Enzyme in Grant Cover

Question: will and Enzyme or Membrane in Grant cover increase it's DDR Value?

Grant Cover's DDR is tagged as unenhanceable - you can enhance the defense that it grants to teammates around you but that's it.
The following slotting will grant 95 percent DDR in game with double-stacked AD (all enhancements level 50)

Battle Agility: LOTG Global Recharge, LOTG Defense, Enzyme
Active Defense: Membrane, Membrane, Enzyme
Grant Cover (enhancement irrelevant, I mule a LOTG Global Recharge here).

Priceless information, Igor. Tyvm

(note, Active Defense needs to be double stacked to hit the DDR cap)

The Nerve Alpha Global should also affect your DDR on Shield Defense.

Also, you don't necessarily need Hamidon Enhancements to boost DDR on Shield. I'm not sure since I don't have a high level shield.

I do have a high level Super Reflexes which also has D.D.R. that is not flagged to ignore enhancments or buffs.

On my super reflexes all enhancements that buff Defense buff also buff D.D.R.



And with Nerve Enabled



Again, I'm assuming that Shield will work the same since it also has DDR effects that are not flagged to ignore enhancements and buffs.

Active Defense does not accept defense Enhancements, which makes using a Hamio that enhances Defense and recharge or end red very helpful. The game reacts to defense debuff enhancements and defense buff enhancements the same. It's the power that descides to use it as negative or positive defense. This is ANOTHER reason Hamios are useful. Defense buff enhancements are 20%, Defense debuff enhancements are 33%.

It's a bug so don't count on it sticking around forever.

WARNING: I bold names.

People have been saying that for many, many years now. You might as well say don't count on CoH being around forever, they'll have to shut it down some day so might as well save yourself the sub cost. It's true, sure, but there's really no reason to believe it'll happen any time soon. The issue has been noted in the past by Devs as 'unintended but in a non-priority', as its overall impact on the game is trivial at best.

I think it'll be fixed eventually. SR's main selling point, honestly, is its ability to easily cap DDR without resorting to double stacking mez protection or hami-o tricks.

When you compare the two sets, shield gets the same mitigation as SR in soft capped defense, along with a good chunk of resists (that SR doesn't get until it has 20 percent HP), a +hp power, a t9 that allows you to cap s/l resists and doesn't have a heart-stopping -recovery crash (and actually increases survivability rather than doing the same thing as the other 8 powers in the set), an AOE that oneshots everything in sight, and an aura that's as good as popping 3 small reds at all times. SR has quickness which is very nice but there's many ways to get extra recharge.

I've played both SR and SD to a significant level of IO investment and there's simply no comparison - I know the devs don't design set performance around IO's the simple fact is that SD is really overpowered and I'm taking advantage of it as long as possible.

An easy way to fix it would be to either change AD's DDR to be flagged as unenhanceable or simply disallow double/triple stacking of the clicky mez protections.

Hopefully this happens later rather than sooner

I really doubt they'd "fix" HO's little benefit ever. If anything, they'll fix something in shields as Igor mentioned. All they would accomplish by fixing HO's is make them less valuable and annoy a small portion of the population, including almost all widows. That's not really worth putting time and resources into.

Is this seriously affecting the game engine? Because it seems like they would have fixed it a while ago if it was.