It's small, but Energy Cloak actually provides defense to everything, as do any defensive pool powers you pick up. EC, Weave, and CJ will get you up to about 15% psi/positional, which, while not great, will stack with purples for those psi-intensive moments, which really aren't all that common.
But really, the best way to deal with psi as an /EA brute is kill it kill it now killitkillitkillit.
This also goes for pure toxic attacks, of which there are a surprising number in the 40+ game.
This is sort of what I figured.. the Mids build I've been tinkering with has me at about 21% Psi Defense with 6% resist.. that should be enough, especially with Darkest Night running 
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I found that raising my ranged defense along with my negative energy defense helps protect against some psi attacks. It's still an obvious weakness but a manageable one.
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Cpt Clax 50 Thugs/Dark
Lady BlackIce 50 Dark/Cold
Lady Black Ice 50 Dark/Ice
Bella Jax 50 Storm/Sonic
Operative Jax 50 SoA
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How does raising defense on neg & nrg help protect against psi?
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Originally Posted by JAXMAN
I found that raising my ranged defense along with my negative energy defense helps protect against some psi attacks. It's still an obvious weakness but a manageable one.
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He said range defense... since e/n defense go hand in hand with range
The set bonuses are tied together, the sets with 2.5 enr/neg def also grant 1.25 ranged def. I figured I couldn't raise my psi defense but I could work towards 45% on neg def, and as a result my ranged def is in the 30s. It's noticeable, not as great as i'd like but it's considerably better than it was with SOs alone.
Poisonous Ice 50 Ice/Rad
Icy Jax 50 Ice/SS
Jaxon Penn 50 Shield/Mace
Cpt Clax 50 Thugs/Dark
Lady BlackIce 50 Dark/Cold
Lady Black Ice 50 Dark/Ice
Bella Jax 50 Storm/Sonic
Operative Jax 50 SoA
Level 50 Trick Arrow Alts
TA/A-Plant/TA-Bots/TA
Level 50 Claws Scrappers
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Ok, my latest project is a DB/EA brute and he's 19 and so far pretty fun. I know I can soft-cap him fairly easy with Sets, and looking soo forward to 1K Cuts with full Fury..... However I have a question.. Psi damage. EA has NO protection against it?? According to the real numbers, none of my shields give me Psi Defense.. is this right? Can some /EA Brutes out there give me some advice? How do you handle all the Psi damage red-side? Any Pointers?
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