Unfortunately, resisting damage will also resist damage debuffs, and Incarnate Trial bosses have some pretty high resistances
Thanks for the link, GuyPerfect. Still, even on the ones with 50% resistance to several damage types, I'd be cutting their damage output by 10.5%. Plus, it's an AoE debuff to all the adds nearby.
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And anyone on the league with a resistance debuff is going to be eating away at those resistances, most leagues will have a good deal of -res. Also, not only will it be reducing damage done to you, but it will be reducing damage done to everyone else by their AoE attacks, which is arguably more useful than the damage reduction to yourself.|
Originally Posted by Blue_Fenix
Thanks for the link, GuyPerfect. Still, even on the ones with 50% resistance to several damage types, I'd be cutting their damage output by 10.5%. Plus, it's an AoE debuff to all the adds nearby.
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As for Soul Mastery in general, the main reason to go Soul is Gloom, which has extremely good DPA. Dark Oblit is also a solid aoe with a touch of -tohit.
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Thanks. Looks like I'm sold on Soul.
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Originally Posted by DreadShinobi
And anyone on the league with a resistance debuff is going to be eating away at those resistances, most leagues will have a good deal of -res. Also, not only will it be reducing damage done to you, but it will be reducing damage done to everyone else by their AoE attacks, which is arguably more useful than the damage reduction to yourself.
As for Soul Mastery in general, the main reason to go Soul is Gloom, which has extremely good DPA. Dark Oblit is also a solid aoe with a touch of -tohit. |
Also, while it's true that the -ToHit debuff gets resisted down to just a few percentage points, that can be very powerful for characters who are at or near the defense softcap, where just a few percentage points can actually make a large difference. I'd say it's worth taking, especially once you're +3 in the trials.
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I'm currently working on a Willpower/Street Justice tank that I want to build for lead tanking on trials. I'm really not sure about Patron/Epic pools, but I stumbled across Darkest Night...
On paper, it looks like this would be great to toggle up on any trial AV for a significant -Damage Debuff. I know the -to-hit will mostly get resisted away into oblivion, but the -Damage is still good, right? City of Data shows it as -21% Damage.
Anyone else used this for trial tanking? Does it cause Endurance problems for you at all?
Any other comments on Soul Master in general?