Rage crash and defense
Stacking Rage will eliminate the -Defense penalty only. You will still suffer the -damage penalty. This shows up in the Combat Attributes.
Agreed.
L50s: Tanks: Cryofission - Ice/EM - Dr Celsius - Fire/Ice - Saint George - SD/SS | Controllers: Psichosis - Ill/Kin - Major Chaos - Ill/Stm | Scrappers - Neutron Crusader - DM/SR
Currently Levelling: Angelic Blade - BS/WP Scrapper | Seeds of Destruction - Plant/Kin Controller
Some attacks appear to be immune to the -dmg penalty. Specifically the vet powers -- sands of mu, ghost axe, blackwand and nem staff. So you're not completely useless waiting for your damage to return. Just mostly so.
We don' need no stinkin' signatures!
Thanks for the information, all. Another question - There's no effect on taunt (from Gauntlet or brute-single-Gauntlet) or other status effects due to the damage crash? When I hit Knockout Blow (somewhat accidentally) during a Rage crash on my brute, it has seemed like it hasn't done the hold either. But I can't be sure they haven't been misses, or that I've simply missed the virtually-invisible hold effect from it. (And BAB's, if you read this - for love of kittens, can't Knockout Blow have a graphic indicator on the target?!)
I've heard conflicting things about the Rage crash and the defense penalty. Specifically, I've sometimes heard that stacking Rage will eliminate the penalty, and sometimes that it will not.
So I'm asking here in case I get a unanimous forum consensus and/or authoritative data.
Thanks!