Mirage_Turtle wrote: » "24% chance to ACTIVATE an Armor PASSIVE" This line has always gotten me, I added the all caps words for emphasis. It's humorous to me in its fallacy. If something needs to be ACTIVATED, then by definition, it's not passive. An umbrella is an Active guard against rain. It's not effective all the time, you need to apply effort to use it, and you take it down when it's not necessary. You activate it. A roof is a Passive guard against rain. It's there all the time no matter what the weather is. When it starts raining, it requires no external trigger or activation to kick on. It's passive. Juggernaut is a good in-game example. Juggernaut has an additional layer of passive armor built into his stats. This armor is not activated...it's always there...so much so that's it's not necessary to display any type of on-screen icon. Same with Spidey's Evade. Or Jane Foster's Energy Resistance. They are all true passive abilities/buffs that require no trigger or activation. IMIW was given illogical "Armor Passives" that don't behave like other passive abilities for some reason. We could all theorize what that reason (or reasons) could be, but it would be fruitless because nothing would change. Just par for the course anymore, I'm afraid.
BitterSteel wrote: » Mirage_Turtle wrote: » "24% chance to ACTIVATE an Armor PASSIVE" This line has always gotten me, I added the all caps words for emphasis. It's humorous to me in its fallacy. If something needs to be ACTIVATED, then by definition, it's not passive. An umbrella is an Active guard against rain. It's not effective all the time, you need to apply effort to use it, and you take it down when it's not necessary. You activate it. A roof is a Passive guard against rain. It's there all the time no matter what the weather is. When it starts raining, it requires no external trigger or activation to kick on. It's passive. Juggernaut is a good in-game example. Juggernaut has an additional layer of passive armor built into his stats. This armor is not activated...it's always there...so much so that's it's not necessary to display any type of on-screen icon. Same with Spidey's Evade. Or Jane Foster's Energy Resistance. They are all true passive abilities/buffs that require no trigger or activation. IMIW was given illogical "Armor Passives" that don't behave like other passive abilities for some reason. We could all theorize what that reason (or reasons) could be, but it would be fruitless because nothing would change. Just par for the course anymore, I'm afraid. So much this. Kabam gave Iron man active buffs and called them passive so they couldn’t make medusa a counter.