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New Traveler

9 years ago

With this update, is Cad Bane now viable?

In the changelog you can read : "Cad Bane: "Hunter's Reflexes" will now grant Deflection to Scoundrel allies." That means you have to give up the Boba lead and the TM gain from the detonators. On ...

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US_Underdog

9 years ago

"Indominable_J;934045" wrote:
"JediGhost117;933990" wrote:
"Indominable_J;933732" wrote:
"JediGhost117;933555" wrote:
Wait does it block All of special damage? Like 100%? If so then EP is going to be useless and purely utility. And Nihilus won't deal damage either.

The update? No. Deflection is evasion for special damage. Leader abilities that grant evasion grant equal deflection. Cad's for some reason didn't. So it's just an evasion increase.

The way I read it, it was that under Cad Bane leadership he would give his team Deflection as a buff. I guess I read it wrong. My bad

It's just that deflection is pretty much never referenced, because it's incorporated into evasion for every ability/buff, so it is strange to see a direct reference to it.

Right? Anyway, if it's just part of evasion then that's a meta or two ago so kind of irrelevant since it's not Zaul