soft cap obsession

So..... how F'D up do you think the markets are gonna be when all the redside players go blueside just to get all theyre IOs???

i'm hoping they will finally merge the markets with GR. that said, IOs in and of themselves may not be a timesink, but crafting is.

First, to those that say "what if I can't afford all that expensive..." Hold on, stop RIGHT there!

On an archetype that actually has defense abilities (like, say, shield/ tanker), you can soft cap by somewhere between level 30 and 40, JUST from creating and selling the IOs that give a profit and the salvage that sells well from regular leveling.

I am not talking about AE. I do not do it, and I do not want to, so I can not speak for or against the money it will or will not make you.

Radio missions, teams, varying sizes, from solo to 8 person... you make enough. You do not have to "play the BM mini game", you just have to check the price, and sell it if it's a decent profit. For recipes you have to actually search for the price of the recipe and the IO it makes.

This is not a long process nor is it rocket science. Sell at, say, 80%-90% of the going mid range price, and you will have enough to softcap defense in all areas on a defensive set.

Softcapping defense on a domi, while extremely funny, really wasn't meant to happen, and while "everyone does it" I don't, and I still mash face pretty nicely.

Now... as for how to FIX things? Simple.
Bigger defense bonuses for actual powers.
more to hit bonuses on mobs.

Softcapping defense is only really powerful against mobs with +0 to hit. As I understand, +acc works directly against +def on a 1 to 1 basis. Now if I am incorrect in this, I apologize, and please correct me.

Point is mob +acc is very rarely used that I have seen. Very few mobs have it, and those that do are easy enough to avoid because they are so few.

Yes, those who have squishy archetypes that are no longer so ... well... nonsquishy... will scream, but as long as someone the game devs intended to be softcapped can still dodge like a champ, the QQing won't carry that much weight... because frankly, most people who have softcapped their blaster's defense KNEW it was kind of abusive, and SHOULD expect a chance it will be eventually busted.

I think the solution to the softcap IO'd defense issue is to have more enemies with -def, and to ensure that +def from primary/secondary powers includes defense resistance.

The characters who gain defense from their power sets won't really be subject to cascading defense failure, whereas softcapped Blasters would be.

More foes with -def is a bad idea. There is already a ton of -def in the game. Almost every gun or bladed weapon has some -def components. Many enemy groups have at least 1-3 foes with guns or blades .

... did you miss the part where I said "add more defense resistance to defense sets"? There's no misunderstanding of how useful defense resistance is; some current defensive sets just don't really have significant amounts of it.

I'd rather see def caps lowered for some ATs than have more -def in the game. -def is around plenty, but having everyone cap out at 45% doesn't seem balanced to me.

Keep in mind that I play pretty much every AT blueside, and quite a few redside, and I still think this- I'm not trying to see one AT come out on top of the defense race. I just think it would make for more parity among ATs, and get the game a bit more challenging, too.

So 45% is considered okay for PvP? Or should one go higher than that for PvP?