Accurate Enhancement sets with a damage focus

[ZorkNemesis]

It wasn't long ago (or was it?) that we had some new enhancement sets added, specifically Ice Mistral's Torment,  Synapse's Shock, and Power Transfer, where we were given sets that mixed in damage with their intended effect, namely Slow movement for Ice Mistral and Endurance Modification for the other two.  This got me really wanting similar damage-focused sets to fit other powers as well as from what I can tell almost nobody slots for a damaging power's secondary effect unless the damage is already negligible (nobody slots Consume for damage I hope).  While i'm sure these sorts of things have been pitched before, I would absolutely love to see new sets for Accurate Healing, Accurate Defense Debuff, and Accurate ToHit Debuff where the sets mix in some damage with their additional values.

 

For example, using Ice Mistral's Torment as a baseline, here's an idea for a set called Lifesteal or Vampyric Embrace.  The idea would be that you could slot this into a power like Life Drain, Dehydrate, Radiation Siphon, etc to benefit from the healing without sacraficing too much damage from having to spend a slot on a Healing enhancement alone.

 

• Heal/Absorb/Endurance
• Damage/Recharge
• Damage/Heal/Absorb
• Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
• Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
• Chance for +HP (3/min)

 

The proc idea I had here was that the power could occasionally give extra health when used.  Entropic Chaos already offers this with Ranged Attacks but melee attacks as well as any other accurate healing would have access to this, though I think it should be limited to once per activation like Power Transfer so putting it into something like Dark Regenration wouldn't make it fire 4+ times (not that Daek Regeneration even needs it).

 

Now, i'm no expert on balance so I also have no idea what to have for set bonuses without breaking things.  I'd imagine an Accurate Healing set could have a Healing Bonus for one of it's boosts which might be pretty helpful for increasing heal potential of a secondary set depending on the power combo.  Maybe someone else with better expertise could brainstorm potential set bonuses or enhancement setups, but my main point is that I would love more options for boosting power secondary effects without having  to dedicate additional slots to those effects.

[Primordis]

I like this idea, but only if it offers decent set bonuses. Most people who would actually care about the healing part of powers like siphon life probably already have spiritual alpha or similar, and if you throw in one regular heal IO +5 with that, you're already at ~80% heal. Like you said, no one is going to slot consume for damage, just like no one is going to slot dark regeneration for damage, so this only applies to a handful of powers like siphon life, life drain and radiation siphon. I'm not sure about the chance for hp either, I think something like a chance for stun/fear/sleep would be more useful and more thematically appropriate. What I think would sell this idea is really just the set bonuses alone. But that's an issue that's way more broad than just this specific application. Set bonuses as a whole really need to be more diverse. And this line of thinking should also be proliferated to accurate tohit debuff, which is arguably more useful for a dark melee/ranged character. That one is harder to implement effectively but is very helpful late game. My scrapper uses diamagnetic 100% chance for tohit debuff while using DM, and after a full attack chain I can bring a +4 boss' chance to hit down to about 15-20%. So I can see your idea definitely being useful for theme or for people who like strong heals, but at the same time you could just get a incarnate alpha with some kind of heal component and call it good. The difference between a 33% heal and a 95% heal on a siphon power isn't that big of a deal, because it was never going to be a large heal to begin with. It would be way more useful if they buffed the actual base heal amount of the attack. This would make for a good QoL improvement so you could use siphon powers for healing minor/moderate dmg and saving yourself time, allowing you to continue your attack chain and saving stronger heals like dull pain for when you really need it. The only time I ever used a siphon power for the heal itself was when I played a tank and my dmg res was high enough that I could use it as a primary heal without losing that hp again immediately after attacking. When you play a scrapper that's usually what happens, the heal isn't high enough and your res isn't high enough for you to use it as a legitimate heal, especially when running 4x8. So while this could be an interesting change, especially for theme, it ultimately won't be very effective because the heals aren't very good anyway, and most aren't going to waste that many slots for a weak heal, unless of course the set bonuses are well worth it.