Exemping Rules??

Ok so I hate exemping, and I NEVER ever! do it, how ever I am finding certain accolades such as TFC means I pretty much have to put up with it for a while, So knowing nothing about that system can someone tell me the rules? What IO's work, what sets you get, do you get the whole % benefit or is that just lvl 50 ones?? Oh and what powers can be used at what lvl ? Do the rules ever waver, like in PvP (SC) or AE building for example...


Thanks for any replies, sorry for being ignorant about this part of the game.

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Exemplar...n_Enhancements

Just on the Set Bonuses, if you have a range of levels slotted in one power it removes each of the bonuses as get 3 levels lower than each of the IOs. For example

Your IO's levels are
20, 22, 28, 35, 45, 50

At:

50 - 5 set bonuses
46 - 4 set bonuses
41 - 3 set bonuses
31 - 2 set bonuses
24 - 1 set bonus
19 - No bonuses

However, the enhancement value of each will still work (although i think they are scaled somewhat)

The link posted above has all the information but it is confusing. People have explained how the set bonuses work, I'll explain the scaling.

Short version:
The game drops your enhancement's bonuses to try and mimick the values someone of that level would have on store-bought enhancements. So below level 25 the penalties get very steep as the game tries to steer you into DO and TO levels of bonus.

Long version:
If you have 90% damage slotted into an attack, when you exemplar down below 32, it will be reduced. There is a table at the link that explains how much. But as an example, if you ran a Positron taskforce at level 15 it would be 35%. This is calculated by taking your level 50 and comparing to the .391 listed in the table for level 15.

But this process is messy and not so simple. There are two key things that help your numbers stay up when you exemp down. #1 DE is applied AFTER the exemplar hit, not before. So if you have overslotted for something, your exemped value will be a bit higher. #2 really small bonuses, never get reduced. So if you have a Nucleus Hami-O in an attack giving 33%/33%, and you drop to level 25, it only gives 24%/24%. But if you slotted the Mako Quad, it is exactly the same, giving 18%x4 at 50 and at 25, because the value of the bonus counts as "small".

To take advantage of this second rule the guideline is:
Level 50 Quads are immune to exemping down to level 21
Level 43 Triples are immune to exemping down to level 21
Level 24 Duals are immune to exemping down to level 21

Under level 21 you have to have an original bonus of 10% or less at which point you are better off overslotting than trying to stack small bonuses.

What it means to you:
In your case, nothing you don't do it often enough to build for it. But It means that you should expect some critical powers to be gimped.

All of your click-based Mez protection, even with three level 50 recharges slotted are unable to provide 100% uptime lower than about level 25. This means you might want to use the base enhancement station as well.

You'll need to customize your attack chains because they won't have the recharge you are used to, and because the damage may be confusing. Since individual IOs will degrade differently (ie if you have a dual or a triple or a quad, the % bonus might or might not be reduced depending on how low you exemp) so sets like Touch of Death and Obliteration will degrade differently, it's not that both ahve 95% and are both reduced to .39, since Oblit has a quad and the touch of death triples are lower than level 43, not all pieces of the set get degraded at all levels of exemping. So your powers will behave oddly, one that is middle of the road at level 50 might be your big hitter at 22.

Hope that helped and wasn't just long-winded BS. =)

There are two types of special IO's: procs and globals.

Procs require that the power they are slotted in can be used - the level of the IO is not a factor. The Numina's Convalescence and Miracle uniques are Proc120s, so as long as you have the power they're slotted in (and use that power), these IO's will work regardless of exemp level. For instance, if you took Health at 16 and slotted a Miracle unique, you would get the +recovery down to level 11 regardless of the level of the enhancement; at level 10 you would not get the +recovery.

Globals will function so long as they are no more than 3 levels above your current exemp level, and will function even if the power they're slotted in is not available. For instance, if you take Weave at level 41 and slot a level 25 LotG: +recharge in it, then exemp to 35, you would no longer be able to use Weave, but would still get the global bonus from your LotG. Conversely if you were using a level 50 LotG, you would only get the bonus if you were level 47 or above, regardless of whether the power was available or not.