Primary vs secondary mod stat importance

A few things to consider when talking about mod strategy:

(These are GENERAL guidlines, there are bajillions of exceptions to these rules)

1. Discrete numbers tend to have stronger impact than percentage numbers (for example, +30 offense is better than +1.00% offense)
2. Defense has diminishing returns due to the damage algorithm (that is, an armor rating of 50% is less than twice as effective as an armor rating of 25%)
3. Tenacity is also effective against TMR and Max Health/Protection reduction, it is invaluable on certain toons and typically underrated by many.
4. After speed secondaries, pick secondaries that synergies with leader abilities, zeta abilities, and/or unique abilities. Mods that are “extreme” have more value than those that are well-rounded (that is, a 5A mod that has (4) upgrades to any one stat is better than a 5A mod that has (2) upgrades to several stats)
5. In the current end-game for mods, when you slice to 6e, the Primary Statistics are MUCH more level. In fact, you’ll find most end-game players using 6e health mods over protection and 6e offense mods over Crit Damage. The best mods to bring to 6e are those “extreme” mods I mentioned in the point above.

Slicing to 6e takes A LOT of resources, so plan accordingly! Mods are probably the best investment in the game currently, as they are the only resource which may be reallocated.

Here is my KRU for example. I utilize Health Sets to synergize with his Leader and Unique abilities, and Two Health primaries as well as two Defense Primaries (and obvious speed triangle and offense square) . I have as high speed secondaries as possible, and I used one mod with strong Offense secondary to help with his Focused Rage special in which he also recovers health... otherwise I looked for as much health and defense as possible.

Hope this helps!

"Dwinkelm;c-1869888" wrote:

Slicing to 6e takes A LOT of resources, so plan accordingly! Mods are probably the best investment in the game currently, as they are the only resource which may be reallocated.

Worth noting that winning Grand Arena is by far the best way to get 6E slicing mats. It's pretty much my only source of them, as my mod energy is always going towards farming new mods or slicing up existing ones, and the resources you can use for the gold thingies are always going towards gear. I win most of my brackets and the worst I ever do is 2nd place, so that's 2-3 new gold mods per week, roughly.

Just something to consider if you're one of those people STILL refusing to do anything but join and let the game throw down those hilarious auto defense teams (oh noes R2D2 lead!)

"USAFmedic129;c-1869893" wrote:
Mods are pure evil. Everything about this game is either stacked turn meter or preloaded turn meter which requires you to offset your mods with Speed.

Accurate. There are a VERY small number of characters that don't need speed, mostly tanks (L3-37, Sith Trooper and Resistance Trooper are the only ones I can think of at the moment), but the vast majority are borderline useless if you can't get at least 60-70 speed on them.

"dennishsnyder57;c-1870001" wrote:
@Dwinkelm what an interesting KRU set! I use CD/HEALTH to try to do the same, I figure his Focused Range gives Health to Damage Dealt so I figure a super high Crit Dam would yield more health. Everything else is Offense and Speed. He can hit slightly weak so I want his crits high.

KRU can actually hit pretty hard with that special too. I've had him dish out crits for 20k+ using a CD triangle. He's a good candidate for those weird "who does this even fit" mods where it's like a good CD triangle with speed secondary but it's from the defense set.

Thanks for the pic. That actually helps clarify what I was trying to figure out.

Primaries are for what you need the toon to do best, for example, protection on a cross is for someone like GK.

Speed is the most important secondary. If a mod doesn’t have any speed secondaries, I usually sell it.

So like in the case of chewie event I should focus on potency primaries? I'm pretty sure that only one type of mod is designed for that but something to that effect

Mods are pure evil. Everything about this game is either stacked turn meter or preloaded turn meter which requires you to offset your mods with Speed.

Arena is the purest example of how out of balance mods 2.0 is. “We promise to weight stats other than speed more heavily relying on skill rather than pure speed to determine outcomes.” Yeah bull malarkey! Try to enter and win Arena or a Legendary Event or Journey without heavily stacked speed and see how that works out for you.

The only stats that seem to matter are +speed to every secondary stat on every mod you own.
Prot or Health for your tanks
Offense for your damage dealers
Every other stat is just extra.

My GK has a main stat prot circle with Prot, Prot%, Health, Speed.
Conversely GMY has a Crit Chance circle with Off, Off, Speed, Crit Damg secondaries.

Just play with it and see what works best for your play style. I aim for 85k plus prot on tanks with over 45k health, and 3500 plus offense on damage dealers.

@Dwinkelm what an interesting KRU set! I use CD/HEALTH to try to do the same, I figure his Focused Range gives Health to Damage Dealt so I figure a super high Crit Dam would yield more health. Everything else is Offense and Speed. He can hit slightly weak so I want his crits high.

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@Dwinkelm you should aim for higher. 52-53% armor and 65K+ HP will give you the anti dps build that might be enough vs CLS, and Rex Wampas, and not just ImpTroopers and ewoks (that you current KRU probably can timeout some of those)