Draeth Darkstar

In the vast majority of cases, especially for single target powers, proc rates are going to increase.

AoEs that aren't extremely rapid cycling will remain similar or improve.

There are practically no AoE powers where the Performance Shifter proc actually stands to benefit you or your allies.

Agreed in the specific example of Hasten, for most builds, because as you point out the performance difference once downtime is low starts to become meaningless, but as you said yourself,

This is very much a topic where the devil is in the details. Just a few other examples to make that point are Phantom Army, Fade, and the attack chain for Titan Weapons.

In the former two, the difference between 10 seconds of downtime or 0 is not just qualitative, as it's not hard to imagine a scenario in which the downtime on one of those abilities could pretty easily result in death.

In the latter, If I recall correctly the necessary recharge to sustain the optimal attack chain is something like 300% in Follow Through and near that in Arc of Destruction. Having a recharge fluctuation during that attack chain would impact DPS (Momentum mechanic aside, but that has the potential to make it much worse depending on timing).

As I said before, the absolute value of reduction is definitely not the only consideration, and you're probably right that it's not the most important consideration, but I don't feel it's necessarily as disconnected from the game mechanics as you seem to.

I've always wished that instead of blocking KB effects, the Immobilizes instead capped their magnitude at 0.67, but I doubt that will ever happen. I think it would be viewed as overpowering for high-frequency knockbacks.

Immob+Tornado, for example, would become near-hold-level CC.

I would explain to you all the things that are wrong with this post, but Snowzone and Bill seem to have managed just fine.
If I were ever insane enough to make another Ice Controller, I probably wouldn't either. As it happens, my only one is Ice/Storm, so she's heavily dependent on Frostbite to utilize her Storm powers for damage.

You're right in that I should have said "the more recharge you have, the less each percentage point is worth as an absolute value in seconds."

However, people do frequently build for recharge for the absolute value in seconds reduced from a cooldown. This is especially common when considering buff uptime.

The most prevalent example is probably Hasten, which has a 450s cooldown at 0% Recharge (note that I'm disregarding the complication made by the fact that Hasten has a partial-uptime Recharge buff itself, since, while it makes the math more complicated than I feel like doing, it doesn't affect the point) which has a 120/450 ~= 26.67% uptime.

Hasten with 50% Recharge has a 450/1.5 = 300 second Recharge, a reduction from base of ~33.33%. 120/300 = 40% uptime, an increase of ~33%.

Hasten with 100% Recharge has a 450/2 = 225 second Recharge, a reduction from 50% recharge of 25%. 120/225 ~= 53.33% uptime, an increase from 50% recharge of ~25%.

When speaking in the relative, each 50% Recharge increase is about a 13.33% uptime increase from the previous, but in the absolute sense, the second 50% recharge increases the buff uptime by ~25% less than the first. Every percentage point of Recharge gains you less uptime than the previous, until you hit the magic number where the buff becomes permanent, at which point, unless it can stack, any further increase has no value at all.

This isn't the only perspective of recharge, certainly, but I don't see how it's an incorrect one, either.

lawl people who can't figure out how to build for endurance sustainability and recharge.

No one ever said it was, either.

In what universe do you live that Ice Control can do anything that, for example, Plant, can't?

Absolutely not.

That isn't an advantage, every melee set can slot the Gladiator's -Res Proc (except for a few special cases on Stalkers where the only PBAOE in the set is removed, which doesn't actually matter because Stalkers get neither BA or WM).

If you didn't see a mile away that IO procs were going to be converted to PPMs sooner or later, that's probably your own fault.

The formula for actual recharge is Base Recharge / (1 + ΣRecharge Increase) where Base Recharge is a value in seconds and ΣRecharge Increase is the decimal sum of all recharge modifiers such as enhancements, buffs, and debuffs.

In short, yes, the more recharge you have, the less each percentage point is worth.

That would take... um... 378% recharge in Crowd Control (good luck) and 435% in Shatter, which is above the recharge hard cap.

Whirling Smash blows Crowd Control out of the water for DPA, does nearly the same base damage, has a wider radius, and is a full PBAOE, not a cone.

Beyond that, Arc of Destruction (which also has a wider radius and does almost twice the damage of Crowd Control, with a better DPA even without momentum, though only hitting 5 targets) and Titan Sweep are both so infinitely much better than Whirling Mace and Shatter that there is really no comparison between the sets.

Then you have Defensive Sweep for filler.

Oh, and Follow Through is the one attack that actually beats Clobber for DPA, while the rest of TW's ST attack chain makes Mace's want to cry in a corner.

On top of all this TW has room for much better proc options than Mace.

Eh... It has one really, really awesome attack (Clobber) which is brought down by the awfulness of the rest of it's single-target powers, and one good AoE with two more average ones, and is all smashing damage.

Like I said, it's not a bad set, but it's certainly not one of the best, either.

Edit: One other thing, it and Battle Axe (Well, and Archery, if you count ranged sets) are also the only pure S/L sets that can't fit an Achilles proc anywhere, if I'm not mistaken.

All ATs' Electric Blast, Energy Blast, Dual Pistols, and Assault Rifle could stand for serious improvements.

Blaster Psi is awful compared to to all other versions of the set and pretty bad compared to other Blaster sets for no compelling reason.

Non-Blaster Radiation is terrible. Blaster Radiation is okay for AoE.

Ice Melee is just awful.

War Mace, and Battle Axe could stand to be given a little bit more personality, but they're not necessarily bad, just somewhat bland and pretty similar.

Energy Melee, Spines, and Broad Sword probably need mechanical help the most after Ice, as a guess.

Ice Control definitely needs the most mechanical help now.

