It's newb, a noob wouldn't bother to ask.
Yes you can. You can have the same bonus up to five times. Note that the x5 limit applies to the bonus itself, not the set...so for example you can slot 5 sets of Crushing Impact and get the 5% recharge bonus 5 times. You can slot 3 sets of Crushing Impact and 2 sets of Doctored Wounds and get the 5% recharge bonus 5 times, but if you then slotted another Crushing Impact you wouldn't get a sixth 5% recharge bonus. You could however also slot a Positron's Blast and get the 6.25% recharge bonus.
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Cool! Most informative. Thanks 
Also, keep in mind that, set-wise (not counting single IOs which also may be restricted on a case-by-case basis), all purple IO sets are unique and so each IO can only be slotted ONCE per toon, regardless of which power(s) it's slotted into (and only at level 50, of course).
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Yes, that too. Some IOs are unique and therefore limit you to having the set bonus once. For example, you can only get the 2.5% bonus to all positional defenses from 6-slotting Gaussian's Synchronized Fire Control once, since the set contains a unique IO and can only be 6-slotted once.
Also, the 7.5% recharge bonus from the LotG Global IO only counts against itself for the x5 limit, not against any other 7.5% recharge bonuses you might have. So you could slot up to 5 LotG 7.5% recharge IOs, then slot a Sting of the Manticore* and get a sixth 7.5% recharge bonus from that. Conversely, you could also theoretically slot 5 Sting of the Manticores (in practice nobody has that many snipes, but in theory), and still get a 7.5% recharge bonus from slotting a Luck of the Gambler on top of it.
*I'm not sure if Sting of the Manticore actually has a 7.5% recharge bonus. For the sake of the example, let's pretend it does.
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Just another note -- this is because the "counting" of the bonuses is done via the actual literal in-game name of the bonus, and the LotG +7.5% recharge bonus is named uniquely ("Luck of the Gambler: Recharge Speed"), vs. the other +7.5 recharge bonuses, which are simply named "Large Improved Recharge Time Bonus".|
Originally Posted by Eva Destruction
Also, the 7.5% recharge bonus from the LotG Global IO only counts against itself for the x5 limit, not against any other 7.5% recharge bonuses you might have. So you could slot up to 5 LotG 7.5% recharge IOs, then slot a Sting of the Manticore* and get a sixth 7.5% recharge bonus from that. Conversely, you could also theoretically slot 5 Sting of the Manticores (in practice nobody has that many snipes, but in theory), and still get a 7.5% recharge bonus from slotting a Luck of the Gambler on top of it.
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Originally Posted by Eva Destruction
*I'm not sure if Sting of the Manticore actually has a 7.5% recharge bonus. For the sake of the example, let's pretend it does.
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I'm a bit of a IO Set newb (or is it noob?), so this may be a silly question, but...
Can I use the same set in multiple powers? For example I have several 'damage reduction' powers. Can I use Titanium Coating in all of them, and get multiples of the set bonuses?