membrane exposure and active defense (SD)


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So, just bought a membrane exposure to put in active defense to boost the DDR, since it showed in MIDS that it would work.

But.. It doesn't show as buffed either in the enhancement screen or the combat attributes screen.

Is it changed so that it wont work anymore, a bug, or has it always been this way. Please enlighten me


 

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Originally Posted by Sthorm View Post
So, just bought a membrane exposure to put in active defense to boost the DDR, since it showed in MIDS that it would work.

But.. It doesn't show as buffed either in the enhancement screen or the combat attributes screen.

Is it changed so that it wont work anymore, a bug, or has it always been this way. Please enlighten me
Out of curiosity, which version of Mids' are you using? The most recent appears to be Mids' Hero Designer v1.954 (Updated Mar 17, 2012 and I would have thought they'd have fixed Mids' so that Hami-O's worked properly as of Issue 22.

But in answer to the last part of your question, yes, as of Issue 22, the CoX devs did in fact change Hami-O's so that the long-standing bug/exploit no longer worked.


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ah ok, i have v1.95 (database issue22, updated 12/3/12)
have checked for updates in options menu, but says no updates are available.

So since active defense says it only acceps, endurance and recharge reduction, its not possible to enhance the DDR rating of the power?

Wich means I guess that, my DDR will be Active defense(unmodifiable)x2 + Grant cover(unmodifiable) + Battle agility (modifiable)

This would amount to about 72% with 4 slotted LotG in Battle agility.

correct?


 

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Yeah I fell for this as well and unfortunately it seems ~72% is the best you can get.

Personally I don't bother with Grant Cover and have only once noticed cascading defence failure, but then I am 54% to all which is pretty well covered in standard content and Barrier pretty much covers incarnate stuff too so it is harder to start the cascade.


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Yeah, well, I'm WM/SD so I feel I need the rebirth destiny so I at least have a heal

Will get rid of the enzyme exposures at next respec then.

Cant really say I find any super nice place to put hami'Os at all tbh, but ah well, cheaper is better I guess


 

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Yeah, well, I'm WM/SD so I feel I need the rebirth destiny so I at least have a heal

Will get rid of the enzyme exposures at next respec then.

Cant really say I find any super nice place to put hami'Os at all tbh, but ah well, cheaper is better I guess
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Cant really say I find any super nice place to put hami'Os at all tbh, but ah well, cheaper is better I guess
I use the occasional Nucleolus or Golgi, but thats it now.


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Originally Posted by Sthorm View Post
Yeah, well, I'm WM/SD so I feel I need the rebirth destiny so I at least have a heal

Will get rid of the enzyme exposures at next respec then.

Cant really say I find any super nice place to put hami'Os at all tbh, but ah well, cheaper is better I guess
i dont use HOs very often either, but membranes are effective in certain powers such as mind link which cant be directly slotted with rech


 

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i dont use HOs very often either, but membranes are effective in certain powers such as mind link which cant be directly slotted with rech

Membranes don't work in ML anymore for the same reason.

However, you can slot IOs with recharge components, and optionally use boosters to get the same effect.