Purchaseable Enhancement Slots?

Instead of try to rework the powers/leveling system to fit more slots... allow players to purchase individual Enhancements Slots through the Paragon Market.

IBTS Storm.

Pay-to-win issues aside, would that even get around the issues that prevented Synapse from doing it in the first place?

Perhaps they could be gated behind a merit purchase?

buying enhancement slots for powers in any way would be horribly broken, if you can 6 slot everything theres almost no point to try making a build for whatever your playing

even them considering giving us 3 extra slots above what we currently have is a huge bonus

I am for a few extra slots! Not for min/max purposes really (though I admit in some builds this would happen), but because there's some powers that while one may min/max the set bonuses/enhancement values, that even underslotting some powers leaves a few powers you'd like to use, unuseable due to a lack of slots.

Now if they made them purchasable in the market, I think Id leave it 3 slots per character, bought per character, and possibly not useable untill they're level 50), so it's more to enhance a character you plan on playing regularly (for most people) and not "Okay this will help my leveling up"

Purchaseable, no. Or at least not without severe limits.

Given an option at 49 to have a power or slots, sure.

Given a few extras in Kheldian forms (starting with two instead of one for the form powers,) sure.

I would rather they let us select extra slots for existing powers instead of forcing us to take a new power at certain levels, as I have no interest in about half of the powers in any set I play, but I would really like to slot out the ones I do use. When a new power is available, we would select "New Power" or "Enhancement Slots" to get what we want; when all current powers are six-slotted (not filled, just present), the "Enhancement Slots" option would be gray and we would have to take a power. And, no, we would not be able to get additional slots at a "slot level" if we were already six-slotted on everything - we would just ding for level and move on, since we already selected to take our slots last time instead of a junk power to ignore.

You do realize the last time they gave us four free powers and four free slots (allowing us to choose up to an additional four powers w/four slots for more critical choices), it didn't break the game?

Nor did it break the game when the Alpha Slot potentially freed up/diversified at least 24 slots for player use.

Sure, there may be players that could maximize any changes that come along but 3 slots is not overpowered or game breaking.



Applying an appropriate cost could be its own deterrent (400 points per slot per character) or as a set of cycling Tier 9 VIP Token purchase (SlotA, Slot B, SlotC; each slot(variable) only purchasable once).

They could even set it up like they do costume slots; max number of add-on slots purchasable = 'X'.


My only concern would be how it might interfere with respeccing.

There was a problem in Beta when they tried adding extra slots.. something broke when leveling and apparently they couldnt devote the resources necessary to try and fix it..

Its one of those.. eventually things..

That being said I have said since FOREVER that at level 50 you should get Six Slots instead of 3 so that you could actually slot out that power you took late in your build better...

I can think of one build that I have that would not benefit from three slots even if its just a wee bit more end reduction or end recovery..

I have thought for a while that perhaps extra slots could somehow be tied to the Incarnate system or used in a continued XP Reward system.

And I agree that all EATs (Not just Khelds) should automatically have a few more slots to start with.

I am against Purchaseable Enhancement Slots. I think we have just the right amount of slots and certainly do not want any additional slots that may come to have ANYTHING to do with that GD Paragon market. Things would truly be out of hand at that point...as if they weren't already... 800 PP for a GD Leprechaun.

Yes, they did give us one-to-four slots that we wouldn't have had; had they not made Fitness inherent.

Sure, we didn't have control of their placement once we got a hold of these slots but that's irrelevant to the fact that we acquired 31 starting slots as opposed to the 27 we used to get.

More relevant is the fact that not only did we get four 'free' powers (two of importance to many players); getting those powers given to us meant we were able to accentuate our builds in addition to the 'buff' the Devs had just given everyone.

IMO, adding four powers (even single slot ones) to a build trumps adding four slots to a build in almost any circumstance and that hasn't seem to break anything yet. Even the basic IO Sets (in general) with all of the global bonuses they bring to the table, has not broken basic gameplay.

Outside of a few possible outliers (which are going to exist in almost any circumstance); none of you are actually proving that a few extra slots will make everybody overpowered.

Sure, unlimited extra slots might be pushing it a bit but with a potential 92 empty slots that could be placed; getting access to 3 or 4 should be no big deal.

And I'm very open to how we receive those slots: Tokens, Paragon Points, Incarnate progression or even some nasty rework to the leveling system.

I don't see any "need" for "any" more slots. Just because some people want them does not mean that is a valid reason to magically make more slots.

I truly think bringing in the inherent argument weakens the position for more slots as the comparison misses on several levels, not to mention the sheer pay to win elements.

I don't see this kind of overreach as something "any" of the devs are getting behind or receiving warmly in any stretch of the imagination.

my builds are so tight every time I fart dogs wince in pain.

I would pay for extra slots.

Yes, I would.

I would NOT pay for them if they were pointlessly overpriced.

Right, it was planned as just an extra feature, not a purchase. I think it was supposed to be that you'd get 3 slots instead of 2 at 25/27/29, for a total of 3 extra slots? I can't find the post now; maybe it was purged along with one of the previous beta forums.

Anyway, proposing that they sell it for points doesn't make the technical issues go away. At best, it gives them a stronger incentive to work on it, but they'll have to overcome the same problems to do so, which means that, at best, other features would be shuffled around on the schedule.