Increase Drop Rate for Interrupt Reduction Enhancements?

[CraterLabs]

I don't know why, but I've not seen any Interrupt Time reduction enhancements drop in a while. They were never *super* common, but I could usually expect one or two while a character leveled up. And I miss them, I use them in Sniper powers and Rest and Teleport Target and stuff.

 

And weirdly, I'm not seeing them at Wentworth's much anymore; it's like the supply is drying up. Could the frequency that they drop at be bumped up just a smidge?

[Rudra]

You can also buy them from vendors. Or buy the recipe from the crafting table if looking at IOs instead.

[Uun]

Your issue is that you're looking for SOs. I just checked Wentworth's, and there are hundreds of Interrupt Reduction IOs available from lvl 10-50. Most of them appear to trade for 5 inf.

 

Since the introduction of the fast snipe mechanic, having your snipe interrupted in combat happens far less often. While interrupt reduction is included in all the Snipe sets, I don't think people bother slotting separate interrupt reduction enhancements any more. The one power I'd like to slot them in doesn't actually accept them (Traps/Trip Mine).

[Derek Icelord]

Worth noting, interrupt reduction only reduces the window in which a power can be interrupted, not the total animation time. Somewhere a dev mentioned they may look at removing the enhancement type entirely since it's so niche. Same thing happened to the Intangibility enhancements.

[CraterLabs]

9 hours ago, Uun said:

Your issue is that you're looking for SOs. I just checked Wentworth's, and there are hundreds of Interrupt Reduction IOs available from lvl 10-50. Most of them appear to trade for 5 inf.

 

Since the introduction of the fast snipe mechanic, having your snipe interrupted in combat happens far less often. While interrupt reduction is included in all the Snipe sets, I don't think people bother slotting separate interrupt reduction enhancements any more. The one power I'd like to slot them in doesn't actually accept them (Traps/Trip Mine).

 

Yeah... I'm settling for those at the moment. I know in my head that IOs are mechanically superior, but they're so *bland*, y'know? I want the flavortext of the DOs. Like, one of them is canonically "the first step toward time travel" or something, it's great.

 

I don't wanna have to settle for those, though. I want the DOs and the SO with the flavor. 🙂

[srmalloy]

2 hours ago, CraterLabs said:

I want the flavortext of the DOs.

If you want 'flavor', think about the names of the tech SOs and most of the DOs, and conjure up the mental image of what a hero would look like if they actually carried everything that their slotted enhancements were — faces covered by an array of Benedict Tech Targeting Eyes and ports for Portacio Industries Internal Munitions all over, or multiple Nectanebo's Gourds slung from their shoulders with nine or so of Li Tieh Kuai's Earrings dangling, a bunch of Amulets, more Shoulderpieces than they have shoulders... 

[DoctorDitko]

Waiter, I'll have one of whatever srmalloy is having!

[CraterLabs]

21 hours ago, srmalloy said:

If you want 'flavor', think about the names of the tech SOs and most of the DOs, and conjure up the mental image of what a hero would look like if they actually carried everything that their slotted enhancements were — faces covered by an array of Benedict Tech Targeting Eyes and ports for Portacio Industries Internal Munitions all over, or multiple Nectanebo's Gourds slung from their shoulders with nine or so of Li Tieh Kuai's Earrings dangling, a bunch of Amulets, more Shoulderpieces than they have shoulders... 

 

I kinda do, actually. I like thinking of my characters wearing visors or specialized armbands or lobbing phosphorescent grenades along with their attacks. It's cool!

[UltraAlt]

On 6/11/2025 at 8:11 PM, CraterLabs said:

I don't know why, but I've not seen any Interrupt Time reduction enhancements drop in a while. They were never *super* common, but I could usually expect one or two while a character leveled up. And I miss them, I use them in Sniper powers and Rest and Teleport Target and stuff.

 

wow. I don't think I've use an interrupt time reduction enhancement since sometime before the Sunset.

 

Interesting that you can slot them in rest.

 

Can you explain the usefulness of slotting one in teleport target?

I only think I've ever used that power in non-combat situations.

[lemming]

5 hours ago, UltraAlt said:

Can you explain the usefulness of slotting one in teleport target?

