Offensive stats vs defensive stats

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I think that there is currently a huge difference between offensive stats (accuracy, spell mastery, ...) and defensive stats (dodge, spell resistance, ...). The offensive stats increase in most cases much faster than the defensive stats to prevent invulnerable heroes and units:

For example accuracy increases by 1 point per level, but dodge does not increase per level. To make this worse units get a huge accuracy bonus in a fortress. This means that dodge does not matter against high level trained units, because the accuracy is too high. There is one exception: Lucky. This trait ruins the balance between accuracy and dodge, because it increases them by 25 % and makes already strong stats overpowered. Lucky should work like backswing to make it useful, but not overpowered.

Spell mastery and spell resistance should be balanced, because both increase by 1 point per level, but it is very difficult to increase the spell resistance for non-defenders. This means that spell resistance does not matter in most cases, because the spell mastery is too high, and this results in spells that always inflict maximum damage and counterspells that always succeed.

I think Stardock should increase the usefulness and availability of the stat increasements, but limit the number of the stat increasements. For example abilities like the evade spell (dodge + 6 + 2 per air shard) or the dodge ability of the assassin (dodge + 4) are too weak, but if you stack many of them dodge gets overpowered. This applies to all offensive and defensive stats. For example dodge should be a single ability that increases the dodge by 25 and fortresses should unlock traits that can be used in the unit design.

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

The way I understand it:

Opponents hit chance = Max(opp's accuracy - dodge, 97%)

Thus, if you get "some" dodge, and your opponent gets a ton of accuracy , it will be the exact same as if you had NO dodge.  For high difficulties, this really seems to matter -- I ran into tarth today, late game, and the units had 200+ accuracy.  Any + dodge trinkets, items, I put on my troops were of no value.

Acrobat skill is kind of useless....Sure you could get a lvl 10 or 20 unit, but all those extra points in dodge from level will be dwarfed by your opponents accuracy by the time the unit levels that high.

Here is how I think it should be changed: 

Opponents hit chance = Max(1- dodge/opponents accuracy, 97%).  A starting accuracy would be 100 (i.e. 100%).  Thus at that level your dodge value is your actual chance to dodge.  Once your opponent gets to 200 accuracy, you would get 1/2 your dodge value.  I'd make it easier to get accuracy than currently, but this way even as your opponent gets very high accuracy ratings, your still getting some of your dodge value.