Rinani

It would appear that all armor sets in the game for Tankers, Brutes, Stalkers, Scrapper and Sentinels have had their status resistance broken. I have checked all ATs none of them has status resistance show up on their combat attributes. Knockback, Pool powers and set bonuses show. On top of this, the defense debuff resist and tohit debuff resist listed in Obsidian Shield for Tankers and Brutes is not showing either and I have tested that they don't have any effect either.

Soft cap is not a major investment on SR, basically you need the two 3% defense uniques and then the rest can be done with pools, CJ/Hover + Maneuvers + Weave and you are there. It should be noted that SR is better on Sentinels than anywhere else: +recovery built in Alternative to Practiced Brawler it has Master Brawler. If you don't mind having your mez protection on your toggles, you should definitely go for this power. Master Brawler makes Focused Fighting and Focused Senses get the normal Mez protection divided between them. Just need to take the power, on top of that it is a pretty great power for those times that damage gets through the defenses. Providing a scaling Absorb buffer depending on how damaged you are. Combined with the scaling resist of SR, the two makes you survive a lot of things while on low health.