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Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim

His topic is referring to the mass email they just sent to all NCSoft accountholders.

Which is actually pretty painful. It's like they cut us open and then offered us this as a band-aid.

A band-aid made of salt.

Originally Posted by Kangstor

Well there was heated debate in beta section of forum if you wonder why. You can check there.

A short story; It was a full toggle with 0.5 end/second. Some people wined becuase not all builds can use this and demanded a lower end cost. Next thing happened was half-toogle and AH posted a thread about future of hybrid in beta forums. Many people demanded bringing back old one or making it a full toggle, some people suggested if a full toggle is not possible at least give a passive. Next thing there was passive boost of hybrid. People gave up arguing with devs since AH made it clear that they never inteded to make hybrid as a full-time accessable power becuase it is less fun according to him. Hybrid went live with that state.

Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood

You are correct. The problem is that Blasters don't get Focused Accuracy so they can only get perma-FastSnipe if their secondary is Devices or Energy (theoretically Dark can also get it perma but it need a LOT of recharge).

Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood

The problem I have with factoring Zapp is that it is interruptable. Just looking at single target damage factoring in Zapp, VS and accounting for recharge Elec seems to do ok compared to Energy BUT this assumes you never get hit while casting Zapp*.

If you get interrupted on a Zapp that screws your damage to hell. Not to mention situations where it's impossible to avoid taking frequent minor damage (such as the final fight in Keyes trial).

*Note I only considered up to about 100% recharge. Above that Elec will drop off due to cast time outweighing recharge time.

Originally Posted by Synapse

I'm currently considering having a minimum chance to proc of 10-15%, so this particular example might not be as dramatically affected as you mention here.

Originally Posted by Synapse

Hi All,

I wanted to reach out to you all to let you know that we're aware of your concerns regarding procs per minute versus IO static proc chances. In some situations the procs per minutes on store bought enhancements (SBEs) are superior to those in IOs. I've read through your feedback and understand your concerns. We have a course of action we'd like to take for Issue 24. The changes we're going with are:

1) All IO procs will have their flat percentage chance to trigger updated to use Procs Per Minute.
2) Proc chance will cap at 90%. This means that there is always a small chance for the proc to not trigger even if slotted into a power that would previously guarantee a proc.
3) Procs Per Minute will use modified recharge instead of base recharge. The reason for this is that the whole idea of Procs Per Minute goes right out the window when we keep the base recharge even though that value can be dramatically altered.
4) To compensate for this, the Procs Per Minute on all enhancements will be increased.

The goals of this change would be to create a strong level of parity between IOs and Store Bought Enhancements (in fact they'll be identical proc wise) and reduce the impact that the initial implementation of the PPM mechanic had on gameplay. Your feedback is very important to us so I wanted to see how the community feels about these potential changes.

I think it's important to stress that the overall impact to gameplay this will have on existing PPM enhancements will be small. That said players will notice a small performance hit at very high levels of recharge. The balancing point for the increased procs per minute rates will be based upon a reasonable level of recharge. That amount will likely change through beta testing. You'll all have a chance to play test this on the beta servers in the not so distant future.

Best Regards,
Phil "Synapse" Zeleski

Originally Posted by Synesence

Alright, I've dropped Stealth, picked up weave, and slotted everything to the max, imo. I checked my defense with Hide suppressed and my Ranged and Melee both come out at 44.61 and AoE comes at 35.55. Not worried about the AoE, but does the .39 really make a difference? If so, I can take care of that one easily, but if not, then I'll save a 100 million.

Originally Posted by Issen

It depends. Merc's have Burst, which can fit an AH proc. Sure, your minions can as well, but every little bit helps. The Grenade can be slotted with Force Feedback, with helps your secondary (Plus ranged pets don't usually care about knockback -nearly- as much as melee).

Necro...well, if you're taking a secondary without a self-heal, Life Drain is great, otherwise I'd just stick with Gloom, or skip.

Bots...I could see Photon Grenade for it's AoE and stacking with your Protector Bots, but that's about it.

Thugs...yeah, Empty Clips, shove a Force Feedback into it and call it a day.

Beast is great, but Call Swarm seems pointless. The DoT is lethal, piddling even when it's not resisted, and only has a "moderate" chance of adding Pack Mentality. Meanwhile Call Hawk offers better secondary effects and Call Ravens is a -fly CONE.

Demons is the only one where taking all three (IF you have the slots) is worthwhile. Otherwise I take Corruption and Crack Whip.

Basically, there's room for use on the personal attacks, especially at low levels when you don't have either many pets and said pets don't really have a working attack chain. But otherwise I'd agree with you.

Originally Posted by Jeremia_Bane

All the powers in /traps are good, skippable is MAYBE the detonator power if you dislike loosing even one of your minions as much as i do. For that reason i also would skip all the attack powers in the primary. Traps is a busy secondary, and 90% of the time your better of trying to plant a tripmine under your foe than using one of your weak power wasting attacks.

You can have more than one tripmine active at a time btw. Like in the same place ontop of each other. Luring a problematic boss and his minions into a bunch of tripmines is definitely an appropiate moment to practice your evil laughing.
Pets do profit from leadership toggles and you can heal them with aid other from the medicine pool.

Originally Posted by Jibikao

Mmmm, yeah, my only experience with offensive toggles is dark armor. I usually run fear toggle and I thought that interferes with Placate + critical. I am not 100% sure if it actually interrupts AS.

The new stun aura in Energy Aura has no self damage right?

Originally Posted by Obscure Blade

Getting /Poison is nice, but yeah I've really wanted /Traps on my Controllers for a long time.

Originally Posted by Genesis Man

Essentially though... this set will play exactly like Energy Blast. Lasers are great and all, but if the powerset doesn't actually do anything different from a pre-existing set... it won't be created.

Originally Posted by Jharber

Hello, I was wondering how hard it would be and how much would it cost to softcap all positions in a /shield toon if I already have Gladiator's Armor: +3Def and that other cheap +3 def ... so +6def just from two enhancements. I currently have them both oh my /SR toon and I was just curious if it would be worth switching to /shield. Thanks for any info!

PS: I was going to try WM/Shield since I want a weapon with my shield and not SS or FM.