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Invulnerability is still going to be more survivable simply due to it's massive potential for resistance to smashing/lethal damage alone. Overall Invulneribility maintains better resists and can be softcapped against most damage types, barring psionics. Furthermore, with dullpain the hitpoint total for invul is going to much higher as well which means more bang for your buck when using siphon life. |
Originally Posted by RadioSilence
With the recent changes to EA, how does that armor stack up to INV when pairing with DM? If Im planning on a high-end build (soft-cap typed def except psi) would DM/EA be a better choice?
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With EA you are really trading off resists for more endurance management tools and other goodies like the recharge aura etc.
EA can be, easily, softcapped to all types of damage like invuln (other than psi), but doesn't get the great resists that invul does, nor the increase hp total. EA gets a decent self heal/endurance use reduction tool in energize and an endurance recovery/defense tool in energy drain and a minor stealth ability in energy cloak. Furthermore, the defense debuff resist of EA only reaches 51.9% that is not enhancable. (Can't recall the DDR max for invul, unfortunately) This means that about one out of every two defense debuffs will take effect. (This could be potentially devistating against groups like cimoreans.) at least with invul you have the extra hp from dull pain, and the resists to back up your defense. I've made builds with invul that are always soft capped s/l and at the softcap for itrials with a well saturated invincibility.
I give the check mark to invul for survivability, but the check mark to EA for utility.
With the recent changes to EA, how does that armor stack up to INV when pairing with DM? If Im planning on a high-end build (soft-cap typed def except psi) would DM/EA be a better choice?