 5% chance to hit you, though, but adding more Defense won't help that.
*Up to +5. A +6 or higher mob gets both a +Acc bonus, and a +ToHit bonus
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I was just the one with the most unsolicited sombrero." - Traegus
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Unless you're fighting higher-level foes. 45% is OK for white and yellow critters, but if you're fighting orange or higher, they are no longer floored tohit.
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Not quite true. Now Defense is complex and I make mistakes in public, but I'm pretty sure this is right:
The equation is (50% - your Defense + their ToHit buffs) * Accuracy. The part in parentheses never goes under 5% no matter how much Defense you have- thus 45% Defense is the "Softcap".
An enemy up to +4 has an Accuracy bonus but no ToHit bonus.
"Rank" (minion, lieut, boss, AV) is also an Accuracy bonus.
the 50% is a badguy's Base To Hit, for every critter in the game.
At +5 or higher (I believe that's the cutoff), they start getting both an Acc bonus and a ToHit bonus, thus breaking the softcap.
ToHit bonuses are found on (off the top of my head) Rikti Drones, Gunslingers, Ruularuu and anything near a Devouring EArth "quartz" doorstop.
The good news on this is, the softcap is enough, most of the time. You get to 5% * accuracy, it's never going to be any lower.
The bad news is, even with the softcap you're going to get hit at least 7.5% of the time by an AV, and there's nothing you can do about it.
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Say you have a brute who's defense is soft capped.. do buffs & even luck inspirations cease to do anything? I was on a team last night and looked at my combat atts and was sitting at 86% and It seemed to be working. Just want to understand how this works. Is the soft cap just apply to what you brings to the table thru IO's and powers, & then buffs & insps add to that to make you invincible?