You don't know? that is the hidden reason why they did it. I bet 5000 gold one or more developers where playing with their non GM account and got hit a lot by that set due to really bad luck hence the call to reduce the tics.

I also hope, they give use something in exchange for this loss.

This change. I didnt even see it coming, what is the reason for it?

I am in favor of this DOT rate change as now intended by ZOS:
Probably not for the reasons ZOS has...
why?

Different rates of hits/second were fine as long as there were no or a few armor sets that procced with an RNG.

With soooo many monster & armor sets at this moment that can proc a good overview over the comparative strenght's is hard to maintain.

I think that making all hit rates equal will make it much more easy to balance the game, without affecting build diversity.

I would even add to change the RNG proc rates, now small percentages, to a standard 20% for all, and adjust the benefit downward.
(like what has been done with the Silver Bolts that procced for insane damage at 3% proc rate)

Bugs in very small proc RNG percentages are also too difficult to spot by us. Like the small rare loot drop rates.
We do never really know if the ability functions as intended. And ZOS does not seem to have an effective method in place to monitor actual proc behaviour of these kind of abilities. So it is up to us anyway.


BTW
I think it will also reduce a little bit the LAG issues in PVP (less events, less calculations)

hrothbern wrote: »

I am in favor of this DOT rate change as now intended by ZOS:
Probably not for the reasons ZOS has...
why?

Different rates of hits/second were fine as long as there were no or a few armor sets that procced with an RNG.

With soooo many monster & armor sets at this moment that can proc a good overview over the comparative strenght's is hard to maintain.

I think that making all hit rates equal will make it much more easy to balance the game, without affecting build diversity.

I would even add to change the RNG proc rates, now small percentages, to a standard 20% for all, and adjust the benefit downward.
(like what has been done with the Silver Bolts that procced for insane damage at 3% proc rate)

Bugs in very small proc RNG percentages are also too difficult to spot by us. Like the small rare loot drop rates.
We do never really know if the ability functions as intended. And ZOS does not seem to have an effective method in place to monitor actual proc behaviour of these kind of abilities. So it is up to us anyway.


BTW
I think it will also reduce a little bit the LAG issues in PVP (less events, less calculations)

Very good points @hrothbern .
I will also like to add another maybe possible thing.
Everything that scales of off percentage, have the advantage of big numbers. Like for example the major brutality buff.
If you only have 1000 weapon dmg, then 20% of that, isnt too noticable. You will get 200 more weapon dmg from using it. But if you have 3500 weapon dmg, 20% from that adds 700 weapon dmg, am I right? This is also one of the reason why the gap between vr14 an vr16 are larger then the gap between vr12 and vr14. Before, you didnt lose much by useing vr12 armor instead of vr14, but you are losing alot more stats then before if you use vr14 instead of vr16.

To get back to my main point. This same effect is with critical hits. If you crit with a low dmg skill that does 5000 dmg, you add 50% from that and get 2500 bonus dmg. But if you crit with a high dmg skill, for example wrecking blow that does 15000 dmg on one hit, you get 7500 bonus dmg. That is 3 times more bunus dmg. This will affect the dots as well. They wont tick as much, but the bonus dmg you get, will add up with more dps in the long run. And dont forget champion points and maybe mundus stone, all increase the dmg of critical hits