Anyone know the value for those enhancement boosters ?

Just wondering if anyone has done the math for those enhancement boosters that you can put on your powers that are not procs.

5 is the max.

Is it a steady percentage or is it affected by ED ?

I just have no clue.

Each increases the enhancement's value by a flat 5%. 5 boosters gets you 1.25x the enhancement's value, which means you can make purples out of level 50 IOs if you don't mind going without the set bonuses. It is affected by ED, though.

I was looking at these last night trying to figure out if they were worth buying a stack of 90. My conclusion at the time was that for a tight IO build where every slot is filled by a dual aspect or more and most values hit ED, they're not that great, but for an SO build (such as a freemium without an IO license might have) or a common IO build, they're fantastic for pushing more value out of each enhancement. It'll make 6 SOs do the work of 7.5.

They can be useful for an IO build in eking out just a few more percent to get over a hump, or if you have some powers you had to skimp on for slotting to beef up others, you can make those slots go further.

Complete info here: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Enhancement_Booster

Awwwee, so the dream of using them on HO's won't work then ? That's the way it looks, but I'd figure I'd confirm it in case theres a change coming in a new issue or update ?

*Weeps*

I remember when HOs had high enough values that they didn't need to be boosted.

*Weeps*

It may be a vain hope, but I would love to see them do something with HOs to return them to some of that glory. They aren't very shiny any more compared to IOs, though they still have uses. They would be in great demand as slot savers if they had their old 50% values, even just for Schedule A enhancement. (I'm guessing Schedule B bits of HOs would end up around 33%, not 50% like they used to be in the old days, but that wouldn't suck, allowing the kind of slotting some of the more mundane exploits of Enzymes allowed, but using Cytos.)

Another note. Based on my experiments with ATO's on the Beta Server is that, at present, enhancement boosters do not work on ATO's. I was very sad to see that.

This may be because all the ATO's I have on Beta were generated from the new 'cards' in the Super Packs, and born fully cratfed. I have never dropped one in game play. If they also drop as crafted enhancers, and not as recipes, then I guess they will remain un-boostable. Sort of a hybrid between HO's and IO's. Can anybody shed ay light on this as WAI ?

Jak

All Paragon-Market-bought enhancements have this behavior. As ATOs were originally only available on the market, I guess they carried that over even though they now have other means of acquisition. I always took the inability to boost "market-Os" as sort of a trade-off with the way they are always functionally the same level as your character, meaning (among other things) that they can be slotted at any level and will be full strength when you are level 50, and never lose their set bonuses when you exemplar*.

* For market-bought "normal" sets, like Touch of Death, they lose their bonuses if you exemplar to a level below where the set exists.

You can also use these to save some slots. Instead of 3 50 EndMod IOs in Stamina, for example, you could use 2 50+5 and save that third slot. You'd have less overall performance from the slots, but they would likely be a much more efficient use of the slots and enhancements (someone more knowledgeable than I am can fill in the math on this example if they feel like it).

Heres a little tip that some may not know.

You can add the effect of the enhancement booster in Mids.

When you click on a IO to change or slot it and the new window pops up. Hover over the Io and use the -/+ key to up it. You will then see it say something like 50+5 on the left hand side, and you will also be able to see the values change. You have to click on the Io for it to take place.

Doing this you can see that all you really need is a 50+5 and a 50+2 IO to max out a power like hasten or Stamina, unless you just what to squeeze out a little more like on a perma (whatever) build.

Regular (damage, accuracy, recharge, endurance)
42% "Full" IOs + 5x Boosters = 53%
26.5% "Split" IOs + 5x Boosters = 33.1%
21.2% "Triple" IOs + 5x Boosters = 26.5%
18.5% "Quad" IOs + 5x Boosters = 23.2%

Other (tohit, defense, resist)
25.5% "Full" IOs + 5x Boosters = 31.9%
15.9% "Split" IOs + 5x Boosters = 19.9%
12.8% "Triple" IOs + 5x Boosters = 15.9%

Here's the basics. Overall, adding +5 boosters onto an IO will essentially turn it into a "purple" version of the same. I'll post some information on the exact numbers of boosted purples when I get a chance, but this should cover most folk's questions.