Me and a friend got a bit confused over the cap on resistance and if it is base or final
I am an engineer. My Ablative Plating skill says in description 75% is max resistance anyone can go.
I use a Voth Bastion however and using a combination of engineering team, brace for impact, Crystalline Absorb Matrix console skill while threatening I get the below result which is over 80%:on my ship window as shown in the screen below
https://imgur.com/thfvNF2
What is correct? cause if I hover my cursor over resistances it clearly states the % stated on that window is my Actual Final Resistance(which is over the 75%). Is the 75% the cap for base resistances before hitting any of the skills I mentioned? Is it the final cap and our ship window is wrongly showing more than that? Generally speaking I believe tooltips could use some improvement to be more clear and direct
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I think the percentage by extra skills like eng fleet III does work though cause I do notice a different on incoming damage
Your Over 75% because of the Crystalline absorption matrix console (Activated) It is +500 to your resists. Combine that activation of that console and the ablative armor console and the Solane set and you can get pretty close to 95% for about 10 to 15 seconds.
Without those console abilities activated..75% is typically the highest people can get as passive resistances (its not the actual max/cap) and it takes a lot of investment to get that high (500 damage resist points)..After that it take ALOT (not that the consoles I mention all do 500ish to resists)
Just activating 1 of these other 2 High resist boosters gave me these numbers a while ago (Back when Plasma consoles were worth something).
I thought about throwing all 3 on a ship but..Not really necessary in PVE..
https://sto.gamepedia.com/Damage_resistance (might wanna look at this formula to see exactly how much you'd have to have passively to be at 75% All Res
Rouge Sto Wiki Editor.
Test done: having a current ~60% res and activating crystaline matrix did not provide more than 75% dmg res.
I could probably test more if I make a ship full or damage res consoles so it stacks up to near 70% in passive mode.
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