Carnifax_NA

I still don'r know how these PPMs will work in toggle & pulse powers. Are they based on a 10 second activation time & proc rate, the powers listed activation time and a 10 second proc rate (which would be borked) or the Activation Time for both?

I earned my legs last night on mine and decided that single target attacks are for suckers and went Gun Crab (rifle attacks + supression). The AOE he can throw out at level 25 is ridiculous. I'll leave the single target DPS to those better suited to it. That seems to be about it though, he's there for mowing down things on 8 man teams, not much else.

When the team pulled 2 spawns at once and things started getting hairy I really missed my Dark/Time Controller and her ability to lock everything down and turn things around.

The legs I'm kinda torn on. They can look kinda nice, but they can also get in the way a lot and they are very big, especially with the backpack bit. And unlike my winged Plant/Emp I can't switch to an alternate costume without them when I'm in caves etc.

He's a lot of fun at the mo, I'm sure I'll be bored of him next week and move on to something else.

With the fact we've got phasing technology ingame now anyway aren't the two Ouro zones outdated anyway?

Can't we just have one with two phase-based return portals (sitting on top of one another) in it?

qr : Yes, he does and I wish he'd stop. It's not like I'm pressing the wasd keys or anything, he just seems to be gaining sentience.

The worst is when he spins around so he's looking straight out at me and just points...

Actually I do have one meaningful suggestion in the middle of this mire of confusion (although I nicked it from someone : Bill I think)

Seeing as you're able to clamp the proc rate to 90% already can we also have a lower end clamp, so we can at least have an idea of what the proc range is going to be?

I really dislike the PPM system because it's difficult to understand. It's opaque, especially in AOE and come powers. I can't even begin to imagine trying to figure it out for weird things like Oil Slick Arrow.

I've spent lots of time earning procs ingame and slotting them in various powers and it's usually pretty easy to understand how it will work : The power has a flat chance of going off when triggered. In attacks "triggered" means when it hits. For toggle and pulsing powers that means every 10 seconds.

With the new method we have to figure out what Recharge is going to be counted (which is possibly one of the daftest things about all of this as Hopeling has already outlined), if there's an AOE or Cone modifier involved, stick it into a complex fomula and then clamp it to 90%.

You're overcomplicating things for no real reason. The market procs should never have been implemented in this way and the fact you've now got to implement the same horrible, overcomplex mechanism across the board has an impact on a lot of characters.

This is the opposite of KISS, an overcomplex mechansim which you still haven't provided the full details for. It honestly sounds like you initially came up with the concept, over analysed it, forced it slightly and are now trying to pick up the pieces

I'm very unhappy about the way you've decided to implement this, and the way you went about doing so. Waiting until AFTER the Hecatomb went onto the market is also a terrible decision.

My Plant/Emp was good, especially for City of Dual Pistols Blasters. Even though she has Emp as her secondary Plant is good enough offensively to make her enjoyable to play on PuGs and solo.

My Warshade was so much fun EU side that I've another on Virtue now, but he's suspended until i23 comes along for the new animation changes.

This weeks flavour is a Soldier of Archnos who will be a Rogue Gun Crab when he's done (ie a Crab with the Gun Attacks mostly along with Supression), even though he's only level 19 now he really feels like an AOE monster.

Too many alts, too little time