Out of curiosity

OK heres a for example, why do folks when they Io out builds for recharge, seem to always leave the base recharge at a low level on some powers but then try to get 60% or better global recharge, when adding that last slot to bring up the base recharge to say 40 would equal out to a good 80 recharge on that power but without signifigantly nerfing any other power?

I see this all the time in the forums, and wonder if they never exmpt past their set bonuses to help out lower folks. It just bothers me that if I went and do a tf or something that the nice overclock of +rech that I depend on 35+ is now going to be maybe 20% period or lower based upon how low one exempts.

There are a few reasons. The first is that adding global recharge increases every power so it is (generally) more efficient on a per slot basis than adding recharge to one power. The other reason is that recharge is more useful in some powers than others. For example on my Traps/AR Defender I have lots of recharge slotted in most of the Traps powers and the important AR powers (Full Auto and Flamethrower) but I've skimped on the recharge of the other AR powers because it isn't as important, They are up often enough that adding more recharge to them (at the cost of either set bonuses or slots in other powers) isn't that useful. Basically I'm using global recharge to exceed the ED cap on powers I want up a lot at the cost of recharge on powers I'm less concerned with.

People frequently get distracted by the shiny and forget about the important stuff. (see: lottery tickets, trophy wives that you can't actually have a conversation with , etc.)

Also, keep in mind that global recharge can affect powers that you can not slot at all. Most of the vet powers (but not all) are affected by global recharge.

I bought and slotted the last two hectacombs in fire sword for my fire/fire blaster this week, and now I have 177.5% global recharge (with hasten up -- which is always). That includes 3 purple damage sets, several LoTGs, and various other sets with recharge bonuses.

I don't even care if that's practical or if it's overkill, or if building in some ranged defense might have been a better option. This is my one character that I've done this with, and it's just plain fun having virtually any of my powers available at any time.

But I do think I'll eventually replace level 50 IO sets with level 30, so that I can respec down a bit and not suffer so much.

In the meantime, when I really want to unleash pure carnage, I'll play my blaster for a bit.