I disagree with this, you actually work off debt fighting stuff closer to your level than you would exemplared. Mostly due to you have more powers to defeat the mobs faster. If I go down to lvl 5 from say like lvl 40 and only have like 2 attacks weak attacks that will be hella slower compared to having my full attack chain and stamina killing level 40s, and you are working on progress towards the next level as just opposed to only working off debt.
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Entoxicated Ninja/PSN Mastermind
Ninja Ryukenden Kat/WP Scrapper
Hellish Thoughts Fire/PSI Dominator
Thank You Devs for Merits!!!!
Your individual enhancements lose their percentage effectiveness, but you don't lose the slots. Taking a scrapper with over 50 HOs into a Positron TF is a beautiful thing. At level 15 you have 9 powers, at *native* level 15 you have 23 slots distributed across those 9 powers. At exemplared level 15, the aforementioned scrapper has 12 slots in just the two defense toggles, as those are all HOs, that is the equivalent of 24 slots. Two attacks add 9 more slots, equivalent to 18. So there is an equivalent of 42 slots in 4 powers.
My fire/fire blaster has 5 powers 6-slotted out of the 9 at 15. She's running IO sets, so no HO double-slotting, but that's still 30 slots in 5 powers (and chance to hold still works at level 2).
Considering the caps introduced with ED, and the fact that my scrapper is way over-slotted, she loses about 11% enhancement effectiveness (in the defense toggles) when exemplaring to 15.
Gerbils are for wimps. Real men use badgers.
You do not lose slots when you exemp. You also don't have SO level enhancements, however, you have a percentage decrease in enhancement powers based upon how many levels you exemp.