We should have more personal enhancement storage

The limit of 10 enhancements per character is an outdated and obsolete design in the current game. I'd have to blow through several respecs just to strip a character. Sure I could sell the extras, but I don't think the game is going to give me the hundreds of millions of inf my build is worth.

The only real reason I think this restriction existed in the first place (and if anyone knows for sure, do tell) was that it was either an arbitrary design choice, or the original devs just didn't think it necessary as you could get any enhancement easily from any vendor before IOs and a respec would re-sell what you had for exactly what it was worth when you bought it, making it just a matter of going back to the store and spending a few minutes buying them back. With IOs I have dozens of set IO enhancements slotted, that if I wanted to take off, transfer, etc, the cost of getting them back would be astronomical.

For example, if I wanted to change all of my Red Fortune sets (I have 3 full sets) for 3 full sets of LotG I'd have to burn TWO respecs or trash the leftovers just to move enhancements around plus find a place to store the extras after I did slot them (and before I crafted or purchased the LotGs since all those extra Red Fortune's would be taking up my inventory.)

Anyway, I think the enhancement limit should be raised to at least 50.

OOps I had to edit.

I agree with the Op. Especially with the insane prices on the markets and the cost of respec recipes.

I was just thinking this the other day so /signed. Even tough this isn't the suggestions and ideas forums.


//Jack

Without saying anything about the merits of the idea one way or the other, I don't think the devs agree with you on this. I believe Positron is on the record as saying that allowing you to pull and save 10 enhancements per respec is being generous. It's an intentional part of the design that major rebuilds will cost you something - either more respecs, or lost enhancements.

I think the limited storage is an acceptable curb on unlimited willy-nilly respecs.


We can change whatever we want whenever we want, but not without some thought and potential inconvenience.

This is a left over back from when we only had SOs and the devs 'generosity' in allowing ten slots would allow to save around 50k per slot (so around 500k).

In the modern now where enhancements have reached several dozens of millions *per* enhancement the datedness of the dev's 'generosity' shows.

Fifty slots would allow to put all the important and expensive IOs away when respeccing and trash the rest. Following the OP's example, the LoTGs *would* be saved, but if there are Red Fortune left at the end of the fifty slots they could be trash as they are worth peanuts.

I was looking at removing all the good enhancements from one of my characters coming I16 but I've already seen it going to four respecs, and that just to get the really expensive stuff out and trash the several sets of Crushing Impacts, Performance Shifter, etc.

I'm signing for this

Except the point of respecs isn't to strip a character of it's IO's to sell. It's specifically tells you the first time you slot an enh with every new toon that the enhancement is locked in there permanently. Yes, you can get them out with a respec, but thats just a by-product of the process.

This doesn't sound like an issue with respecs. It sound like what you really want is something else, something that allows you to remove Enhancements direct from an alt after they've been slotted.

To be honest I can't see this happening as the game tells you they are locked in.

BUT

If you could just remove enhancements from slots it might reduce the prices of enhancements on the market. Chances are though the cheaper ones would get cheaper as there would be more available and the expensive ones would get more expensive as people tried to buy them to replace the ones they've unslotted.

/Not Signed

I see ehnancements as a way of taking Inf out of the game for the most part. WW/BM only moves it around from one character to another but crafting removes the recipie, the salvage, some Inf from the market in exchange for an IO which once slotted theoretically should not get sold. Having them easliy stripped means that the money is only leaving the market through the shops which aren't trading in huge Inf amounts anyway.

I think they need to provide personal storage off character like in the case of the salvage vault. Many players have circumvented the 10 enhancement limitation by creating their own SG and storing enhancements there. However I personally find that method counter productive unless you can get into a coalition with a larger SG.

I don't agree with Posi's statement on being generous by letting us keep enhancements after a respec. This game is NOT the same as it was 5 years ago, players can not help it if the devs make changes to the game mechanics or powers. More times than not those changes require respecs. Examples E.D. and the GDN.

We do need more money sinks and this is one way to have one.

I could see personal storage before I can ever see them raising the limit on the amount of kept enhancements for a respec. Regardless of if someone thinks the number 10 is outdated in relation to the way things are now, being able to keep multiple IO sets, especially, is not beneficiary the overall player population,the economics, and certian philosophies of the game.

To be able to keep a copious amount of enhancements, specifically IO sets or portions thereof, keeps more in the world inventory, depletes spending and means less people doing content ie. respec trials.

Not only these points, but it makes us emo-I-want-it-all-now types. Like someone said above, that fact we get any at all is a by-product of the act of respecing.

With regards to this issue there shouldn't be any entitlement issues being brought up because they weaken us as players and make us a bit more lazy with less forethought and they weaken the intangibles of the game.

I assume this will get moved to Suggestions eventually so I will treat this as a suggestion in my reply.

I would like more enhancement storage though 50 is extreme to me.

I would also like to be able to do a pseudo-respec which would allow me to move enhancements between powers and build one or build two.

Seconded for both the move and SwellGuy's suggestion. It would be nice to have a "reslot" recipe that would allow you to swap enhancements around without being able to change power picks.

Of course, it would also be nice if the current respecs didn't force you to start all over from level one.

It is a PITA and should be changed.

Removing wealth (inf, choice enhancers, etc.) is important to a well functioning economy. So I can't agree with this idea. Being able to all but strip a character of enhancers allows you to reuse enhancers on alts and such.

What would stop a person from churning recipes through successive alts? This would cause deleterious downward pressure on pricing as enhancers would never leave the economy.

I could get behind 20, not 50.

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