Enhancement Proc Changes

I believe they should leave the system as it cureently stands alone and unmolested. If you want the PPM enhancements then spend the points for them. If not and the percent works for your build then get those as drops or from the BM/Went. Either way the system isn't currently broken and trying to fix something that isn't broken just might break it.

I have to say that I never liked the PPM system to begin with and seeing that the entire proc sytem is going to this is a bad idea. I will admit that in some case it is an improvement over the current % system but those are few and far between.

This will also have a negative effect on those run Radiation, Kinetics or any other power that speeds up recharge of skills. In a league when you have some that want the recharge and others that don't and these are now AoE. Someone(s) aren't going to be happy with the outcome.

Clearly this has wide reaching implications and will have to be further examined when beta opens.

After having read the first ten pages on this I have determined that if you are doing a build where you are counting on a proc (or multiple) as part of that build then you are doing it wrong. They are inherently unreliable and should NEVER be counted on in a build. They a a bonus, an "Oh that's nice" but to count on it happening just makes no since. Does that mean that I don't use them...nope, I use them a lot (every tank I have has the proc for psi damage in taunt)but I don't count on them to go off when I use them.

Right, Sentry... because there is absolutely no middle ground between what he said and your overblown assessment at all. *rolls eyes*

A thought occurs:

This change seems to have a larger impact on those who slot entire Purple/ATO sets, rather than frankenslotting - Purple/ATO sets have some of the best bonuses in the game, but come at the cost of almost halving the rate of their set's proc. (Purple sets give 89.92% Recharge enhancement, and Catalyzed ATO sets hit the high end of ED, recharge wise).

I'm honestly not sure if this is even possible, but what if slotting like enhancements raised the proc rate by a certain amount (like .67 PPM for each purple enhancement) to offset the recharge in the set? As it stands, almost more efficient to throw the purple proc into a buzzsawed power and go with the pure damage/mez enhancement in the purple set power.

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Originally Posted by Shubbie Im very good at taking a problem and making it worse.

*sigh*. More Nerfs . PPMs are cool now honestly because min/maxers can max them. With the cap being lowered to 90%, rech being raised(likely a tiny bit), and ppm's being raised across the board to be on-par with the old procs this seems like a royal waste of time. People like the PPM because they are better, gimping them and spending tons of time replacing all the old system with the same level of meh the old system had already is just...meh. lol. If PPM is being nerfed to be equal to the other I see no need for change. All this says to me is the market ones people paid for because they were better are being ruined.

It's nice to have 1 or 2 things in the game that are above-par, that you can enjoy using. An example of the last cool thing to come out and be ruined later were SSAs .

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How does a PPM work in a damage aura then?

IE I have a power with Recharge modification is at 9 second recharge versus a damage aura.

Does that include caring about slotted recharge?

Not sure why nerfing something that I don't see players complaining about is really constructive.

Probably alot of things that need to be fixed other than something that doesn't appear to be a problem.

If you really feel that you didn't get what you paid for. Then call up your Visa or Master Card tell them you didn't get the item and it is in dispute. Let them hold back payment. Enough complaints happen who knows Visa / Mastercard might cut off NCSoft.

It is possible that Visa / Mastercard would refund your payment to you because you are their customer.

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Now about this numbers thing and how proc's work. I have never tried to figure out min max on builds. But since I now know that store bought IO's get nerfed. I won't be buying any either.

Across the board buffs for me woot! o.O