being thermal secondary your prolly capping all his resistanced just with the shields
however just for the record, the pet +res IOs grant you an aura (like supremacy for mm) that add +res to all of your pets within said aura
personally i would try to get the pet +def IOs since you would already be capping all his resists anyway
Do the aura's work for lore as well?
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I believe they do work on the Lore pets.
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Originally Posted by SinisterDirge
Do the aura's work for lore as well?
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The Thermal Shields give you about 23.5% Resistance. Rocky has 60% Resistance to Smashing, and higher to other damage types. So the Thermal shields will not cap (90%) his Resistance to Smashing alone. Thus, at least one of the Resistance procs will be helpful. Plus, the procs work even if you forget to shield your pet.|
Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master
being thermal secondary your prolly capping all his resistanced just with the shields
however just for the record, the pet +res IOs grant you an aura (like supremacy for mm) that add +res to all of your pets within said aura personally i would try to get the pet +def IOs since you would already be capping all his resists anyway |
A small amount (5%) of Defense from the proc, without a lot more defense from other sources, is virtually useless. It would be better to cap your Resistance.
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Originally Posted by Local_Man
A small amount (5%) of Defense from the proc, without a lot more defense from other sources, is virtually useless. It would be better to cap your Resistance.
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I must contest the statement that what amounts to at least a 10% mitigation increase is "virtually useless," (I'd prefer the wording "comparatively worthless") but Local Man is quite right (as he is on most controller matters) that stacking more resistance on top of the already considerable resistances of stony + thermal is a much better option.
Going from 83.5% to 90% (assuming that's the cap for a controller pet; I haven't checked it out in-game) resistance to smashing, for example, is a 39.4% reduction to incoming smashing damage.
That's just under four times the benefit of going from 0% to 5% defense, and will remain the superior option until your pet has 37.3% or more defense before the IO.
For a Mastermind, I'd always recommend trying to slot both (all four, if recharge pet sets are available to your build) of the IO's, but with only one pet available to a controller (other than illusion) it's just not worth it to cripple stony's damage and accuracy for another ~10% mitigation boost.
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Ok so I have an earth/thermal controller and Ive been reading that stoney is worth popping the +res io's in. How does it work is it a chance to proc or do I just whack them in there and let him do his thing and he'll have +20% res to all dmg??