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praxi5
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" "Improved Temporal Insight" When activating a Hull Heal on self, gain 4sec of Damage Immunity (max once per 45sec) "
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How the heck does that compute as RNG?
You activate an ability, hopefully at an appropriate time. That's not random. Well, there's always facerolling, but you get my point.
Activating the ability has a set, specific effect. That's not random either.
Knowing when to punch the button for best effect? Totally not random.
You can call it OP, powercreep, p2w (even though it's technically free), imbalance, bad idea, or whatever. But RNG?
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No need for Rock and Roll anymore :P
On the flip side, I'm really glad there's a hard 45 second CD on it. Otherwise, Aux to SIF would a godmode.
Plus the "activating hull heal on self" means that you won't be able to proc it with Radiant Nanite Cloud/healing others/heal procs (Borg 2pc, Samsar console ongoing heal).
All in all, I don't think it's too bad, but it's not a good thing either.
umm...
actually...
its a proc. procs are RNG. anything that could happen when you perform an action, thats a side effect of the normal effect, that can cause you to win or not lose, is the work of the RNG gods.
Without arguing semantics of "proc":
Effect reads do X (in this case a hull heal on self) and get Y as an "side effect / benefit" (in this case, 4 seconds of damage immunity).
Then you get the disclaimer - no matter how many times you do X, you can only benefit from Y once every 45 seconds...
As bluegeek asks, how does a "do X, get Y" suddenly require appropriate sacrifices to the RNG?
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And they haven't said what self-heal means exactly. Does it mean BOFF only or procs from set bonuses or what. Depending on what makes it activate, the first one might be random as well.
Well, even if that's annoying, it goes both ways. You pop a hull heal when you see the vape is going to hit you and ruin their alpha strike in the process, but yes, it's another toy for vapers.
You know what an awesome doff or trait would be?
If hit with more than X amount of damage in one hit (What do we get now a days, 30K-60K in one?), cause shooter to have a 5 second disable to engines or weapons. Can only happen once every minute.
well, with that very limited description of the effect, i assumed there's like a 10% chance of it going off when using a hull heal, and it can only go off every 45 seconds. thats how just about all non weapon procs work. 100% chance of it going off with the first use, every 45 seconds, would be a new way to do things.
Not... cool.
hahaha i call it another toy for eng tanks as well i love it when i get a FU button for Tac Escorts
Sheesh1 younsters what can you do buy try. The origin of the term PROC is from the early days of MMORPG grand-pappys( (BBSs MUDS and the like). A proc is a PRogramed OCcurance. Something that happens a programmed change of happendning at a time or trigger. If that chance is programed to be 100%, it's still a proc.
indeed, but no one is arguing if its a proc or not, the debate is whether or not its RNG. it wouldn't be if its got a 100% chance of going off when you activate the first eng heal.
which would be a DISASTERS exploit for vap vs sci. even as the biggest hater of FBP and particle madness, i can admit that.
Cause uh...the Sci can't run the same trait to buy themselves some time vs. the vaper?
I'd actually expect the vapers to be complaining more about this than the FBP folks.
edit: Unless they've got their heals on the spacebar...
It's not really new, I feel. Just look at the Engineering R&D trait - when using an Eng boff ability, reduce incoming damage by 20% for 3 seconds. Or the Shields R&D trait - I forget the duration, but it's a brief spike in shield resist on use of a shield heal - almost the same as this, except it's shield instead of hull. Or even All Hands on Deck - reduce cooldowns of Sci boff abilities when Tac/Command abilities are used, happens every few seconds at most.
Its also ironic that they are saying this is to close the gap between new and established players, because one day after the Delta Recruit program ends, the established players are gonna be EVEN STRONGER than the new players coming in.
Even the log file isn't going to be enough. Need to record it and sync up the video to what's going on in the log file...slowly going through both. Then bring it all to the forums so a think tank can put together a hypothesis over the most likely series of events. For such a casual game, it's definitely complex and cumbersome.
Isn't that trait still hosed and completely nonfunctional currently?