Hasten has wasted my enhancement points?

Originally Posted by Nethergoat it's NEVER too late to pad your /ignore list!

EDIT: are you you know... putting enhancments in the slots?

Regarding Respecs, you can get ones much more cheaply than the market (i.e. for free). Here are the three main ways:

1. The Devs give them out after most major updates. These ones are called Freespecs and you can only have one per character at a time. As Chad mentioned the Devs will be giving out two of them very soon. One with the release of Issue 19 (probably on the 16th but it could be delayed) and one exactly a week after that

2. You can run the Respec Trial for a free respec. This can only be done three times per character. Hero Trial and Villain Trial

3. Veteran Rewards. At the 9month mark and every 12 months after that you get a respec for every character through the Veteran Reward system.

There are a couple of other ways but those are more specific, see the Wiki article on Respecs if you want:
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Respec

I think you are misunderstanding the point of Slots. When you add Upgrade slots to your powers the stats of the power don't immediately change. Instead the slot allows you to put an additional "Enhancement" in the slot which increases the power's effectiveness. All powers start with one slot and you can add up to 5 more.

Enhancements increase the effectiveness of one aspect of the power (i.e. Damage, Recharge Time, Accuracy or others). Due to ED it is not worth adding more than three of the same type of enhancement to a power.

What server do you play on?

Actually you haven't missed the chance to use the respec trial. 24 is the minimum level to do it but you can do it any level after that as well.

Recipes and crafting are for Invention Origin enhancements. If you find that they are too complicated, you can avoid them for now. They're an optional aspect of the game. You can just buy the regular enhancements from the Origin enhancements stores. NOTE: don't by them from your contacts, they rip you off.

I'm assuming you know how to identify the stores on your mini-map, right? At your current character level, you ought to be using Single Origin enhancements. Level 30s in particular. Go to Talos (the stores are easiest to get to there) and find the store for your Origin. Go into the store and click on one of the store NPCs. You will see a lot of enhancements with funky names. Ignore the names, they're just for roll playing purposes. Enhancements follow a consistent color scheme, for example: yellow is always accuracy, red is always damage, etc. If necessary, right click on the enhancement for Info to see what it really is.

You can create them through recipes but for now I recommend you use SOs to get the hang of it first. To get some go to Talos Island (I'm assuming you're a hero) and look on your map for an icon that says "Origin Store" where Origin is whatever your origin is. Got there and talk to the shop keeper. Look in his inventory for the ones that have the same border all the way around and have a "30" at the top those are SOs (the other types are DOs which have a border that changes half way around). If you right click on them and select info they will say something like "this enhances X by 38.33%".

You can buy them and then open your enhancement window to slot them. SOs only work when your level is +/-3 to their level so you have to replace them every 5 levels or so.
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Enhancements

Invention Enhancements are slightly better than SOs but require a little more effort so I would recommend waiting until you have the hang of it before using them, it's easy to waste a lot of inf slotting the wrong type of IOs.

Yep.

When you buy it it will go to your enhancement tray which can hold 10 enhancements. Open that tray up (click on "Enhancements" above your power bar) and then click on "Manage" at the top of the enhancement tray. This opens up your enhancement window and you can drag enhancements to any slot.

Ok, your powers have slots available in them, you've been getting two every other level to add to your powers. These slots do absolutely nothing unless you put an enhancement into them... you've had these dropping from enemy defeats all along. From your questions I assume you haven't ever opened your "enhancement" tray; I imagine it's stuffed full of worthless level 1-3 training origin enhancements.

Enhancements come in three basic "store bought" varieties: Training which are usable by any character of appropriate level, Dual Origin which are usable by either of the origins of the enhancement (for example a Natural/Tech Dual Origin enhancement can be slotted by either a Natural origin or a Tech origin character) and Single Origin which can only be slotted by a character of that origin.

The slots you've added to your powers are places for you to put enhancements. Let's take a basic attack as an example. You can slot for accuracy which will make that attack hit more and you can add damage enhancements to make that attack do more damage when it hits and you can add endurance reduction enhancements so that it costs less endurance to use the attack and you can slot recharge enhancements so the power recharges faster.

Now the various enhancements all have a level and can be used by a character within 3 levels of that enhancement. As a level 27 character you could use level 30 enhancements (3 levels higher than you) down to level 24 enhancements (3 levels lower than you). Once you level to 28 you would no longer be able to use level 24 enhancements (they would turn red and have no effect anymore) but you could use level 31.

Let's get down to specifics on enhancements here. A typical Training enhancement (usually only available up to level 20) will boost one aspect (for example accuracy) of a power by 8%. A Dual Origin will boost one aspect of a power by 16% while a Single Origin will boost one aspect by 33%. It's a little more complicated than that as some types of enhancements have different "schedules" with different values but that's the basics.

