Difference between revisions of "Limits"

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Overview

Several player and critter characteristics are restricted to certain limits. Buffs or debuffs beyond those points produce no additional effects, although they will work to offset later powers trying to apply the opposite effect.

Damage Resistance

Maximum

Maximum total Resistance for players is different for each Archetype.

Most critters have a maximum Resistance of 90%. The following are exceptions and have a maximum of 100%:

• Giant Monsters
• Heroes/Archvillains
• the Hamidon and its Mitochondria
• Rularuu Bosses (may reach 200%)
• anything that needs to be immune to all or most types of damage, such as practice Rikti Drones in Outbreak (invulnerable), Oil Slicks (vulnerable to fire and energy only), fires in the Hellion Arson zone event (vulnerable to cold and extinguishers only), etc.

Minimum

Players and critters have a minimum Resistance of -300%.

Status Effect Resistance

Maximum

Players and critters have maximum status effect Resistances of +100%, which cuts duration to 1/2 of normal.

Minimum

Players and critters apparently have hard minimum status effect Resistances of -300%. The effective minimum, however, is +0%, since there are no ways to debuff status effect Resistances. This is good, since the game's formulas would produce infinite status durations at -100% Resistance, and negative durations below that.

Status Effect Protection

There is essentially no upper limit to how much magnitude protection a player or critter can have to status effects.

Damage Buffs

Maximum

Maximum total Damage for players depends on Archetype and (usually) level.

Notes:

1. Attacks do 100% damage to start with (i.e. base, or 1x normal), not 0%. The amount of Damage bonus needed to reach the cap is 100 less than the cap itself.
2. These maximums apply only to effects that increase the amount of damage an attack delivers. Reductions to an enemy's Resistances can cause that enemy to suffer damage beyond these maximums. So can effects that cause attacks to deliver damage more than once, such as Containment, Scourge, and Critical Hit.

Minimum

Players and critters have a minimum damage of 10%.

Defense/ToHit

This section is largely academic. No attack can have less than a 5% or more than a 95% chance of hitting. So although there are limits to how far a player's or critter's ToHit and Defense can be adjusted, these adjustments almost always drive the final chance of hitting to one of its own limits before the cap on total buffs/debuffs is reached.

Maximum Defense

Maximum total Defense for players depends on Archetype and level.

Maximum total Defense for critters depends on rank and level.

Minimum Defense

Players and critters have a minimum Defense of -100%.

Maximum ToHit

Players have no limit on maximum ToHit.

Critters may have no limit, or they may have a maximum that varies from +95% at level 1 to +211.10% at level 55. Counting against this maximum (if it exists) is the +50% that all critters get as part of the game's internal basic attack mechanics.

Minimum ToHit

Players and critters have a minimum ToHit of -100%.

Recharge Rate

Maximum

Players and critters have a maximum recharge rate bonus of +400%, which cuts recharge time to 1/5th of normal.

Minimum

Players and critters have a maximum recharge rate penalty of -75%, which increases recharge time to 4x normal.

Movement Speed

Maximum

There are hard limits to maximum run, flight, and jump speeds. See Travel Powers for more info.

Minimum

Players and critters have maximum run, flight, and jumpspeed penalties of -90%.

Health Regeneration

Maximum

Maximum total Regeneration for players depends on Archetype and (usually) level.

Maximum total Regeneration for critters depends on rank and (usually) level.

Minimum

Players and critters have a minimum Regeneration of 0%. It is not possible to cause something to lose health by debuffing its Regeneration to a negative value.

Endurance Recovery

Maximum

Supposedly the Real Numbers in game display has the +Recovery max set at 18%. I have not personally verified this, the person who told me about it got the blue numbers in the display after he defeated 4 Lab Equipments and got all +Recovery buffs.

Minimum

Players and critters have a minimum Recovery of 0%. It is not possible to cause something to lose endurance by debuffing its Recovery to a negative value.

Stealth and Perception

Base Perception for all players is 500 feet. Base PvP Stealth and PvE Stealth are 0.

Maximum

Maximum total Stealth and Perception for players depend mainly on level, with Stalkers having higher Stealth caps.

Minimum

Players have a minimum Perception of 0 and a minimum Stealth of -180.

Hit Points

See the Hit Points article.

Influence/Infamy

A character's inventory for influence/infamy is capped at 2 billion. It will continue to be earned after that point, but it won't be added to your inventory. (Thus, you can continue making progress towards the inf badges even if you don't have room for it.)

Sources

• iakona's classes.xls spreadsheet
• TopDoc's Damage Badge guide
• #'s of Perception/Stealth
• Re: Guide to (Tohit and) Defense v1.10beta