Store bought Enhancements
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Atomic_Avenger,
Posted on: 2012-03-15 15:25 in The Market and Inventions
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Originally Posted by Atomic_Avenger
Just a couple of questions about these..
1. I assume that they lock in place like any other enhancement requiring either a respec or unslot token to remove.. correct? |
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| 2. Do these mix and match with the standard IOs with the same set names? Ie. if I have five of the in-game Obliteration IOs slotted in a power and purchase the store bought equivalent to the sixth and slot it with the rest of the set, do I get the full six slot Obliteration bonus? |
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Excellent.
Thank you.
This is extremely useful. Buy from auctionhouse the ones you want to +5, and buy from the store the ones it doesnt matter (like damage procs).
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I just bought like 5 sets of most I thought might be useful (kin combat, posi blast, decimation) to have stuff to use while leveling. I respec at 50 90% of the time anyhow and have enough freespecs that the biggest problem with respecing is fixing my power buttons after.
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I really wish I would have known you couldn't +5 a store bought IO. I found this out the hard way, after buying 2 sets of Kinetic Combat for my recently respec'd Scrapper. They were on sale, and I will respec them out for 'real' IOs. but I was frustrated for a few hours afterwards lol
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Originally Posted by OneFrigidWitch
This is extremely useful. Buy from auctionhouse the ones you want to +5, and buy from the store the ones it doesnt matter (like damage procs).
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What is +5 ?|
Originally Posted by RedLineage
I really wish I would have known you couldn't +5 a store bought IO. I found this out the hard way, after buying 2 sets of Kinetic Combat for my recently respec'd Scrapper. They were on sale, and I will respec them out for 'real' IOs. but I was frustrated for a few hours afterwards lol
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I'm a total newbie.
As I do have money, but little time to gather inf in game, the store bought IOs seemed interesting.
Do you get the actual IOs, or recipes, and what level are they?
I actually came to this forum looking for similar information as the OP.
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Enhancement Boosters can be bought from the Paragon Market to boost the % of an IO. As many as 5 can be used on each IO, so you can essentially make a level 50 IO level 55. |
Originally Posted by RogerWilco
What is +5 ?
I'm a total newbie. As I do have money, but little time to gather inf in game, the store bought IOs seemed interesting. Do you get the actual IOs, or recipes, and what level are they? I actually came to this forum looking for similar information as the OP. |
Store bought enhancements can't be boosted with these. Boosting IOs really only makes sense for level 50 IOs as boosting a lower IO would be a waste as you can just buy the higher level IO later.
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+5 means use Enhancement Boosters (+1 for each one used to the max of 5 per IO) on the enhancement but store bought ones won't take boosters.|
Originally Posted by RogerWilco
What is +5 ?
I'm a total newbie. As I do have money, but little time to gather inf in game, the store bought IOs seemed interesting. Do you get the actual IOs, or recipes, and what level are they? I actually came to this forum looking for similar information as the OP. |
When you buy one or a set from the Paragon Market, they show up in the 3rd email group to be claimed by one of your characters. If you buy the set, each one of the enhancements shows on the list.
If the enhancement is levels 10-30 then you cannot slot them until you are 7 (or possibly 10, I cannot remember if they are hard locked to their minimum level). They level up as your character levels up. They cannot be traded or sold but you can email them to your own account in email.
http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Store_Bought_Enhancement
total kick to the gut
This is like having Ra's Al Ghul show up at your birthday party.
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I don't think this is necessarily true. I find them especially useful for lower IOs that my level fifties use for specific set bonuses. IOs such as Gift of the Ancients, Kinetic Combats, or Eradications all cap out around level 35 or 40 (can't remember exactly off hand) and by using the boosters on these specific IOs and ones like them you can get more performance out of them by boosting them five times.
| Boosting IOs really only makes sense for level 50 IOs as boosting a lower IO would be a waste as you can just buy the higher level IO later. |
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Your understanding of how the boosters work is flawed. Boosting an IO doesn't merely raise it to five levels higher. Consider the following:|
Originally Posted by RedLineage
Boosting IOs really only makes sense for level 50 IOs as boosting a lower IO would be a waste as you can just buy the higher level IO later.
