PPM and katana, Nerf or not?

From what i hear, this is going to nerf the katana set's io usage, since due to it's lower recharge the chance to proc will be insanely low on gamblers and ( To a lesser extent) golden

Most notably, the -res procs, which are awesome, would be heavily effected if this is true.

Someone tell me i'm wrong

From everything I read on the topic (which is, really, a bunch of Hopeling posts here and there), it should be a buff for anything but extremely low recharge powers, like GC or Neutrino's Bolt. So even if GC takes a hit, Katana as a whole is likely to end up better - Gaussian proc in BU, and so on.

Well the Attuned version of Achilles is 3PPM so in I24 it should get 3.75PPM while the current crafted Achilles Heel has a 20% chance to proc.

Now working backwards at 3.75PPM Achilles will have a 20% chance to proc when the recharge time of Gambler's Cut is 2.53 seconds (ignoring global recharge). That works out to 18.5% Recharge Enhancement.

So yeah unless you aren't slotting any recharge in Gambler's Cut itself it's a bit of a nerf but not a major one. Even at 95% recharge enhancement you'll still have a 13.8% chance to proc.

So, Basically, Gamblers and REALLY UNGODLY QUICK powers will likely be the only things nerfed through this? And even then will still have decent performance?

So if i chain Flashing>Lotus> flashing with procs, Would that work out as better or worse with procs?

Oh, thank Rularuu, a PPM thread that isn't filled with rampant misinformation and unfounded nerf-panic.

Yeah, a few characters (although not many) will get worse overall from the PPM changes, but not by a lot. If you move your Achilles' proc into Soaring Dragon, even if you have ~130% slotted recharge (ED cap + Spiritual Core Paragon), it'll still have a 3.75*(1.33+9/(1+1.3))/60= ~33% proc chance. This is not much worse than getting two 20% proc chances from Gambler's Cut, especially once you consider the diminishing returns on multiple Achilles procs per 10-second window due to its non-stacking nature. Meanwhile, for quite a lot of other uses, PPM is a straight buff: the Gaussian proc in Build Up will have a ~90% proc chance, rather than its current measly 5%, and an Armageddon proc in Golden Dragonfly will have a proc chance of at least 53% and possibly higher depending on slotting, compared to its current 33%.

Overall, I would definitely not call the changes a nerf for the current flat-rate procs. Procs that are already PPM are getting pretty directly nerfed, but still not by as much as one might think.

Well I would only call it a nerf for SBE procs since there is no reason to buy them after changes :P

There are reasons, but they're the same reasons to buy any other SBE - namely, that they work without an invention license, and they can be slotted at any level, and you don't have to deal with the auction house nor with crafting them.

Er, yes, only within the level range of the set.

But really, those are the draws of the SBE sets in general. Although it seems to have been forgotten now, very few players were even aware that SBE procs were PPM, or even what a PPM is, for quite some time after SBEs first appeared. It wasn't until the first round of ATOs and the Performance Shifter proc thread that it seemed to become common knowledge. Yet the SBEs were selling just fine the whole time.
Some players so dislike crafting, or have so little inf, that they don't use or can't afford IO procs at all, certainly not minimum-level procs that are generally more expensive and harder to obtain than the max-level versions. And far more players than you might expect just from reading the forums have a very hard time getting enough inf to buy purples.

SBEs definitely do not require an invention license.

The reason for SBE for me is that I hate the crafting consignment meta game. I like TF's and merits is how I IO'd out my heroes. The second reason is that they are always usable within the level range of the set. Not to mention the end game is meh to me.

IO's bonuses, outside pvp ios/purples, are not available when you down level for said TF's either.

I don't only use SBO's (I do play the consignment house game of thrones now and again), but there are definite upsides to using them. As vip I get 400 points a month to blow anyhow.

Rather than viewing this as a nerf to katana, I prefer to think of it as a buff to broadsword, which is a set that REALLY needs some love.