IO Set stacking; Or not.

Alright, so not long ago I started to IO out my dominator. I was told that IO set bonuses would stack up to 5 times. Not a problem. This is what my sets look like as of right now:



Adding all the set bonuses up, I should have 58.75% increased Recharge. The power attributes panel is only putting me at 40%, though. That looks like 3 sets getting cut off, even though only two of them I have multiples of. Do the set bonuses stack only 5 times even if they're not from the same set but give the same bonus? (i.e. the 6.25% "Large" recharge)

Would I have to stack Large, Medium, and Small bonuses then?

Where did I mess up? Or does the game just not like me?

Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

I think you have more than 5 "+6.25% Recharge" bonuses there.

I can see and recognise Positron's Blast, Glimpse of the Abyss, Entropic Chaos, two sets of Malaise's Confusion, Stupefy (that's 6) two sleep sets presumably that give that bonus? Call of the Sandman, right.

I'd drop the Malaise' from Mass Confusion and frankenslot that to give it maximum +Recharge along with some slotting and accuracy,. Having this and TD come up quickly makes them alternate-able per-spawn control powers.

Get 4 pieces of Basilisk's Gaze (+7.5% Recharge) into Dominate and Total Dominate, and make sure TD gets full Recharge bonus too.

5 Doctored Wounds in Drain Psyche for another 5%. Add an accuracy maybe in a sixth slot.

And maybe six slot Lift with Kinetic Crash - another +7.5% recharge there, plus KB protection as a set bonus, while retaining some damage slotting.

Take the extra slots from Mesmerise it functions quite well as a power with minimal slotting. The sleep generally gets broken before it wears off anyway.

Oh, and drop the Stupefy from Psychic Shockwave, slot that for damage. Its way too good a power to be used as a set mule.
I'd keep the following 5 6.25% bonuses: Confuse, Terrify, Psychic Scream, Subdue and Mass Hypnosis.


That should all get you close to a 70% bonus.

Caveat: the LotG 7.5% recharge unique is separate from the regular 7.5% recharge bonus, so you can have 5 7.5% bonuses, and 5 LotGs 7.5%s.

Alright, thanks guys. That's what I was afraid of! I guess the guide I was looking at was either wrong or outdated.

I've been checking the prices of the purple sets, but even at 75-100 million~ a piece it's a little rich for my blood at the moment. (All of the above cost maybe 200m, and I've got about 300m left, but I don't think I'd be able to get 5 pieces of one purple set yet, but it's something to work towards.

if you are going for perma dom, the only thing it is good for now is the status resistance/protection(i always get the 2 confussed no matter how many times i tell myself). it also helps when your end bar is low. there is no extra damage from it any more.

It also lets you hold bosses in one shot still, and hold everyone else for longer. That's not nothing.

yeah, i forgot to add that. my brain was at low working capacity when i posted this. happens when up for 2 days straight with a sick 5 yr old sometimes.

I still think permadom is worth it, if anything I would probably still build for recharge so those long AoE Mezzes recharge quicker, but being able to double Mez and increase duration was always the high point for domination for me, was never worried too much about the damage. And the Mez protection in great too.