Purple IOs

I've been playing for around 2-3 (yrs casually gaming) and I've always used regular IOs for my heroes. Recently, a friend made a build for me using mostly purple enh. and I was blown away at the damage being dealt and less dmg. taken.

After much thought, I have decided to respec my hi-level heroes and search for purple. recipes. What are some good guides that offer more information on purple IOs?

This is more a forum to *post* guides rather than ask for tips. I haven't seen a guide specifically about purple recipes, but here's a link to ParagonWiki's page listing the different purple recipes:

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Category:Sets_for_level_50

And here's one for the PVP recipes:

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Category:PvP_Sets

These recipes/IOs tend to be *extremely* expensive. If you are currently using common IOs and are not a multibillionare, I would recommend you first consider cheaper options such as frankenslotting, using the more useful uncommon sets, getting the very useful single IOs like Miracle +recovery or LOTG+7.5% recharge, etc.

If you want purples and PvP IOs then you most likely need to spend some time reading the guides in the Market section.

FYI, purps and pvp IOs are nice, but theu're really not the be-all and end-all of IOs. They're good for what they're good for, but that may not be the best choice for your toon.

thank you everyone!

Load up on purples =/= awesome.

I found that out to my misfortune early in the invention era. Use a purple *only* if you need the set bonus it offers, or if this specific power really demands the higher bonus scale Purps offer.

You might want to also look at other aspects of the build. With very few exceptions (specific powersets), purples do not contribute to "less dmg. taken". You've got something else in your build making that happen.

I love purple I/Os. I love them too much lol. I tend to run melee characters, and on 2/3 of the builds I go for they are useless. A noted exception is on high recharge buildfs. High Recharge high end builds run on Purps like nitrous oxide. Look carefully at what you want out of a character before you start investing in purps. They are for very high end builds, and for very high end builds sometimes they are exactly wrong. Good luck.

I mostly only invest in them for control-types because they benefit so much from the stacked recharge and the attack sets are so ludicrously expensive. I'm working on my market-fu, but still, buying a single purple attack set would be more than my net worth at the moment.

I24 Proc Chance = (Enhanced Recharge + Activation Time) * (Current PPM * 1.25) / 60*(1 + .75*(.15*Radius - 0.011*Radius*(360-Arc)/30))
Single Target Radius = 0. AoE Non-Cone Arc = 360.

As all have said, Purples and their close cousins the PvP IO are niche use sets to achieve special purposes.

Things like very high recharge for perma-whatever often live on Purples.
Exemplar use.
There are some PvP IO's that have combo's of enhancement values that don't exist in other sets. Example: Javelin Volley - Accy/End/Rchg. I often use that to one to replace the Damage/Range Positron in a Fireball 6th slot.

You can use a single 53% Damage only Purple to get a 4 slotted power to enhancement diversifcation red level damage on a tight build. The single aspect Damage is often discounted compared to the doubles, triples and the proc. Beyond that a single aspect Purple can be +5 Boosted to 66.25%. Or of course you could just +5 boost a generic Damage IO and have 53% Damage boost that way.

Now, with enhancement boosters, you can give any level 50 set IO the same percentage value as an unboosted Purple if you are willing to do a +5 boost. That may be awesome, especially as that will allow Purple level percentages in Defense and Resistance sets! It is easy to see why they are being offered for sale in the 90 unit economy size .

I hope to see Purple set prices fall a bit when everybody realizes this.

Jak