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2,000 crit and armor pen soft cap?
losse1
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I watched a video by kriparrian (spelling?) where he had done some testing and basically said, no cap on power and recovery but after about 2,000 each for crit and armor pen you get significantly diminishing returns so wasn't worth stacking them past 2k each.
This was a while back though, wondering what you all think about this.
This was a while back though, wondering what you all think about this.
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From my experience I'd say don't go over 2k on crit, cause it starts to diminish at around 850sh. Arp has a far less restrictive dr, but is capped by enemy defenses. Lvl 60 mob should have around 22%, probably you can go up to 30%sh with lvl 65 in T2, and in pvp it really depends on the classes you get against.
Imho, work on getting around 3.5k power, then crit/arp. Considering you get rather good crit from items, you may end up enchanting arp (pvp gear has some, but you will replace it with t2 which floods you in crit). Power will be again best stat once you reach a high value of both arp/crit.
If you mean rating dr then yes, otherwise not. At 100% recovery you cast encounters and charge ap twice as fast, and you can go up to infinity without capping, unless there is a hard cap for it. On the other side there is noting like negative armor or 101% crit. Do you know about a hard recovery cap which I am unaware of?
That would be what soft-cap means, yes. No skills have a hard cap, but many of them, like recovery, suffer from such large diminishing returns, that at a certain point, the effects that you get from stacking more are slim to none.
There's this:
http://nw-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?301761-Calculating-stats-and-their-effects
The truth is there are no soft or hard caps in Neverwinter (except for Armor Penetration, see post #2), the stats just slowly diminish the more you have of them. That makes it really hard to pin down a solid target for stats but you can make an estimate based on the kind of gear available.
I have a basic calculator that I use....it's only accurate for my build (Int > Cha Thaumaturge with Evocation and Eye of the Storm), powers (CS, ST, CoI, RoE), and with a weapon of a certain damage range (641 - 784) but if you're interested it roughly recommends:
1750 Armor Penetration
800 Crit and Recovery
As much Power as possible
This is built on the best available game math, rather than the usual guess work. If you'd like me to explain any part of it let me know.
#1Power, no cap
#2Around 2000 ArP after which it just doesn't pay off
#3Around 1k Recovery and Crit ( for T2 gear? )
Percentage recommendations would be fine too.
Critical Severity's place in the line seems to be a mystery and debated everywhere, as is its optimal amount (?)