Interface Slot Abilities

[Murcielago]

Which ability did you take for your choice and why? I picked paralytic for the -def but I'm thinking I might switch to diamagnetic for the -regen.

[sushiloving123]

I am a DM/SR scrapper and I chose Dia for the -to hit and -regen. Not sure if the -to hit is overkill with DM but I definitely liked the sound of -regen. Might choose a different one if someone has a better suggestion to pair with DM.

[DSorrow]

All the secondary effects are pretty crap in my opinion due to their incredibly low magnitude. For example, I was looking at Spectral for the immobilization to set up containment on my Illusion controller, but at least according to Pine's it's just 12.5% chance for a 4 second mag 2 immob. The NE damage over time is pretty good to diversify my damage types so I might still go for it, but the pick doesn't seem to be a game changer.

 

I typically pick a rarely resisted damage type or whatever seems to fit my character concept the best. Also picking some of the more common interfaces (Reactive) makes them pretty useless in a team environment as they only stack up so many times so the third guy with the same interface doesn't really add anything.

[jack_nomind]

The "best" pick is probably Degenerative, with Reactive a close second.  Any of the DoTs are fine.  I personally do like Diamagnetic, but rationally I know that only about 1/6th of the effect actually applies to anything I care about (EB or AV).  That still knocks a couple percent off their hit chance and regen, but nowhere near enough to be game-changing.

 

At the moment Degenerative isn't so popular that I avoid it, but Reactive is.  If that starts to change, I'll probably just go with whatever DoT feels best for my character or the occasional Diamagnetic for a not-quite-softcapped character.

[Knightward]

Reactive on my BS/DA scrapper.  I was tired of all the lethal resistance, and already had -def in my attacks to begin with.  Mind, my thinking tends to be less "whittle down the enemy" where -regen would be absolutely helpful, and more "savagely beat it to death right now!" so improving the actual damage numbers is appealing.