Something I noticed

on my Shield Defense scrapper lately. It's defense debuff resistance used to be 73%ish (double stacked active defense and shield agility) but when I was glancing at my live numbers I noticed it was down to 58%. Going over everything I saw that active defense was giving a lot less than what my mids was showing. I had membrane exposures slotted in for extra recharge and the defense portion would increase the defense debuff res portion. The only thing I can imagine is when they altered the hami-os that some reason it stopped buffing this portion. Can anyone confirm this?

"With great moustache comes great responsibility" - Zee Captain

Yeah they did. Apparently it was to 'fix' stats the Hamis were boosting..that they werent meant to. It did annoy quite a lot of Shielders, WS's too.

Yes, the Hami-Os had been boosting things that the shouldn't have been for a LONG time, but the Devs had said that it was an exploit, and it would likely be fixed when the were able to find a way to do so.

They just finally found the method/time to get that done.

So, your suspicions were spot on.

As a side note, Cytos and Enzymes used to also boost the reverse as well, ie, the def debuff hami would also buff Def powers and vice-versa. That was also part of the same fix.

Edit: Actually, all hami-os used to boost the reverse effect, not just cyto/enzymes. But those 2 were the ones most often leveraged to get some extra defense out of a lot of builds. Shielders and Warshades weren't the only folks dismayed when that change went into effect.

Also, as a different side note, if you don't have it, I'm pretty sure Grant Cover will add some DDR, if you don't have that, and can squeeze it into your build. You didn't specifically mention it, but if you're at 58% DDR, you probably already have it if I recall correctly.

You still can get in the 70s as far as DDR is concerned just by picking up grant cover, which I see a lot of shielders skip. I quite happen to like the power since it adds around 10% def for team mates, a kind of thank you for being my phalanx fodder. Not to mention that is also gives you recharge resistance which comes in handy to combat arachnos -def and -recharge debuffs

Do keep in mind to hit 70s with GC you still have to double stack active defense but that's not too hard to do.

On a side note: Anyone else keep hearing others say "Scrappers can't tank." a lot? It's not that they're saying it about or to me it's just surprising to hear it. I know mine still does just fine esecially when I had a troller ask me to tank the last Solaris mission, which I handled just fine. They were even surprised to see how well I did and complemented me on my build( even though I'm not done yet)

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Battle Agility's DDR is enhanceable. So you're looking at more like 53% with one AD, and 70% with two.

Note for the record that any DDR over 50% (and you're at 58% currently) means you have the third-best DDR available in the game, after Super Reflexes and Stone Armor. And 73% beats Stone Armor, moving you into second place. So you're still sitting pretty. Invulnerability gets a mere 50% DDR and can be pretty hardy against debuffs if one invests in a bit of a cushion (although it does get additional defense from enemies in range of Invincibility).