100% or 110% potency

There is, cause if understand correctly your potency-opponents tenacity=true potency. There is still always a 15 percent chance to resist even if your potency is 100 or higher more.

yes, 10% difference!
joking aside, it depends on the tenacity of your target.
chance to resist = tenacity - potency (with a minimum of 15%). So vs characters downwards of 115% tenacity it doens't make a difference.

Ok great, thank you

Now this got me thinking if tenacity is a good choice at all. For me it makes sense if I can resist at least 50%-60% of attacks.

Lets say a typical Zaul's potency is what, 60%? This means my toon's tenacity should be at least 110-120% to reach a desired effect and that is.. impossible.

What about a typical EP with 80% potency? I wont bother with tenacity any more then

"Bart;c-1024119" wrote:
Now this got me thinking if tenacity is a good choice at all. For me it makes sense if I can resist at least 50%-60% of attacks.

Lets say a typical Zaul's potency is what, 60%? This means my toon's tenacity should be at least 110-120% to reach a desired effect and that is.. impossible.

What about a typical EP with 80% potency? I wont bother with tenacity any more then

Congratulations you have found how useless tenacity mods are in their current state. They, like some other mods need a major boost in numbers to make them use able.

I'll just add that Sidious' zeta gives him extra health based on his potency, so the more potency the better with him.

Dooku has base 75% potency.

General Kenobi, a tank, has base 35% Tenacity.

With a base 15% chance to resist, this means the first 65% tenacity you add through gear is useless.

You will have 15% chance to resist at 35% tenacity or 90% tenacity. (90-75=15)


If you add 66% tenacity to Kenobi you will only have a 1% higher chance to resist compared with doing nothing at all.

You are simply much better off stacking defensive mods and using a tenacity buff.

... or to put it simply, you need 100% more tenacity than the opponent's potency if you want to always resist his debuffs.
i.e, versus a 75% potency Dooku, you'll need 175% tenacity.
If you only have 50% more tenacity you'll have 1 chance out of 2 to resist, if 25% more it'll be 1 out of 4, etc etc...
Not sure if the 15% base chance to resist can be subtracted from the needed tenacity or if it only comes into play when tenacity - potency > 15%.

Don't take my word for it though. :D

"ddlooping2;c-1024305" wrote:

Not sure if the 15% base chance to resist can be subtracted from the needed tenacity or if it only comes into play when tenacity - potency > 15%.

The 15% is just the floor, it doesn't add to your tenacity value... which makes tenacity mods even more worthless.

If your opponent has 50% potency for example, everything from 0% tenacity all the way up to 65% tenacity gives you the same 15% resist chance...

"fascizio;c-1024312" wrote:

"ddlooping2;c-1024305" wrote:

Not sure if the 15% base chance to resist can be subtracted from the needed tenacity or if it only comes into play when tenacity - potency > 15%.

The 15% is just the floor, it doesn't add to your tenacity value... which makes tenacity mods even more worthless.

If your opponent has 50% potency for example, everything from 0% tenacity all the way up to 65% tenacity gives you the same 15% resist chance...

all in all it really doesn't matter. IMO unless you are able to have tenacity 2x attacker potency tenacity mods are pretty much worthless.