Can you attune a +5 IO (and keep the enhanced values)

[Chance Jackson]

Can you attune a +5 IO (and keep the enhanced values)

[Papaschtroumpf]

No, that's maybe the only disadvantage of attuned IOs

[PaxArcana]

Short answer: no.

 

Longer answer:  you can either Attune, or Boost, but never both.  If you attempt to Attune a Boosted enhancement, you lose all the Boosts; similarly, if you apply a Boost to an Attuned enhancement, it is no longer Attuned.

[Chance Jackson]

17 hours ago, PaxArcana said:

Short answer: no.

 

Longer answer:  you can either Attune, or Boost, but never both.  If you attempt to Attune a Boosted enhancement, you lose all the Boosts; similarly, if you apply a Boost to an Attuned enhancement, it is no longer Attuned.

Thank you.

[Extor Prime]

The Pope of Nope says: NOOOOOOPE

[Papaschtroumpf]

"If you apply a Boost to an Attuned enhancement"

once you reach 50, there is no longer a need for attuned enhancements, they will examplar normally, so that's the time to boost them.

[PaxArcana]

16 minutes ago, Papaschtroumpf said:

"If you apply a Boost to an Attuned enhancement"

once you reach 50, there is no longer a need for attuned enhancements, they will examplar normally, so that's the time to boost them.

Actually, no.  That's the time to buy up some Unslotters, so you can pass those Attuned enhancements on to your next Alt, and buy all-new Enhancements to Boost.  🙂

[Mr. Vee]

20 minutes ago, Papaschtroumpf said:

"If you apply a Boost to an Attuned enhancement"

once you reach 50, there is no longer a need for attuned enhancements, they will examplar normally, so that's the time to boost them.

Just because they exemplar normally doesn't mean you necessarily want to dump your attuned. Exemplaring normally means you lose your set bonuses below level 47 on a 50 or 50+5 set that isn't pvp or purple. My general approach is to use all attuned of normal sets, and then boost generic IOs, pvps and purples. But then I exemplar a lot and keeping my set bonuses to 3 levels below the bottom level of the set is more valuable to me than the % gains from boosting them at 50, especially with the boost you already get at 50 from incarnate stuff. If you're only playing the alt at 50 or only rarely exemp for weekly tfs or something then by all means, boost away. 

[Myrmidon]

6 hours ago, Veelectric Boogaloo said:

Just because they exemplar normally doesn't mean you necessarily want to dump your attuned. Exemplaring normally means you lose your set bonuses below level 47 on a 50 or 50+5 set that isn't pvp or purple. My general approach is to use all attuned of normal sets, and then boost generic IOs, pvps and purples. But then I exemplar a lot and keeping my set bonuses to 3 levels below the bottom level of the set is more valuable to me than the % gains from boosting them at 50, especially with the boost you already get at 50 from incarnate stuff. If you're only playing the alt at 50 or only rarely exemp for weekly tfs or something then by all means, boost away. 

 

This.

[The_Cheeseman]

Honestly, I don't think enhancing set IOs makes much of a difference. Most of the relevant values for set IOs are usually well into diminishing returns already, so boosters amount to an extra, like 2% damage or whatever. I much prefer keeping my set bonuses when exemplar'ed. Boosters are for stuff like recharge reduction IOs in Hasten or Recovery IOs in Stamina, stuff you don't use sets for and just want to save on slots by boosting basics.

[Papaschtroumpf]

2-slotted Hasten and Stamina are the main targets. Possibly single slotted powers with end-red 

[HelenCarnate]

2 minutes ago, The_Cheeseman said:

Honestly, I don't think enhancing set IOs makes much of a difference. Most of the relevant values for set IOs are usually well into diminishing returns already, so boosters amount to an extra, like 2% damage or whatever. I much prefer keeping my set bonuses when exemplar'ed. Boosters are for stuff like recharge reduction IOs in Hasten or Recovery IOs in Stamina, stuff you don't use sets for and just want to save on slots by boosting basics.

And this.