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lostusthorn
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hi,
I'm wondering about the cooldown reduction those Doffs provide.
Why have 15/20/25/30 seconds cooldown reduction on them if the global cooldown is 15 seconds and the individual cooldown 30 seconds? When the doff procs it never reduces the cooldown below 15 seconds.
So why those high cooldown reduction times, seems rather pointless and white qualty doffs the only sensible way since the others provide nothing better.
I'm wondering about the cooldown reduction those Doffs provide.
Why have 15/20/25/30 seconds cooldown reduction on them if the global cooldown is 15 seconds and the individual cooldown 30 seconds? When the doff procs it never reduces the cooldown below 15 seconds.
So why those high cooldown reduction times, seems rather pointless and white qualty doffs the only sensible way since the others provide nothing better.
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with the cooldown on these powers being just a short 30 seconds, with a global down to 15 seconds, making the cooldown the variable that changes based on quality is ludicrous. the white doff shaves off 15 seconds, that would be all you need. these abilities rely on their constant up time, if they get a doff, the doff needs to reliably lower the cooldown, down to the global with enough of them.
it should be the % chance that the doffs cause a proc, like it is for the EPtX doff, or it should be a 100% chance for a cooldown reduction of a couple of seconds like it is for the team ability doffs.
currently the most you can have is 3 roles with a 20% chance to proc, how absolutely worthless.
even though its not as reliable as say the conn officer doff.
As dontdrunk said, cycling cannon buffs on an escort is about as basic a build concept as cycling epts. % chances are not something people will use to base a build around, especially if the maximum chance from stacking doffs is 3x20%.
I was expecting something like the team power cooldown doffs, instead we got copypasta from the target subsystem (which is a totally different animal).
If I didn't know any better, I'd say it was a placeholder. It's that bad.
Yes, it looks to me like it's broken. I recently equipped a single Beam Variant Energy Weapon DOff and finally just got a proc. It pushed my one copy of Beam Overload 3 to Global Cooldown Timer rendering any version other than the white one moot.
Edit: Just tested with 3 white versions of the new variant. One copy of BO3 was taken to GCD in 3 out of 4 tries.
To me it looks like someone who didn't understand how global cooldowns actually worked, or just didn't realize that subsystem targetting abilities have different cooldowns than other cannon / beam abilities simply changed a variable or two on the regular energy weapons doffs and called it done. The other possibility is simple sloppiness; this is an error that should have gotten caught by internal QA testing, or bar that, on Redshirt/Tribble. Tell those folks in marketing that it is more important to release a functional addition to the system than to surprise everyone with a possibly (and frequently) glitched one.
The current functionality is quite poor from a design standpoint, since doff quality absolutely should affect performance, which is not true presently.
As soon as I know how they will be changing, I'll post here. Look for a patch to these in the near future.
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thats good to hear. 3 purples should proboly have a 100% chance to lower the cooldown to global when all is said and done. the variable between qualities should be the number of seconds the cooldown is reduced, like the team skill doffs, not a chance the doff should proc imo.
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No, 15 seconds is as low as it can go.