S/l is better, its really that simple.
I really is safe to say s/l protects you from pretty much all melee. And lets not forever there are A LOT of guns in this game. So you got hell, thats a ton of range covered too.
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Thanks for replying ultrawatt.
Just to be clear, you're basically saying there's not really much point at all to melee defense?
Ultra hit the nail on the head. I would just like to add that when going for melee defense, you usually want to go for all positionals, because there are just too many gun def debuffs. At least with s/l, you are less likely to get hit by those debuffs in the first place.
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Thanks for replying ultrawatt.
Just to be clear, you're basically saying there's not really much point at all to melee defense? |
Melee covers every attack done do you at melee range.
S/L covers every attack that has a smashing or lethal damage component. This means that powers like Bone Smasher and Fire Sword are deflected by S/L defenses because they deal S/L damage in addition to their energy and fire damage respectively.
There are very, very, very few attacks that deal non-S/L damage at melee range. The only power that I can think of off the top of my head is Incinerate. Melee defenses will cover those attacks, but it won't cover ranged or AoE attacks that deal S/L damage (and there are a ton of those as well).
tl;dr S/L defenses cover a far wider range of attacks than Melee defenses do. It's not harder to slot for S/L defense (unless you count cost; this is why Kinetic Combat jumped to being such an expensive set), so you may as well slot for it over Melee.
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The only power that I can think of off the top of my head is Incinerate.
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Overall, an extremely small number of melee attacks as you said.
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Smashing/Lethal defense vs Melee. To my understanding the game makes a check against one for attacks, whichever one is higher. It would seem smashing/lethal covers most if not all melee attacks and is much easier to cap.
Are there any melee attacks that are not smashing/lethal? Is having a melee defense redundant with a high smashing/lethal defense or vice versa?