Need Clairification on Invention Enhancements

External Since: Jun 05, 2007 Posts: 108

I understand that Invention Enhancements (why are they called IOs?)
don't lose effectiveness as the character levels up. Basically, a
Level 10 IO is still effective at player level 18, where normal
enhancements will be useless at that point.

What I don't know is, if I am level 15, do I need to slot the
Invention enhancement as a level 18 enhancement to get the best
result?

If I am 15, and the IO is level 12, which is lower but still usable,
will the bonus gained from the enhancement be the same as if I had
slotted an 18 Invention enhancement instead?

External Since: Jun 05, 2007 Posts: 108

On Aug 10, 10:24 am, John Parkinson <jp--usenet--spam--
t... DeleteThis @destiny.org.uk> wrote:
> Amigoid wrote:
> > I understand that Invention Enhancements (why are they called IOs?)
> > don't lose effectiveness as the character levels up. Basically, a
> > Level 10 IO is still effective at player level 18, where normal
> > enhancements will be useless at that point.
>
> > What I don't know is, if I am level 15, do I need to slot the
> > Invention enhancement as a level 18 enhancement to get the best
> > result?
>
> > If I am 15, and the IO is level 12, which is lower but still usable,
> > will the bonus gained from the enhancement be the same as if I had
> > slotted an 18 Invention enhancement instead?
>
> The bonus gained from an IO is static based on the level of the IO.
> The only relevance your level has to the IO is that you can't use IOs of
> more than +3 to your level.
>
> Level Sched B Sched A Sched C Sched D
> ---------------------------------------
> 10 0.07 0.117 0.14 0.21
> 11 0.08 0.133 0.16 0.24
> 12 0.09 0.15 0.18 0.27
> 13 0.1 0.167 0.2 0.3 <-- Even-level DO Value
> 14 0.108 0.179 0.215 0.323
> 15 0.115 0.192 0.231 0.346 <-- +3 DO Value
> 16 0.123 0.205 0.246 0.369
> 17 0.131 0.218 0.262 0.392
> 18 0.138 0.231 0.277 0.415
> 19 0.146 0.243 0.292 0.438
> 20 0.154 0.256 0.308 0.462
> 21 0.162 0.269 0.323 0.485
> 22 0.169 0.282 0.338 0.508
> 23 0.177 0.295 0.354 0.531
> 24 0.185 0.307 0.369 0.554
> 25 0.192 0.32 0.385 0.577
> 26 0.2 0.333 0.4 0.6 <-- Even-level SO Value
> 27 0.202 0.337 0.405 0.607
> 28 0.205 0.341 0.409 0.614
> 29 0.207 0.344 0.414 0.62
> 30 0.209 0.348 0.418 0.627
> 31 0.211 0.352 0.423 0.634
> 32 0.214 0.356 0.427 0.641
> 33 0.216 0.359 0.432 0.648
> 34 0.218 0.363 0.436 0.655
> 35 0.22 0.367 0.441 0.661
> 36 0.223 0.371 0.445 0.668
> 37 0.225 0.375 0.45 0.675
> 38 0.227 0.378 0.455 0.682
> 39 0.23 0.382 0.459 0.689 <-- +3 SO Value
> 40 0.232 0.386 0.464 0.695
> 41 0.234 0.39 0.468 0.702
> 42 0.236 0.394 0.473 0.709
> 43 0.239 0.397 0.477 0.716
> 44 0.241 0.401 0.482 0.723
> 45 0.243 0.405 0.486 0.73
> 46 0.245 0.409 0.491 0.736
> 47 0.248 0.412 0.495 0.743
> 48 0.25 0.416 0.5 0.75
> 49 0.252 0.42 0.505 0.757
> 50 0.255 0.424 0.509 0.764
> 51 0.257 0.428 0.514 0.77
> 52 0.259 0.431 0.518 0.777
> 53 0.261 0.435 0.523 0.784
>
> Note: all enhancement types are Schedule A, except for:
>
> Schedule B: Defense, Damage Resistance, ToHit Buff, ToHit DeBuff, Range
> Schedule C: Interrupt Reduction
> Schedule D: Knockback
>
> --
> John Parkinson

So, what I discern from this:

I have a Martial arts scrapper with bonesnap 3-slot set on her two
kicks. She has standard IOs installed for all of her powers, and she
has the JAUNT set slotted in her teleport. She was level 10-ish when
she got the IO's which were at or above her level when they were
applied. (same goes for the Jaunt set when she got her travel power)

When she hits the 40's she may want to re-install the same set but at
that higher level the comparative boost will make them worth more
(work better than...) an equally slotted SO without taking into
account bonuses gained from specialty sets.

Meanwhile, she can rack up influence, since she will not be broke
looking for new enhancements every 4-5 levels, right?
(and yeah, I realize that it cost more up front to build her with IO's
from the start, but she had my level 48 as a sugar daddy buying all
the goods).
If she scores a good SO, she can use it, and anything else she gets
can either be A: Shared with the SG, or B: used to finance planned
purchases of recipies and ingredients for the IO's she wants.

Semi-unrelated: What Invention Enhancement specialty set would you
recommend for using on TP foe to buff its accuracy? At lot of folks
eschew using that and just use the TP friend (unbuffed) and the
Teleport travel power, but it seems to be very useful for her as a way
to thin down mobs when she solos and even when it fails, it works fine
to pull a small subset to her location (just in case she gets stomped
she wants them to walk away so she can revive...).