Mez resistance from IOs...

Was curious what the rest of you all think about adding in a decent amount of mez resistance for a PVP toon. I did pre I13 on my brute and it was worth it then but is it worth it now? My plan on my latest Corr has a little over 25% built in but I might consider not slotting for it if it isnt worth doing anymore.

Well in case anyone else is curious, I went ahead and did some experiments slotting for the mez resistance. I respecified Mizrion into a 40% mez resistance build after getting some base line numbers of hold durations from a controller friend of mine. It is hard to get exact numbers do to lag and such but it was a noticeable reduction in the amount of time the hold lasted. It nearly cut my friend 6 second hold duration in half.

So I would have to answer my own question as yes, it could be worth the effort if you can comfortably get it slotted in. In my case to reach that level of resistance I had to make sacrifices that reduced my movement speeds a little so I will be undoing part of the build to recover the two slots I had on travel powers.

When you are "sacrificing" anything for the sake of -mez, you're selling yourself short.

Mez's only last for a few seconds, and you're probably cutting that 5 second hold to a 3 second hold. Probably best just to get set bonuses and -kb IOs rather then attempt to have the greatest -mez than anyone else.

looking at things like this in a bubble is the wrong way to do it, imo. you have to consider what people are regularly slotting and what powers people will have to counter you.

an easy example is acrobatics, for an AT w/o any mez protection its like 100% hold resistance, which is why most people who build for mez focus on stuns or maybe confuse/fear/etc.
and anyway people slot holds for damage now because of i13 changing damage numbers on all ST holds.

noone focuses on mez resistance because even if you really try you still only save yourself from like 1-2 seconds in which case +hp would have served you better.

besides all that, we need to have something for buffers to do dont we?

Two seconds would be worth some small sacrifice imo. Its a lot of time to hork down greens if you get spiked.

That said, after 3 seconds whatever has probably already happened vs a well organized group.

Im not sure what you mean about +67 hp.
With 3 slots you can go up to ~35% mez res.
Should be able to pop a lot more than 1 or 2 greens in 3 seconds.

However, if you are CM'd, it isn't going to knock 3 seconds off, so yeah.

Too much no HD lately