Reactive and breaking sleep

This is basically why the Chance for Lethal Damage in shield breaker makes me angry - my Bane's Surveillance needs to not aggro the enemy. So no +3.13% Melee Defense for me.

Originally Posted by Shubbie Im very good at taking a problem and making it worse.

Isn't that what I said?

Well, in different words maybe, but that's pretty much what I said.

Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison See, it's gems like these that make me check Claws' post history every once in a while to make sure I haven't missed anything good lately.

So, Brawl does get the interface bonus?

Originally Posted by Shubbie Im very good at taking a problem and making it worse.

The problem is that's the wrong way around. Reactive is the best interface by far while soloing, especially for lower damage ATs.

Teaming is where you want a non-reactive interface because so many people have reactive because it's best while soloing. But even there Reactive is probably the best general usage Interface.

It depends on the situation. Against groups of enemies Reactive is still the best since it increases the AoE damage that the team is spitting out.

Against AVs, honestly it doesn't matter. Yes, having a mix of Interfaces is technically better but it's better in the sense that $1.01 is better than $1.00. Take Diamagnetic, against a level 54 AV at 4 stacks it will do -2.6% To Hit and -7.8% regen. In a team situation that is not going to make a significant difference in your odds of defeating the AV.

Well, yeah. My way is just a simpler test. "Does the power accept damage enhancement? If so, interface will proc." And it's how the redname put it. At least, I'm pretty sure. But I'm too lazy to go looking it up. Take that as you will.

If I'm understanding it correctly, yes, it should get the Interface bonus.

Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison See, it's gems like these that make me check Claws' post history every once in a while to make sure I haven't missed anything good lately.

Out of my 5 Incarnates 3 Have Diamagentic (My Crab has a T4 Core, my Dom a common and my WS a T3 Total Core), 1 has Reactive, and 1 has a Reactive AND a Paralytic (Both Total Radial T3s). 5% Tohit is the best IMO.

Originally Posted by Shubbie Im very good at taking a problem and making it worse.

Far from it. The way I figure, since everyone and their cat slots Reactive, I can go with something else and not worry that I'm the fifteenth guy whose Interface isn't putting anything on the table because it's stacked over the cap.

-Gate

Very much this myself, except I prefer Gravitic. Or Paralytic. I mean, I have Reactives for when I solo, but every character builds something useful to a team first.

Dechs, I'm curious. Do you eschew Diamagnetic because your guys are already maxed on Def, or because you find one of the other two simply does something you like better?

-Gate

+Defense comes in such copious amounts from sets and teammates that I hardly believe (resistable) -tohit will be a worthwhile addition. Likewise with -regen, the team either has -2000% or none, your few stacks of -regen from Diamagnetic won't mean much.

-Recharge is, however, largely valuable. Notably, the floor for -recharge is -75%, which corresponds to 4x the recharge time. That's pretty immense. With recharge in the denominator of the formula, it doesn't take much for those negative numbers to be noticeable.

-Damage, in my mind, is most valuable since it is not resisted by AV resistance. As I said, plenty of people already have tons of defense. The only way to increase survivability at that point is to add resistance or take away damage. The tanks on your team should have plenty of resistance, some even at the cap. At that point, -damage is still helping. Those players at the softcap for defense (even the "new" one) gain no benefit from -tohit.