Ranged damage sets and no range enh

Has anyone ever wondered why the ranged damage sets do not offer range enhancement as part of their buffs?

Probably because range is not an especially desirable attribute for the vast majority of powers that take ranged damage sets, *especially* now that the short range blasts are getting normalized to 80 feet. I know that personally I'd regard any range enhancement in such a set to be totally dead weight, and it would make me think pretty hard about whether I wanted to use the set at all. Even for AoEs where there's actually some point in enhancing the range (cones), if there were any other sets with notable set bonuses I wouldn't touch posi's blast with a 10 foot pole - its enhancement values are bad enough even before you waste a component on range. I think I've intentionally slotted a single target ranged attack for range only once - laser beam eyes on my tank's hami raid build. And when you do want to, dam/range HOs are an extremely cheap and effective way to do that.

There is so much reworking that should/could go into these IO sets.

There are attributes that are lacking in some sets such as range increase and with a category like Range damage that has TEN normal sets.

Sets such as TAoE and Slow movement lack inherent recharge.

TAoE only has THREE regular choices. Yes this is something I just can not and will not ever get over. I'm literally so sick of purchasing and using Posi's blasts that I stopped leveling my Water/Ice Corruptor at level 40.

Some set bonuses are obsolete IMO such as Debt protection and/or are so insignificant they only stack well with very few sets such as Psionic defense.

IMO before they create new recipes they need to address some issues with existing ones. Unless of course they do not think there are any issues, which is what I suspect...

It is time for more variety across ALL of the set IO's.

A change such as BoTZ had a backlash because many players slot for defense bonuses and the change was a reduction. If they would remove bonuses like debt protection and replace it with something a little more worthwhile I doubt too many players would complain because the bonus is small (and debt isn't harsh) and it eventually becomes obsolete. I hate to sound like I'm trashing the recipes but who really needs 1% Debt Protection, or maybe I'm missing something?

I'd also like to see them get rid of all recipe levels that aren't 0s and 5s (10,14,20,25 etc). Buying, selling, equipping and exemping would be so much easier.

There's a way to dodge the cottage rule and still muck with the enhancement values of the enhancements, and possibly even add a new layer of depth to invention enhancing. It would be a simple matter of expanding all IO sets to have 9 pieces in them.

You could make a few multi-aspect IO's in some of the plain-jane sets that have more exotic effects, such as Range, or even splashing End-Mod or Slow, or Defense or Tohit-Debuffing. And you'd have plenty of room to do it in, with every set getting 3 to 6 more enhancements. Then, the folks who want more ordinary enhancement have their cake, and those who want to do wierd stuff can eat it too. All while not effecting existing builds at all.