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8 years ago

The Potency/Tenacity Problem

The uselessness of raw tenacity has long been known, but the return of Palpatine to the meta is a perfect example of how unbalanced potency vs tenacity is. I’ve been theory crafting some counters ...

Waquira

8 years ago

"Fer_Oshus66;c-1596707" wrote:
"Mr_Sausage;c-1475627" wrote:
"Bulldog1205;d-160256" wrote:

1) Characters need more base tenacity.

I think this would be the easiest way to fix it. Not every character should land every debuff at will. Now I would never run an all tenacity team but I would load up some tenacity on my tanks if tenacity was worth it.

When I ran Sunfac a long, long time ago I had him modded for over 105% tenacity. The difference was negligible.

I agree, I tried maxing tenacity and the debuffs still rolled in, especially from a Vader with only 35% Potency with a Palp lead...

With an EP lead that Vader had 2x35% bonus potency from the lead for a total 105%. This means that you would need more than 120% tenacity for it to have any effect.