Carrion Creepers and procs in the new age

[Fireburn]

I tried to test this myself, but it's SLIGHTLY difficult to graps exactly how high or low the chances are now with the tentacles spamming so many attacks and dots over  a pack of enemies.

 

So procs have been massively nerfed for this power. It's ok, i'm fine with that. What i'm trying to determine is if they are still worth to slot and if so, wich kind of sets. i had all the targeted aoe damage procs until now. My test showed some positron's and bombardments firing, but not many honestly.

Damage seems still fine ( although actually my test was ran on a controller and contaiment damage helped, but still, it's ok for me ).

 

I love this power but it's a convoluted mess to follow mathematically. So, bottom question is, would it be better to forget about procs at all and slot Creepers for a set bonus, or can some extra damage still be squeezed in them?

[Uun]

After p2 I dropped the procs from CC and currently have it slotted with 5x Bombardment. Someone posted that Slow procs still work, but I haven't tested it yet.

[WumpusRat]

I slotted mine with the full Cupid's Crush set. The set bonuses are all awesome, gives a ton of recharge, and occasionally a giant spiked tentacle will confuse a target so that they start shooting their allies, providing even more CC. 

[Vinceq98]

Ice ministrels set of 5 with the proc and then impeded swiftness proc. The highest dmg in my testing. 

[Fireburn]

MMmmhhh..... i like the ice mistral set bonus ( accuracy, hp, recharge and one of the few sources of slow resist outside of winter sets ) although the accuracy the set itself provides by slotting is not great. But damage slotting is good, it has a proc and if slows work...then it could be my choice as well

[Ukase]

On 6/30/2025 at 10:16 PM, WumpusRat said:

I slotted mine with the full Cupid's Crush set. The set bonuses are all awesome, gives a ton of recharge, and occasionally a giant spiked tentacle will confuse a target so that they start shooting their allies, providing even more CC. 

I did the same; it's awesome. Mind you, I never played it before the nerf, so no basis for comparison. 

[Riverdusk]

On 7/2/2025 at 2:51 AM, Fireburn said:

MMmmhhh..... i like the ice mistral set bonus ( accuracy, hp, recharge and one of the few sources of slow resist outside of winter sets ) although the accuracy the set itself provides by slotting is not great. But damage slotting is good, it has a proc and if slows work...then it could be my choice as well

 

Thanks for the idea.  Going to try this.  To fix the accuracy and recharge weakness it ends up with think I'll drop the ice mistral endurance/slow piece and replace it with a +5 gravitational anchor Acc/Rech.  Still get the recharge set bonus with 5 ice mistal pieces and with the boosted acc/rech purple piece it ends up with very good stats and still a damage proc in there.