Couple of questions about Devices

[RabbitUp]

Targeting Drone buffs the first attack out of combat. Specifically it gives you a damage buff for 0.75s

Does that buff get snapshotted for attacks like Full Auto or Blizzard for their entire duration? 

 

Also about Gun Drone. Do you find that the taunt passive is actually strong enough to draw aggro away from you when you solo an EB/AV? 

 

And a last question that's not specifically about Devices. A lot of blaster secondaries have +50% recovery toggles. Do you find those are good enough to make endurance manageable? Because I'm eyeing that /Energy Energise for its massive end discount otherwise 👀

Edited February 19 by RabbitUp
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[Maelwys]

  On 2/19/2025 at 7:39 AM, RabbitUp said:

Targeting Drone buffs the first attack out of combat. Specifically it gives you a damage buff for 0.75s

Does that buff get snapshotted for attacks like Full Auto or Blizzard for their entire duration? 

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It'll function for regular Clicks like Blaze and DoT powers like Full Auto; but not for pseudopets like Blizzard (because these work by having the pet make lots of little separate "attacks" and the damage buff will wear off very quickly)
 
I've not personally tested the gubbins of how Targeting Drone's damage buff duration interacts with power Animation Time Before Effect; but purely from eyeballing it... it looks like if the power you're activating afterwards has a ATBE of longer than 1.25s (such as Inferno) then it won't affect it either. [EDIT: A quick test on Brainstorm proves that it is affecting Inferno, so ignore this. I'm guessing that the "out of combat" flag doesn't actually get removed from your character until the attack's effect fully kicks in instead of at the start of its cast time; so TD's damage buff should work on any click attack power. Just not on pseudopets!]
 

  On 2/19/2025 at 7:39 AM, RabbitUp said:

Also about Gun Drone. Do you find that the taunt passive is actually strong enough to draw aggro away from you when you solo an EB/AV? 

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It'll depend if the target you're trying to have it Taunt possesses the "RAID" flag or not.

Unlike Arsenal Assault's Tricannon (for example) the inherent Gatling Gun attack of Gun Drone only taunts foes that are not flagged as "Raid". It does also have a taunt aura passive but that has a low target cap and radius and is unaffected by Threat Duration or Accuracy enhancements (so +4 critters will not be permanently Taunted by it and it'll have issues hitting Raid-flagged foes and you need to keep the Drone on top of the mob for it to work!)
 

  On 2/19/2025 at 7:39 AM, RabbitUp said:

And a last question that's not specifically about Devices. A lot of blaster secondaries have +50% recovery toggles. Do you find those are good enough to make endurance manageable? Because I'm eyeing that /Energy Energise for its massive end discount otherwise 👀

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That one's easier: Yes.
 

Edited February 19 by Maelwys

[RabbitUp]

I totally forgot brainstorm is a thing for a second there. 

Thank you for going through the trouble of testing things 🙌