Enhancement Boosters and You


 

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I recently picked up a pack of Superboosters and discovered several Enhancement Boosters in it. When I discovered that they only worked on common IOs I was a bit disappointed. I sure wasn't going to waste them on anything less than a level 50 IO and by the time my characters get that high I don't use that many.

Then I hit upon an idea for a Scrapper I've been completing. He's a BS/Shield with Build Up and on a lark I threw some of the Boosters on one of the Recharge IOs. Wow...the usual 42% boost jumped to 53%. Later on tonight I plan on doing a respec to pull one of the slots from BU and put it somewhere else. My next experiment will be aimed at the End Mod IOs in Stamina for an End-starved toon of mine.

So now I have a question for the Forum: How do YOU use the Enhancement Boosters you've gotten? Have you found the bonus significant enough to respec the character in any way?

Just curious as to what everyone is doing with the Boosters. Wondering if they wouldn't be put to better use somewhere else.


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They work on common AND set IO's mate.


The development team and this community deserved better than this from NC Soft. Best wishes on your search.

 

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You can use them on ANY IOs that give enhancement value...

but then they're locked to your character. :/


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Originally Posted by DarkSideLeague View Post
You can use them on ANY IOs that give enhancement value...

but then they're locked to your character. :/
Um, not quite...you can still unslot them, and trade them. They just lose the bonus if you do.

You can't email them or drop them in base storage, though.


 

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Um, not quite...you can still unslot them, and trade them. They just lose the bonus if you do.
You can't email them to yourself - I tried that already. It won't even let you ADD it as an attachment.


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You can't email them to yourself - I tried that already. It won't even let you ADD it as an attachment.
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I use Enhancement Boosters for two things:
1) Getting the same enhancement from less slots. You can ED-cap Hasten's recharge with a 50+5 and a 50+2, for example, rather than the usual 3 slots.
2) Slotting low-level set pieces (for leveling or exemplaring) and boosting them to get high-level enhancement values. 25+5 Decimations are comparable to level 40 Decimations, but can be used 15 levels earlier. This obviously costs more points than using level 40s, but less than buying an attuned Decimation set, and is comparably useful.


 

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For a list of what you can and can't do with Enhancement boosted stuff, see here.


 

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Originally Posted by Hopeling View Post
I use Enhancement Boosters for two things:
1) Getting the same enhancement from less slots. You can ED-cap Hasten's recharge with a 50+5 and a 50+2, for example, rather than the usual 3 slots.

Thanks for the info guys. I must not have been clicking on the right thing when I tried it with a set IO. THIS is why I experiment with junk first and ask the Forums lol!

And this idea of getting more bang from fewer slots is exactly what I was hoping for. Just checking to make sure I wasn't going nuts in my sleep-deprived state.

Thanks everyone


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You can also do this. Since I took that screenshot I got an unbreakable constraint: hold as a drop, dropped that in the sixth slot of dominate and boosted it to +5. Turns out a fully boosted single aspect purple gives 66% enhancement value. Oh enhancement boosters, you're so great.


 

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I personally think the optimum 2 slot Hasten or other single aspect 2 slot is:
50+5 and 50+3 yeilding 95.26% ED Red in MIDS.

50 +5 and 50 +2 yeilding 94.75% ED Yellow in MIDS is a better move for your budget.

50+5 and 50+5 gives 95.90% and I have one Alt where that actually mattered.

The most useful thing I have found to do with Boosters is to shotgun whatever set is in each clickable damage power, especially the 12 endurance + type, Max Boosting any IO with the words Endurance or Recharge.

This has been incredibly useful in fixing Endurance issues and also giving a little ramp up to Attack chains on alt's that had good builds but needed something extra. The huge 'wasted' excess Damage enhancement number that results just means you can almost always use the set damage proc without leaving 95% Damage while dropping back to a 5 slot, unless you need the 6th slot bonus. Yes that uses 20-25 boosters per power on average, ouch. Buy em on sale and in the 90 pack.

Jak


 

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I've been using the boosters sparingly. It is one of those things where I swear I'll need them if I use them up.

So far, I have been putting boosters in powers that have limited slotting but need a lot more of a kick. A recent rebuild of my ice/storm troller has less recovery bonuses and more s/l/melee defense. Ice/Storm can be VERY endurance heavy with the super-expensive toggles, and due to limited slotting options I have had to skimp on some places where I could really use it. So, I've boosted all of the endurance reduction enhancements that he's got, along with a few others.



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do i have to boost the complete set in a power to keep the setboni or doesnt that matter?


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Boosters have no effect whatsoever on the bonuses of a set. If you slotted five level 32 lucks of the gambler, for example, and then boosted three of them to +5, all of the set bonuses still exemp to 29.