What does IO mean?

I see this term on the forums a fair amount, but no one defines it.

Invention Origen

(enhancements that you craft)

IOs are invented enhancements. The "O" is a holdover from when having dual-origin and single-origin enhancements made you the mack daddy.

The current enhancements are usually referred to as:
TO = Training Enhancement
DO = Dual-Origin Enhancement
SO = Single-Origin Enhancement
HO = Hamidon dual/tri buff Enhancement (it's like having 2 or 3 SOs in one slot!)
IO = Invention Enhancement

Others include SHOs, short for Synthetic Hamidon Enhancements (they do the same thing as regular HOs). And sometimes people might mention the enhancements earned from the Crystal Titan in the Woodsman Trial... but they're pretty rare, since they only award from level 38-41 and you actually have to be in that level range to get one.

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Originally Posted by Nethergoat it's NEVER too late to pad your /ignore list!

Literally it means Invention Origin. It refers to enhancements created using the invention system. It follows naming conventions of other enhancements. DO = Dual Origin enhancement, SO = Single Origin enhancement, TO = Training enhancement and HO = Hamidon enhancement.

Thanks all!

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki

Input "IO" into the search field on the left, and learn lots of stuff! Follow links around, be amazed!

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Originally Posted by Dispari I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.

And here I thought it stood for iiO...

"Invention Origin" is a ******* term, since it doesn't make sense. Singe Origin and Dual Origin enhancements are called that by the system, because they affect one or two origins only. There is no such thing as a "Training Origin" enhancement, as the game refers to those as "Training Enhancements" only. TO is a ******* term players invented, I suppose out of a need for conformity in terminology. That carried over to HO, or "Hamidon Origin," which is just as completely meaningless.

Each enhancement is called by what defines it. In the case of Training enhancements, they are defined by concept - they represent your character training his or her skills, and for this reason they affect all origins, as anyone can train up. If anything, they should be called AOs or FOs - All Origin or Five Origin enhancements, since that's what they affect. Single and Dual origin enhancements have a vastly diverse set of concepts, so they are defined by technicalities, instead. They are defined by what they affect, or more practically, how many origins they affect. Since this is what breaks them down into like groups, that's the easiest distinction.

Beyond that, enhancements ought to be defined by the activity that grants them. As such, we ought to have Hydra Enhancements, Titan Enhancements and Hamidon Enhancements. So-called IOs ought to follow the same pattern. As they are granted by the Inventions system, they really ought to be called Inventions Enhancements. They affect all origins equally, rather than just the Inventions origin in particular, which doesn't even exist. Purple Enhancements or "Purples" I can see being called this, because they are inferred to be Inventions Enhancements by means of context, but are defined as Inventions Enhancements that are specifically purple. Because of their rarity and extreme cost, some ambiguity in naming is to be expected.

Really, this bugs me. It's like SG vs. VG. There IS NO SUCH THING as a Villain Group! Both heroes and villains for Super Groups. The game even calls them that, so why people insist on perpetuating this completely fictional term I will never understand.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

All this time I thought it was leet speak for the Seven Dwarves singing on their way home from work

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