Need advise on CHA for PVE

nanners

Hi guys, I need some advise on CHA for PVE and I hope you can help me with.

I have a halfling TR with 20 CON and INT for PVP, but after seen the changes and the up coming new gears, I decided to switch my focus back to PVE.

I rolled my TR with 13 STR, 17 DEX and 14 CHA. My theroy is if I can achive around 40% deflect chance, I could probably swop ICT out for another dmg dealing skill. So I would like to know if I can fill the DPS role with maxed out DEX + CHA? How does combat advantage work?

Any suggestion would be appreciated

f2pma

cha doesnt work at all its bugged i had 25 cha at one point does nothing only good for deflect.just roll str, dex
and going without itc is to much hasle for to little dmg on mobs and on boss u need it anyway

nanners

I see.. thanks for the advice f2pma, I'd just respec all the ponts into STR and DEX then, didnt know cha doesnt work.

With my starting roll I would be 19 Str and 23 Dex, some high dps rogues have like 26 Str Iv seen, do you think I ll be missing a lot of bonus dmg? Shall I re roll another char?

dragmosh

nanomidgy wrote: »

I see.. thanks for the advice f2pma, I'd just respec all the ponts into STR and DEX then, didnt know cha doesnt work.

With my starting roll I would be 19 Str and 23 Dex, some high dps rogues have like 26 Str Iv seen, do you think I ll be missing a lot of bonus dmg? Shall I re roll another char?

The deflect on CHA does work, but I think it's generally accepted that the combat advantage bonus doesn't work. I've never seen any evidence of this personally, so you might want to test to make sure.

f2pma

well if you have nothing better to do roll human with 18str 16dex most dps pve tr possible.
you will fell the difference...
but with your gear halfling is more then viable and its not like other trs are going to out dps you coz only one tr per group.

kweassa

dragmosh wrote: »

The deflect on CHA does work, but I think it's generally accepted that the combat advantage bonus doesn't work. I've never seen any evidence of this personally, so you might want to test to make sure.

IIRC, the Combat Advantage bonus is multiplicative not additive = (i.e. "Cryptic Match"),

So when base CA bonus is 15%, and you have like 10% bonuse from CHA, it would not be [15 + 10 = 25%] but rather;

[15 x (1 + 0.10)] = 16.5%


That's how I remember it. A "10% increase", not "additional 10%".

dragmosh

kweassa wrote: »

IIRC, the Combat Advantage bonus is multiplicative not additive = (i.e. "Cryptic Match"),

So when base CA bonus is 15%, and you have like 10% bonuse from CHA, it would not be [15 + 10 = 25%] but rather;

[15 x (1 + 0.10)] = 16.5%


That's how I remember it. A "10% increase", not "additional 10%".

Oh, I never thought of that. Does that apply to the underhanded tactics feat too? And why is CA different than crit severity and action point gain?

todesfaelle

Underhanded Tactics feat is broken. It's been reported by Naissur. I also tested it and it seems he's right, it's not giving any bonuses at all. Even if it were a multiplicative bonus there's just no difference in damage whether or not I took the feat.