Positional Defense?
What he said.
Some attacks also wind up applying counterintuitive attack typing (Gravity Well is Negative Energy/AoE), for example.
Dawncaller - The Circle of Dawn
Too many blasted alts to list, but all on Virtue.
And some lack certain attack typings. For instance, most Mind Control powers don't have a positional flag.
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Shmoe tries to hit you with a sledgehammer: melee.
Burning Shmoe tries to hit you with Fire Sword: melee.
Tommy Shmoe tries to hit you with a machine gun: Smash/Lethal.
Mini-guides: Force Field Defenders, Blasters, Market Self-Defense, Frankenslotting.
So you think you're a hero, huh.
@Boltcutter in game.
Okay, so I have a question about defense.
If I have a S/L defense of 20%, and I also have a Melee Defense of 45% which defense number gets rolled if some random shmo tries to hit me with a sledgehammer?