Distortion Field and the Lockdown proc

If I stick Lockdown's chance for hold in Distortion Field from Time Manipulation, then it has a 15% chance to go off on every target and checks every ten seconds, right? And it doesn't matter if the actual hold for Distortion Field fires, just that it can hold is enough to make Lockdown potentially fire?

I'm pretty sure that's how it works, but I want to be positive before I go for it.

Not sure of the raw numbers but I have it on ALL of my time toons. Yes, it goes off that much and is that good. Get use to the tesla cage hold animation.

Good to know. As a followup question, which is going to fire more: the 2 PPM of the store bought version, or the straight 15% chance of the regular version?

The 15% chance is always a 15% chance. It is specifically only the PPM procs that have a reduced proc chance in AoEs.

I've got the store version in mine and it there were a LOT of sparkling cagey things going off on an 8 man last night.

That's not very scientific but it did seem to me to be about as I'd expect in terms of effectiveness. The vagueness about how it actually works is a downside though (I didn't know about it at the time when I was spending my free points for this month) so if I was to do-over I'd go with the 15% one until some redname actually explains how the market version works.

Another advantage of going with the 15% of the regular crafted one is that if it turns out to be the inferior option, I can unload it on the market and recoup some of my costs. But the store bought one? I am stuck with that forever.

Due to that, and the uncertainty around the store bought version, I think I'll go with the regular version. Thanks for the answers.

That's true too, although the 2 PPM proc has some good uses elsewhere. Notably, it should have a 100% proc chance in the 32-second epic pool holds, which means the power will always hold a boss in one shot. You could do a similar thing with the 4-minute AoE holds in control sets.

Another place the lockdown storebought proc shines is aoe holds with 240sec cooldowns

even with the penalty for being aoe its 100% chance to proc turning your aoe hold into a mag 5 aoe hold for 8 sec every time you fire it, which gives you ample opportunity to slap a ST hold on a boss to make sure they stay held.

If your aoe control power also takes damage sets (a few do) a damage proc would also turn that power into a pretty decent aoe for a controller... especially if you used an epic dmg proc like say a store bought epic hold set dmg proc or the epic controller ATE set proc

the value of such a proc in an aoe control is probably much less for other AT's though since they typically have better aoe dmg options than controllers do. The store procs would also not be 100% in long recharge aoes like volcanic gasses since the proc rate is not determined by the long recharge in that case... but rather the recharge time of the pulsing psuedopet powers which is much shorter.

Is the tooltip visible from the email window? I'm more concerned about it there than the market. Hm, I bet all the 20% chance for dmg ones use the same ppm, There's gotta be some forum/wiki guy who'll figure out the pattern and make a list lol .

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Looks like all of the market IOs (they're listed as Attuned) are PPM now.

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Yeah, as far as I know, the only way to see how many procs per minute a store bought IO has is to look at the actual IO itself. I got the numbers by buying the thing on the beta server, where everything costs zero points.