Slotting Freezing Rain

[Sailboat]

So I have 3 slots in FR.  At 50, that's 2 Recharge IOs at +5 and the third slot is currently an Achilles Heel Heel -resist.

 

I think that only rolls to proc when I cast  -- correct me if I'm wrong,  but I don't think ANY procs trigger from the rain damage ticks, just once on casting.

 

Assuming that is true, would something else serve me better in that third slot?  A Force Feedback +recharge  perhaps?

 

Any tips or suggestions?

Edited July 9, 2020 by Sailboat

[Doomguide2005]

My understanding is it would check when first cast then once more every 10 seconds of its duration.  Beyond that my current knowledge of procs is limited.

 

And then cast summon @Bopper 😁

Edited July 9, 2020 by Doomguide2005

[Bopper]

Yup, the Achilles will have a chance to proc when the pseudopet is summoned, and will have a chance to proc every 10 seconds there after until the Freezing Rain patch goes away. 

Edited July 9, 2020 by Bopper

[Seigmoraig]

Since Storm should be generally built for high levels of global recharge and a bunch of Force Feedback IO all over the place, it's probably overkill to have 3 slots in it. On my Controller, I have it with 1 slot Achilles' Heel and it comes back every 23.5 seconds not counting FF procs which lowers it even further

Edited July 10, 2020 by Seigmoraig

[wackodraco]

I've been slotting mine with Frozen Blast Rech/Immob Proc, Overwhelming Force End/Rech, and the Achilles' proc. I haven't really noticed the FB immobilize happening very often, but that might be me not noticing it.

Edited July 13, 2020 by wackodraco

[Hjarki]

4 hours ago, wackodraco said:

I've been slotting mine with Frozen Blast Rech/Immob Proc, Overwhelming Force End/Rech, and the Achilles' proc. I haven't really noticed the FB immobilize happening very often, but that might be me not noticing it.

I believe it's a MAG 2 Immobilize that only lasts 6 - 8 seconds or so - which puts it firmly in the category of 'useless'. It can Immobilize anything except Minions and it only immobilizes +4 Minions for the blink of an eye.

 

From memory, Achilles' only has ~20% chance to proc in Freezing Rain. Moreover, almost any time it procs on anything short of boss, it's probably a waste - Minions/Lieutenants tend to get overkilled so badly that the fact they've taken 20% more damage isn't meaningful.

 

I think the larger concern is the question of whether you put slow in Freezing Rain. For a Corruptor/Defender, I'd view it as nearly essential. Without hitting the slow cap, all you're going to end up doing is scattering the spawn.

[Glowworm]

I frankenslot with 2 Slow/End/Rec and 1 generic Recharge. That puts my recharge at/near the ED cap and the slow is enhanced 42% at 50.

[Glowworm]

On 7/13/2020 at 7:16 PM, Hjarki said:

I think the larger concern is the question of whether you put slow in Freezing Rain. For a Corruptor/Defender, I'd view it as nearly essential. Without hitting the slow cap, all you're going to end up doing is scattering the spawn.

Secondary makes a difference here though. When I FR I'm actually casting FR+Ice Storm and often Blizzard on top of that so FR doesn't need to do all the slowing.

[r0y]

I'll put anything from a single level-50 IO recharge... to 4 slots (1 achille's + 3 undermined defenses for max end for recovery).  I generally don't put a lot of rech., and often like to put the achilles' heel proc.