Regen, Invuln, and FA all have a weakness to psi, so it's nothing new. If you keep purple insps handy and get the Elusive Mind accolade power, you should be set as encounters heavy on psi damage are quite rare.
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Current EA does get kind of screwed on psi since it not only has no protection to that but has no other particular strengths, in my opinion. New EA looks a lot better. For one thing, energize by itself does a lot for EA's psi protection in as much as it does not discriminate the damage types it heals and regenerates against.
The only times psi is a big deal, off the top of my head, are the psychic king, regent korol and of course, annoyingly, augurs. Most other sources of psi are really pretty wimpy. When mother mayhem gets to star in her own trial things might be different, of course.
you know I kind of smirked and lol at this one when I read it again.
I guess this is what happens when you look at too many numbers from different things while your having breakfast because you just woke up.
I was looking at the pvp numbers from tanks
and then looked at the pve numbers from scrappers.
big duh moment.
I dont have much experience at all with scrappers or high level scrappers.
I usually do support toons.
Is it worth IOing with psi resist at all and sacrficing other things.
Or should I just not worry at all about it?
I like to be prepared for whatever I may encounter.
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Originally Posted by goesto
you know I kind of smirked and lol at this one when I read it again.
I guess this is what happens when you look at too many numbers from different things while your having breakfast because you just woke up. I was looking at the pvp numbers from tanks and then looked at the pve numbers from scrappers. big duh moment. I dont have much experience at all with scrappers or high level scrappers. I usually do support toons. Is it worth IOing with psi resist at all and sacrficing other things. Or should I just not worry at all about it? I like to be prepared for whatever I may encounter. |
i'd say just focus on softcapping at least s/l/e/n and then stacking on the hp/regen/recharge. getting Energize perma or close to it will help wonders with psi and new /ea will have an easy time making it perma, i think.
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No, IOing for Psi resist is a waste if you have to sacrifice other things to do it. Psi is rare enough that you'd be wasting IOs a good 90% of the time if you slot for Psi resist on an Energy Aura. |
Originally Posted by goesto
Is it worth IOing with psi resist at all and sacrficing other things.
Or should I just not worry at all about it? |
Best bet would be to focus on killing Psi users first if you encounter them, there are very few places in the game where you will encounter more than one or two at a time.
Carnies will probably suck for you, but the rest of them only have a couple psi users in the whole group.
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The psi hole will be nothing. Take aid self and "anything" psi is defeated "if" paired with the right primary. War mace is a turd with EA imho.
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Originally Posted by goesto
Planning my new /energy aura scrapper when i21 hits.
but i see it has a Big hole against psy. I see no resistance, no typed defense, no/or very very little positional defense. just from memory, so not to sure, are the other sets this weak against a certain type of damage as energy is against psy? All the others I think had somethiing against everything, although they might be heavy against some damage in particular. Well I guess SR and Regen being different, since SR is positional and regen takes on a different strategy. I´m no expert on scrapper secondaries so just asking. guess it will have to be patched up with IOs obviously. But I didnt expect there to be next to nothing against a certain type of damage. |
It will require a bit of sacrifice, and a decent cost to get there - but you can squeeze out around 40% Psi DEF.
I used Claws as the template, but other sets will work as well as long as you have a few PBAoEs and can get a ranged attack from somewhere - you can actually skip Apoc for the cheaper Devastation 6 piece, which gives 3.75%
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Planning my new /energy aura scrapper when i21 hits.
but i see it has a Big hole against psy. I see no resistance, no typed defense, no/or very very little positional defense.
just from memory, so not to sure, are the other sets this weak against a certain type of damage as energy is against psy? All the others I think had somethiing against everything, although they might be heavy against some damage in particular.
Well I guess SR and Regen being different, since SR is positional and regen takes on a different strategy.
I´m no expert on scrapper secondaries so just asking.
guess it will have to be patched up with IOs obviously. But I didnt expect there to be next to nothing against a certain type of damage.