Purples =/= Defense?
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Posted on: 2010-06-04 07:13 in Archetypes and Powers General Discussion
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Again wrong. CP is the only one with positional defense. But not the only one with a defense bonus.|
Originally Posted by MutantX_7
I should have also stated that the only purple set that has a +defense bonus was Coersive Persuasion, however most characters don't have access to a confuse power to ustilize the set.
I did not however think of the purple sets saving slots elsewhere to add slots for adding defense, that does make sense. I was mostly thinking very one dimensionally about people thinking that purples would give their character direct mitigation (maxing res. or soft-capping defense). |
Though I think only Invulnerables care. =) So you're 99.99999999999% right. Which, is pretty much close enough as to make no difference. I'm just in a mood to nitpick. So feel free to tell me I'm being a knob.
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Originally Posted by GavinRuneblade
Again wrong. CP is the only one with positional defense. But not the only one with a defense bonus.
Though I think only Invulnerables care. =) So you're 99.99999999999% right. Which, is pretty much close enough as to make no difference. I'm just in a mood to nitpick. So feel free to tell me I'm being a knob. |
I edited to even further clarify what I meant.
Are there even other +psi defense bonuses to stack that with?
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There are (and psi resist bonuses too) but in most cases it's not worth building around because you generally have to sacrifice some other build aspect to get there.
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And even then, when you stack up almost all the psi res/defence you can find, what you wind up with is... a bit of psi defence/resistance. You don't get much of incidental bonuses that mesh with one another the way that you can accidentally wind up with a pile of accuracy when you IO for recharge.
Devastation give +3.75% (but competes with Thunderstrike: +3.75% E/NE/Rng in any defence build)
Scirocco' Dervish gives 3.125%
Heres the full list, its pretty slim:
http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Category...sionic_Defense
And of course Steadfast unique, Hover, CJ, Weave and Manouvers all add to Psi Defence.
Using these I managed to cap Psi Defence on my FF Defender.
Its also worth remembering the 25% Psi Def you can get from the Vanguard Shield temp power (100 Vanguard Merits for 30 minutes worth) and the Elusive Mind accolade. Using either of these, some pool powers and some set bonuses you could be pretty certain of capped Psi Defence against, say, an end of mission Master Illusionist whilst soloing.
It's because the people who are making those kind of complaints don't know how to become tougher, don't know what actually makes them tougher, don't even care to know. So they assume that it's a simple equation with money in one end, survivability out the other end, so they can be bitter about it. If someone talks about purple IOs in the context of survivability, they are almost certainly just highlighting their ignorance.
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