Do you use the five starting enhancements?

Unless there are recipes that I'm unaware of which allow those unique enhancements to be Invented, they are not really Inventions regardless of how hexagonal and shapely they appear. And they are not part of a set with associated set bonuses, either.

I've been using them just to clear out the inventory space. This means that I've been slotting some powers with two of them on some characters.

In order to avoid "losing effectiveness" in the first half of the 20's (though all you really lose is the low-likelihood procs), I replaced the pair of reward-O's with an SO damage and an SO recharge, rather than two damages, as I otherwise might have done. This meant that I slotted recharge on this character much earlier than I otherwise would have, which is interesting.

I also replaced the "chance for knockdown" one with a Kinetic Combat proc I'd been saving for that character since the last round of power proliferation was announced.

I mainly slot them because I can't sell them. The bonuses are nice, too, but without them I'm more apt to slot Accuracy and Endurance Reduction in the early levels. Deleting them out-of-hand would seem so wasteful.

Been using them on new characters since Going Rogue. OF course, I've only had a handful of new characters since then, but why look a gift horse in the mouth, I say. Better than TOs, good enough until lvl 20 or I get a better drop

I put 2 of them with damage procs in each of my first 2 attack powers.

This way I get equivalent to 1 Damage SO and 1 Recharge SO, plus two procs, using 2 slots. When I upgrade to real SOs I'll just replace them with 1 Damage and 1 Recharge. By then the procs have stopped working anyhow, so there's no "hit" to performance.

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i use them until i get to SO levels (which is about the time when their procs stop working anyway)

I've been slotting them one apiece in my attacks as I level up, but this thread is giving me some better ideas. Too bad fire/fire doms don't get Rain of Fire, but it could be handy in, say, Fire Cages...

I use them because they're free... but there are times I forget I have them slotted and wonder why my holds are causing knockdown.

I use them. Why not? They're better than anything a level 1 character can buy and use.

I use them ALL THE FREAKING TIME. They're awesome.

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Originally Posted by FredrikSvanberg I love slotting the chance for knockdown proc in Brawl.

I prefer putting it in a damage aura, or a low level AoE, like Fireball, Shadow Maul, etc.

When I was first exposed to them in beta I was hoarding them and allocating them one per attack power.

Now, I just put three slots in each of my first two attacks as soon as feasible and dump all five enhancements into them. If it's a melee archetype, I'll sometimes put the knockback proc into brawl as someone else suggested.

Yeah, they're way better than depending on TO drops.

Yeah, I been using the heck out of 'em since GR. I almost always put the chance for knockdown in Brawl, and the other four in my first two attacks, making sure to split the Chance for Psi and Chance for NRG.

Unless I'm a Mastermind, and then they all go in my first tier pets- which is hilarious when more than one triggers. I kinda wish there was a chance for Fire one instead of one of the Smash / Lethal ones

and Sam, it's only the proc that goes away, they still give +16% to each Dmg and Rech all the way to 50, so theres really no need to replace them anytime soon.

I definitely use them. They're like SOs at level 1. Since they're as good as SO's, I don't replace them until I slot IOs for set bonuses around level 35.