Nemb. lol too much to quote...
Aye i agree with ya m8, it might appear that way that having a more balanced approach to stats will help.... but until we see exactly how the dimishing returns curve works i dont think we will kno for sure.
What im saying is:
With the 'energy'* (see below for what i mean by this) you expend on gettin ur avoidance and mitigation to say 5.5k (1.5k above soft cap) sure u might get like 60% avoidance 60% Mitigation, but if you instead focused all ur energy on mitigation you could stand to gain alot more then if u spent the same amout of energy on buffing your avoidance. So with 40% avoidance u may get 70% miti. And with fighters afiak we benefit from our plate miti more then anything else... And as blackguard (i think its him) says, SoE view this kinda things in terms of Survivability (check out his posts explaining why miti is overpowerd atm), so with it maybe that, we as miti tanks have a wieghted formula that gives us more % survivability then if we had buffed avoidance. so buffing 10% miti would give us +7.3% survivability increase, buffing 10% avoidance would give us only 5.5% and so with this balance ur total survivability would be 7.3%+5.5% = 12.8%. So if you then spent the 'energy' you used into buffing avoidance to get extra 20% mitigation your survivability would then = 10% + 10% or 7.3%+7.3% = 14.6% surviveability... so ud get an extra 1.8% survivability. And 2.6% (14.6 - (5.5+5.5)) extra if you used 20% avoidance in comparison to the 20% miti.
These are purely hypothetical numbers... and either one of us could be right. But we wont kno, as i said at start, what will happen for sure until they realease it for us.
*Energy = The investment you make to buff the stats u want i.e. miti and avoidance. in terms of the choices you make in AA lines (both Kos and new EoF) and equipment u have or other things. So for example to buff avoidance and mitigation, you might have to pass up like piece of equipment that has UBER mitigation but crap avoidance. Or u choose an setup that buffs both equally instead of one. Im pritty sure as SoE do now... they wont make equipment that UBER buffs like two stats... And if they do there will always be another UBER UBER option for one of them. i.e. greaves that have say 20parry and 600 mitigation. there is bound to be like greaves that 1k mitigation. (esp. with stat cap)
But as i said.. its in SoEs hands, they may not do this... or they might do it. So i guess we have to wait n see.
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