Procs in Damage Shields

I'm working on some slotting for damage auras and it occured to me that I don't really know exactly how procs work in the auras. Is there a roll ever 10 seconds or every tick of damage? Does it roll for each target in range individually? etc..

Also, if anyone has a recommended slotting for damage shields I'd like to know what you chose and why.

Thanks.

edit: I should have said damage aura in the title.

Yep, every ten seconds, so you can do the math from there. Worth it if you're already slotted out for damage, and you're chasing after every last bit of damage you can get. Otherwise a waste of slots.

As for general slotting, I don't put two endurance reducers in a damage aura any more than I put two endurance reducers in a typical attack. Damage auras are already endurance efficient. When going for sets, it's worth keeping endurance reduction in mind, of course. In my Katana/Dark build, though, I ended up with an Eradication set, which only has 15% endurance reduction. I needed the set bonuses more than I needed additional endurance efficiency in that attack. Obliterations are also good, but have the same lack of endurance reduction. Anyway, just slot it like any other attack, I'd say.

I find that when I six slot an aura I can usually squeak one proc in while still getting good values in other attributes.

You can slot two procs and still get capped damage with decent accuracy if you Frankenslot, but then you forgo set bonuses, obviously.

You can slot 3 procs, one Damage enhancer, and two Acc/Dam enhancers (one or two Nucleolus work best, but you might get a set bonus if you use one IO set) to still have capped damage, but then you get no end reduction.

3 Nucleolus and 3 procs also works.

FWIW, when I ran Herostats w/Mud Pots maxed for damage & 1 dam proc, the dam proc did about 16.66% overall damage, which is worth about 1 SO's worth of damage. That figure was pretty consistent through various gaming sessions, so I always plugged that in my head. Of course the proc will be worth proportionally less on higher damaging auras. e.g. Blazing Aura, but it's prolly pretty close. So yeah, ED max, then add procs.

I didn't like how often the procs activated in my aura. I used this in AA (a non-damage aura) once to check:


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I think that they only may have value on fire/kins (hotfeet) at high levels with global recharge bonuses, since with 2x FS you're at the damage cap for hotfeet and then the procs will ocasionally add extra.

it does a check when you engage a mob, then it's every 10 seconds after that as everyone else has said

In my Spines/Dark I don't have the endurance to spare for any procs in quills or death shroud

Werner! Now I have to go rework my build! Again

Gah: Yeah can't do that, adding in a set of Obliteration into Quills adds another .2 end/s use on my Spines/Dark and the poor guy is already sucking wind after a few groups lol

It includes whatever Mids' is including as average unslotted damage. I'm pretty sure it includes criticals. Can't remember which rate. I like using 10% personally, since I don't care about minions except as fuel.

Wow I seriously have never seen it crit lol. Wow what a loser

Wow really? I have a 32 Spines/Dark, it crits all the time. And I played her very little, like once per month or so.

Ok I also have a 33 spines/fire but she's an AE baby when I was abandoning the game. level 33, no enhancements, 200 million and a lotg +rech in her inventory I have no idea where I got lol.

Damage PROCs in damage auras is generally a bad idea for scrappers. I specify for scrappers as I can see a valid argument for using them on some other ATs.

When IOs initially launched, I ran a lot of Hero Stat numbers and concluded Damage PROCs in my auras was a waste because their overall contribution to my damage output bordered on insignificant (about 0.05%). This is due largely to the damage scale of scrappers. I've never run the numbers but I'd suspect the same would hold true for blasters, fury brutes, or any AT that rack up damage output.

On ATs with lower damage scales, Damage PROCs in Auras would constitute a higher contribution to their overall damage output.