What's the big deal with Damage Proc's ?

The point depends on the particular power being used, obviously. A damage enhancement in Scrapper Headsplitter means a heck of a lot more than a damage enhancement Defender Neutrino Bolt, but (except for how often they get fired) a damage proc means the same thing in either one. Thus, damage procs are really nice in quick recharging filler powers like Neutrino Bolt or Gambler's Cut, or in damage fields, aura or otherwise, like Blazing Aura or Caltrops. They're probably not optimal for slow recharging heavy hitting powers, though. Damage proc in Nova = somebody's not quite clear on the concept.

For the slow recharging attacks, I'd say it depends on what you're going for.

You're setup fine in all the other areas of the power and havethat 6th slot available...that damage proc may be okay.

Comes down to build.

Always fun to put in AOE attacks though

Never had a build that had free slots like that - if a power has all the enhancements it can properly use in 5 slots, there's certainly a power somewhere else that can use another slot better than putting a proc in Headsplitter or Greater Fire Sword. That said, you might want it anyway to complete a set - but just for its effects, I can't see it.

Really does depend on the build - Ive just come up with a Inv/Fire build for a new tanker which actually loads of slots to spare.

Plus if you Frakenslot powers rather than going whole sets for bonuses you can usually have slots spare for Procs.

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger Quote: 16. Has Paragon Studios redefined "player" to require your mouse to subscribe separately from your keyboard? If your mouse has greater processing power than your gfx card, the answer is yes.

Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.

You mean in Blazing Aura? It is every ten seconds not each damage tick

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger Quote: 16. Has Paragon Studios redefined "player" to require your mouse to subscribe separately from your keyboard? If your mouse has greater processing power than your gfx card, the answer is yes.

Damage procs have an easy to calculate average DPS contribution, at least for single-target attacks. The contribution is simply the damage when the proc goes off times the probability that it goes off.

Let's look at a fairly typical level 1 blast on a level 50 Blaster. Ice Bolt does
62.6 points of damage unenhanced, so roughly twice that near the ED soft "maximum. A standard damage proc does 71.8 damage 20% of the time (to critters). That's an average of +14.4 damage per attack, which is about a 12% increase in the average damage that Ice Bolt causes. If you're talking about a purple proc, that's 107.1 damage with a 33% chance, which is around a 29% increase in damage.

You also tend to spam your smallest attacks the most, because they have the lowest recharge. So you are more likely to get lots of proc activation chances into play, and therefore have a good convergence on the average performance over the course of a play session.

In click AoEs, procs provide the same benefit, but for every foe affected.

Putting a proc in an attack with a huge damage and a correspondingly large recharge isn't going to be as impressive. You're going to increase your damage over time by less in relative terms.

Putting damage procs in damaging toggles has benefit, but how beneficial it is computes slightly differently because it's only allowed to affect targets every 10 seconds. If the damage in the toggle is low, adding a proc may still cause meaningful improvement in average DPS cause by the toggle.

A lot of procs get slotted in attacks for no other reason than that they have to be in order to get the 5th bonus gained by six-slotting a set.

It's every time the aura attacks but no more often than once per target per 10s.

So it won't spontaneously "attack" on its own every 10s. It can only attack when the aura does, but it can only contribute on the initial tick and on the next tick at least 10s later, and so on.

Mix and Match, use the three triples from Thunderstrike and get a ranged def bonus, then a proc and flavor to taste with the leftover 2 slots.

I presume that you have a job, and that you make money at that job.

Does that mean you'd pass up more money if an opportunity presented itself?

Damage procs are like that. They're just more of an already good thing. You don't need them, but they're nice to have.