Irradiated Ground not taking ATO's?

[Sgt. Terminus]

I searched and haven't seen this discussed before.  Is there a reason Irradiated Ground doesn't take Brute ATOs? Or is it a bug?

[Hopeling]

No idea, but it doesn't take Tanker ATOs either.

 

The fact that it spawns a patch instead of being a damage aura per se might make it interact weirdly with self-buff procs. Or it might just be an oversight.

[Frostweaver]

Yeah, it never has.

Then again, with it's 5 second pulse, It's a friggin awesome proc mule. I cannot see why you wouldn't frankenslot the heck out of it.

[TungstenShark]

6 hours ago, Frostweaver said:

Yeah, it never has.

Then again, with it's 5 second pulse, It's a friggin awesome proc mule. I cannot see why you wouldn't frankenslot the heck out of it.

How many procs will IG take? I don't have access to Mids at the moment. Can you put six procs in it?

[Hopeling]

7 hours ago, Frostweaver said:

Then again, with it's 5 second pulse, It's a friggin awesome proc mule.

Maybe I'm confused, but why does that make it especially good for procs?

[Frostweaver]

Technically you can put 6 procs in it, although +accuracy might make 5 plus incarnate better.

I am not positive what the proc chance tables are and whether it is affected by the aura's recharge (4 seconds) or the aura's pulse timer, but in general, IG has a pretty decent proc chance per 5 second slice.

I usually slot it for achilles heel proc, fury of the gladiator proc (I know they don't stack but they do both tend to affect almost everything) for -res, armageddon-damage+5 (I never use all 5 of a purple set, and usually ditch the damage in the set cause it goes way over ED...the rest of the set in mine is slotted into atom smasher) because it gives +66%, lady gray neg proc, shield breaker lethal proc, and obliteration smashing proc.

Since swapping around sets to make it a proc monster, it has improved my idle farming by a good 20%. So I KNOW it has a real effect.
 

I haven't noticed an increase on my active farming speed since I was slotted solely with fury -res proc and the shield breaker set, that may be because I am wired tightly for darned fine DPS and I am not really timing stuff right now. or maybe the procs fade into the background compared to 600% damage and standard attacks. But the -res procs sure as heck aren't drowned out.
 

Edited September 12, 2019 by Frostweaver