Synapse

Originally Posted by SpyralPegacyon

I play STO off and on, so I have to honestly ask: "How many different powers can you make out of 'fire phasers?'"

Originally Posted by Rylas

Too late! My sleuthing skills found this little tid bit on the internet. If you ask me, ocelot of power for one blast set.

Originally Posted by I Burnt The Toast

Not to nitpick...but:
From reading this it looks like nukes like Inferno and Nova for example are not crash-less nukes because they are PBAOE nukes and not RANGED? Am I misreading that or???

Originally Posted by Crindon

when do we get to see those patch notes? =D

Originally Posted by Hopeling

They aren't purple, as far as we've seen. Well, the def/res/heal ones might conceivably be, but the TAoE one almost definitely isn't, since we already have a purple TAoE set.

Also, yes, that IS a crazy thought.

Originally Posted by SpyralPegacyon

I finally gave in and created a new AR/Dev. I hope the devs are happy!

Originally Posted by Angelxman81

Will travel powers have a minimal VFX option? I want that better than tint superspeed or the onion rings from superjump... I want superspeed with no effect at all but my electric path aura

Originally Posted by Tenzhi

With all these changes, I kind of feel sorry for the people in charge of Mids'...

Originally Posted by Machariel

These all look like really good changes and I am very, very, very excited. Especially Ancillary/Patron/Power Pool customization.

I do have a question: The Overview page mentions changes to some blasts (increasing range) and to snipe powers in reference to Blasters only. Will Dominator/Corruptor/Defender versions of Blaze, etc also get the range increase? What about the fast-snipe with 22% tohit?

I know there had been some talk about making Dominator snipes faster not with a tohit requirement, but under Domination - what happened with that?

Originally Posted by JChaos

Okay, that's pretty cool. Not QUITE what I'd been hoping for, but still pretty awesome. Melee sets stand to benefit from this pretty well.

Are you allowed to say what Debt Protection is going be changed to?

Originally Posted by Zenlon

You've got me all glee-ful.

edit#2: Seriously though - this is -fantastic- news.

I've always hoped these things would be modified to grant more use -

however, I'm curious - what will you do with the +All Status Resistance bonuses?

Will these be changed to +All Resist? What about the Impervious Skin: +7.5% Status Resistance proc? Will this add actual resistance as well?

Originally Posted by Yogi_Bare

Stackable (rule of 5) single point mez protection to specific mez group(s)?

Originally Posted by Agent White

no no, it was announced. We've got like 3 threads going "OMGSQUEE" over it.

Originally Posted by Neo Nocturna

First off, I'd like to take the time to thank the Devs for finally adding Power Pool customization. It is literally the one thing I wanted to see the most out of CoH for a long time now. A friend of mine will appreciate that greatly as well, as he almost outright refuses to play any characters with Hasten now because of his hatred for the default effect. (It clashes with most of his costumes and powers.)

I have two questions about i24!
With the new Blaster buffs, is there any chance at seeing crashless nukes at any point? After seeing Geyser from Water Blast having no crash, I was really hoping that many other blaster sets would get the same treatment, even if it meant those powers needed to be nerfed.

With the new Tier 9 VIP costume set, what will happen to the Fire & Ice costume set? Will it be removed? Is there any available information about when the Celestial set (and/or Fire & Ice if it gets removed) will be returning?

Originally Posted by Triplash

The overview says "these new set bonuses provide more powerful resistance against a broader variety of damage." The way I read that was, things like "3.3% resistance to immobilize" and "2.2% resistance to stun" would be replaced by something more like "4% resistance to all mez types" or "7% resistance to confuse, fear and sleep", for example. You know, to make them useful.

Originally Posted by Kodoku

Except that after a certain threshold is crossed, most high-recharge builds aim to reduce the recharge time of one or two specific high-cooldown powers while receiving no additional dps benefit from the majority of attacks in their regular attack chain. For example, if I pump my recharge through the roof on my Elec/Nin Stalker, having a sub-1-second recharge on Charged Brawl is providing no benefit to me in that specific power. I won't be hitting that button on cooldown.

But with your suggested change, the value of any procs placed in that power will continue to diminish as I attempt to reduce the cooldowns of other powers.

