How much survivability does Diamagnetic Interface add?

I know the go to Interface power is Reactive, but some of my melee toons need a little more survivability. It seems that Diamagnetic would be a great *if* it is effective. Are there numbers for this that someone has or even good experiences?

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Interfac...es#Diamagnetic

Diamagnetic adds a chance for a (or a guaranteed) 5% tohit debuff and/or a chance for a (or a guaranteed) 15% regeneration debuff. IMO, not much survivability boost to it.

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Originally Posted by Dispari I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.

If you're a few percent off of defense softcap, the guaranteed tohit debuff would be an interesting choice. Granted you wouldn't be softcapped to every critter, just those you hit with attacks, so you're not "truly softcapped"... but it'd be interesting. Outside of that, I don't see it being very helpful. Most powersets with a bunch of tohit debuffs can already floor a critter's tohit, and there are few powersets with "a bunch" of regeneration debuffs, and honestly that is resisted so much from the purple patch to be pretty useless except if you're fighting even level dudes.

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Originally Posted by Dispari I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.

The 100% chance for regen debuff seemed to help on our MoLambda runs vs Marauder (didn't have it the first run, did have the the latter two)

I was also on a MM so that would of helped stacking it.

To hit debuffs are great in theory and again in theory are very close to the same thing as defense. Diamagnetic can stack 4 times so in theory you can get a 20% to hit debuff out of it.

The problem I always see is delivery and resistance. You need to deliver that to hit debuff to all the targets that are hitting you to have it make a difference. At the Tier 3 and 4 levels you can get the to hit debuff chance very high so everything you hit gets it but that only applies to things you hit. Targets you don't hit due to staying a range or target caps don't get the debuff and thus can hit you unmodified. Also some targets resist the to hit debuff (AVs especially but some others) and thus you don't get the full benefit.

Most of the time Diamagnetic will slow down the damage you receive in a sustained fight but won't help much in the beginning. If you are able to survive the opening attacks but finding yourself wittled down through the fight then it might help but you are usually better off finding ways to kill things faster (meaning reacitve interface ) to solve this rather then to hit debuffs.

I would say the regneration debuff portion is the more important on for Diamagnetic but is also to small to stand up against the double barrel shotgun that reactive is (resistance debuff and damage over time).

Aren't most Interfaces supposed to be more along the lines of 'every little bit helps'? My measly little Diamagnetic doesn't do much on its own, but add 15-23 league mates, each with an Interface of some sort and the effects stack up, at least a little.

ETA: I mean, we all spend millions of inf to hunt down that last little bit of Def to hit the Magickal Soft Cap don't we, sacrificing a 40% enhancement to damage for that End/Rng/Rech that we needed to finish that six part IO set, Right?

Wiki says 4.

*shrug*

Digging into Red Tomax, it does seem the dot portions stack up to 8

I am very far from a numbers person. The incarnate I have Diamagnetic on is my DM/Regen scrapper. I looked at what was offered and not getting hit looked good to me. (also none at the time were thematic with DM).
When I'm doing missions at +8 I get hit an awful lot more before I do an AOE power.
I try to run into the middle of a mob and hit Soul Drain. As soon as I see the animation for Diamagnetic I seem to be getting hit less.
I notice that when I don't get it on the mob I am very busy with regen clickies. And when I get something off that hits everyone suddenly I'm not dieing as fast.
Yes, no numbers there. I just know that when I hit with an AOE I take far less damage.
;shrug YMMV

I have a related question. Do Incarnate to hit debuff powers effect each other? If I have an Alpha Intuition Radial Paragon that includes a 20% to hit debuff, will that apply to Diamagnetic to hit debuff? If so how (does the 20% increase mean the to hit debuff goes from 5% to 6% or 5% to 25%)?