Do Malta get Acc or Tohit bonuses?

More of a general question, I know, but I figured /SR and other Def-based scraps would know.

A friend and I, Fire/Kin troller and Fire/SR scrap, were in the "Save Panther 952" somesuch Tip mission at +2/x8 and we were getting wiped out repeatedly. I am soft-capped to all positions, but was getting hit repeatedly, which surprised me. I assume it was the Bosses and maybe Lt's doing the damage, so I was curious.

Granted, we could have played smarter, but I guess we were too cocky in the beginning, and once all the ambush groups had spawned, it was difficult to maneuver when we re-zoned. Especially with all the damned smoke.

The Gunslingers have Accuracy bonuses and Gun Drones have way higher ToHit (I think a 25% bonus) than regular.

I haven't check Malta numbers in this mission. But I'm begining to think that TIP missions might be buffed.

I noticed that Greater Devoured in tip mission had 64% Base To-Hit. PirateCrew is claiming that all mobs on that map are having 64% Base To-hit.

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Originally Posted by PirateCrew It wasn't just the Greater Devoured. Several weeks ago I noticed that all enemies in those L50 hero tip DE cave missions (there's a "save the scientists" one too) had 64% tohit. I checked the combat logs and used the power analyzer temp power (same results as in pics above) on the other DE such as herders, deathblossoms, etc. Normal non-boss DE in city zones (I believe I checked in Founders Falls) had the expected 50% tohit. I did not at the time check Greater Devoured in a city zone, since I was more surprised by the "buffed" minions in the caves, and couldn't find a story-driven reason for the buff... and therefore submitted it as a bug.

Purely anecdotal, but my def-capped (or nearly capped) toons rarely get hit, certainly no more than the normal running Tips. I do speed runs, so a lot of times, I'll just click on a glowie w/o bother to clear mobs around it (Malta included, I do deal w/Knives & Rikti drones who see through stealth). They see me, attack and usually whiff while I finish up and move on to the next glowie. Of course, I'm not silly enough to try to save Panther 952 at +2/x8 during speed runs either.

Take out the gunslingers first that helps a lot and the Gunsligers bosses hit a little harder so make sure you gets those quickly

I haven't checked the numbers but I've always thought that Gunslingers seemed to have substantially better accuracy, or possibly tohit, than the rest of the mobs. I do know that the Gun Drones have a BASE tohit of 75%, just the same as the player version. Fortunately the Drones don't hit THAT hard... but the dang Gunslingers sure do.

Yeah, there's a reason that, except for the Fake Nem bosses, Nemesis all offer normal (as in, the baseline value for their class) or less XP.

Redside factions aren't really that nasty by the 40-50 region because the only one of them that was unique to redside was Arachnos and Longbow. These days, while heroes face less Longbow, Longbow are less rude.

I think what I'm getting at is that while I do feel there's a disparity in enemy group difficulty, it's not at the high end, and at the high end, it's the same list of stuff you need to look out for. Like Quartzes on any def based character.

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DE quartz eminators give an accuracy buff. It's prettty significant. This may be what people are seeing. Kill them first, or just retreat to draw the spawn away from them.

I think it's just a case of people not being accustomed to fighting the more difficult high level groups so they don't know what they're up against.

I don't think it's a matter of Malta having any better chance to hit, just the fact that in that ambush more of them are attacking you at once than you would normally ever be facing.

A softcapped SR is going to be hit an average of 1 time for every 20 attacks. Normally that means you're pretty indestructible. But when there are 45+ things attacking you that 1 in 20 starts to get pretty frequent. Add to that the fact that you have 15-20 Operation Engineers all dropping Gun Drones (with that 75% base chance to hit), and you have a situation that has the potential to go south for an SR in a hurry.