How Does Potency and Tenacity Work? (2024)

J7Luke wrote: »

crzydroid wrote: »

Tenacity of Defender - Potency of Attacker = Chance to resist negative effect, with the caveat that this chance can never drop below 15%.

For raids, it can sometimes be helpful to put a character in who can land Tenacity Down, which will reduce the enemy to the 15% base chance of resist even if you have 0 potency.

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Cool, thanks! That is exactly what I was wondering about.

I'm still unclear about one thing though: Do all debuffs rely on Potency? Like, if an ability says 80% chance to stun, does that mean there is exactly an 80% chance the enemy will get stunned, or there is an 80% chance to attempt to inflict stun and then an (tenacity - potency)% chance for the enemy to actually be stunned?

It's the later. 80% dice roll to even make the attempt. Then it does the potency/tenacity check to see what the next dice roll will be to see if the attempt sticks.

How Does Potency and Tenacity Work? (2024)
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