UberGuy

The main problem is that doing this causes the effects to scale (down) with foe level. That is definitely undesirable. I cannot confirm this behavior with the regen uniques, but I can confirm it for Kismet in Invincibility.

Something to bear in mind is that there isn't actually very much difference, in terms of absolute enhancement percentages, between a level 50 LotG and a level 25 one. A level 50 one is 15.94% enhancement, while a level 25 one is 12%, so about 4% difference in enhancement strength. If you use level 50 enhancements in the rest of your slotting on a given power, you may not even be able to tell the difference.

For example, something I often do on characters not that far up the defense scale is 3-slot LotGs in Weave. Here's what I have in it on a /Regen who has a little over 25% melee defense.

• Level 50 Defense/Endurance
• Level 50 Defense
• Level 25 Defense/Increased Recharge

That slotting for Weave gives me +5.68% defense. If I change the LotG recharge to a level 50, Weave gives me +5.78% defense, do 0.1% defense difference.

An important thing about this example is that I am not near the ED "cap" on enhancement levels. If I was actually four slotting the power...

• Level 50 Defense/Endurance
• Level 50 Defense/Endurance/Recharge
• Level 50 Defense
• Level 25 Defense/Increased Recharge

That would give +5.89% defense. Changing the global to a level 50 would change that to 5.91%.

So in addition to how you play, it also depends on how you're slotting, and how strong the actual affect comes out to be. In general I've been pretty willing to trade out 50s for 25s, because I have been able to make up such small differences in final +defense in other places. If you find yourself right at the wire, try only adding the L25 enhancements only to your smallest defense contributors, such as Weave, or +DEF passives.

So, you know those folks who say they've never gotten anything good rolling random rolls? I've never been one of those folks. Some days I get junk, but other days I get really nice stuff.

But today... the nice stuff truck turned over outside my place.

This was the outcome of a successful Hamidon raid, plus enough extra merits to allow a third roll. (Hamidon is worth 53 merits.)

They have them, but they reward no canes.

I qualify "can spam text one message at a time" as "do very little" in the scope of game macro systems.

They do very little that can affect actual game play directly.

If you can tolerate/survive them, Rikti are excellent earnings. A +2 Rikti minion is worth about 30% more than other +2 minions. On the other hand, large spawns of them end up producing 3-4 Guardians, which means that if you don't defeat or incapacitate them quickly they can actually cascade buffs until they're a serious problem. +2/3 mobs with 3-4 AccMets hit pretty hard and swing pretty often, and they can end up with stacked bubbles, too.

Several AccMetted Mentalist/Mesmerists can also present a somewhat unusual problem. I've had them stack mezzes through a Scrapper's protections.

I feel earn the extra inf in their case.

I could probably stand to buy you a few SOs.

I have to say that I'm very surprised that you are losing recharge on anything on average by putting in purples. Purple sets have the largest set-based recharge bonus anything can give, so you shouldn't be losing global recharge by replacing something with purple sets. Most of the purple sets offer 89.9% recharge slotting for the 5 pieces that aren't a proc. There aren't many non-purple sets that approach that, though you could do it via frankenslotting. (I sometimes don't slot the purple Dam/Rech if I want the proc in 5 slots, something I usually do in a fast-recharging power, and that still adds up to 59.6%).

So what I won't say you can't lose recharge overall from slotting purples, it's pretty surprising to me, and am curious what choices are causing it.

Congrats, and general kudos for rednames who do things regular players do, too.

It's worth noting that buying level 49 pool As has been particularly effective during the -1 TF bug's persistence. People tend to pile all their bids (and money) on level 50s, because supply has historically been strongest there. However, supply definitely shifted partially to level 49 for Pool A drops, but prices didn't particularly adjust. As a result I've obtained plenty of Pool A drops I wanted for builds by buying at level 49 for a fraction of the cost usually paid for the level 50 versions.