My 1st toon is in a rut

I joined the game a little while ago, decided to create one toon to take all the way to 50 so I could make all of my mistakes with him and afterwards start other toons with the knowledge from the first round.

lvl 37 Grav/Emp controller

The last 6 or 7 times I been out with teams, I have noticed that I am picking up full racks of enhancements that I cant use. My troller is Tech based and every enhancement i'm picking up is anything but technology based.

Now i'm at a point where my toon has out leveled over 95% of my enhancements. So I went to wentworths only to find 3 lousy lvl 40s that I could use.

One mistake I know I can admit to is that I have been SK'd on some higher lvl TFs which inturn netted me a full inventory of recipes that are beyond my current use. (45-50) So crafting usuable IOs is out of the question at this point.

What am I missing?

You can buy Single Origin Enhancements for your level range from stores in RWZ and the Midnighter Club. You may have to scroll for some time to find them, but they're there.

If you are interested in IOs, you will probably have to buy them from Wentworth's piece by piece.

For more information, check out Paragon Wiki. It has information on pretty much every aspect of the game, including different types of enhancements and what they can do for you.

Best of luck!

You do realize you can buy SOs from the store?

For a level 40 Hero, you can buy your lvl 40 SOs from Ghost Falcon on PI (requires you to run a mission first), or in the Rikti War Zone (and, IIRC, in Cimerora and the Shadow Shard as well).

You can also sell some of your IO recipes, or place them on the market in a slot (don't list them though) to store for later. I'd personally try to buy some lvl 35 or 40 common recipes and use those over SOs (because lvl 35 IOs are equivalent to the best SOs, and 40s are superior to the best SOs, and neither ever have to be replaced, so they'll generally be cheaper in the end as well!).


Also... don't try to 'make all your mistakes on one character'... cause that's a mistake! This game is all about the alting!

We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.

There are stores around the city which sell SOs of various levels. You'd be looking for a Technology Store probably in Brickstown IIRC?

You needn't buy everything at WW, but doing so can save you money. When your in a pinch, it's good to remember the old fashioned SO stores.

Many thanks!!

I was under the impression that 25 was the highest I could buy from the stores and didnt know that other zones had venders that sold higher level IOs. Now I do.

Again many many thanks.

I'd second the wiki - specifically Stores. As you can see, the Tech store is Mark IV in Founders Falls, who will require you to run a short mission. Mark IV will sell enhancements up to level 40, and can be accessed at level 30. If you have access though, the Midnighter's Club, Cimerora and the RWZ all have stores that will sell you enhancements of any origin, from level 35 up.

You can of course choose to fight enemies that drop enhancements of your origin, but it's far easier to just sell your drops and buy from the stores. I don't recall offhand who drops Tech enhancements between 30 and 40, but I suspect Council and Freakshow are your best bets.

Good luck.

Also, the origins of the SOs dropped by the critters are based on the origin of the enemies you're fighting, not on what you are. If you want to try and get SOs via drops, try fighting 'tech' based enemies like Freakshow (I'm sure there are others, I'm sure you can look them up on the paragon wiki if you want to go that far).

SOs can easily be bought by the RWZ, Cim, Shard, or PI vendors as well if you want to go that route. At your level, you might want to seriously consider looking into common IO recipes. They take more time to craft and make, but are more powerful and don't expire as you level. Check out the recipes on the wiki, get the new Mids (they just updated it with all the issue 16 stuff). It can really help you plan out a character if you really want to get out of the rut. At level 40, you can probably get some decent Set IOs as well to boost your character even more.

Links below if you don't have them.

Mids Hero Designer
Paragon Wiki
Wiki - Common Invention Recipes
Wiki - Store Inventories

Also keep in mind that the enemy type you fight determines what they will drop. Mobs like the Circle of Thorns will drop Magic enhancements. Same goes for Salvage drops.

There is a store contact for tech enhancements in Founders Fall I think. If he isn't there then in Brick's Town. When you talk to him you will have to do a couple missions and then he will start selling you SO enhancements. Another way to get SO's is to run some AE missions for tickets and use them to but SO's from the vendor in the AE building.

I just wanted to reiterate that you can sell Recipes at a regular store. Some people, like my brother, have a hard time grasping the concept at first which I think is due to where they're located in the store's window. That is, they're on the left side and you have to scroll down past all your Inspirations, which you can't sell.

Note: high level "common/generic" IO recipes sell for quite a bit at a regular store. You can sell them at Wentworths too to other players, but you generally won't get as much. On the other hand, named "Sets" IO recipes sell for a pittance at a regular store. However, certain highly desirable Set IO recipes will sell for millions at Wentworths. Be sure to check Wentworths before clearing out Set IO recipes.

http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Stores_Inventory

This link tells of a Tech store in Brickstown and I didn't find one there.

I told a couple of SG members on teamsdpeak that wiki was incorrect and they confirmed.

Might want to update that.

Holsten Armitage is not on the map in Brickstown. I ended up going to to visit Mark IV in Founders

If you want to fight enemies that drop tech SOs, fight Nemesis.

@SpaceNut - My 50s, AE arcs and current projects at ParagonWiki

You misunderstand me. Holsten in Bricks is Science, Mark IV in FF is Tech. They both have Sci/Tech DOs, but only the SOs of their own type.

I read the title and thought, well just type /stuck in you chat bar.

Please post new problem, I'm too late to be useful on the last one.