Please test your defense heavy characters
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Arbegla,
Posted on: 2010-05-02 19:39 in Archetypes and Powers General Discussion
The fact is this is the situation right now. Whether it gets fixed or not in a hypothetical future is irrelevant in a discussion about the experience of a Shield tanker today.
Besides, without HOs a Shield tanker is at ~80%+ DDR with stacked AD (common recharge IOs). Even scrappers/brutes can get to ~60%+.
It's basically right behind SR. That's not exactly low by my standards. YMMV and all that, but to say it is is pretty much the same as, for example, calling Invul S/L res weak.
Yeah, that's definitely broken, especially in light of the utility the set enjoys. When I tried the set in beta I don't think it had DDR anywhere near that, IIRC. And my live Shield Defense characters are too low-level to notice something like that.
A DDR of 50%ish (on a Tanker) wouldn't be broken for the set, though.
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WIthout stacking AD, and no HO's in the build, a Shield Tanks DDR is like... 60%. Maybe a little higher. In all honesty, that is prolly plenty for that set, since it has so many other perks to it. Granted, I've got a few left over membrains i'm going to throw in there, just cause i have them and don't really need them in others builds atm. 
(i've slowed my alting down in view of the incarnet leveling systemthat is coming.) Why not use them while i can? And if it's fixed, i respec them out. *shrug* I have 6 freespec on this guy, and 3 more i can earn... heh.
But, as is, when i'm fighting stuff that does -def, (mainly in ITF's.) i'll just eat a small purple when i notice my defences droping. I've yet to be in a situation where the mobs can get past an extra purple on top of my already near softcapped defences. (soon to be softcapped.)
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Yeah. My Shield Scrapper has 65% DDR, without stacking AD and without any HOs -- that's just baseline power picks and slotting (it does include Grant Cover).
To give a rough example of how effective that is, my Invulnerability Tanker has a flat 50% DDR and has stood alone on an 8-player ITF during the Dark Dwarf ambushes, getting hammered by defense-debuffing Cimerorans and attacked by negative energy (to which his resistance is questionable). With a little cushioning, 50% DDR works fine. And Shields is substantially better than that. With no effort. On Scrappers.
Edit: I must caveat that I checked, and the 65% DDR is on a Tanker, after all. I don't know if similarly-enhanced Scrapper numbers are lower. Apologies for the error.
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I have noticed an issue with shield defense as well since I 17- My defense numbers have not dropped, running the same Borea Missions in RWZ at the same settings as prior to I 17 or running the same AE missions, and yet, there seems to be something going on, if one mob hits me, they all do. and I am dead before I can click an inspiration. These are not mobs that can defense debuff. I am well over defense cap. I submitted an in-game request and got a generic email about how they couldn't give me any game-specific information. But it seems to me either the mobs got a buff that isn't mentioned, or shield def got nerfed and not mentioned. There is some sort of cascading defense drop or some strange occurrance, and it has happened daily, so it wasn't a one time unlucky streak. I have friends who are stating the same thing with their shielders. Did Def soft-cap go up? Shield def get nerfed? or did another bug happen in i 17?
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