Perma Global +22% ToHit how?

I want to see if the Snipe changes are merely interesting, or VERY interesting. (For those who don't know, in I24 whenever you have a 22% or greater ToHit buff on your blaster you can fire your snipe instantly, with not cast time and no interruptability.)

I know a few ways to get that 22%, such as:
-pop 3 small yellow inspirations
-use BuildUp
EDIT: A third way is Leadership/Tactics, even on a blaster, slotted with 3 ToHit IOs gives you an 11.09% ToHit buff - so if two people in the group have that or better, the blaster can InstaSnipe to his hearts content.

I was wondering if there is anyway to get that 22% global ToHit buff be *perma* on a Fire/Fire blaster? I know there's an IO that in Kismet that gives you +6%, but you can only slot one. I don't know of any IO sets that enhance global ToHit, only Accuracy which is apparently diferent.

Is there a way to have a fire/fire blaster have always on +22% Global ToHit, and therefor always on Insta-Snipe? Money's no object, even if I need rare sets to do it.

Any ideas? Or this this forever imited to be a non-perma ability no matter what?

Thanks.

I don' think there's a way with /Fire. I looked this over with my Fire/En and considered the T4 Lore pet options as the best way for me to get into InstaSnipe mode since I have Blazing Bolt in my build already, as a nod to the character's I0-2 history, and also have a Kismet. It may be the best option for you too.


The Carny Seneschal buff pet casts Forge with a +20% ToHit, 60s duration and 62.3s cycle time and can be kept out 5 min out of every 10 with Radial Superior.

The Arachnos Fortunata has a +5% toggle. You'll need slotted Tactics and a Kismet on top of it to reach 22%.

The Seer Seeker's Fortitude has +5% as well, with a 30s dur and 31.3s cycle.


I have an additional option if I want to do a more significant rework, thanks to Power Boost's ability to buff Tactics by 5.5%. With slotted Tactics, a Kismet and Power Boost I can reach a 100% up time if I get my cycle time on Aim/BU to 23.8s or less. But with /Fire I think the best you're going to do is by using a Kismet, the Carny Seneschal Radial Superior and juggling Aim/BU when the pet is off the map.

Hopefully I missed a trick somewhere, but I suspect the devs gave this quite a bit of thought before deciding on 22%.

Further work:
If I six slot Tactics with IO ToHits, I can get up to 11.9% GLobal ToHit.
If I add in the Kismet +ToHit IO, I can add +6% ToHit.

Now I am at 17.9%. I need another 4.1% of GLobal ToHit. Does ANYONE have any ideas how to get it (assuming I am soloing and have no buddies with Tactics)?

Thanks!

Ironically, Defenders and Corruptors (assuming that all snipes get this treatment) have it much easier - they have higher base Tactics:
-Defender two slotted Tactics: 18.71%
-Corruptor four slotted Tactics: 16.23%
Both are within one slotted Kismet of always on Insta-Snipe.

The Dominator is in the same boat as the Blaster.

Is the fact that Defenders and Corruptors can have always on InstaSnipe but the Blaster can't an issue? I would mention this to a dev, but as a currently free player, the boards won't let me - but I highly recommend that anyone who thinks this IS an issue mention it to a friendly dev - like Arbiter Awesome - er, I mean Arbiter Hawk.

This has been explored pretty thoroughly in previous threads; Blasters cannot get 22% permanently under their own power, except with /Devices (via Targeting Drone). Aim and Build Up can get you there for 10 seconds at a time pretty frequently, though. Zombie Man has a guide that covers the various other tohit buffs available, but very few are perma-able.

And yes, this will DEFINITELY get brought up once the issue 24 changes enter beta.

What Else Gives +ToHit?

Edit: oops, missed that it was already linked.

Calculating around the Offense Amplifier, one obviously only needs 12% Global ToHit to hit the magic 22% that grants InstaSnipe.

That can be done easily with 1-Slotted Tactics and a Kismet, although you can't do it with Tactics alone, even six slotted.

So then, that would appear to be another solution (at least until they change it): a one slotted Tactics, Kismet, and Offense Amp, at a cost of 42 cents per hour (for the OffAmp.)

