Recharge Intensive Pet Procs: A Pleasant Surprise

[cohRock]

On my level 50 demon/time MM, I finally got around to putting set IOs in Hell On Earth.  It now has 5 Expedient Reinforcent IOs, including the 10% resist proc and 1 Call to Arms, the 5% base defense proc.  I had held off on these, in ignorance not seeing the advantage of procs in a power I don't use often.  However, I was surprised and happy to see that the pet-protective procs are always on, whether or not Hell On Earth is active.  😃

 

I had thought the behavior would be similar to putting a Numina Recovery proc in a single target heal power. 

The extra recovery in that case is not active unless you heal someone, and then it remains active for 2 minutes.  (Thus I usually put the Numina and Miracle procs in Health and other always-on powers.)  Why the difference in proc behavior?  I'm certainly not complaining, but now I can't be sure when procs will be active or not.

[SmalltalkJava]

Those procs for the pet buffs are always on.   🙂   If you have them slotted then they are active.   You don't need to worry about time limits or activations or anything.

[Onlyasandwich]

Just think of them like set bonuses that activate a power centered around your MM.