MicroHue Wrote:Morgan. ... Except for Purples, its the equipping level that is the critical factor in determining if you have set-bonus. Hence, for set bonuses to work in BB or lvl 25, that would make lvl 28 IOs the maximum you could slot. For Sirens Call or lvl 30, it would be lvl 33. Warburg or lvl 38 would be lvl 41. Is that correct?
That's the way it was explained to me, and it's consistent with the results of my own testing. Although I don't know if I had any exactly enhancements of exactly level 5x+4 to check.
On the defense from Stealth, don't forget that half of that goes away once you start attacking. If you want the most defense and still have access to full stealth (or turn transluscent), you could get Combat Jumping and put the Unbounded Leap +Stealth IO in it. ... Well, I guess that wouldn't get quite as much stealth as an IO, the Stealth power, *and* super speed. Except if Mids is to be believed, it doesn't actually help having *all* of those. It appears that a cap is being hit on PvP stealth with just Stealth and +Stealth IO, with SS not improving it. *pokes some more* Actually, Mids does not show SS as improving PvP stealth at all, so that explains that. Some quick web searching suggests that it is correct. And even if SS did improve PvP stealth, you'd still hit the cap long before a Stalker would.
Ankhani Wrote:You also must have access to the slot in which the enhancement is placed for you to get the effect. So for example, if you have a 6 slot set bonus, and the slot levels are, say, 1,5,9,23,31,36 then you would only have the 5 set bonus regardless of Enhancement level when exemp'd to below 35, and so on.
... Are you sure about this?
Because I've never seen that suggested before. And I know that the standard enhancement effects are available as long as you have the power available, regardless of what level the slots were placed at.
-Morgan.