Plus the OffAmp gives you damage and recharge, so win-win-win.

Actually, I tend to solo and not farm (much), mostly doing paper mishes. I also tend to act strategically, even if that means pausing 10-20 sec between spawns to wait for a recharge. So I take a more relaxed pace.

I used to rush to 50 like it was a finish line, but for most of the game now I just enjoy the ride - IF of course, I am being effective and not dying a lot.

Course it helps that I have crazy Vet powers and a bottomless supply of Inf - both due to having been in the game since beta many years ago. I only just recently unsubbed.

Hmm - perhaps I should pre-emptively resub. I24 can't be more than what, 2, 3 months off, if that? If they wind up not doing what they have talked about (80' ST attacks, InstaSnipe, crashless-nukes) I can always unsub again. That way I can "level up" my vet stuff (and my points) a little more in advance.

Worse case scenario - they gut these proposed changes, I unsub, and go back to my lifetime sub in The Secret World - an *amazing* game itself!

EDIT: Zombie Man - much props to you for your ToHit post, and WONDERFUL find in OffAmp!

If it is possible to get your to hit up to the level for instant snipe and keep it there permanently, why didn't the devs just change sniper attacks by reducing the cast time and removing the interrupt instead?

Corruptors and Defenders can hit 22+% with a little investment, depending on their powersets. If they're using sets that come with +tohit (like Time), it may not require anything beyond their current builds.

Dominators can hit 22.1% with Tactics, Kismet, and Mind Link. It's a heavy investment, though, as /Psi has much lower defense/resistance than the other Epic pools and weaker AoE's than Ice and Fire.

Blasters can only hit 22% permanently with /Devices. They do have the most access to Aim/Build Up though, so with low optimization they actually come out ahead. In teams, you will almost always have permanent insta-snipe just because everyone who has a snipe will be running Tactics. The only place where they benefit less than other AT's is solo (which is, sadly, where they already struggle).

Let's just chill out - I don't see a perma insta-snipe with the right level of investment to get it there being a problem. I hope the devs agree.

Honestly if you don't have the 22% To Hit buff then snipe works exactly the same as it does today. So what if you can snap snipe, it's not like range ATs have fury so you need a continuous attack chain to keep it building.

Personally I use snipe as an opening attack to pull a mob.

-A defender could (theoretically) achieve perma Soul Drain at +300% recharge (perma-hasten is +275%), reaching 22% with an appropriate mix of slotting and targets hit
-Targetting Drone from Devices, slotted to +15.4% ToHit (less than a single SO) with Kismet: Accuracy
-Have a friend use Fortitute on you, with a single SO of To-Hit slotted (or, combine with Kismet: Accuracy to not need the enhancement)
-Defenders could combine Focused Accuracy (Mace Mastery PPP) with Tactics and Kismet - without enhancements, this would yield 22.75% To-hit
-Even without Focused Accuracy, Tactics with 2 To-Hit SOs and Kismet: Accuracy on a defender would yield 23.5% To-hit
-A superteam of blasters running tactics could manage with 2 blasters (4 To-Hit SOs worth in Tactics) or more


With respect to your Fire Blaster, you could make a habit of juggling aim and build-up separately rather than activating them together on every chance - that would open more opportunities for insta-snipe (and, with 350% recharge in both, you could practically always have one or the other running - but that level of recharge remains well beyond the consistent reach of a solo blaster build)

Once we get the new PPM procs ported over to existing and not just store bought procs, where will it be better to slot a Gaussian Chance for Build Up, tactics or BU? I assume it would be "wasted" in aim since that already gets you to the magic number. And I am further guessing it will be better in BU since you then can control when it will go off a little better, perhaps even 95% of the time.

For that matter, how often will folks get to the magic number assuming they take tactics, slot a kismet, slot the Gaussian, and slot as many of the other BU or +tohit proc IOs?

While not technically "perma" I think that in most practical situations a player can either create a build that will hit the magic number fairly frequently and consistently while in battle solo or when teaming.

In other words, who cares if a /devices can insta snipe some warrior outside the Talos Wentworth so long as most blasters can insta-snipe a grand percentage of the time while actually engaged in combat?