IO Sets

Is it ok, for example to use the same melee IO set for all of your melee powers so the bonuses stack?

Let's say Gift of the ancients, if you have more than one defense set, or Tempest, if you have more than one blaster set?

yes up to 5 times also known as the rule of 5

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What's important is the name of the bonus as it appears in your "Powers" tab. You can have 5 copies of anything with a given name.

So I would get the benefits of the 10% defense, but not necessarily for example, the 1.88% Negative Energy resistance (not sure that is one of the benefits, just saying).

I have Tempest slotted on three blaster powers, one of the bonus effects is 2.2% sleep resistance, so for the three total 6.6%. Would I get that full benefit? It also offers 2% damage increase for each set, so x3=6%, do I get that benefit?

Sorry for my ignorance.

In other words, you'd get 6.6% sleep resistance for the three Tempest slots, and if you had some other sets that also offered 2.2% sleep resistance, you could have up to 11% total (2.2% x 5). If you had a sixth set that granted 2.2% sleep resistance, it would be of no benefit. But if you had another set that granted 5% sleep resistance (just for example), you would get the 2.2% x 5 and the 5% as well for 16% resistance.

Excellent. Thanks for helping everybody.

Next question I have then, is it smart to use the same IO sets across multiple powers?

Am I smart using Tempest across three blaster powers?

It can be smart. Depending on the set.

Most set bonuses are nearly worthless. The "sleep resistance", for example: it shortens the duration of sleep powers on you. However, the cap is 100% and that cuts the time slept by a factor of 2. (50% would cut the time by 1.5, to 2/3 of the original time.) So 2.2% sleep resistance is pretty worthless.

Some set bonuses are worthwhile in some cases- for instance, stone tanks like runspeed bonuses but very few other people do.

The "overall winner" set bonuses (useful to almost everyone) tend to be recharge, regeneration, HP, various types of Defense, and a couple that I'm surely overlooking.

However, there is another aspect to IO sets: a set IO that does two or more things is "better" than a generic IO, just from the standpoint of the percentages.

Let's consider a level 45 Accuracy and Damage combination, and very slightly oversimplify. An IO that does only one thing, at level 45, gives 40% benefit to that thing in most cases. an IO that does two things (Acc/Dam or Dam/Rech for instance) gives 25%/25%.
If you have one generic Accuracy IO and one generic Damage IO, you get 40% Acc and 40% Damage. If you have two Accuracy/Damage IO's from different sets, you get 50% Acc and 50% Damage.

So slotting a set helps often helps even if the set bonuses are no good. I don't remember Tempest in particular.

Fulmens, the status resistance cap was lifted a long time ago, to something like 10,000%.

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And purples work different too. You can only have a set of recipes per power type. For example, you can't have 5 sets of Hecatomb on 5 diff melee powers.

Like Fulmens said, most of the recipes are crap. Most are better to be frankenslotted to get more %'s per power until you can afford the better sets.

I didn't know the Fleeting. Good stuff. (about the purples)