IOs now going to 50?


Chad Gulzow-Man

 

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My example, look at the Harmonized Healing set in the background:



Or here, the Razzle Dazzle set or the Decimation IO:


Clearly sets with level limits at level 50.

Right now I can see two possibilities:

  1. Some or all sets now run the gamut from 10-50 in terms of level. This could vastly expand the number of IO recipes/crafted IOs possible (not necessarily AVAILABLE) to purchase on the market.
  2. IOs (as a whole) have been altered so that they "level up" with us (and possibly exemp without loss of set bonuses). This could vastly REDUCE the number of IO recipes/crafted IOs possible (again, not necessarily available) to purchase on the market.


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More ranged procs? Awesome!


 

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At least we know the name of the Healing (and possibly +Regen) power in Time Manipulation now =)

Anyway, I think there's a third possibility which goes in line with #1. IOs in the lower range will go UP TO 50, but those that currently start at lvl 25 or 30 or 41 will maintain their "floor".

That is, IOs will go from 1-50, 10-50, 25-50, 30-50, etc. But you won't be seeing any lvl 1 LoTGs or Oblits. Does that make sense?

Also, I hope that those lower-ranged IOs will have better bonuses tacked onto them. Because a Level 50 really wants 1.1% XP debt reduction or 0.3% recharge, amirite?

So prices might go down a bit on some of the low/mid-range sets since they'll drop for level 50s now, buuut things that are all high level might go UP a bit since the random pool is gonna get expanded.


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Hold on, if you look at the position of that mouse-over text it looks like Will of the Controller recycled the Harmonized Healing set image. Not only that but Temporal Selection can't be a Healing power Heal isn't a control which is clearly what Will of the Controller says it goes into.

I will agree with the Decimation and Razzle Dazzle observations though.


 

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Or they've been boosted by the Enhancement Boosters. Nobody knows yet.
I THINK this is the case--I think you can buy an item through the store, apply it to one of your IOs, and it will level up at the same rate as you up to a max of 50. It wasn't terribly clear from what they said during the presentation. (I'm also not sure what would happen if an IO traditionally caps at, say, level 40, and you apply a level booster to it.)

I DO know that IOs in general will not level up with you. They're either special IOs to start with, or you use something that makes them special.


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Hold on, if you look at the position of that mouse-over text it looks like Will of the Controller recycled the Harmonized Healing set image. Not only that but Temporal Selection can't be a Healing power Heal isn't a control which is clearly what Will of the Controller says it goes into.
The cursor also isn't over any of the HH images, it's over the (obscured by text) icons for the set in the power below it.


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Im confused where these enhancements are even coming from, is this on open beta or something like that?


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Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man View Post
I THINK this is the case--I think you can buy an item through the store, apply it to one of your IOs, and it will level up at the same rate as you up to a max of 50. It wasn't terribly clear from what they said during the presentation. (I'm also not sure what would happen if an IO traditionally caps at, say, level 40, and you apply a level booster to it.)

I DO know that IOs in general will not level up with you. They're either special IOs to start with, or you use something that makes them special.
If this is true, unless the IOs work exemplared down to their original level or their full normal level range, it's a silly oversight by the developers.

What of the people who build characters to be functional at level 30 or mid-range? If boosters level IOs, they would ruins those builds. Their only usefulness in that case is to only use them on purples, if that's even possible.


 

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That's my biggest worry. If my exemplar builds don't still work at the exemplar level I build them for then these are kinda pointless to me.


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The cursor also isn't over any of the HH images, it's over the (obscured by text) icons for the set in the power below it.
My bad, you're right.


 

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Hold on, if you look at the position of that mouse-over text it looks like Will of the Controller recycled the Harmonized Healing set image. Not only that but Temporal Selection can't be a Healing power Heal isn't a control which is clearly what Will of the Controller says it goes into.
On top of the other observations that the mouse isn't over the Harmonized Healing enhancements, all of the other new IO sets bear the icon of the archetype they correspond to, there's no reason Will of the Controller should be any different.

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Im confused where these enhancements are even coming from, is this on open beta or something like that?
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Im confused where these enhancements are even coming from, is this on open beta or something like that?
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