Keeping this in mind let's go back to our sample attack. We want it to hit so we'll slot accuracy in it. We want it to do more damage so we'll put damage enhancements in it. We want it to recharge faster so we can use it more often so we'll slot recharge enhancement into it and we want to be able to fire it off without running out of endurance so we want endurance reduction. We can have a maximum of 6 enhancements in this power, so we can't maximize everything (well, not with basic enhancements but don't worry about that for now) and we need to choose. A good basic slotting for an attack with Single Origin (SO) enhancements is 1 accuracy, 3 damage, 1 endurance reduction and 1 recharge.

To slot enhancements click on the "enhancements" tab on your power tray. This will open the enhancement tab and close your inspiration tab by default... you can undock any of these from the tray by pressing the little blue dot on the window. On the enhancement tray you'll see a tab labeled "manage". Click on this and you'll bring up your power/slot screen that you see when you level up. This is where you move enhancements from the enhancement tray into your individual powers. Once you've slotted an enhancement it's there until you put another on top of it (overwrite it) or you delete it... you can't unslot it and move it to a different power (exception: when doing a re-specification <respec> of your character).

Talos Island is the place you'll want to take your level 22-30 hero to buy enhancements as all the stores are relatively close together. Look at your map and go to the store that matches your origin (if you're Natural origin go to the Natural store, if you're Tech go to the Tech store and so forth) and talk to the store clerk. This opens up the shop window, first sell off the enhancements in your tray that you can't use and then buy enhancements you need. Once you've bought 10 and filled your tray go to the "manage" screen and move your new enhancements into your powers. Repeat this until you've bought the enhancements you need.

What enhancements you want will of course depend on your character's powers and the enhancement slots you've added to those powers. A Blaster will mainly want accuracy & damage enhancements while a Controller may want accuracy and hold or immobilize. Always slot at least one accuracy into any power that needs to hit enemies first... a power that missed is one that does no damage so that's the first priority.

One item however is your money situation... a full set of SO's at your level will run in the neighborhood of 1,000,000 - 1,500,000 influence. Do not be concerned about this however; inf is very easy to come by. Your likely full of salvage and recipes; take these to Wentworths and put them up for sale. Do NOT sell these to a store or vendor until you have a better feel for prices; many items are worth hundreds or thousands of times more to players in the auction house (Wentworth's) than they are to the store. As a case in point rare (orange) salvage is only worth 5,000 to a store but most pieces are worth at least 500,000 on the market with many worth 1-3 million. Even some common salvage (store value 250) will bring 10,000-100,000 on the market.

Money's no problem at all; many of us have billions on hand so it's well worth paying a little for a piece of salvage we need to craft something. On that perspective the difference between 100 inf and 100,000 inf is meaningless to many of us.

In fact if you'll give me your global name I'll shoot you a couple million inf to get you started.

I hope I haven't been too basic in my writeup here but it seemed to me you were confused about these areas. I know all of us talk about Invention builds and discussions about this set is good for x while that set is good for y. I'm going to strongly suggest that you totally forget about inventions for now and just use the store bought enhancements until you have a thorough understanding of the powers and enhancement. Those enhancements were all we had for the first several years of the game and they're still perfectly adequate and MUCH simpler. To put it another way right now you're working with addition and subtraction while Invention builds are along the lines of Calculus. Don't try to learn everything all at once.

Oh, I almost forgot the most important thing of all about the game, and that's to have fun. Enjoy the ride, learn about how things work and don't try to jump straight into the deep end; there's plenty of fun to be had in the shallow end of the pool before you learn how to swim.

Welcome to the game and always remember to have fun.

You can buy and sell your stuff at Wentworth or Black Market.

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Thanks so much for that. This is my first character and things can be overwhelming :P. My global name I assume is the username that I log into correct? . Again thanks alot the wiki articles are a little hard to understand at sometimes.

For right now take every piece of salvage you get to Wentworth's and put it on the market. Don't worry about the higher end builds that Inventions allow until you're completely comfortable with standard SO's. Yes, a high end invention build will outperform a basic SO build... but that basic SO build is enough for nearly anything you may want to do in the game. There's plenty of time to think about the bleeding edge later on; for now you've more than enough to learn with standard enhancements.

On average a bleeding edge Invention (referred to as IO) build is only about 10-20% more effective than a good SO build. I'd far rather have a player with a good basic SO build than one with a bleeding edge build that he didn't know how to play.

No, and your login is something you shouldn't share. When you log in you'll see in the chat window "using global chat handle @____________", by default this is the name of your first character. My global is @call me awesome, is your first character's name Redempti0n? If so your global is probably @redempti0n (it isn't case sensitive).

If what you gave IS your username for your login I suggest you change it; you don't want to help someone to steal your account. Your login information is something that should NEVER be shared with anyone.

I recommend you edit your post to delete your login information.

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Checking ingame I see that Redempti0n is NOT your global.