Issues with my Dominator's recharge rate

[Klaymor]

Hi, all!

 

I have a veteran Mind/Energy/Psi Dom whose global recharge numbers are not adding up.

 

His global recharge bonuses from sets are:

 

+10% from Superior Ascendancy of the Dominator

+10% from Unbreakable Constraint

+10% from Coercive Persuasion

+7.5% from Sudden Acceleration

+7.5% from Sting of the Manticore

+10% from Apocalypse

+10% from Armageddon

+10% from Ragnarok

 

He also has four Luck of the Gambler (LotG) global bonuses of +7.5% each (in Maneuvers, Stealth, Indomitable Will and Link Minds) for an additional total bonus of +30%

 

My math says his Recharge bonus should be 105% without Hasten, but it's only showing to be 95%.  Hmm...one of the set bonuses must not be taking effect, and it's likely one of the ten percent bonuses.  I got lucky on my first experiment attempt by unslotting Ragnarok from World of Confusion.

 

There was NO change (still 95%)!  Apparently, WoC is not getting the +10% recharge bonus from having at least five (5) Ragnaroks slotted.  But it gets weirder, because all the other bonuses from the Ragnarok set (cold resist, fire resist, etc.) DO take effect when slotted!  WoC accepts Melee AoE Damage sets like Ragnarok, so there should be no problem, right?

 

I went one step further and 6-slotted WoC with Malaise's Illusions instead, which carries a +6.25% global recharge bonus and guess what?  It worked, and the total global recharge bonus rose to 101.25%!

 

Is anyone else seeing this WoC-Ragnarok recharge incompatibility issue?  Am I encountering a freaky purple enhancement softcap?  Is this a bug I should report?

 

Thanks....

[Mezmera]

You can only have 5 of those 10% recharge bonuses so one is being dropped.  You'll want to change one of those sets out.  

 

I aim for 85-100% recharge bonuses while building in all the defense and hp I can from bonuses.  You're in a good range for recharge just use this to build up other things.

Edited January 27, 2023 by Mezmera

[Klaymor]

Ah...thanks!  So it WAS a freaky purple softcap, after all.

 

[Mezmera]

1 minute ago, Klaymor said:

Ah...thanks!  So it WAS a freaky purple softcap, after all.

 

 

Not really just a purple soft cap but a rule for most IOs that you normally can only have 5x of a certain bonus.  So those Lotg's are capped at 5 but because they are a different categorization in your listing of bonuses because of naming you can also then get 5x the normal 7.5% recharge like the one you're getting from Manticore set.  

[Mezmera]

Oh and one other thing to consider @Klaymor if you'd like a good chunk of recharge on the cheap is that Energy Assault some of those powers can take the Force Feedback proc.  The most optimal one though to slot that is in the snipe. 

 

If you get the internal recharge of the snipe to hover around 15s the force feedback is set to proc 2x a minute so twice out of 4 blasts of your snipe but due to having built for such high recharge from global bonuses already I typically would be able to get off 8 snipes in a minute and so usually around 4 times that FF will proc.  At 4 procs in a minute you're getting 100% recharge for 20s which equates out to 33% recharge averaged over a minutes time, compare that to the static 7.5% recharge you get from the set of 5 of Manticore.  

 

You're depending more on RNG from that recharge because sometimes that proc will under fire but even at it's lowest I figured I was getting 15% or so additional recharge and higher than that 33% since it can over fire.  So if you're in a comfortable spot already with recharge you can get creative with that snipe.

Edited January 27, 2023 by Mezmera

[tidge]

My preferred way to address the OP would be to replace the Unbreakable Constraint set with Gladiator's Net; this set can also be boosted to 50+5). This will get you 7.5% global recharge. If you want the Hold to be slightly more %proctastic, you could opt for 4 pieces of Basilisk's Gaze (a level 10-30 set), leaving room for two (more) %procs but getting the same 7.5% bonus.

 

Knowing nothing else except that this character has the epic Psi, I would not be using World of Confusion even as a place to slot Coercive Persuasion or Ragnarok.

• World of Confusion has a miserable radius, and a terrible %proc rate.
• The %Contagious Confusion is (almost entirely) wasted in an AoE. It is much more useful in a single-target power (hopefully the set is in the single-target Confuse)

Better to put the slots into Link Minds and slot 5 Pieces of Adjusted Targeting for 5% more global recharge for a good power (this wouldn't be my first choice, but  you can get lots of recharge and still squeeze in a LotG)