Underwhelmed by AT specific IOs

Screenies gleaned from a Victory thread here:
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First of all, brute, increased health, decent, increased recharge, excellent

defense, resist and damage, however, might as well not be there for the impact this set would make...and the bonuses, save for the recharge, are no better than mid level IO set bonuses anyway

really, +End, +Recovery and +Regen would have been better



dominator, gets recharge and accuracy, everything else here is rather blah

the bonus acc and rec though, are nicely high



Tanker, health and recharge again....everything else is meh...would much rather have see +End, +Rec, +Taunt or +Regen



I like the idea of a range set bonus, but given the ONLY set bonus that increases range is this one, I have to say that it should be a higher number to be useful

accuracy and recharge, good again, much everything else is blah, though at least you can add in that dam bonus to other dam bonuses...still, isn't anything more than what you could do with normal IOs



like a blaster but they took the acc bonus?? why???



almost exactly the same dominator...acc, recharge is good....everything else is meh


the attuned thing is nice, if you're lucky enough to get them before level 15-20, otherwise, that's also somewhat meh

the procs look promising, but I'm reminded of the chance for self-heal proc that never goes off and the fact that most procs have deliberately mediocre performance in addition to being rare to go off...

describing the stats to my brother, who is much more into number crunching and build design than I am, his response was "ker toss"

really, unless the basic enhancement is much higher than a normal enhancement for its level, or those procs happen more often or with greater effectiveness or both...then these sets are rather blah

it isn't quite the "dart board" selection method of set bonuses we see in the majority of IOS (ie, it looks like set-bonuses were chosen by throwing darts at a labeled board) but it's still mediocre

Yeah, really; I see higher numbers on my Frankenslotted IOs.

Yet they'll *always* be even-level to you, if you read more than just the set bonuses. With their effectiveness increasing as you level. They're going to have a tradeoff for that. And increased fury generation? Increased resistance?

Interesting concept.

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SOA's?

Kelds?

TBH tho I would rather have more Targeted AOE sets, and Purple sets for the categorys that don't have them.

I don't think the ranged sets are all that bad.

Look at the popular Thunderstrike set.

However, these are all unique IOs (like the Purple Sets) and I would like to see some changes to them.

First off, all defense bonuses, I would like to see wrapped up into a flat 3% Defense across the board, especially on the range ATs. Blasters get into melee (look at their secondary) and I know my Dual Pistol users get into melee.

Same with Resist bonuses. 3-5% across the board.

I'm pretty fine with the range bonus, but that's because I'm not worried about it either. Though bumping it to 10%, but that's my Mr Monk kicking in on bonuses I don't think will make that big of a difference (I could be wrong on this though).

Same goes for duration on Mez's, like the range bonus.

I'd love to see a +5% Increase on Damage for Tankers, as I just feel when playing them, they could use all the +dmg they can get.

On the blaster set, I'd like to see something a bit different, but that suggestion may be to powerful.

Remove the +DMG, move all the other bonuses down, and then add in +2-3 Mez Protection.

I'd love to see it on the Corrs as well (and Defenders), as a small but still easily beatable mez protection, but that's because I don't think much of the +DMG bonus myself, when one AT is heavy damage, and the other two have debuffs to increase their damage.

I wouldn't be complaining about it terribly if it weren't for the unique/account based bits

the only thing attunement does for you is save influence and that's relatively easy to get a hold of...

most of the procs are nothing special....I have no idea how the fury bonus will work

having chance for type-damage I'm ambivalent about..I have controllers that have nothing psychic at all about them, and blasters that are the opposite of fire....would prefer have other proc chances in there

also procs in single target attacks are somewhat unreliable....

all in all...barring some revelation about the procs being better or the base numbers being higher, like say instead of getting +18% at level 37 on a split-three enhancement, you get +22%...or if it ignored a percentage of ED

then it's not something I'm going out of my way to get or pay for

if it is incredibly easy to get, however, I wouldn't mind slotting them...

it's just that it seems like a good concept which they did poor execution on

(also, would prefer to power-based IOs....for example, a set based around fire-users or dark-users)

Unless I'm mistaken, they're only account based because they're store items, aren't they? So they kind of have to be account based, or the markets will lead to them being direct conversions of cash -> influence thanks to the markets.

From what I see I'm okay with the blaster set. I can sub it in on my main character to boost my recharge by just a little bit putting me at about 3-4% off of permahasten while maintaining my current 81% above ED or 181% damage powers and get a range boost. Actually I'm more than okay with it. Its almost like that set was tailor made for my main.