Quote: Morganni wrote:
Does Divine Avalanche really help you after you've hit the soft cap?
-Morgan.
At first I thought it did. But I've been researching this for about an hour now and I think I was wrong.
Looking up how defense works in terms of Accuracy and To-Hit. I thought at first that Divine Avalanche would improve the defense. Now - mind you - it will.
While it's going, your defense will improve. But past 45% or so, it really only helps you in a practical sense if you were going up against +6 level
baddies (which you really shouldn't be doing anyway). I could get all the math examples and all, but it's not really necessary. I know it makes MY eyes
bleed. ^_^ (google with the terms "city of heroes" "defense" "soft cap" and "divine avalanche" and you'll likely
find the info I did)
Bottom line - in a practical sense, once you're past the 45% defense soft cap, anything stacked on top is not really worth your time to pursue. Divine
Avalanche would help you get to the soft-cap easier and might make it so that your build doesn't need to be
quite so tight on the /SR secondary. Or it might allow you to use other IO sets that give you different set bonuses.
Say - trade some defense for regeneration in the set bonuses, for example, because DA would still get you up past the soft cap.
What I think it would do is help protect you against defense debuffs to a degree. You'd still get debuffed, but DA
would help mitigate that. Is it absolutely necessary though? That's pretty situational. There might be some times when you wish you had that extra defense.
But... I don't think it would come up often enough to make it mandatory.
So - Divine Avalanche is still a good build tool. And it DOES synergize with Super Reflexes builds quite nicely. But mandatory? Not really.