Codewalker

Based on the reports from other threads, it seems the answer to how PPM works is: It doesn't.

All of the ATO procs are set to 0% chance, but with a PPM value in the power. I assumed that the PPM would override the chance, but since people are saying that the ATO procs aren't going off at all, that would seem to not be the case.

The only one that has been reported as working is the Stalker's chance to enter "hidden" state, and that one is set to 20% chance on the non-superior version only.

Brute's Fury, Scrapper's Strike, and Kheldian's Grace, and Command of the Mastermind should work since those are implemented as set bonuses.

I can see a few situational uses. One that comes to mind is placing a "don't bother me" field to click the rubble piles while speedrunning SSA#1 on a character without enough defense to simply ignore the incoming waves.

But yeah, still a very skippable power.

It depends how the effects are set up. Since it's a toggle, chances are the duration will still be fixed, so the mag should be enhanceable. Although Intangible enhancements only work on the Intangible effect, not the Phase. We won't know for sure until it's on beta.

TBH I'm not sure how that really works in practice on AVs anyway, since by its nature they can't have any inherent Phase protection or resistance (but they DO have mag 4 intangible protection). Trial bosses do have a phase protection of sorts... they get a power that applies a mag 1000 phase effect that forces them into the correct phase. Which is apparently "LordWinter"... not gonna ask. Oddly they don't seem to get any extra Intangible protection that I can see.

TL;DR: what happens when an enemy is phased but not intangible, or vice versa?

On the bright side, at least on the AVs I checked, the PToD don't give any extra intangible protection.

Yes, as you noticed for pets they're usually baked into the damage scale, since (psuedo)pets always use the pet modifiers. Spring Attack is a good example.

And it may actually be the same as blasters. CoD only shows the modifier tables to 3 decimal places. I was lazy and just looked there instead of looking at the backend database. So rounding error could be responsible for the 0.01 difference.

Also worth noting is that, despite what they say in their descriptions, Group Invisibility and Grant Invisibility work a bit differently. Those only have one defense component, and it doesn't just suppress when you attack / are attacked, it CANCELS, and is gone for good. Or at least until the power is reapplied.

The stealth cancels, too, so you're left with an icon on you that does nothing except make your character transparent.

*cough* Destroyers *cough*

Taking those into account, the RoA ticks are approximately:
Direct damage powers are almost always the same scale across ATs (except for Blaster's normalized T1/T2 attacks). So the Defender version does a bit more than it's supposed to.

Corruptors in general have a fairly low base damage, depending on Scourge to prop that up.

As an aside, it looks like Defender Rain of Arrows does considerably more damage in PvP than the others. There's an unconditional damage tick and a "player only" damage tick. The other versions all have it as a "critters only" tick and a "players only" tick.

This part suggests that it's both. Not only does the proc chance vary based on activation / recharge, but there's a hard limit that would presumable limit the proc's usefulness in AoE attacks.

From what's been reported, however, it sounds like they may not be working at all.

Cloud Senses works because it's technically a to-hit debuff enhancement. Pet powers have no concept of sets, so they check the enhancement category instead. All of Fluffy's powers accept to-hit debuff enhancements except for Petrifying Gaze.

Theft of Essence / Touch of the Nictus are classed as Heal enhancements, however.

This.

Thanks to pet AI being what it is, Fluffy likes to stand in melee range. Chill of the Night is an always-on PBAoE 30% To-hit debuff which can be enhanced to around 45%.

Oh, and it's auto-hit.

That's true, though there's actually a new stacking flag now that prevents stacking from multiple casters without having to use tricks like granting a temp power with a limited number of copies.

The MA version of Caltrops (which Knives were also modified to use) takes advantage of this, which is how its slow effect no longer stacks when you're standing in 10 patches at once.

There's also a fairly new stacking mode that allows stacking up to an arbitrary number of times. It can optionally be combined with the collective flag to stack X times, regardless of the caster. Interface DoTs (including Reactive) do exactly that. Only the debuff portion uses the old-style Grant Power method.

Using the new stacking modes have the advantage of being able to use the caster's damage modifiers, and also not causing issues like aggro and who gets damage/kill credit.

Trapdoor is ridiculously easy on any character with access to a mez, which at level 50 with epic/patron pools is almost all of them. He may be EB rank, but he doesn't get purple triangles or any mez protection at all, so all it takes is stacking a hold and he can't summon his bifurcations. I don't even remember what attack powers he has, I've so rarely see him use them.

He's also vulnerable to chain-kb.

I don't recall ninjas having any AI problems with him, I could see bots maybe having issues since they like to stay at range (until they don't ;-)). Goto may help for MMs.

Metroid Merits?

Hear, hear. After spending time on a planet of conflict where a flight from the north of a continent to the south of the same continent could easily take over 10 minutes of AFK-worthy time, I've come to appreciate, and indeed become completely spoiled by, the speed of travel in this game.

Seriously, I saw a video from a competing heroic product showing off their version of "Super Speed". My first thoughts occurred simultaneously: "Pretty effects," and "Oh, that looks slow."

In the age of mission teleporters and Ouroboros Portals at level 14, we waste next to no time getting where we want to be. And yet I still find myself sighing when I get a hunt mission in Boomtown and have to zone twice to get there. Oh, the humanity!

Can you give it a try and see how it looks now?

I increased the horizontal distance a little, and the vertical distance a bit more. I don't want to push it too far out, since in order to click the links in some of them you have to be able to cover the gap to mouse into the tooltip before it disappears.

That one was slipped in back in November I think. When I started working on it, I couldn't believe that they weren't clickable, and just had to go and change that. Glad it was an improvement for you.