And as has previously been stated, involuntary increases to my recharge speed (through Speed Boost, Accelerate Metabolism, Chronoshift, et al) will push my recharge reduction as high as +400%. That does NOT mean I will be activating Charged Brawl every 1.43 seconds (3s / 5.0 + 0.83 activation time)!

While I understand your desire to limit the effect of recharge bonuses on the value of procs, you're really just ... killing procs. Their effectiveness will either scale positively or negatively with a character's recharge bonuses depending on how PPM is implemented; in live the situation is the former -- you're just suggesting changing it to the latter, arguably a worse situation in which players are punished for receiving buffs and shy away from most procs entirely.

Originally Posted by Hyperstrike

Synapse. If you're at the Summit, remind me to buy you a beer (or tasty beverage of your choice).

Originally Posted by Siolfir

Not that I don't get where you're likely going with this, but I should think by now you'd realize that what some expect is vastly different than what others do.

Originally Posted by Caulderone

As a slight aside, while converting things to PPM, I hope they standardize Touch of Death's proc to equal the other 20% procs.

I've never understood why it was 15% instead of 20%. If it was because it was NE damage, that got broken when Cloud Senses proc came out.

Originally Posted by William_Valence

....Looking through Synapse's posts in this thread, as I write my response to you UberGuy, I think I found my answer.

The designed intent for the PPM mechanic (ingoring specific procs ATM) was not supposed to be better than the flat percentage. It has little to nothing to do with how the procs were used, and has much more to do with their comparative potential benefit of use. SBEs vs IOs, standard procs in fast cycle time powers, and PPMs in long cycle time powers are all just symptomatic to reason for this change.

Both mechanics can not exist at the same time with pairity, so as a casualty of making the mechanic fit with the designed intent we are seeing the original IO proc mechanic dissapear, and a general buff to performance with procs in most situations.

That makes sense and leaves a potential opening for getting the proc rate cap removed.

Originally Posted by firespray

Well, synapse did point out that in many cases this would end up being a buff to the proc rate from what we have now. I'm still just now sure whether the numbers for the % chance to trigger for AoE PPM procs is per target or not. I'm hoping it is, because otherwise the numbers we were shown mean a pretty significant nerf to proc chances in AoE powers when fighting a lot of enemies. And personally I'd rather see a buff than a nerf any day.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

If you actually read that thread, Arbiter Hawk was being asked how the PPM procs specifically worked at that time, he wasn't commenting on their design intent. In fact one poster explicitly asked him to state how they worked directly and not explain side issues beyond that.

In fact, Arbiter Hawk all but said he wasn't specifically involved in their design in the same thread, and thus his comments should only be taken to describe the procs, and not state their design intent:

He knew the basic idea, but not the precise details of the system or its design or implementation at the time he was speaking and admitted so. Under those circumstances, his opinion is no more relevant to the design intent of the procs than mine is.

Originally Posted by Caulderone

Doh! You are right!

And, my poor Lightning Field will be even WORSE off.

5.625 * 2 (act.period) / (60 + AoE Factor)

Even with an AoE factor of zero (which isn't right), that's going from 33% chance to proc (Armaggedon proc) to 18.75% chance.

Gah! Minimum Proc Floor please!

All damage auras will see HUGE proc chance/proc damage decreases from this.

Originally Posted by Sylph_Knight

While the newer formula is more acceptable Synapse, the current PPM rate you're using for powers like Foot Stomp is actually punishing players who use Procs in that power with a 2.2% nerf.

It's not enormous, but when you have 2 procs per power, 2.2% twice over starts stacking up. It also defeats the purpose we had for buying SBE PPMs in the first place.

I still need to sit down and figure out how this is going to affect Knockout Blow. The problem is that most of us use sets like Hecatomb WITHOUT the Damage enhancement because components like Damage/Recharge serve us much better with high-ranking procs like this. A few percentage points switched out on the base Enhancement values won't mean much on a high global-recharge build, but it still requires retooling on every power just so we can keep ourselves from losing whole percentages of proc chance in exchange for mere fractions of a second in speed enhancement. This forces an unfair benefit exchange with min-maxers who now have to try and avoid certain recharge caps just so they don't lose percentage points in proc chance in exchange for quarter-second recharge gains, and that's if they even get the choice since most set bonuses rely on you having so many IOs from a set.

Also, this punishes players for taking IO Sets as opposed to just slotting individual Enhancements for Damage, Endurance, and Procs.