Entropic Chaos: Chance for Self Heal

Mids allows it...but I have to make sure...can you slot more than one of these?

Meaning that...if I have 3 ranged attacks...I can slot one in each?

Yes they are not unique, though they are disappointing.

To me, it's not just that it's 10% chance to fire, but when it fires it's just 5% HP. So the expected value of the HP it will return on an attack is .5%. I think this one's a dud.

The heal doesn't fire very often and it doesn't heal for much. But if you slot all five pieces of the set you do get a 6.25% recharge bonus. That's the real reason for slotting that IO.

I would recommend looking at the set as a whole and seeing if it's worth it. The set has lower accuracy than Decimation (which I think is the other set that gives 6.25% recharge) but it's a hell of a lot cheaper. If you have good accuracy bonuses, it can be worth stacking them up.

My Kinetics/Ice Defender has three sets of them for the recharge and runs Tactics so the lower Accuracy is not really an issue. And although the heal is small it's a little bonus when it does fire off. But to rely on it on it's own? Not a smart idea.

A blaster has a base 1205 HP. When the proc fires it heals 60.24 HP. If you fire a single target attack often enough in one minute to hit 10 times (that would be an attack that recharges in 6 seconds and assuming that you hit all 10 times and had targets to fire at all 60 seconds long) you would be healing 60.24/1205=5% of your base per minute. That's like getting an extra 5% regen for that slot.

If you are at the blaster HP cap (which is easy) its more like 3.75%. I tracked it once and at my normal mission pace it was actually under 1%. You are better off slotting a 1% regen bonus (which works 100% of the time) than wasting a slot on this IO.

The one and only good thing about this proc is that it is a HEAL. If it is slotted in the tier 1 or 2 primary or the tier 1 secondary and the blaster is slept (blasters can fire these attacks while mezzed), IF the proc triggers it will break the sleep. It's a ghetto heal and a ghetto break free but they are cheap if you have the slots to spare.

Terrible. I slotted 3 of them in my Dom and thought it could be my self heal. Yeah that didn't work to well

It appears that the devs were so afraid that this IO (as well as the sleep Chance for Heal) would be overpowered so they made it not worth anything.

Why not Electric Control?

Edit: Wait, now that I think about it, I dont think you can slot Sleep IOs (or sets) into the AoE sleep patch.

Entropic Chaos is hilariously bad.

Its redeeming features, namely the endurance and recharge bonuses, are matched by the Decimation set.

Which has better other bonuses.

And better enhancement values.

And a better proc.

Which leaves EC with the ostensible benefit that it can be slotted 5 levels earlier. Yay?

I quite like the chance for heal in the first 2 attacks on a Blaster. If I've been mezzed and I only have those then I don't mind the chance for some self healing, every little helps and it has saved my bacon a couple times (believe it or not). The way I figure it is they'll only really come into play when I need them most, and if I get lucky and have 2 or more proc of it in a short time frame (I generally have enough recharge that the first two attacks can be chained together as a full attack chain) then that's at least 10% of my health back, which isn't too shabby if I'm fighting for my life. I've even seen it go off 4 times in a row before, but that's just a random roll of the dice talking.

I guess the real answer is, do you feel lucky? Well do ya, punk?