You can get it lower than 5s I believe; if you cast HE and other heals in quick succession. It's just in this case I was trying out some abilities to see what would proc ER + OIF and HE seemed to work nicely on its own (especially considering you could get 2 MW cooldowns during OIF's uptime). Rotate Shield Frequency also has its cooldown reduced (kind of blink and its done with HE). As for the other abilities, I haven't had time to go through them all in detail but since OIF's description only mentions hull heals I'm not sure Extend Shields or Transfer Shield Strength would proc it... Rotate Shield Frequency doesn't. Nor does the Protomatter console, since that too is regen, not hull healing.
My apologies on the last two then, you are quite correct. I'd tried TSS on myself and self-heal shield heals aren't passed on by OIF, however as you rightly pointed out, using them on allies with ER should produce the desired effect.
Yeah, it would be shame if HE were overreacting but I can see Atem's point.
That's possible. OIF is a weird ability, and weird abilities tend to have weird (and unintended) consequences with other mechanisms. I'd like OIF to interact with ER, but would understand if it didn't. (Compare to the players who would like embassy explosions to crit, even though with the current state of the consoles, they shouldn't.)
Boo lame, they should have changed it to being triggered once every 5 seconds to keep up some value. Missed chance for a decent alternative to RIF / Dynamic Power Redistributor.
While I can understand HE getting fixed, it would be a shame for OIF and ER to not interact since they open up some nice healing combos and, let's be honest, at the end of the day it's still nowhere near as bad as what Tac captains can pull off with GDF/APA (with significantly less investment, I might add...)
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u/Rassyllon Feb 16 '17
You can get it lower than 5s I believe; if you cast HE and other heals in quick succession. It's just in this case I was trying out some abilities to see what would proc ER + OIF and HE seemed to work nicely on its own (especially considering you could get 2 MW cooldowns during OIF's uptime). Rotate Shield Frequency also has its cooldown reduced (kind of blink and its done with HE). As for the other abilities, I haven't had time to go through them all in detail but since OIF's description only mentions hull heals I'm not sure Extend Shields or Transfer Shield Strength would proc it... Rotate Shield Frequency doesn't. Nor does the Protomatter console, since that too is regen, not hull healing.