Telling someone to not be a team player is not what I am talking about
However
minor effects that are not -resist or -tohit in 99.9% of situations are not needed
Most enemies in this game die FAST. Steamrolled Minions and so on are not a big deal. This is not a bad thing
Most low-mid level AVs within a reasonable level are NOT a threat. this is a good thing. being solo in a solo arc and getting blocked sucks. being in a group and in a tf being blocked is horrifically morally demoralizing. there is a reason most single player games autosaves all the time and gone are the days of save points or starting from the beginning of the game.
And high level AVs generally get Lore-petted to hell due to how industrialized the server is in its 5 years of existence
With those things said, no one will ever notice -dmg on your kinetic melee attacks
Kinetic Melee sucks donkey dick on everything but a stalker. If you want an effective tanker, just survive the alpha all the time to be the shining beacon of light in every group. If you want Kinetic Melee to be useful, go kin/bio or kin/fire stalker.
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One thing that is never talked about is how enemies +1 or higher (and class, like archvillain/giant monster) resist debuff effects. i am not sure what kinetic melee's -dmg is, but it is a fraction on a gm/av