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Kallandra · July 2008

Hi,

I was just wondering what everyone's thoughts were on slotting recipe sets.. whether to put a few in early on, or to wait and save up for the really expensive ones for level 45-50? Or just go for Invention enhancements or Single Origin ones...

I'm not entirely sure what to to with my MM at the moment.. She's levelling so quickly (am playing solo) that if i did slot in one of the rather expensive recipe sets (eg Luck of the Gambler), by the time i've finished a couple of missions i'm needing to get a higher level recipe! At the moment i'm level 31 and using single origin enhancements. I know there's no 'set' way to do this, people have their own way of slotting, so am just curious as to the best way others have found of doing things.

Most of my other toons (CoV & CoH) i've stuck recipe sets in fairly early on (around level 25), but without farming (something i don't do) i find that unless i manage to pick up some fairly decent recipe's (either to sell or to use) that it takes forever to save up for the higher level recipe sets .

Amarsir · July 2008

I vary my strategy a bit. But here's how I generally lean:

Between 20 and 32 the effectiveness of IOs scales up very quickly. Between 32 and 50 the difference is much slighter, and that's not even accounting for ED (which you usually reach with a little effort).

Therefore, I find mid-30s to be a good time to start building sets for real. Before that the most I will do is a little bit of "frankenslotting" where cheap for efficiency. (That means a Ruin Acc/Dmg + an Entropic Chaos Acc/Dmg + a Decimation Acc/Dmg, for example.)

The bigger problem is not just A) the cost at that level, it's also the availiabilty of what you want and C) having enough slots already to make the sets useful.

A) Generally speaking the better sets are more expensive, and usually they use the more expensive salvage too. Once nice thing though is that 30-40 salvage tends to be cheaper than 40-50 salvage. So that's an advantage to buying sooner.

There are more people running around at 50 than at any other single level, and even when they're not they are often Lackey'd up to that level. So 50 recipes are the easiest to find. Often you get several a day selling at 50 while you could wait weeks for one to pop up at 35.

C) Sets usually have enhancements half-dedicated to attributes you're not that worried about - like Endurance for attacks or recharge for toggles. It's a fine bonus when the set gives you ED's worth of what matters anyway, which is what happens with a full set. But consider you have 4 slots in an attack:

SOs: Accuracy x 1, Damage x 3: 35% Accuracy, 96% (ED) Damage

Frankenslot: A/D x 2, Damage x 2: 45% Accuracy, 98% (ED) Damage

Positron's Blast Set: A/D, A/D/End, Dmg/Rech, Dmg/Rng: 40% Accuracy, 85% Damage (ED), 18% End discount, 13% Range, 23% Recharge

As you can see from that last set, it's giving you more things when you haven't yet reached the target levels in the two most important (damage and accuracy). Adding a 5th slot would let you fix that, as would waiting until a much higher level (with higher IOs).

Additionally, the magic of a Positron's Blast set is the universal 6.25% recharge bonus that kicks in with 5 of the set. Is it worth chasing the set if you only have 4 slots to use?

Those are reasons I wouldn't rush to buy the best set you can. But if you get cheap sets, those can last reasonably until you are near 50. And you can save Inf compared to buying SOs that need replacement.

Sanctus_Mors · July 2008

I generally wait till level 32 and then respec out all my enhancements and slot level 35 IO. Level 35 and above start to out perform SO. Untill level 32, I'll frankenslot also (cute term)

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