Why no damage resistance debuff sets?
By
Derangedpolygot,
Posted on: 2009-12-23 16:29 in Player Questions
Well, you can't enhance resistance debuffs. There are no IOs, no SOs, no DOs, no Training enhancements that let you do it. Therefore, no set exists for a property you cannot enhance.
As to why you cannot enhance it, well, ya got me. It would be unbalancingly powerful if they let you increase it more than it currently is; but in theory they could nerf these powers and then let you enhance back up to the original value. The net result would be you could reach the same amount of res debuff you now have, but you'd spend slots to do it.
In that case, you'd be worse off than you are now. And frankly I don't see how they could significantly increase res debuff strengths without redesigning pretty much everything we fight...even a few res debuffs already drastically speed up combats.
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Originally Posted by Sailboat
Well, you can't enhance resistance debuffs.
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http://www.fimfiction.net/story/36641/My-Little-Exalt
Same reason why there aren't damage buff sets 
I heard something about Damage resistance itself acting a -res debuff resistance.
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Yes. It's also -damage debuff resistance. But neither of those facts are relevant to the topic...
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/36641/My-Little-Exalt
Thanks for the replies, although I should have been more specific with my question. I had IO's in mind when I started the thread, but I really should have asked why damage resistance is not enhanceable at all? From what I gather from the responses the devs risk overpowering certain builds with such enhancements, but surely they would have initially tweaked the numbers to compensate, like any other power and it's slottable enhancements. So, I'm guessing that coding got in the way, since other responses point to the direct relationship between damage and damage resistance. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
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Something I've always wondered. There are IO sets for Defense buffs and debuffs, and sets for Damage Resistance buffing, but there aren'ts any Damage Resistance debuff sets. I personally don't care one way or the other if the devs were to implement sets for this or not, but I'd just like to know the reasoning behind leaving it out of the game?
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