Defense Softcap: Does Defense round up?

[Hyperstrike]

20 hours ago, Omega-202 said:

I was recently on a Tin Mage with double Crabs

I'm told they make creams for that nowadays...

[Hyperstrike]

17 hours ago, Omega-202 said:

I think you're slightly missing the mark on the reason people say FF is useless.  It's not that the defense is completely useless, its that those other sets can provide said defense and so much more.  

 

Outside of the bubbles, FF isn't giving you any -Res, healing, end buffing, -regen or anything else that you really want at endgame.  You also forgot Time, which has all of that and can softcap a team by itself using PB+Clarion.  

 

Basically, FF is 3 good powers and a bunch of mediocre to dud powers.  

Thing is, if you stop someone from being hit, save incidental lucky shots, there's no need for healing.
This then frees them up to use their actual attacks, bolstering team damage overall.

[Hyperstrike]

17 hours ago, Omega-202 said:

A) Those things are all in the 3 good powers of the set.

I'm assuming your "3 good powers" are Deflection Shield, Insulation Shield and Dispersion Bubble.
Force Bolt and Repulsion Bomb are KD/KB powers that don't do much on their own.  But they're fast-charging and absolute Proc monsters.

RB, just slotted normally, will do around 80 points of damage.
Proc'ed up, you have potential for over 200 points of damage.

Normal slotting for FB gets you about 50 points of damage.
Proc'ed, it gets you about 74, plus a Build up and a self Heal, plus a Hold.

[Omega-202]

55 minutes ago, Hyperstrike said:

Thing is, if you stop someone from being hit, save incidental lucky shots, there's no need for healing.
This then frees them up to use their actual attacks, bolstering team damage overall.

Yes, but again, all of those other sets are also stopping you from getting hit, and provide a bunch of other things.  Replace "healing" with literally anything besides "mez protection, except to sleep" and a bunch of other sets provide what FF does and so much more.

 

45 minutes ago, Hyperstrike said:

I'm assuming your "3 good powers" are Deflection Shield, Insulation Shield and Dispersion Bubble.
Force Bolt and Repulsion Bomb are KD/KB powers that don't do much on their own.  But they're fast-charging and absolute Proc monsters.

RB, just slotted normally, will do around 80 points of damage.
Proc'ed up, you have potential for over 200 points of damage.

Normal slotting for FB gets you about 50 points of damage.
Proc'ed, it gets you about 74, plus a Build up and a self Heal, plus a Hold.

So many attacks and debuffs can be better procced out than FB and RB.  

 

FB has a 4 s cooldown meaning that 3.5 ppm procs are at a 29% chance of firing.  By comparison, Infrigidate from Cold can take way better procs and can cap 3.5 ppm procs at 90% chance to fire.  

 

RB has a 3 second animation.  Kind of end of story there.  You're infinitely better actually using an actual attack that can take the same procs.