When you perplex down someone's defense does it stay minus one your entire turn?Or once the figure is hit and their defense value changes does it go away?

1 down for the whole turn.

Perplex lasts until the end or your turn OR until the character is damaged or healed. So, if you hit them and they take clicks of damage the perplex is lost.

I.E. Invisible Girl is surrounded by 3 figures sharing her 18 defense. You perplex it down to 17 and hit one of the adjacent figures with energy explosion. She takes a click and the perplex is gone so instead of a 16 she has her natural 17 defense on her second click.

Hope this answers your question.

Happy clixing,
Mike

Perplex Firelord's DV down to 12 then have every character with ranged attacks KO him in a single turn
It is fun.

Once firelord takes damage the Perplex ends. Now since Firelord drops like a stone, it's possible that after one attack his DV is lower than the original perplexed value anyway, but the perplex modifier in null after the first click of damage.

Please confirm or correct:

2 V-Mystiques, 2 E-Mystique, 1 V-Taskmaster , 1 V-Gambit each use perplex v. enemy Firelord to bring his DV down to 12.

FL is withn all 6 of his foes attack range.

Taskmaster attacks first and succeeds dropping FL by two clicks.

FL's DV goes back up to 18 v. the remaining 5 attackers.

Yes?

Perplex lasts your entire turn. If you perplex a defense down, attack with Taskmaster, and Taskmaster hits, Firelords defense is then whatever the printed number on his dial is.

This is incorrect. As soon as FL is hit, the perplex is gone. It lasts for your entire turn or until damage is done to the perplexed character.

Unless I'm mistaken, if Firelord takes two clicks of damage his defense would be 16 (at least the veteran would be). The effects of perplex would be over as soon as he took damage so he'd keep that 16 for the next attack.

Once Firelord drops the two clicks, his defense becomes whatever is printed on the dial at that click (the perplex effect has ended).


Hope that helps.

It does help.

I hate perplex. No. Hate is too soft a word. I loathe perplex.

That is more like it.