• Shiver is practically useless.
• Flash Freeze is entirely useless.
• Ice Slick is useless for hard targets (EB, AV, GM) and almost everything in Incarnate content.
• Glacier has a needless restriction (can't be cast in the air).
• Jack's damage and control are both mediocre.
• Arctic Air suffers from a personal identity crisis, and would lose its 50%/50% terror/confuse and its recharge slow in favor of a 100% confuse chance and a damage component if I had any say in it.

Mind Control could stand to be made more group friendly, mostly due to it's heavy reliance on Sleep, but it does well solo. Specifically I'd look at making Mass Confusion equivalent to Seeds of Confusion. I'd say better, because it's a Tier 9, but SoC is pretty ridiculous. Telekinesis could definitely be made better, too.

Force Field needs a massive broadening of it's utility kit to be made relevant again. Cold Domination, Time Manipulation, and Dark Affinity stomp all over it.

Sonic Resonance and Trick Arrow could handle some improvement.

Poison is still pretty mediocre in my opinion, considering its formerly-single-target debuffs only splash for half effect and have pretty small areas. I don't see a mechanical reason to ever use it over Rad or Cold, for example.

Super Reflexes is dead-in-the-water now. Energy Aura's new shiny recharge aura killed the last reason anyone had to roll SR. The ONLY thing it has going for it is 95% DDR, and that isn't worth picking it over anything else.

Stone could handle some rebalancing of its tier 1-8 powers to make the choice between normal toggles versus Granite a good one.

Mercenaries are unforgivably bad.
Ninjas have a strong point (ST DPS), but that's offset by the fact that Demons are still better at it, an order of magnitude or three more durable and have significantly better AoE.
Necro pets are also annoyingly squishy but otherwise do fairly well.
Beasts suffer because they have numerous long-recharge, partial-uptime buffs that the AI isn't programmed to use decently.

The pet sets all really need to be brought up to the consistent durability levels of Demons/Bots/Thugs, and Masterminds as a whole need some time devoted to bug fixing, AI improvements, proliferation of Recharge Intensive Pet IO powers, and improvement of personal attacks.

Everything but Mental Manipulation could be scrapped and rebuilt from the ground up for all I care. Blaster secondaries suffer from the most design flaws in the game, in my opinion. Even MM basically rides on 3 powers, one of which is WILDLY OP.

Dom secondaries suffer from a bit of a have and have-not syndrome. Fire, Dark, Psi, and Earth all have compelling reasons to be chosen. Electric, Energy, Icy, and Thorns do not.

...I really hope this is a joke. High magnitude +Damage (which is notably only brought by Kin, and is the major selling point of the set) and -Regen are just about the only things Time Manipulation DOESN'T have from the huge Support toolkit.
It's one of the best support sets in the game and without question the most well-rounded one. It does a bit of everything, it has the best personal +Defense buff, the best personal +Recharge, and probably the best Control, MAYBE matched by Dark Miasma.

/Time/Mace is probably the best use of Ninjas in the game right now.

Synapse has already posted the answers to both of these questions. Read the Dev Digest.

Devastation and Touch of Death are both 15% Proc Chance IO, 2.5 PPM SBO. They were the only 15% IOs I could think to check; I didn't realize Lockdown broke that pattern.

15% IOs are currently 2.5 PPM, and would be increased to 3.125 PPM with the proposed changes.

In Acid Mortar: 3.125 * 0.04825 = 0.1508, or about 15%, still.

I'm assuming this question is referring to the Devastation proc, which can be slotted by the Corruptor/Defender versions of Acid Mortar.

I'm actually pretty curious about this, so I'm going to run through the math here.

Acid Mortar (the power the pet launches):
Activation Time 0.0s (this is probably a bug, good thing we have The Powers Guy in here, huh?)
Recharge Time: 5.5s
Radius: 8
Area Factor: 2.2 (1 + 0.15*8)
Adjusted Area Factor: 1.9 (1 + (2.2-1)*0.75)

The Recharge can't be adjusted, because it's a pet power, so we shouldn't have to worry about variable recharge levels.

Proc Chance = PPM * (5.5 + 0.0)/(60 * 1.9)
Proc Chance = PPM * 5.5/114
Proc Chance = PPM * 0.04825

A 20% proc now will convert into a 3.75 PPM proc, and a 33% proc will convert into a 5.625 PPM proc under the proposed changes.

3.75 * 0.04825 = 0.1809
5.625 * 0.04825 = 0.2714

So, yes, Acid Mortar will see a slight reduction in proc rate, decreasing it's proc chances to ~18% with normal procs and ~27% with Ragnarok, but I'd hardly call it "ripped to shreds."
Note that ATO procs put into Acid Mortar will actually increase unilaterally in proc rate because the Recharge can't be reduced, but the PPM value of those procs will be increased by 25%.

Caltrops I'm afraid I can't help you with, as I don't feel like hunting down the pseudopet in City of Data to calculate it's Area Factor.

As a note regarding Traps, according to the Real Numbers info the powers Trip Mine and Time Bomb use to deal damage have 16 minute 40 second recharges, and Poison Trap's is 0.0 seconds, all which will break the PPM formula gloriously.

Edit:
Once again, being attuned is irrelevant to procs. They work purely as a function of your combat level, the level of the enhancement is used for nothing but set bonus calculation. Disregarding the Flat%/PPM disparity and set bonus calculations, a minimum-level IO proc, a maximum-level IO proc, and an Attuned proc are functionally identical.
After IO procs are converted to PPM, minimum-level IO procs will be completely identical to Attuned procs.

The Hecatomb PPM is currently 4.5, not 6, so you're going to lose more than that. Assuming a 25% increase it will only be 5.625.

I vehemently disagree.
I much prefer the enhancements-only method. This leaves me in control what affects recharge has on my powers. Your proposal still leaves me at the mercy of a random well-intended Kineticist.