Reactive + Rain Powers?

All targets.

As a test, after I got my Tier 4 Reactive 25/75 yesterday and Tier 4 Pyronic tonight (holy smokes UR,R,UR,R on 4 consecutive trials outta nowhere with no play style changes really do happen), I took my Stone-Fire-Pyre Granite into RWZ. Soloed pylon 7 in Granite, no temps, no pets, no insp.
Took about 25-30 min. I did not start a timer as I fully expected to fail to generate enough damage, as usual.
Alpha - Musculature +45% Damage, Interface T4 Reactive.
Have a T4 Rebirth but never needed a heal. Have several T3 Pets but did not use.

Toggles: Granite - Weave - Mud Pots. This put me at just over 45% D. Manuevers and Rooted - off - could not stand the End drain of full defense and full attack spam.
Attacks: Pyronic - Scorch - Build-Up - Incinerate - Greater Fire Sword - Fire Blast - filler for occasional gap in chain Fire Sword Circle. The attacks were spammed as they recharged with no real pattern. Tried to be sure the Scorch bruising was always there.

So I am really gonna miss the Mud Pots as currently working, since I am sure it was the difference.

Jak

EDIT: PS: Never successfully soloed a pylon before on any Alt. It was fun.

if a significant change is done to this(or any future incarnate ability) can we expect salvage refunds? there isnt a simple way for people to just respec out of these powers or resell them like an IO that gets nerfed. you'd think they would have tested this stuff more since they are bound to a character forever and take significant grinding to earn.

I disagree. The "grind" to get one incarnate power to Tier 3 is pretty trivial. If (when) Reactive is nerfed, and who doesn't expect it, it's not that big a deal to just get another power to replace it. If you think it's still an arduous grind, then I doubt you have played any other MMO at endgame. This is easy by comparison.

Is this definitely going to be nerfed, have the devs said anything on the matter?

Let's see... fixed numerical damage, not damage per second, added on per attack tick, causing quicker ticking attacks to become vastly more powerful than they should be.

Let's see, what does this remind me of... Oh yeah, the moss-covered twig.



(Yes, I know that's not a precise description of what's happening with Reactive, but the net result is close enough to make the point.)

sorry to drag this one up again but....i got to thinking about something...

AFAIK, the individual ticks on Rain powers have their own chance to hit...

Each tick in HOB for DP has it's own 60% chance to hit...

Granted...HOB doesn't tick NEARLY as many times as most rains do (and OMG just thought about blizzard too...ick...but beside the point)...but would the reactive work the same way in HOB as it does in rains?

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Originally Posted by Smiling_Joe ::looks at RaikenX's signature:: Something funny.

EDIT: I should probably refresh a page before posting in it after having it open for like an hour.

Yay, AR/Dev doesn't seem like so much of a red-headed stepchild anymore.

Edited to add: throwing bonfire under an AV will get you around 50 hp per second with Muscular T1 and Total Radial Reactive Interface.

I was wondering if they change reactive to proc once every 10 sec. chance on each enemy then would that make the 75% damage resistance debuff more viable to increase overall dps?

Patch day. I'll miss my Cold/Ice defender's time as top DPS.