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Rampaging Madness or Endless Consumption?

ukspawnukspawn Member Posts: 426 Arc User
edited June 2014 in The Thieves' Den
Finally unlocked my last Dread Ring Boon and torn between;

- Rampaging Madness
When you deal damage you gain a stack of "Madness". When you reach 50 stacks you gain 600 power, 300 life steal and 300 regeneration. 10 seconds after gaining this bonus your stacks are reset. You may only gain one stack of "Madness" per second

- Endless Consumption
When you steal health from your Life Steal stat, it has a chance to steal 3 times as much.


Anyone who has either of these boons can let me in on how exactly they work?

Rampaging Madness seems straight forward enough, essentially it takes 60 seconds of combat to gain 600 power, 300 LS and 300 regen which lasts 10 seconds.

Endless Consumption, I'm fairly certain I'd take this boon if I knew exactly how often it kicked in, any ideas on chance %? If it was 10% I think I'd be happy, so anything higher would be a plus.

My TR is a PVE build, leans towards glass cannon but endgame changes have lead me to balance slightly. I don't think Rampaging Madness is worth it because of the timings, certainly not for pvp, pve it can be timed more appropriately. I have nearly 2k life steal which has made my TR's survivability alot better, especially in pvp for a pve build that neglect(ed)s regen and deflect. So I figure if the chance for Endless consumption is half decent coupled with my style of play and build it will be incredibly useful.

Any thoughts appreciated.
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  • todesfaelletodesfaelle Member Posts: 1,370 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    I haven't unlocked my T5 boons yet, still 4 days away. But what we can say for sure is as long as you are dealing damage every second, you can be sure that you'll be getting 10 seconds of Rampaging Madness roughly every minute. 600 extra Power sounds like a nice boost in DPS too, specially for us and Conqueror GF's. Although I'll be choosing Endless Consumption once I get mine and hopefully the odds of it proc-ing will be around 10% - 15%. But knowing that it can be overpowered in the hands of a Sent GWF in PVP, I'm pretty sure the devs added an ICD to this, but we can't say for sure until it is tested.

    If anyone managed to test this boon and has more details, it would be greatly appreciated as I myself would like to know.
  • ukspawnukspawn Member Posts: 426 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    Does respec include boons?
  • helloz2helloz2 Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 205 Bounty Hunter
    edited January 2014
    ukspawn wrote: »
    Does respec include boons?

    Yep, both Dread Ring and Sharandar.
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  • yogokouyogokou Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    Rampaging Madness does not work as the tooltip describes, there is no one stack per second limitation, meaning you can fully charge up every ~30 seconds with dots like Duelist's Flurry or Disheartening Strike or even Bilethorn ticks etc. This makes it extremely good. Maybe it means one per second per source of damage, or maybe it is bugged with some skills.

    Endless Consumption has a high (30%+) proc chance, also good. But it can't compare with Rampaging Madness at its current form. No idea about an internal cd on EC.
  • todesfaelletodesfaelle Member Posts: 1,370 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    This is great news. Though I'm thinking Rampaging Madness will be corrected. I'm hoping the devs decide to just keep it at its current form. It seems really worth it at this rate. If they don't, I guess Endless Consumption will be my choice after 4 more days.

    Any idea if Augmented Thayan Bastion has an ICD?

    Edit: This thread below answered my questions.

    http://nw-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?573031-Dread-Boons-testing

    Stoxforum1 did the community a favor by testing the Boons himself.
  • jinadujinadu Member Posts: 65
    edited January 2014
    @yogokou

    No cooldown, its every time you steal.
    Madness will be fixed sooner or later, that's for sure.
  • lewel555lewel555 Member Posts: 616 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    Uually the tooltips are unreliable. And no fix whatsoever yet. No news either on the possibility to chnge your choice if they fix/nerf one of the two boons.
  • xyntrynz1axyntrynz1a Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Hero Users Posts: 243 Bounty Hunter
    edited January 2014
    Im close but have not earned this one yet. Less than a week away.

    I am leaning towards
    endless consumption as I have a pretty good life steal
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  • remorselordremorselord Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 102 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    Endless Consumption doesn't seem to work for me anymore ever since last update. If anyone else noticed a difference, do tell.
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  • swapto1swapto1 Member Posts: 35
    edited February 2014
    i am noticing a difference too!
  • reiromanireiromani Member Posts: 14 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Just got Endless Consumption for my HR, It's quite good. I do Believe it was worth every astral diamond! Haven't used a heal potion since getting it. It is quite nice to see big green 8,000's pop up consistently while in the deep downs of the foundry.
  • ciopenhauerciopenhauer Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    Can anyone tell me if this boon has been 'fixed' (Rampaging Madness)? It used to proc more than once per second. Does it still do it? For instance, with Duelist Flurry, it accumulates stacks very fast?
  • ciopenhauerciopenhauer Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    bump for previous question
  • beckylunaticbeckylunatic Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 14,231 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    Still builds stacks faster than advertised.

    Just bear in mind that a nerffix is almost inevitable, but you won't know when it will hit you.
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  • pandora1xpandora1x Member Posts: 725 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    The 3x Life Steal.

    I regret nothing when I took it. Good bye healing potions :]
  • barq3tbarq3t Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 165 Bounty Hunter
    edited June 2014
    ciopenhauer wrote: »
    Can anyone tell me if this boon has been 'fixed' (Rampaging Madness)? It used to proc more than once per second. Does it still do it? For instance, with Duelist Flurry, it accumulates stacks very fast?

    2xDF with p.bile to get 50 stacks, and 3x with p. vorpal so i guess it still proc more than 1 per sec :DDD
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