StratoNexus

I am also happy with the Notice to 40 threads conversion rate. I guess that means the quote you are referring to is:

"The noblest art is that of making others happy"

As far as I know, none of the debuff procs give us any combat spam for the logs. Even the Reactive only gives out spam for the damage portion. I used a Temp Analyzer in order to make sure my targets were being affected when testing Diamgnetic (as well as looking for the FX that would show up).

I do agree it would be nice if we could get some combat spam letting us know the debuff is being applied.

Yay! Thank you for heads up.
Edit: What is the stacking cap on the Reactive DoT?

If all you do is stand in near a target with WoC, then you will not get the Diamagnetic proc to be continuous, the effect lasts 8 seconds, but the proc rate is 10 seconds.

If you are also attacking the target, you should have little problem maintaining at least 2 or 3 stacks and WoC will help you make it 3 or 4 most of the time (albeit currently only against one target).

All the other set procs already follow the 10 second rule in rains, patches, and auras. The Interface likely should have followed their lead, but either technical limitations or a simple oversight missed it.

Powers like Foot Stomp are completely irrelevant to this discussion, it performs on Test exactly as it currently performs on live and I do not predict any change in its behavior.

Explain to me how that makes any sense at all.

For example, my Fire/Fire/Flame blaster has 2 powers (and I could have 3) that will be affected by this. With this change those 2 powers will now have Interface affect one target every 10 seconds. Hot Feet and Blazing Aura will still work just like they have for years. Interface will still work great in all my other powers and will simply be mostly a non-factor in those two powers.

But because of this I should respec out of Hot Feet and Blazing Aura AND unslot my Interface?

I want to try to make sure it is clear. In most AoEs Interface still functions just fine. If you Foot Stomp, Interface will proc on all hit. If you Fireball or Dark Obliteration or Nightfall or Crack Whip or M30 Grenade or any number of other AoES, Interface will proc just fine on multiple targets.

It is ONLY in rains, patches, and auras that the target limit occurs (as far as my testing has confirmed, I have used Crack Whip and Fireball to test regular AoEs and my Demon Pets AoE attacks seem to proc on multiple targets as well, but I only checked the Demon Pets once, quickly). While I think rains, patches, and auras should still allow AoE proccing as well, in general gameplay, it is not a huge issue (but is a small annoying one ).

I have to admit, I would love to be able to have my Diamagnetic proc from Invincibility on my Kat/Inv scrapper or even the Reactive from my WP/Mace tanker.

On the one hand, the non-damage auras generally have a lot going for them. They are auto-hit and all provide a benefit beyond damage (One can include Evasion and you might even include Energy Drain, a click, but since they added gauntlet to it, it is sort of Energy's aura type power). If one supposes they are balanced as is, then adding the Interface to just some of them does add some extra strength to the damage auras (IOs have long been this way, but Interface is different enough to consider it differently from IO procs in some ways). This is likely much less of an issue once the 10 second rule is place, however.

All in all, I can't see an issue if they were to let non-damage auras proc Interface, but at the same time, I don't see an issue if they choose to keep them not proccing Interface.

The 10 second lockout (and the single target limit) only affect rain (including things like Burn and Bonfire) and aura powers. Neither Flashfire nor Fire Cages should behave any differently than they do on live. Only Bonfire and Hot Feet from Fire Control should be affected.

As far as I recall, each power has its own timer and will not interfere with other powers proc chances (unless, of course, the cap is reached). So if I drop Freezing Rain and my Hellfire Gargoyle charges in, the fact that Freezing Rain just procced will not prevent the Hellfire Aura from proccing.

I actually ran a league from Studio 55 once. Imperial City has a market, stores, and a Vault. Is there a place to buy inspires?

A Studio 55 TPer would be cool.

Indeed. I am hopeful it can be changed, but I would not delay moving this patch live for this reason.

Offhand, does anyone know the stacking limit of the Reactive DoT?

I am sure this is a change to Interface as a whole. I only tested Reactive and Diamagnetic, but I see no reason why the others would be excluded.

Reactive was simply the most visible problem. I am sure it was never the intent for people to be able to cast one power and then saturate all targets in an AoE with the debuffs. Pressing Freezing Rain, debuffing every target's to-hit by 20% and regen by 60% after just a second is not as immediately ridiculous as killing them all like Reactive was doing, but still way more than I would ever expect from Interface with one power activation.

I would not be sure. The very high rate of proccing may have made the devs feel it was warranted. It is also possible there are technical limitations on their end that makes a "one target can be hit every 10 seconds limit" the only solution they have that can work for now.

I am all for asking them to change this. I am really sad that my Hot Feet will not be proccing my Diamagnetic as an AoE. Same with my Freezing Rain and Diamagnetic (silly me, most of the characters I have that could abuse Reactive in rains/auras went for Diamagnetic instead, although I did create a Reactive on one of them for testing purposes). Having them proc to the cap in one second was silly and needed fixing. Having them proc on just one target in the entire AoE is just as silly, IMO, and also ought to be fixed.

The best IO procs have a 33% chance to fire and only work in one power. The best Interface procs can have a 100% chance to fire and work in most of your attacks that deal damage. Even at just tier 3, many effects have a 50% or 75% chance to occur. I am not opposed to increasing the rate of fire to 5 seconds, but Interface does already have a big advantage over regular procs.

But the offhand Ustream video comment likely reached 97.23876% of the playerbase. I can see why it would have been vital to mention a reversal.

Do you think more than <1% of the player base really expected the devs to allow crashless nukes on a sub 30 second timer in the same issue they released powers obviously intended as crashless nukes on a 90 second fixed timer that did less damage than the reactive was doing in rains?

You should stop being goofy. It was obviously broken. Someone at Paragon obviously misunderstood how broken it was and made a comment in error. They quickly communicated back to us they may be in error. They are quickly fixing the broken Interface-rain/aura relationship. This all sounds like a company doing the right thing. Why are you so offended and upset at this?

I am sure you would not be so ill-informed if only Paragon could make some effort to help us track Dev posts...

Only a few days after The Net said it was working as intended he posted that they were looking into the issue. They did exactly what you said they should have. Are you happy now?

As far as more testing goes, I have confirmed with my /Fire blaster that while running Hot Feet, the proc only goes off every 10 seconds, just like my Armageddon proc. However, the Armageddon proc will still hit multiple targets but the Interface is only affecting one at a time.

I believe the interface procs should not have the target limit. They do not have a target limit in standard AoEs, the 10 second rule is an appropriate limiter for rains and auras, the target limit is not.

They did change it to the once every 10 second rule, for both rains and auras.