Blessing of the Zephyr/Toggle question

[BastionWalls]

This is specifically for KB Proc for BOTZ, but is also for procs in general on toggle powers. Does the power need to be on for the proc to work? If I put KB protection in Super Leap, is that useless if I'm running Combat Jump during the mission? I understand procs in general but wasn't sure with travel powers that are sometimes mutually exclusive.

[SeraphimKensai]

1. Those powers aren't mutually exclusive anymore.

2. If you have the IO in a power that you have available at that level I'm pretty sure you sleet the benefit of the io. Check your stats in-game to verify.

[Etched]

Once you slot the hancer you will have Mag4 KB protection even when the power is not on. I'd suggest a lvl 10 though.

 

@Etched

[srmalloy]

21 minutes ago, Etched said:

Once you slot the hancer you will have Mag4 KB protection even when the power is not on.

This. The KB protection IOs are globals, not procs. There are three types of power-effect IOs. Two are procs — the "chance for X" type and 'proc120s' type. The first has a chance to create its effect every time you activate the power; the actual chance of it going off depends on its proc rate, the base recharge time of the power it's slotted in, and the recharge reduction slotted in the power; it's not intuitive, and there are other posts on the forums explaining it. The second always goes off when the power activates, and creates its effect for 120 seconds; in a toggle, the effect refreshes every ten seconds — so a Celerity:+Stealth proc will keep you stealthy (as long as you're not in combat) as long as the power you slot it in is active. The third type is globals; these act like set bonuses, and are always on, whether or not the power they're slotted in is active, so you could take both Stealth and Infiltration and slot the LotG +7.5% Recharge global in each to get 15% bonus to your recharge, whether or not either one is active — or even grayed out due to exemplar effects.

 

The other difference between procs and globals is the effect of the IO's level. Because procs depend on the power they're in being active, the level of the proc is irrelevant; you can slot a level-50 proc in your tier 1 power and exemp down to do a Posi 1 TF, and the proc will still work. Globals, on the other hand, are subject to the level limits of the IO set they belong to — even with an attuned IO, if you exemp more than three levels below the minimum level of the set, the global stops working. So in the example above, with the LotG global in Stealth and Infiltration, you could have taken them as your last two power picks, and you'd keep the recharge bonus if exemped lower, but because LotG has a level range of 25-50, even if attuned, you'd lose the recharge bonus if you exemped below 22.