alex_cpa Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 I was a bit skeptical of using the commando build of 6/36/4, with 1 point in the First Responder talent to gain a 50% chance (upon a critical hit) to increase my alacrity by 3% for 6 seconds. I could see how having 2 pistols as a merc would allow for a better chance for this to occur, i.e. merc's offhand pistol has a chance to crit. And therefore make the up time good enough to offset the extra 1% alacrity I would be giving up. So I decided to go out to Torparse and pick a high dps op dummy parse. I picked this one http://www.torparse.com/a/446581/1 When looking at the actual log, what I found surprised me. First responder upon a crit hit was yielding the increased alacrity, which is no surprise. But the DURATION of the First Responder was sometimes much longer than 6 seconds, i.e 12, 19, 48 seconds. So I looked at some high merc parses too. The same thing is occurring on the merc parses as well. What I don't understand is why is it lasting longer than 6 seconds, and why is it sometimes lasting 12 seconds and sometimes 48 seconds? Bottom line, I guess I'm going to move 1 point from 'Weapon Calibrations' to 'First Responder'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delaoron Posted October 25, 2013 Share Posted October 25, 2013 I'd say the effect can refresh itself when you have additional crits & procs during the 6 seconds uptime. The ability has no internal cooldown, so with enough luck you could have the effect active the whole fight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobaFaceroll Posted October 25, 2013 Share Posted October 25, 2013 That is correct. Since you already have the effect you will not see "Gains blahblah" in the log, it will just quietly keep your current effect active. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSupaCoopa Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 Yeah, First Responder is one of the best talents in the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cashogy_reborn Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 Yeah, First Responder is one of the best talents in the game. It would be if alacrity was not such a terrible stat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malckiah Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 (edited) It would be if alacrity was not such a terrible stat. Alacrity has been better for some time now....and is certainly not a terrible stat....lol Edited November 2, 2013 by Malckiah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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