Im currently working on my dexterity and wondering if you guys think it’s worth the E to train dexterity high.. or is it better to focus on a high defense instead....?
DEX VS. DEF
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I personally would go for defense, as it has a lower whore rate 1:14 compared to 1:100
Personally I think defence is more useful due to attack mitigation. However they are gradually making dexterity more and more balanced with speed, so hopefully they should become more evenly matched soon.
Keep a reasonable dexterity, not much chance your def is higher than opponent 13x. A reasonable dex would be better for surviving longer.
Since the accuracy overhaul, it makes sense to invest in Dex a lot. I personally suggest to keep it higher than Def.
Plus you have a cheap, unblockable temp - Flash, that'll make you survive for so much longer in any attack (and smoke during defends will work really well, too). In the hardest cases - tyrosine+flash, and good luck to them hitting you.
You will hardly ever have 14x more def than your opponent's str, and if you do, they are probably much much weaker anyway. Unless you whore your def with SEs.
Plus you have a cheap, unblockable temp - Flash, that'll make you survive for so much longer in any attack (and smoke during defends will work really well, too). In the hardest cases - tyrosine+flash, and good luck to them hitting you.
You will hardly ever have 14x more def than your opponent's str, and if you do, they are probably much much weaker anyway. Unless you whore your def with SEs.
Dexterity is better now for a number of reasons in actual use, especially now that the effects of accuracy have been heavily nerfed.
Ignore the extreme ends of the respective curves for dexterity vs. speed and defense vs. strength and focus on the section where the defensive stat is 0.5x - 2.0x opposing offensive stat. Dexterity does better in this range than defense and it's where you'll be hitting most of the time once you get to a reasonable level, as there aren't many players leaving one defensive stat entirely behind nowadays.
There are other reasons why dex is better now as the primary defensive stat, but if you're just into numbers then the curves paint a picture.
Ignore the extreme ends of the respective curves for dexterity vs. speed and defense vs. strength and focus on the section where the defensive stat is 0.5x - 2.0x opposing offensive stat. Dexterity does better in this range than defense and it's where you'll be hitting most of the time once you get to a reasonable level, as there aren't many players leaving one defensive stat entirely behind nowadays.
There are other reasons why dex is better now as the primary defensive stat, but if you're just into numbers then the curves paint a picture.
Defense users are also far more vulnerable to weapon bonus effects (demo, freeze, burning etc).
^ This.
Many of us Defense whores sh*t a brick the moment we take our first 7-hit Blindfire barrage with 3 crits in a single turn. Or take a freeze from a Snowcannon and have our speed wrecked as Proxima mentioned.
Being able to stack tyrosine from a prior attack with flash grenades and a tactical flashlight is also reaaaallly nice for Dex whores.
Many of us Defense whores sh*t a brick the moment we take our first 7-hit Blindfire barrage with 3 crits in a single turn. Or take a freeze from a Snowcannon and have our speed wrecked as Proxima mentioned.
Being able to stack tyrosine from a prior attack with flash grenades and a tactical flashlight is also reaaaallly nice for Dex whores.
Yeah, fortunately that last part should be alleviated with the temps/headgear rebalance at some point.
I would really like to flesh out some weapon bonuses that could make DEX whores more vulnerable tbh..although I can't work out the logic there unfortunately.
I would really like to flesh out some weapon bonuses that could make DEX whores more vulnerable tbh..although I can't work out the logic there unfortunately.
yeah, another note to factor in is that for SEs, defence SE is usually always higher than Dex SEs, so in the long term, your gonna get more for you buck if u go with Dex
Defense is terrible, go dex.
Well tbh it kinda depends. Company specials can help def and dex users. For example, tyrosine + 7* AN perk (-25% enemy speed reduction) seems promising, and the 25% armor boost from a security firm with high armor + sero sounds like another good combo.