Animate Stone

After looking at Redtomax.com I have some questions.

I notice that the Earth Control pet has 100% resistance to Psi. Of course, this doesnt mean that he could be buffed to have 100% to other things as well,.... right? What is a pets max resistance cap?

Also, I see a '-25%' to-hit listed as well for the pet. Is that information accurate or am I misreading things?

my understanding of pet resistance is that if it's inherent, their cap is 100%, otherwise, it's 90%

so, Stoney can have 100% resist to Psi because that's his inherent resistance, however, for everything else, he can only have 90%

Stoney definitely takes Psi damage, so I'm guessing the cap is 90% for all.

I'm pretty sure the resistance cap for pets is 90% regardless - not that 90% isn't enough in basically all situations.

Regarding the tohit, it actually does appear that both stoney and singy have a -25% tohit penalty, so they operate off a base of 50% instead of 75%. This isn't usually as noticable given earth's defense debuffs and the fact that singy ignores most defense and has accuracy boosts on two of his powers, but it is there. Presumably, it's intended as a balance to their very high toughness.

I am not sure on the resistance thing but on the tohit I do notice misses whenever I am not controlling the mobs actively. I think because earth control is like over kill on the defense debuffs most of time you wont even see this. In the case of singy its a bit of a wash since its using controller holds and immobilize that have inherrent tohit put in so it cancels out some of the tohit penalty. It be nice if Castle could come in and comment on why these pets even have this to begin with. Personally I have always found tohit penalties on powers to be some what retarded and biased. Its like you are getting punished for doing your job of controlling. Its like damage is so praised in this game given how blasters get inherrent tohit on nukes but we get penalties on holds and such. I think at the very least penalties like these should be removed from all controller/doms and their pets.

On my Stone/Thermal Controller, Rocky almost never misses because of Forge and Quicksand, and the Thermal shields boost this resistance high enough to where healing isn't too tough, no matter what I'm doing (Let's say that he gets near the cap. I'm not good with numbers). Thermal shields don't cover Psychic Damage, though, and I've never noticed Rocky taking more damage than usual when up against psychics.

Rocky is really my favorite Control Primary pet. It can tank for me, deal out good damage, and lacks any real AI quirks. It's my main weapon on my Earth/Thermal controller, and my advance guard on my Earth/Earth dom.

Stoney does cap out at 90% to all but psi.

If you saw him taking "psi damage", it must have been the smashing portion of two type attack. (TK Blast deals smashing and psi, for example).

Alot of 50/50 here, thought I'd answer it so everyone could be clear on the correct answer


Pet resistance cap is indeed 90%

This INCLUDES psi, all that 100% resistance means is he has a 10% cushion before falling below 90%. His inherent 'Resistance' is simply an auto power which buffs the damage resistance, just because it has a 100% buff doesn't mean it can surpass the cap.



Here's a few pictures for the 'Pics or it didn't happen' people


Picture 1, a view of his DR combat attributes with sonic buffs

Picture 1


And Picture 2, a shot of one of my earth controllers with him taking psi damage.

Picture 2





Edit: I just realized I never answered the other question , the -25% to-hit is indeed his chance to-hit, however it is an arbitrary debuff as it is never cast on him for whatever reason. His to-hit chance is the same 75% base that all pets have.

Picture 3, a pic of him without accuracy enhancement against an even con minion, with the normal 75% chance to hit, the last of which has him buffed with my fortitude(a base 15% to-hit buff on a controller) for a 90% chance to hit

Picture 3