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- A level 45 straight damage IO grants a 40.5% damage boost.
- A level 50 straight damage IO grants a 42.4% damage boost.
- Boosting the level 45 IO to 45+5 grants a 50.625% damage boost, higher than the level 50 IO.
So why not just buy max-level IOs and boost those? One answer: exemplaring/malefactoring. Boosting a set of level 35 Obliterations, for example, gives you higher enhancement values than an unboosted set of level 50 Obliterations, and you get to keep your set bonuses way down to 32 instead of losing them at 46.
For those of us that exemp a lot, enhancement boosters have been an awesome addition to the game.
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A level 25 boosted to +5 is not remotely the same as a level 30. Its enhancement values are actually just shy of a level 50. So if you want to be able to exemplar down to level 25 (23, actually) and keep all your set bonuses, but have just shy of the enhancement of someone slotted with level 50s, you can.*|
Originally Posted by RedLineage
Boosting IOs really only makes sense for level 50 IOs as boosting a lower IO would be a waste as you can just buy the higher level IO later.
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Where the main difference comes in is whether you want to focus on exemplar or level 50 play in your build. If you want to play at level 50 most of the time and aren't (as) concerned about keeping your set bonuses when exemplared, then you can use boosters to amp up your performance by boosting level 50 IOs. A common/uncommon/rare 50+5 IO has the same enhancement values as a superior (purple/very rare) IO. For some things, like damage in attacks, this is likely overkill, but it can be useful for shoring up sets with low values in accuracy, endurance reduction or recharge. It's also very useful for saving slots. Two level 50+4 commons provide about 101% enhancement, which is a good way to get ED-compliant slotting for something like Hasten's recharge in just two slots.
* Note that the exemplar system scales down enhancement values, so whether you have level 50 or level 25+5 IOs slotted, you lose a bunch of enhancement value from most enhancements. However, you end up at pretty much the same place whether you have 50s or 25+5s slotted, because you start at pretty much the same place.
Blue
American Steele: 50 BS/Inv
Nightfall: 50 DDD
Sable Slayer: 50 DM/Rgn
Fortune's Shadow: 50 Dark/Psi
WinterStrike: 47 Ice/Dev
Quantum Well: 43 Inv/EM
Twilit Destiny: 43 MA/DA
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Shadowslip: 50 DDC
Final Rest: 50 MA/Rgn
Abyssal Frost: 50 Ice/Dark
Golden Ember: 50 SM/FA
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The +5 (or +1 or +2 or +3 or +4) is not an indication of level, which really bugs me because it's always placed with the level and leads to misconceptions.|
Originally Posted by RedLineage
Enhancement Boosters can be bought from the Paragon Market to boost the % of an IO. As many as 5 can be used on each IO, so you can essentially make a level 50 IO level 55.
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For every +1, it multiplies the values on the IO by an extra 5%. A +5 IO will have its values boosted by 25%.
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Ok, so I stand corrected.
I am not such a numbers guy as some, so I didn't really look into the exact percentages. I also boost the lower tier IOs (Eradication, Kinetic Combat, etc)
I do not exempt much, I have a variety of toons at different levels, so if friends are playing at level 25 or something, I will log into a toon around that level or lower... I see no point in focusing on one specific toon so much that I need to exempt, so I do not make builds for exempting. I maximize their numbers at level 50, so for Incarnate content they perform to the best of their ability.
I really only meant that I only use Boosters on toons that I feel are complete (i.e level 50), therefore I will not need to be changing any IOs.
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Just a couple of questions about these..
1. I assume that they lock in place like any other enhancement requiring either a respec or unslot token to remove.. correct?
2. Do these mix and match with the standard IOs with the same set names? Ie. if I have five of the in-game Obliteration IOs slotted in a power and purchase the store bought equivalent to the sixth and slot it with the rest of the set, do I get the full six slot Obliteration bonus?