Morganite

Might be a bug. The tanker proc has gotten unfixed too, and everyone seems pretty sure that's not WAI.

-Morgan.

Well, that amount of defense combined with Eclipse's resistance would make you pretty durable... except that most of it's coming from toggles, so you won't have them in forms. And since forms are where most of your attacks are, it's where you'll probably spend most of your time. And that just won't do.

Having those toggles as LotG mules is fine. (My build has most of the same powers, in fact.) But if you want defense on a triform, it's pretty much got to be set bonuses. If you, say, put those slots into the PBAoEs for full sets of Obliteration, that'd give you a pretty respectable melee defense. Also some more recharge. You've already got quite a bit of that, but that's okay.

I'd suggest dropping the Doctered Wounds set in Stygian Circle. It doesn't need that much enhancement, and the set bonuses aren't that exciting. And you should at least put a bit of damage in Black Dwarf Drain.

Unless you really like having both the starting blasts, you could replace one with Gravity Shield, put one of the +def uniques there, and save a slot.

-Morgan.

If the time switching forms is the problem, well, that's going away next issue...

Also, have you tried making a teleport bind? With that it's pretty straightforward. (Not that inclined to take it on any other characters, but hey, it's a free travel power.)

-Morgan.

(UberGuy posted graphs.)

I'm not quite sure what that has to do with the implied question in my post though. I can calculate proc rates easily enough, but that really doesn't answer the question of "Is this too powerful?" If your second graph is supposed to relate to that... well, I'm really not sure how to interpret it at all. (And I'm also not sure it'd relate all that well to AoE powers, which are the ones I care about.)

*Feels like she's had parts of this conversation before.*

[QUOTE=Grey Pilgrim;4219261]However, the old system was a lot more clear and easy to follow. PPM and how it is described with procs is terribly done and confusing, and not all entirely because of the language associated with them. "Procs 20 or 30% of the time" is a lot easier to grasp than all the formulating going behind this change. I suppose it's inevitable to balance how differently recharged things are, but I guess I didn't have an issue with procs going more in low recharge powers and less in long recharge ones.[quote]

It's a fair complaint. But it seems like it's a case of not being able to have something both ways. Either there'll be some math to even out proc rates, or there'll be flat rates that leave some things overpowered and some things underpowered. Even so, the general range proc rates will fall in with this setup is fairly predictable, so I don't think it should be too onerous once everything gets cleaned up. (Although it'd be a really good idea to be able to check what the rate would be before slotting a proc in a power. It'd be even better to be able to do so without having bought a proc yet.)

Okay, did a test run with Synaptic Overload using the Coercive Persuasion SBE. It fired every time on the first target hit, and was about 18% on the jumps.

Curiously, this was right around the expected rate for a 4.5 ppm proc in an AoE with radius 15 and an 8 second cycle time. Just as the proc rate I saw for Jolting Chain jumps with the Devastation proc was right around expected for a 2.5 ppm proc in an AoE with the same stats.

Whether this is sensible or not, I don't know. But it seems like currently the CP proc in Synaptic Overload is going to be greatly disadvantaged compared to something like Seeds of Confusion, without any particular reason I can see why it should be so.

-Morgan.

Well. You're sacrificing some things I wouldn't for defense... but then, that tends to be a matter of what you want out of a build. Still, I can see a few possibilities for refinement.

-Knockback protection. You've got two IOs worth. The general consensus seems to be that anything where one IO isn't enough will either take 3, or will take more than you're going to get. Personally I favor BotZ in Shadow Recall. It recharges fast enough. If you decided to go with only one, that'd let you move a +Def unique from Black Dwarf to Absorption and free up a slot. As for Shadow Cloak, you could put the GotA +runspeed or Kismet unique there. Or you could add a third -kb IO. I find just one usually gets the job done though.

-The Aegis unique you've got in Gravity Shield really doesn't help that much. I'd put the other +Def unique there, and save another slot.

-Your eclipse is near-perma when Hasten is up. But you're not really all that close to perma on that yet, so... I haven't the faintest idea what your average cycle time would end up beign. I suspect it's more than I'd like if I were you though. A few things I suggest below will relate to that...

-I'm really surprised you don't have any Obliterations. More global recharge and a nice chunk of melee/smashing/lethal defense, seems like they'd be great for you. Also has more recharge enhancement, which I think is more useful for Sunless Mire than the endurance reduction.

--I'd go with Obliteration for Black Dwarf Mire too. Unless you're really hot after the bonuses from Devastation, I'd stick the ATOs in Dark Nova Blast.

---If you were going to do that, you might also consider putting the Recharge/Form Enhancement in Shadow Bolt instead. The recharge is still good without it, and that saves you another slot. (The six slot bonus isn't that good anyway.)

-If you're going to have Dark Nova Bolt slotted (and I've seen arguments both for and against), why not a 5-slot Decimation for more recharge? Or you could go Thunderstrike for some e/n defense, it's pretty common in late-game.

-Personally I'd rather have the performance shifter proc in Black Dwarf than Dark Nova. Dwarf seems to have more end problems in my experience.

-You're always going to get looks askance having the Numina proc in a click, but with the way Stygian Circle gets used, you'll probably have it most of the time. You'd probably still be better off moving the second slot to Health and putting it there.

--As for the other slot in SC? EndMod's better, really. It's already a near-full heal even with only one target. Adding EndMod gives you more staying power in not-enough-bodies environments.

-Unless you really like the heal of Essence Drain, why not Gravity Well instead? Does a lot more damage, and even a single-target hold has many uses. And did I mention that it does a ton of damage?

-Black Dwarf Drain has pretty good damage too - less than smite, but more than strike. Why not give it some damage? I'd move the slots from Brawl there, and use the four KCs + a suitable pair of enhancements from TotN. (I like Heal + Accuracy/Heal, myself.)

-Oh yeah, about those Kinetic Combat's. The knockdown bonus may be an economical choice, but it leaves the enhancement numbers a bit anemic. There may also be an undesirable interaction there. If things work the way I've been lead to belive, 6% of the time the knockdown in the attack and the proc will fire at the same time, the game will add together the mags, and you'll get knockback. I once had some unfortuante set bonuses that lead to my dwarf attacks doing knockback, and take it from me, it's annoying.

-Six-slotting the purple set in Gravitic Emanation doesn't add much duration over various 5-slot combinations, and the effect will be even more diminished if you go for the Spiritual Alpha. I'd drop either Stun or End/Stun.

... I think that's all I've got right now.

-Morgan.

Bows really don't make much sense as a melee weapon. I am perhaps absurdly fond of the fact that Archery replaces brawl with a kick, but I'm not sure just kicks is enough for the melee component of a dom assault set.

My suggestion for a weapon-based set would be sword and pistol. It's at least theoretically possible, and has some nice imagery associated with it.

Or, you know, just forget the pistol part and go with swords entirely. I can far more easily accept throwing swords as an attack than routinely hitting people with a bow. (And a melee attack with an arrow is even worse.)

-Morgan.