How exactly does potency and tenacity work?

"sjkerhfgdjhd;930728" wrote:

"Kyno;930676" wrote:

"DarthxMaul;930481" wrote:

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"ImjustaPUG;930389" wrote:

"Meerava;930383" wrote:
Question of the ages. What's been mentioned before is it's tenacity minus potency, and tenacity bottoms at 15%. But behavior in game doesn't explain that too well, since I've had a character with 90% potency get resisted multiple times in a row by someone with less than half of that in tenacity.

Not exactly right. The resist chance is potency minus tenacity. The resist chance has a minimum of 15%. This means that if tenacity down is applied there is still a 15% resist chance

Wrong. If the resist chance was potency minus tenacity, then higher potency = higher resist chance.

Resist chance is tenacity minus potency, minimum 15%. As others have said.

So basically tenacity mods are horrible?

Yep. Potency technically has a +15% added to it, opponent will always need 15% less potency then you to get the same effect as an equal value.

And if what I have heard is true most characters get more potency from gear than they get tenacity, leaving tenacity even further in the hole.