IO Enhancement Bonuses


Aggelakis

 

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I have several questions regarding how IO enhancements work, however, I will keep it simple at 1st...

Question: If I have IO enhancement bonuses to the power Reconstruction of 42.4% + 26.5% + 21.2% = 90.1% then why would it show a bonus of only 88.1% in the enhancement window?

Also, I have 3 IO set bonuses to heal powers of 4%, 4% and 5% but they do not seem to apply when using Reconstruction, Dull Pain or Siphon Life. The same character using just SOs has better healing powers than the IO-slotted version.

/Boggle

I've sent in a bug report and have been going back and forth with support over it for 2 days and they keep saying I should ask the community... hence this post...

Any assistance is appreciated and thanks.


 

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1. http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Enhancement_Diversification

2. Powers that include resistance (e.g. recon grants toxic resistance) don't utilize +heal bonuses. Not sure about Siphon Life...can't remember if DP grants resistance.


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Originally Posted by Aggelakis View Post
Not sure about Siphon Life...can't remember if DP grants resistance.
No, but it is a debuff power. I think only the debuff is enhanceable. The heal is a 'side effect'.

The moral here is, some set IO bonuses are going to be somewhat wasted on specific characters. Sounds like this is a melee character - you'll get more benefit from chasing +regen bonuses than +heal bonuses.


 

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Interesting... so Dull Pain lists a 1007hp heal in the enhancement window but heals me for 1077hp, I guess adding the 13% heal bonus for my IO sets. But, Reconstruction doesn't add the heal bonus... even though it's a freaking heal with a minor resist bonus... moronic and sad but at least that explains it... /sigh

The link to the ED article is the only thing I also thought of that could be interfering with the full bonus being applied in the enhancement window itself. Though I've been told my numerous players in broadcast that ED doesn't apply to IOs... and this article doesn't seem to mention IOs at all either. You sure this is the case?


 

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ED applies to enhancements' percentages, regardless of what kind of enhancement it is. 90.1% brushes up against the first level of reduction.

ED does not apply to set bonuses, but it does apply to the enhancements themselves.


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Indeed, it's a scrapper. I am maxed out on +regen bonuses and these heal bonuses were just 2ndary unintended bonuses that I thought would help my heals...

Thanks guys


 

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Though I've been told my numerous players in broadcast that ED doesn't apply to IOs... and this article doesn't seem to mention IOs at all either. You sure this is the case?
Whoever told you that is a moron. All enhancements are subject to ED.

Actually, perhaps they mean that the set bonuses are not subject to ED, which is correct. With Set bonuses, you just have the 'Rule of Five' to deal with. (Can only have 5 bonuses of the same value, i.e., if you have 6 sets that give +5% ACC, the sixth +5% doesn't count.)


 

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Indeed, it's a scrapper. I am maxed out on +regen bonuses and these heal bonuses were just 2ndary unintended bonuses that I thought would help my heals...

Thanks guys
Look for +defense - far better mitigation than adding more healing anyway.


 

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No, but it is a debuff power. I think only the debuff is enhanceable. The heal is a 'side effect'.
The heal is enhanceable... I'll try to remember and peak at it later today to see if it ignores buffs. Don't see why it would though.

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(Can only have 5 bonuses of the same value, i.e., if you have 6 sets that give +5% ACC, the sixth +5% doesn't count.)
Technically wrong - it's no more than five of the same name (as shown in your /info or combat attributes windows)

For the most part that is "the same value" but some sets provide unique set bonuses via single IOs and those will stack with regular bonuses of the same value because of the names being different - example is the Luck of the Gambler Global Recharge IO.


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