New Player, Questions about enhancements

Hi, I'm new.

I was wondering what the average cost of the "good" enhancements are.. Where can I buy these?


I'm a technology Corruptor.

"Good" is so subjective that it would be difficult or impossible to fully answer the question. Single-origin (SOs) enhancements are, to my mind, the point at which they become worth paying for, but others' mileage will vary. From there, the sky is nearly the limit.

Generally speaking, you'll be able to buy SOs beginning around level 25, from stores and contacts in the zones appropriate to that level. For (significantly) more extensive info, check here, with prices listed here.

Thanks a bunch for the quick response.. I'll check out those links :]

A historical note: for the first few years, there was only one system of enhancements: the type you buy from stores in game, with TO's, DO's and SO's. Enhancements were really tough to buy until about level 32, at which point your income rose much faster than the cost of enhancements . At that point there was really nothing to do with spare inf so people would give it away to lowbies. (Your first set of SO's at 22 costs a million, more or less; your last set at 47 costs around 5 million. You need to replace about every 5 levels.)

Then the Invention System was added in issue 9. People bought the "best stuff" as it dropped, and so all this useless money actually started circulating. People were spending hundreds of millions of inf at the market, and a lot of that was going to low level characters. Prices at the market have gone up even higher- which is great if you're selling.

My suggestion is that you start out buying SO's, which work fine*, and selling all your salvage and recipes at the Auction House(except the generic ones, which have names like Invention: Damage), listing them at low prices. The system is "lowest sale goes to highest bid" so they'll sell fast and if it's a REALLY good item you'll still get a pretty good price. You will give people lots of bargains, but you will have more money than you can ever spend on SO's. You can learn about inventions when you're ready. Everybody wins.

* The devs did not make the game any harder when they introduced IO's, and we played on SO's just fine. There's about one thing in the IO system that I would say is "necessary", and that's knockback protection for blasters.

Some great IOs sell for nothing. Some crap IOs sell for tons because they are in sets with great bonuses.

Do the SOs, then use IOs to Frankenslot or just make sets. But, bear in mind that some sets suck but have great bonus, and vise versa. The ones that tend to not suck in either direction tend to be pricey.

That said there is a Dam/Rech glut on some sets becuase they drop so much. You'll pay 6m for an Acc/Dam and then pick up the Dam/Rech for one. Not 1m but just one.

You can also make scads of money off people on the market too.

Another thing now that IOs have been mentioned: there are IOs, and there are IO sets. IOs are straight bonuses to a power - Accuracy, Damage, what have you. IO SETS are a different animal, the one that everyone else has rightly implied can get very expensive, offer a) multifaceted bonuses (+Accuracy and +Damage, for example), and b) set bonuses that often get applied to the ENTIRE character when you have two or more of the same SET in one power. My favorite example (yes, one of the expensive ones ) is the Ranged attack IO set, Devastation, which you can look over here. This set also has an example of a proc in it (the Chance for Hold), which means that, with that specific IO installed, the ranged attack it's on has a chance to hold the target, in addition to its normal effects.

On the topic of IO sets - I'm quite certain it's been covered somewhere, but if you decide to get the IO sets, try to compare the bonuses with different sets.

Let's say that I've got a fire blaster and a fire tank.

Both have Fire Sword Circle, which is PBAoE Melee.

Does the tank need mez protection? as a rule, no. So why would the tank go with a set that provided some status protection? Ordinarily, a tank probably would not go for that set - unless the other bonuses were hard to pass up. Increasing attack rate by 9% of ALL powers seems pretty nice to me. But, if you keep looking, you might find a set that provides 7% increase in recharge speed, and a 5% increase in accuracy/to-hit of all powers.

So, without getting in too deep, just remember to think ahead and try to get a feel for which IO recipes/enhancements that you'd like that will fit your character.

You can also get standard (non-set) IOs, which at the higher end are slightly better than SOs, and also cost far less on the market than the sets do.

Not meaning to Necro, but I was wondering at what level the standard IO's out perform SO's?

At level 25 a standard IO gives 32%, just under an even SO. At 30 it goes up to 34.8% where a single SO is at 33%

Thank you, so at lvl 32 using IO's instead of lvl 35 SO's would be much better it seems.