How do you slot Volcanic Gasses?

[Uun]

Hold? Damage? Procs?

[Coyote]

Procs, plus something that has Recharge in it. Since slotting directly for damage doesn't do much, that usually means Acc/Hold/Recharge from Hold sets. That usually leaves about 4 slots for procs, and there are nice options, between Lockdown's +2 Mag, Annihilation's -Res, and of course straight damage procs.

[arkieboy72472]

I tried all 5 proc and it felt underwhelming. I got rid of that and got ragnarok and swapped the Acc/Rec for the proc. I like it better. It actually can do a bit of damage. 

[Dauntless]

I use mine to mule basilisk's gaze for the recharge proc, which is what I do with most AOE holds.  If you stack recharge for a permadom build and add in an ancillary source of +to hit (buildup, tactics, etc.) it fires decently enough and comes back often enough for those 3x spawn or oops-2x spawn scenarios.  I also usually put the lockdown +2 mag proc in aoe holds but my earth/elec didn't have the spare slot.

 

I've never been fond of it being a location AOE - while a location AOE has its tricks it is difficult to fire quickly and that really hampers its usefulness in my eyes.  I believe it is possible to set a macro to cause it to fire at your feet, which can help in an emergency.

[Chelsea Rorec]

Basilisk Gaze because I'm pretty sure we have an assault set for damage so putting procs into holds dosn't make sense to me.

I'd prefer the hold time so i can bash on stuff 🙂

[Uun]

If I'm interpreting this correctly, the damage is direct while the holds are via six pseudo pets (only showing one below). Do the Targeted AOE set procs have a chance to fire more than once? Do the hold set procs only have a chance to fire when each pseudo pet is summoned? (Note, I changed the display to show lvl 50 numbers, but the character is only lvl 28.)

 

[JamesRocket]

16 hours ago, Dauntless said:

I've never been fond of it being a location AOE - while a location AOE has its tricks it is difficult to fire quickly and that really hampers its usefulness in my eyes.  I believe it is possible to set a macro to cause it to fire at your feet, which can help in an emergency.

Use the "powexeclocation" command. (/powexeclocation <location> <location_power>). <location> can be "self" to cast it centered on the player, "target" to cast it at the feet of a mob, or "X:Y" where X is direction (0 being in front of the character) and Y is the distance in feet. Y=max will set it to the maximum possible distance away from the character. 

[tidge]

On 5/24/2020 at 7:58 AM, Chelsea Rorec said:

Basilisk Gaze because I'm pretty sure we have an assault set for damage so putting procs into holds dosn't make sense to me.

I'd prefer the hold time so i can bash on stuff 🙂

I'm not familiar with Volcanic Gasses, but I have only found a few limited instances where slotting proc(s) into holds was a better choice than just trying to improve Global +Recharge via set bonuses.

[Nightmarer 2]

I personally use Basilisk Gaze, I am all for procs but this power takes too long to recharge for the procs, although having greater firing chance, to be noticeable.

[seresibyl2]

On 5/24/2020 at 7:58 AM, Chelsea Rorec said:

Basilisk Gaze because I'm pretty sure we have an assault set for damage so putting procs into holds dosn't make sense to me.

I'd prefer the hold time so i can bash on stuff 🙂

Brutes have an entire primary devoted to damage -- but here we are, with Fiery Embrace/Burn chugging along... 🙂

[Chelsea Rorec]

4 hours ago, seresibyl2 said:

Brutes have an entire primary devoted to damage -- but here we are, with Fiery Embrace/Burn chugging along... 🙂

I could of sworn we are in the dominator part of the forum hmmm ...... 😉

[kiramon]

6 hours ago, Chelsea Rorec said:

I could of sworn we are in the dominator part of the forum hmmm ...... 😉

It’s okay I forgive you