Vardra

Are you sure? According to both Dechs' guide, and what references I can find, it's auto-hit.

That chain requires (unless I got my math wrong somewhere) follow-up to recharge in 2.94 seconds. Which requires... 305% recharge? Assuming spiritual t4 alpha and hasten, that still needs about another 110% worth of global recharge. Which would require a build that's even more ludicrously expensive than the one I posted. I may look into such as an alternate build eventually, but it's not something I'm going to aim for from the get-go.

Still, I'll consider swapping the crushing impact damage/endurance in slash for a damage/endurance/recharge (and then maybe +5 it); while it's got more than enough recharge for the best attack chain I can currently manage, the low recharge might prove annoying if I'm exemplared down too far for focus.

Actually, no, I'm not aiming for soft cap; I aimed quite deliberately for a small purple away from soft cap - see, for example, Dechs' brute build. Yes, capping S/L would mean more survivability against many things, but if I wanted a character that's meant to only fight one kind of damage, I'd just make a /fire farmer and be done with it.

I wanted a kismet proc somewhere, preferably in a power that'll basically always be active. It's particularly important for exemplaring to around level 10, where you're starting to lose the low level to-hit bonuses, but all your enhancement values are still crippled. Thus, it goes in hover. Similarly, the +fly IO is an important quality of life improvement; I like hover, but don't particularly relish the feeling of flying through molasses. Which leaves just the kismet def/end to argue about - and that's worth .06end/s and .25 to all defenses, and is the last little bit pushing me over 32.5% E/N defense. Still, it could easily be dropped if I could make that up somewhere else.

Where I'm at now, an extra 10% global recharge actually doesn't do much for me; it makes dark regen come up a hair faster... and that's it. Now, if I could find a way to drop combat jumping without losing 32.5% S/L/E/N/F/C, then I could add in hasten, and little bits of extra global recharge would translate to better hasten uptime (but still not improve my attack chain). Until then, I see no particular problem with using a purple here or there as a frankenslotting component; sets of five are expensive (and I'll probably have alternative slotting for focus & shockwave when I first put this together in-game), but I can certainly afford one or two where they're individually useful.

Dechs' guide & sample build was actually where I started (thanks for the link, Dechs!) - and, for that matter, why I picked dark armor in the first place.

That all said, I would appreciate seeing what a really high-performance build would look like; it's just not what I'm currently aiming for.

But it's greatly appreciated work; thanks! Much better than the originally intended implementation. Hopefully you can get this nicely automated for future.

I'd like to clarify: I'm not "scared" by how much this will impact me. I just think it's wrong to make things that were supposed to be buffs (speed boost, etc) reduce the effectiveness of your powers. Again, the issue here isn't the actual exact proc chance numbers, it's the fact that, if you have a full attack chain, you shouldn't get worse performance because someone boosted your recharge.

Parity is nice. I'm fine with this. Heck, I'm even fine if the SBOs retain some small advantage; doesn't bother me either way; the SBO sets are already attuned, which has some advantages (keeping set bonuses while exemplaring) & disadvantages (can't +5 them), so them being slightly different from IOs is already in the game. However, I'd strongly suggest adding in a proc rate floor, so that the new parity-ized procs are never worse than the old percent-chance procs.

If you *really* want parity, though, maybe make it so enhancement catalysts can convert an IO to an attuned enhancement, or vice versa? Actually, if you did that, you could even drop this whole changing everything to PPM notion - let people swap to whichever form of proc works better for the specific power they put it in; presto, parity achieved.

I don't like this, though. Being able to add a proc to a power in a way where it'll always trigger is neat. It's an interesting game mechanic. It's a way to change what that power is, and giving that a chance-to-fail doesn't make the game more interesting. Look at Diablo 3 runes - with no proc chance cap, you can do the same thing here; how cool is that?

That said... I'm not (aside from maybe the stalker ATO) going to make a huge fuss about this one. I don't like it, but it's not truly horrible.

This, however, is truly horrible, for reasons mentioned multiple times in this thread: once you have an attack chain, recharge "buffs" reduce your proc chance, without giving you commensurately more chances to use your powers. Increasing PPM rates may make DPS stay about the same for some characters, but doesn't fix the underlying flaw; buffs should not reduce your damage output / chance to proc hide / whatever.

Conclusion: I, for one, really appreciate the heads-up that you're looking at this stuff, and the opportunity to provide feedback, and look forward to seeing what you come up with once that feedback has been taken into account.

Ah. Fair enough; been a while since I've run numbers for this sort of thing - which is why I've been making sure to qualify my posts with the thought that I may be miscalculating something. Thanks for the clarification there. Any insight on GFS damage, though? That still seems rather bizarre...