Capo Heavy is 99% accurate with a gun?

[Pengy]

Is it working as intended that an even-level Family Lieutenant with a blaster can hit me half the time through soft-capped Energy Defense? He must have a 99% chance to hit an undefended hero. This is in Unai Kemen's To Save a Thousand Worlds arc.

[Eclipse.]

There is a lot going on in this picture...isn't Snap Shot (typically) a bow skill, why do the Family have bow+Arrows? Why is it hitting for energy damage, as is HE Shot(?)

I didn't think that the Family had any non S/L powers. Which mission was this in, does it use some Special power set for the Family? I was also unaware of "Heavy" Capos.

Wiki isn't helping me with any of these things. 

[Troo]

not much there is making sense.

• Lieutenant
• Family
• Archery
• Capo Heavy
• Archery doing Energy damage..

while you did a good job with a partial screenie and some details.. more would be needed to unpack this.

[Pengy]

This is a level 47(?) Family Lieutenant in Unai's Save a Thousand Worlds arc. Apparently at some point, HC gave them blaster rifles because S/L damage is too commonly resisted/deflected at level 40+. The unexpected accuracy is happening specifically with this one mob type in this one mission, as far as I know.

 

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Edit: Further info: He was my level (yellow con); I was solo on default settings (+0 x1 no bosses while solo). I was playing an energy/energy sentinel with some sets and ATOs.

Edited July 17, 2020 by Pengy
clarification

[Bonkleberry]

As others have pointed out, your screen shot is not much help. For all we know, you were missing some type of buff when the hit happened, but you had the buff on in your screen shot.

Edited July 17, 2020 by Bonkleberry

[Eclipse.]

1 hour ago, Bonkleberry said:

As others have pointed out, your screen shot is not much help. For all we know, you were missing some type of buff when the hit happened, but you had the buff on in your screen shot.

Or had just been hit a few times by some -def power...
 Burst (Ranged) Lethal, Damage over Time, Foe -Defense
 

[Noyjitat]

You need ranged defense to dodge ranged attacks or the type of damage that he is likely doing which is lethal.

 

edit: you said unai kemen which means the new high level family since they nerfed the level 50 family farm sometime ago after nerfing the xp they eventually buffed them and gave them super accurate attacks, lots of debuffs and crowd control abilities. This was a paragon studios change long before homecoming and I believe further tweaked in issue 24. Defense hardly means anything against them.

Edited July 17, 2020 by Noyjitat

[Eclipse.]

13 minutes ago, Noyjitat said:

... or the type of damage that he is likely doing which is lethal.

It's included in the screenshot that the attack did Energy damage -- and only energy damage.

[Monkeyking]

I figured it out. The Capo Heavy is a lazy copy/paste of the Resistance Heavy Barrel Elite, since they're both using the same gun. He's using an exact copy of Devices/Targeting Drone, so he's rocking a +18.5% tohit bonus. However, his attacks also have the wrong type.

 

The Resistance Heavy Barrel's gun does smashing/lethal damage. The Capo Heavy changes the damage type to energy, but accidentally kept the old damage type. Straight from the horse's mouth:

 

 

Note the Attack Types line. It's marked AoE and lethal, so it never looks at your energy defense. Whoopsie-doodle.