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Enhancement boosters, set bonuses, & exemplaring

Aggelakis

By Aggelakis,
Posted on: 2011-09-28 04:54 in Player Questions

 

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How do the enhancement boosters affect the way that set bonuses stay with a toon when it mals down?

Can I take a set @ level 27, jack it up +5 w/ boosters and still get my set bonuses @ lvl 24?

Or....what?

 

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Originally Posted by Aggelakis View Post
Boosters do nothing to the level of the IO. They only increase the enhancement value.
http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Exemplar...n_Enhancements
Tyvm.
I read teh wiki, but I didn't see any mention of it's effects on the set bonus.

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Originally Posted by all_hell View Post
Can I take a set @ level 27, jack it up +5 w/ boosters and still get my set bonuses @ lvl 24?
Yes, you keep the bonuses. The level of the enhancement isn't changed; it's not a level 32 IO, it's a level 27/+5 IO. It has higher enhancement values on it, but the set bonuses are unaffected.

One of the possible strategies for using boosters to to be able to keep more of your set bonuses at lower levels, and still have high enhancement values. IIRC, you could use level 30 sets, and have enhancement values from them similar to level 50 sets, and still keep the set bonuses down to level 25, instead of 45.

 

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Originally Posted by Ardrea View Post
One of the possible strategies for using boosters to to be able to keep more of your set bonuses at lower levels, and still have high enhancement values. IIRC, you could use level 30 sets, and have enhancement values from them similar to level 50 sets, and still keep the set bonuses down to level 25, instead of 45.
I am realizing that.
The wall that I run into involves which enhancement values get affected by the exemplaring. Some of the IOs I am currently using are up against the limit of what gets affected and what does not. Increasing those would actually be a detriment when malling down. But others...

 

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Originally Posted by all_hell View Post
Tyvm.
I read teh wiki, but I didn't see any mention of it's effects on the set bonus.

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Added a paragraph on the Enhancement Booster page:
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Boosted enhancements function at their natural level; exemplaring does not break bonuses until exemplared more than three levels below the natural level of the IO, like normal. This means a build with a lot of Level 30 set enhancements that have been boosted can perform on par with or above Level 50 sets, and set bonuses will still function all the way down to level 27. However, the exemplar effect on enhancements still applies, if each individual enhancement portion is large enough.
http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Enhancement_Booster

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