If you are teleporting someone, you can be interrupted.  Say you want to bring someone to the last room in a mission, but some people are shooting at you.

[Psyonico]

13 hours ago, lemming said:

If you are teleporting someone, you can be interrupted.  Say you want to bring someone to the last room in a mission, but some people are shooting at you.

Nope, the interrupt period is only there when you’re targeting an enemy.

[lemming]

31 minutes ago, Psyonico said:

Nope, the interrupt period is only there when you’re targeting an enemy.

Ah.  I could swear I've been interrupted while under fire, but not that big a deal.  

[UltraAlt]

14 hours ago, lemming said:

If you are teleporting someone, you can be interrupted.  Say you want to bring someone to the last room in a mission, but some people are shooting at you.

 

Yeah, well, I don't stealth missions, so, yeah, I guess if you are doing that then I can see the reason to slot interrupt reduction enhances.

[lemming]

39 minutes ago, UltraAlt said:

 

Yeah, well, I don't stealth missions, so, yeah, I guess if you are doing that then I can see the reason to slot interrupt reduction enhances.

Yea, I tend to put the winter slow resist in it which doesn't help the power much.   I do try to get it on every char.  I don't like waiting for others

[Psyonico]

2 hours ago, lemming said:

Ah.  I could swear I've been interrupted while under fire, but not that big a deal.  

Before the two powers were merged, recall friend had an interrupt

[CraterLabs]

On 6/16/2025 at 5:01 PM, UltraAlt said:

 

Interesting that you can slot them in rest.

 

Can you explain the usefulness of slotting one in teleport target?

I only think I've ever used that power in non-combat situations.

 

Rest is where I *always* use Reduce Interrupt. Waiting six-ish seconds for the power to start doing anything is understandable for balance purposes, but since the power always heals "the whole way" when you're not in combat, the only real way to improve it is to cut down on that initial waiting period. And it's honestly the main reason I'm making this request: I don't wanna pay two thousand or whatever to have to use the crafting system on every single new character I make; I've got better stuff to spend my influence on before level 10, and I used to be able to grab an SO or DO for the lower level enhancements pretty easily, but those Wentworth's shelves have been turning into a ghost town.

 

As for why I want one in Combat Teleport: my main hero is Short-Cut, the Teleporting SuperTeen! She's got a knack for all things translocational, and being able to call your friends to where you are faster than any other imitator teleporters is a fun bit of fantasy, heh. It's also handy if I wanna call folks to where I am but don't have Assemble The Team for whatever reason; reducing the time for dedicated teleporters in teams can allow Teleport Target to work on friends fast enough that you can get more than two or three to you before everyone else can just run to where you are, heh.

Edited 11 hours ago by CraterLabs

[Rudra]

1 hour ago, CraterLabs said:

I used to be able to grab an SO or DO for the lower level enhancements pretty easily, but those Wentworth's shelves have been turning into a ghost town.

Then buy them from a vendor. Guaranteed to have the SOs in stock. Edit yet again: Your contacts will sell them to you too.

 

1 hour ago, CraterLabs said:

She's got a knack for all things translocational, and being able to call your friends to where you are faster than any other imitator teleporters is a fun bit of fantasy, heh. It's also handy if I wanna call folks to where I am but don't have Assemble The Team for whatever reason; reducing the time for dedicated teleporters in teams can allow Teleport Target to work on friends fast enough that you can get more than two or three to you before everyone else can just run to where you are, heh.

As already stated in this thread, Teleport Target does not have an interrupt period when using the Recall Friend function. So slotting an interrupt reduction to recall friends isn't going to do a thing to speed it up. (Edit again: Also, it wouldn't even speed up the Teleport Foe function of Teleport Target. Interrupt Reductions don't speed up powers, they just shorten the window in which those powers can be interrupted. The full assigned time still has to elapse even if the interrupt window is shortened.)

 

Edited 10 hours ago by Rudra
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[Psyonico]

1 hour ago, CraterLabs said:

Waiting six-ish seconds for the power to start doing anything is understandable for balance purposes, but since the power always heals "the whole way" when you're not in combat, the only real way to improve it is to cut down on that initial waiting period.

What @Rudra said above, interrupts don’t shorten activation times, just makes the window where you can be interrupted during that animation time smaller.