Distortion Field slotting

[graeberguinn]

What do you find is the optimal slotting of Distortion Field? I know you can slot for %dmg with procs as a prob bomb dmg power, but I prefer to use it in this case as soft CC.  Power says it does (-recharge, -speed) chance for hold. Running an Electric/Time/Mu for reference. 

 

My initial thoughts are to focus on the Slow. Pacing of the Turtle has: -Recharge proc and Lockdown has: Chance to +2 hold proc. Could throw those in and the rest focus on Slow and Recharge for max uptime. Any thoughts/help are appreciated. 

[Psyonico]

I'm pretty sure it procs very poorly.

 

For me, if I have the extra slots, I slot 4x basalisk's gaze for the recharge bonus.  If I don't have the slots, a single recharge does fine.

[JediDave]

I agree with what Psyonico said. I'd emphasize the "if I have extra slots" part, and say that it's totally fine to slot it up with a single slot and use those slots somewhere else. IF you do slot it, I think basilisk is a good choice for a bit of range defense and a lotg worth of recharge. If you have excess slots on the build, I think the lockdown +2 hold is really the only proc I'd bother with. 

 

Off the top of my head, idk if the hold is auto hit or needs acc, so the one slot would ideally be recharge, but if you don't have the acc from set bonuses and it ISN'T auto hit, an acc enhancement is fine too. 

[Uun]

Because Distortion Field summons a pseudo pet, it's important to understand what's going on under the hood. The -speed, -jump and -recharge are autohit and have a 100% chance to occur every 1s. The hold is also autohit but only has a 2% chance to occur every 1s (3% if the target is effected by Time Crawl) and really isn't worth enhancing. Optimal slotting is 2x end/rech/slow HOs.

 

I've played around with procs and found that Slow set %dmg procs (Ice Mistral's Torment and Impeded Swiftness) fire very reliably on cast. In theory they should check again every 10s. The Pacing of the Turtle -rech proc should fire at a similar rate. I haven't tested Hold set %dmg procs. I wouldn't slot the Lockdown +2 mag hold proc because of the power's 2% hold chance (the proc would only make a difference if it happened to coincide with the power's hold chance and also hit a boss). Much more reliable to just tag bosses with a ST hold.

 

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