Could somebody explain Offence and Defence up/down?

Jessevjames

Please explain offense up/down and defense up/down. I get the concept but is it a debuff on enemie and what is the effect %. Probably a dumb question but the game doesn't explain it too well.

Sticare_Courts_0073

Offense up/down: useful, I would rate the effectivity /10
Defense up/down: near worthless, I would rate the effectivity Ugnaught/10

Ello_Asty

Offense up makes you hit 50% harder. It makes Sid hit like a GS regular attack.
Down makes you hit 50% softer. It makes Sid hit like a Barriss regular attack.

Defense up or down does next to nothing. Say you have 300 defense. Defense up gives you 450 instead. You have 10,000 hit points. Qui-Gon Jin hits you for 4,000. The defense saves you 450 points so it is like you got hit for 3,550 instead. You have 6,450 hit points left. His assist calls in FOTP/GS/REY/etc with +75% damage and kills you regardless of saving that 450 points.

Make sense?

Jessevjames

Ah good stuff. I was thinking of farming plo koon who serves defense up so this kind of explains why I shouldn't farm him. Thanks!!!

Aero

You should still farm Plo Koon and do a clone squad! About to get mine up to 5* tonight. The defensive up sucks but that same move also grants turn meter.

Jessevjames

Yeah your right and I did have an idea to do a clone squad. I've got Rex fives and sergeant but can't think of a fifth to go with them

Aero

Jessevjames wrote: »

Yeah your right and I did have an idea to do a clone squad. I've got Rex fives and sergeant but can't think of a fifth to go with them

I have Rex 7* g8, Fives 6* g8, Sargent 5* g8, and Plo Koon 5* g8. All level 70. I'm just using Luminara in the mean time until they add Commander Cody, Echo, or ARC Trooper which are all datamined. Maybe Ahsoka after they buff her and I finish Fives. I'm a suckered for themed teams.

Doga

This may be helpful

http://www.swgohcantina.com/positive-and-negative-status-effects-explained/

scuba

Offense up hurts more. Defense up puts pretty green shield up for Asajj to try an steal.

ZarAzi

Good:
Offense Down
Offense Up
Defense Down

Disgustingly Bad:
Defense Up

Pilot

Offense up provides 50% offense. Thats a 50% bonus to your physical/special attack. Defense down affects armor. Cuts your armor in half. Tje problem is that armor is a flat constant. So having 200 armor mitigates 200 damage. With heroes hitting for 10k, 200 damage mitigation is silly. So your defense up on 200 armor mitigates 300 damage. However, offense up of that hero hitting for 10k turns the attack into 15k. Mitigating 300 flat damage from 15k is silly.

Irrlicht

There is one more interesting thing I'd like to ask using an opportunity... If you have an offence up buff and gain offence down debuff, what happens? I saw droids' speed up from Poggle disappeared after my Fives counter-attacked and placed speed down on it. Is it the same with offence up|down? They cannot be both at the same moment and the one that was placed last substitutes the previous, can they?
If so, one may think about strategy against chars with offence up, like using Plo Koon with his AoE attack + mass offence down.