Self preservation zeta for sith raid

"leef;c-1586133" wrote:

"Woodroward;c-1586084" wrote:

Personally, I'd say that if you aren't killing the adds with R2's AoE, you are wasting actions taking out adds when you could be doing more damage to Nihilus himself. And since, as you say, that protection is worthless any other way, that means wasted damage. Also Sith Assassin only ignores protection with her special attack when stealthed. Her basic never ignores protection.

Her basic also ignores protection while she's stealthed.
"Easily prevented by bb8’s protection recovery and/or simply not letting them take turns." Doesn't really matter how you deal with the adds, this still applies. You can even use basics on them to prevent getting def down in the first place.

As for the % increase in damage from R2's cleanse, I'd say about 1 out of every 3 or 4 attacks on Nihilus is a basic while you have defense down at which point he gains enough protection to negate a hit, so something like 25-33%% more damage is what you should be getting by having R2's combat analysis zetad.

R2's combat analysis is, without a doubt, AMAZING for this phase of the raid. It adds more to this team than any other zeta period, though Rey's leader ability is a close second.

This explains your point of view. JTR lead is by far the most important zeta on that team, it's not even close. Not an opinion, that's a fact. We're talking about atleast doubling your dmg due to that 1 zeta.
When a Resistance ally uses a Special ability, all Exposed enemies lose 5% Turn Meter, which can't be Evaded or Resisted; When a Resistance ally uses a Special ability, if they aren't debuffed, reduce their Cooldowns by 1
It also explains why you think r2's zeta is so usefull, you're forced to do way more basics than players that do have JTR's lead zeta'd due to the CD reduction. The TMR is also key to do alot of damage and it also enables you to "controll" the adds.
In case you were just trolling, you got me ;)

Oh I have her lead zetad, but R2's combat analysis easily increases damage as much or more than that. The tm reduction is negligible especially against Nihilus with his stacking speed, sure tm removal is hard against Nihilus in general, but it's a mechanic that is doomed to fail because of the mechanics of the phase. I don't see it giving any more than 5-10% more offense.

While the JTR lead may be the best all around lead across the board on this raid, it is also heavily diminished by the mechanics of the raid. On P1, defense down routinely prevents cooldowns from being reduced. On p2, it's Sion's debuff, same problems for the first 2/3s of p4. Only in p3 is her lead regularly reducing cooldowns, but it doesn't really shine there due to the bonds of weakness mechanic. Because it rarely reduces cooldowns in p1 (pretty much 50% of the time if you have 2 specials, and 10% of the time if you have 1), it hardly increases offense there at all. Maybe 5-10%.

So it's not an opinion that the JTR lead zeta is worth less on this raid than it is anywhere else, whereas the R2 combat analysis zeta is worth more on this phase of this raid than it is anywhere else period.

The JTR lead zeta increases the damage of this team about 10-20%, while the R2 zeta increases it about 25-33%. It is better.