Winter's Gift, and a discovery about the Rooted power

[cohRock]

This morning my level 50 stone/stone scrapper bought a level 50 Winter's Gift : Slow Resistance.  He slotted it in Combat Teleport, which he didn't take until level 47.  I verified that it wasn't active when set to a lower level (PVP zone or Ouroboros Flashback),  Fortunately, attuning it using an Enhancement Catalyst allows it to offer 20% Recharge protection no matter what level he is.  This is true even when Combat Teleport isn't active due to too low a level.

 

In testing that, I learned something just as interesting about the Rooted power. It adds 30% Debuff Resistance to To Hit, Recharge Time, and Defense.  Note that it also keeps its normal resistances of 11.92 to Defense and 59.6% to Recovery.  It also adds 47% (capped less than that) Status Resistance to every type of mez, but keping its 9990% resistance to knockback.  I'm sure this is done due to PVP zones removing almost all Status Protection (Rooted continues to offer 10.0 to Knockback  and Repel, however.)  These effects are probably general for most mez protection powers; I haven't tested on other power sets, though.

 

Here's the item in the Debuff Resistance listing which led to this post:

 

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Recharge Time Resistance  54.03%

  Large Slow Resist       +10.00%

  Winter's Gift           +20.00%

  Rooted                  +30.00%

 

[FupDup]

That's supposed to apply during PvP only, as seen in City of Data: https://cod.uberguy.net/html/power.html?power=scrapper_defense.stone_armor.rooted&at=scrapper

 

All other armor sets gain extra debuff resistances in PvP so this is not unusual. It would only be unusual if you got to keep that protection when moving back into PvE zones. 

[macskull]

Yeah I’m not sure what discovery is supposed to have happened here, the first part of your post just describes how set bonuses work and the second part just describes how armor set mez protection powers work in PvP.

[Jacke]

4 hours ago, cohRock said:

This morning my level 50 stone/stone scrapper bought a level 50 Winter's Gift : Slow Resistance.  He slotted it in Combat Teleport, which he didn't take until level 47.  I verified that it wasn't active when set to a lower level (PVP zone or Ouroboros Flashback),  Fortunately, attuning it using an Enhancement Catalyst allows it to offer 20% Recharge protection no matter what level he is.  This is true even when Combat Teleport isn't active due to too low a level.

 

The Winter's Gift: Slow Resistance is a pure Global: No enhancement aspects, just the Global.  Should have bought a L10 Recipe.  Cheaper to craft, can be slotted earlier, and will provide exactly the same things.  Without needed a Catalyst.