Rule of 5

I have no idea how this works. could someone explain it to me?

Set bonuses with the same name (in-game: "Huge Regeneration bonus", "Large Energy/Negative/Ranged bonus") will stack up to 5 of the same name.

As a general rule (there are a handful of exceptions), the numbers on a bonus will align with the name of the bonus. 12% regeneration is "Huge", while 10% regeneration is "Large". You can stack 5 12% and 5 10%, because they have different names. If you add a 6th 12% bonus, you will not gain its effect.

The most notable exception is Luck of the Gambler; it's +7.5% global recharge bonus has it's own name ("Luck of the Gambler +Recharge", essentially) that differentiates it from other 7.5% global recharge bonuses (which are "Huge Recharge bonus"es).

That's basically it; can't have more than 5 of the same bonus in effect at once (regardless of source - different sets that grant 12% regeneration all count towards that 5). Do you have specific questions, or does this give you the basic idea you want?

Simply put, you may only benefit from a maximum of any five identical set bonuses of a given value from enhancements. So if you happen to have seven +5% Recharge bonuses from sets slotted bonus lists, two of those would not count.

Different values stack together. So for example you could have five +5% Recharge, five 7.5% Recharge, and five 10% Recharge bonuses which would still stack together.

Bonuses from special enhancements such as a Luck of the Gamblers +7.5% Recharge(all) count separately, so you could have five of those as well as five 7.5% Recharge from a sets slotted bonus list.

Just to be clear: does that mean I could have 5 large regeneration bonuses, and 5 medium regeneration bonuses, and 5 small regeneration bonuses for a total of 15?

You're just saying I couldn't have 6 large regeneration bonuses, right?

The "Rule of Five" goes by the name of the set bonus.

As an aside, this means there's a difference between regular 7.5% recharge bonuses and the Luck of the Gambler +7.5% recharge IOs. Thus, if you were so inclined, you could have 5x LotG +7.5% Recharge bonuses AND 5x Large Recharge Bonuses.

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

Nope. Individual bonuses from enhancements only stack with each other for Rule of 5 purposes(although, I think that particular enhancement is a unique, so you can only slot it once). But in either case, it wont interfere with any other similar bonuses that come from having multiple pieces of a set slotted