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How many 7.5% recharge max, couting LotGs ?

Caulderone

By Caulderone,
Posted on: 2009-05-04 06:43 in The Market and Inventions

 

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I read somewhere you can have more than 5 times the 7.5% recharge bonus in your build, counting the bonus coming from IO sets, and the one coming from the LotG + recharge. I'm not sure anymore.

Let's take an example : I have 5 LotG + rech in my build, and I have 2 sets of Basilisks (4 slots) for 7.5% recharge. How many times will I get the 7.5% bonus : 7, or is 5 still the cap ?

Thanks in advance

 

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LotG +7.5% is its own bonus category.

You can have 5 of it plus 5 of the normal +7.5% bonus.

So, you get all 7 of them in your example.

 

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Wow, thanks alot ! Gonna help my Warshade IO build

 

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Wow, thanks alot ! Gonna help my Warshade IO build

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Where are you going to put the 2nd Basilisk set in a Warshade?

Even the LotGs are a bit of a pain; you need 4 Pool powers to take them given that you only have Shadow Cloak from your AT powers. Which means that if you take Fitness you also have to take Stealth, since it's the only Pool with more than one power that will accept Defense Sets (due to the 4 pool cap). I liked having Grant Invisibility, and miss it with my I13+ build, but all the other powers in Stealth are largely wasted on a Warshade. Obviously you can't get Hover, so that leaves just Combat Jumping and Maneuvers without taking 3 powers from Fighting. All-in-all, trying to get 5 LotGs in a Warshade constrains your power pool choices pretty severely, and leaves you with one pretty useless power from the Stealth pool.

Kosmos

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Most powers (and slots) are wasted on a Warshade, might as well put something useful in them.

 

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Most powers (and slots) are wasted on a Warshade, might as well put something useful in them.

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A lot of wasted power choices in any Warshade build, but slots are an entirely different matter on a tri-form.

Kosmos

Global: @Calorie
MA Arcs in 4-star purgatory: Four in a Row (#2198) - Hostile Takeover (#69714) - Red Harvest (#268305)

 

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LotG +7.5% is its own bonus category.

You can have 5 of it plus 5 of the normal +7.5% bonus.

So, you get all 7 of them in your example.

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I find this interesting. I have 8 bonuses of 2.5%: 5 from Gaussian's and 3 from Miracle sets with 2 or more. I seem to be getting all of the bonuses.

So what exactly constitutes as 5 of the same bonus? Are there several categories?

@rewster

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The game doesn't tell you that you aren't getting the extras. You just don't.

edit: Deleted out rest. Unfortunately, the recovery bonuses section is a pain to read as it shows end/sec instead of the bonuses.

 

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edit: Deleted out rest. Unfortunately, the recovery bonuses section is a pain to read as it shows end/sec instead of the bonuses.

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To convert from end/sec to actual +recov percent, use this:

Recov = (eps * 60) / MaxEnd

So, if something gives 0.4583333 eps, then it would be:

Recov = (0.4583333 * 60) / 110
Recov = 27.499998 / 110
Recov = 0.249999
Recov = 25%


You may already know how to do this conversion, so apologies if I'm telling you what you already know. Btw, the computation for regen is similar:

Regen = (hps * 240) / MaxHP)

 

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So what exactly constitutes as 5 of the same bonus? Are there several categories?

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Five of the same name in your "Set Bonuses" list in your powers info window is the rule of thumb that seems to work.

Blue
American Steele: 50 BS/Inv
Nightfall: 50 DDD
Sable Slayer: 50 DM/Rgn
Fortune's Shadow: 50 Dark/Psi
WinterStrike: 47 Ice/Dev
Quantum Well: 43 Inv/EM
Twilit Destiny: 43 MA/DA
Red
Shadowslip: 50 DDC
Final Rest: 50 MA/Rgn
Abyssal Frost: 50 Ice/Dark
Golden Ember: 50 SM/FA