Nihilus’s Drain Force

"Gannon;c-1761480" wrote:

"FailingCrab;c-1761471" wrote:

"Ravens1113;c-1761462" wrote:

"KausDebonair;d-193971" wrote:
Text says 50% chance to reduce cooldowns, chance doubled if unit is debuffed.

Is this chance based around a potency/tenacity check? I can’t remember. I had a enemy squad of 4, all with pain on them, and Drain Force only gave me 2 cooldown reductions. It hit and did damage all of them, nobody dodged or anything.

I ask because I remember reading some time ago that it’s a flat percentage and not a potency/tenacity check, but I also remember reading that it is a check. What’s the real verdict?

Tenacity check my friend. Just like most everything else, the percentage you’re reading is of the chance for the cooldown reduction to hit, but then still goes through a check.

This is completely wrong, or at least that's how the forums and reddit and my personal experience have gone so far. There is NO tenacity check on cooldown reduction on any of the abilities which feature it (drain force, mark, strategic dominance etc).

That said, this doesn't explain OP's report. Are you 100% sure that the attack hit everyone? And what was the effect on annihilate's cooldown? I think sometimes the text saying 'cooldown increased' might not show but the cooldowns have actually been drained.

Um no, there's a tenacity check on this just like most everything else. Remove all potency and try it, you'll see the difference pretty clearly.

I would challenge you to do the same :wink:
If this thread has established anything, it's that the answer to OP's question is not clear. It would be nice to have a dev response, or for someone to link to an old dev response.