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Combat Advantage and Control Resist
lirithiel
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How much is enough?
Combat Advantage:
Currently I have 600 from Lantern of Revelation and 500 from Heart of the Blue Dragon plus 400 from the IWD boon and 373 from OH stat. My Combat Advantage damage increase is 9.8%, now I read Lazalia's post on GWF build the other day and it was pointed out that 8% is enough?
Control Resist:
I have 900ish from Oghma's Token of Free Movement and Symbol of Earth plus WIS 25. Oghma's is almost at Mythic so will 600 be enough plus my WIS stat or should I keep the Symbol of Earth?
Combat Advantage:
Currently I have 600 from Lantern of Revelation and 500 from Heart of the Blue Dragon plus 400 from the IWD boon and 373 from OH stat. My Combat Advantage damage increase is 9.8%, now I read Lazalia's post on GWF build the other day and it was pointed out that 8% is enough?
Control Resist:
I have 900ish from Oghma's Token of Free Movement and Symbol of Earth plus WIS 25. Oghma's is almost at Mythic so will 600 be enough plus my WIS stat or should I keep the Symbol of Earth?
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These are my numbers for control bonus and the percentage they increase:
2136 = 10%
1722 = 10%
1308 = 9%
894 = 8%
387 = 4%
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Also depends on the class. For example a TR will get a lot more mileage out of combat advantage than a GF. Meanwhile skills like unstoppable and impossible to catch mean you would get less mileage from control resist than other classes (i.e. you wouldn't be using control resist 100% of the time).
Control bonus stat is a primary stat, it is not processed yet. the 10% cap is this stat after it has been processed.
Cantakerous Wizard and Will-O'-Wisp bonuses are added to that processed stat.
So if you have 900 control bonus which gives 8%, and get mage + wisp you get a total of +38% control bonus. That means your control powers will last 38% longer. (Minus ennemy control resist).
Well if you're chasing any of the secondary stats, like Combat Advantage, the least you can get from 1 Mythic artifact and 1 boon is 1000, which is 8.1% - I won't lose sleep over that extra 0.1%.
Thanks for the responses. I now know I need to drop the CA stat from my OH and replace 1 artifact.
I'm still a bit iffy on Control Resist. Either I'm going to be quite a bit under or over the 8%/1000 cap. My WIS is 26 so that's 16% right there for a start.
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Looking at my char sheet I can see I've made a couple of errors --
1. This is CA *Bonus* which as a TR I havnt even hit 10% yet although I can see it should be fairly easy. I'd still like to hear if it's truely capped at 10%.
2. CA itself doesnt have a cumulative total that shows how much you get from each source so I can only infer that you get the Charisma bonus + the CA Dmg Bonus as additive. (as a TR).
3. The tooltip has a grammer error - CA isnt bonus damage you "receive" it's bonus damage you "deal"
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