I'm capped and still taking a beating with Incarnate mobs ??

I'm a bit confused and I am probably missing something. But I am Tier 4 incarnate and I am Defense capped but I notice that the incarnate mobs still are hitting me A LOT. I'm a Traps AR Defender so I have some hit debuffs as well. I just notice I take much more of a beating from them.

Is it that they just have a higher chance to hit above and beyond the norm for their levels ?

When I am getting hit I look over at my defenses to see if I am debuffed and I am not debuffed.

I have had less issues fighting an AV solo then I do fighting regular incarnate mobs.

So anyone know and can explain what I'm missing.

The enemies in the Incarnate trials and whatnot have a higher base accuracy average. If you're soft-capped to Defense by being at around 45%, then you're still about 20% short of the new Incarnate soft cap.

On the plus side, you're still getting hit less than people who weren't soft-capped before, though.

I see. That's good to know. My Bane was softcapped too and he was getting crushed on a regular basis. Looks like I'm going to have to add some +defense to my Incarnate arsenal.

In addition to scaling to hit bonuses on the 9CUs there's a few auto-hit attacks in the trials as well, I believe.

Also the 9CUs stats ramp up the longer they're alive. And Battle Orbs give tohit buffs to their allies (and can appear in large numbers).

I was running my widow with mid 60s on all defense with just solo buffs on a team where I was normally averaging 80-90 def with team buffs. It was like playing naked. On Lambda, at least, 80 def = 0 defense a large portion of the time.

I run range defense softcap and 85% resistance to all on my warshade, and I can still get in over my head. The acu's are monstrous if you let them survive long enough. Level shifts from lore and destiny will help you quite a bit, but team coordination will save you most.

Good time to be a Crab/Bane.

EDIT: I call out the SoA, but really any Def buff toon will suddenly feel more demand. The proliferation of soft-capped toons kinda made them anachronisms.

Zombie's right, though, most times the team will buff enough. Heck, once teams of +3s start doing the trials or more of those players are rolling through them with teams, the trials will get less difficult.

I'd just like to point out that being "capped" and "softcapped" on defense are (as obvious as it is) two completely very different things

It's also worth noting that if you're only at 50/50+1, the bosses are quite dangerous even if you do have enough defense to softcap against them, especially for low HP ATs. Both boss types seem to have an attack or two that was capable of one-shotting my Dominator if it connected.

Found out the hard way about thier Location Superior Dot Toxic attack as well. I was over 100% DEF and Capped out Res and was getting mudered until I realized I was standing in a pool of this stuff x 6 O_o. Combine Superior Dot Toxic, with all thier Neg Reg debuffs = Big Ouchies for a Elec Tanker.