Stacking Power Transfer proc & Performance Shifter proc

[Story Archer]

I'm planning out a Will/DM Tanker and I'm looking at three different places that I can slot these two procs (Stamina, Quick Recovery and Physical Perfection). They aren't unique so it seems to me to be a pretty effective way to load up on free healing and endurance. Don't know how much I'll need it with everything else going on but it seems like a pretty good use of the slots. Technically I've never actually played with multiples of these two before - is this going to work the way I think it's going to work? Any reason why I shouldn't do this?

 

[Zect]

Yes. When used in an aoe, they can only fire once per power activation (regardless of number of targets hit). But when slotted in multiple autopowers, each power rolls to fire the proc independently (this used not to be the case for power transfer, but it was changed at some point), and they can all fire simultaneously for a cloud of green numbers above your head. Oddly satisfying.

 

Are they effective? PShifter is a well-characterized proc so I will not discuss that. Power transfer is a 3 PPM proc and heals 5% of your base HP. This means that when slotted in an autopower it will fire once every 20s on average, or 15% base HP per minute on average. Player regeneration is 5% of max hp every 12s, or 25% max HP per minute (fun fact, +regen buffs do not increase the tick size, they work by increasing the frequency). So if you had a single Ptransfer proc slotted, and only tanker base HP with no buffs, you would be getting 15% + 25% = 40% of your max HP per minute. This is equivalent to +60% regeneration (!), making it stronger than Panacea and any of the regeneration uniques by far. You are WP so you will always have more than base HP, making regeneration's disadvantage less severe, since regen does scale with max HP but the PTransfer proc does not. However, even at the tanker hardcap of 3534 HP the PTransfer proc is still stronger than any of the regen uniques (equivalent to about +31.8% regen).

 

But is it effective effective? Well, I think phys perfection is not a strong pick for a WP anyway - it's not as though you lack passive healing (maybe if it makes the difference between being eps stable and not). However epics tend to be a playstyle or concept related choice and I do understand the appeal of being surrounded by many floating numbers. So my answer is that it is not super optimal, but it's not like it will ruin your retirement, so carry on.

Edited September 5, 2023 by Zect