Is it worth fully slotting Health and Stam?

I've always wondered this. I've only done it once but I'm not all to sure if its worth it

Depends on what you're slotting.

If you're slotting generic inventions, for example, then no; you won't see much of a return beyond three (ie, 3xGIO50 Endurance Mod/Health), and zero return after four (Thanks, ED).

If you're slotting sets (setting or franken), then 'possibly'; it's contingent upon the desired bonuses.

if set bonuses is what you're after, and have the slots to spare (which I suspect is unlikely), then go for it. any regular health/end mod IO's after the 3rd will hinder you.

Yes and no. In terms of power performance 3 SOs/Generic IOs + Procs is the maximum effective performance. However in some cases fully slotting it with a set can be beneficial. In particular for Health Numina's Convalescence has Ranged Defense, Health and Regeneration which makes it a popular option for some characters. Regenerative Tissue and Doctored Wounds have a Recharge bonus at 5 slots. Similarly Efficacy Adaptor and Performance Shifter have ok set bonuses although in general they are worse than the ones available to Health.

If you're just slotting it with Heal enhancers, then the answer is almost certainly no. The return on adding enhancement to any one aspect of a power beyond the equivalent of 3 even-level SOs is extremely marginal. This is generally true of all aspects of all powers. The whole last three Heal enhancers in six-slotted health adds less than 1/2 the benefit of adding the first one.

Some exception is made occasionally. For example, if you have an extremely long recharge power, the ~15% extra recharge you can eke out by six-slotting the power vs. three-slotting it might represent a pretty large absolute number of seconds. It's still going to be a small relative increase, but when the relative numbers translate into large absolute numbers, sometimes it's compelling.

Health by itself doesn't provide an absolute benefit large enough to merit such an approach. For example, on a level 50 Tanker with fully slotted Dull Pain active (an example of someone with a very large number of HP to base the +regen effect on), the difference in 3-slotted Health and 6-slotted Health is +0.9 HP/sec. That's not a very compelling use of 3 slots.

Health can be nice to slot with IOs such as Miracle:+Recovery, Numina's Convalescence: +Regen/Recovery, and Regen Tissue:+Regen. Putting all three of those plus maximum heal slotting would be an example of a reasonable six-slotted Health. Edit: On the same Tanker as above, adding these three IOs to Health 3-slotted for Heal increase the Tanker's HP regen by 12.7 HP/sec, plus add about 50% of the benefit of unslotted Stamina.

Thank you for the help. I never knew the real numbers. This will really help with my enhancing period. Thank you everyone

Well..I'm fixing up a scrapper with dual blades and super reflexes. Not much slots there :P

A pertinent link:
http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Enhancement_Diversification

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I generally five or six slot Stamina with Efficacy Adapters and four or five slot Health with either Miracles or Regenerative Tissues. I'd love to use Doctored Wounds or Numina's, but I can never afford them.

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My personal strategy which I sometimes stick to:

Add the two slots after they are chosen for a total of three and generic IO them. When you get to level 42 or similarly high, reslot two better generic IOs and throw in a proc. Or, if you're swimming in slots, proccy proc-proc. Though really, only the health has 300m worth of procs you can slot.

Indeed. Functionally, all the "120s" IOs can be considered procs with a 100% chance of activation. Whether this is at odds with one's definition of "proc" depend on what version of definition of that term is being used, as there are a few.

Nonetheless, regardless of the correctness of the term, the "120s" IOs are actually defined in essentially the same way as other "true" procs (like the Performance Shifter chance for +endurance) except that "true" procs add a (X% chance) to the effect definition.

Yeah, my mistake, that thing.