Base Empowerment: Temporary Powers

[Bopper]

Base Empowerment: Temporary Powers

Information Guide
by Bopper

Written: 14 June 2020

Last updated: 15 June 2020
(Information that might help players understand the benefits of Base Empowerment temporary powers)

 

 

Empowering Stations are base items whose primary function is to craft temporary powers. These powers only affect your character and last for 90 minutes of in game time (the game incorrectly states 60 minute duration). They are also incredibly cheap to craft, costing one or two common salvage and sometimes an additional uncommon salvage. 

 

This information guide will go over the following:

• How buffed up will your character be if you craft every Base Empowerment Temp Power?
• How much salvage does it cost to craft every Base Empowerment Temp Power?
• How to check when the Temporary Power will expire
• How to delete a Temporary Power
• Summary of Base Empowerment Temporary Powers

 

In the Summary Table at the end, I show all of the Temporary Powers provided by the Arcane and Tech Empowering Stations. This table will show the amount of buff your character will receive from each Temporary Power as well as the salvage cost for crafting that Temporary Power. Whether you craft the Temporary Power as Tier 1, Tier 2, or Tier 3, it makes no difference; they are all the same strength and have the same duration. It is important to note that you cannot stack the same type of Temporary Power; once you craft the buff you will be unable to craft the same Temporary Power until the buff duration expires or if you manually delete the power from your Power window.

 

How buffed up will your character be if you craft every Base Empowerment Temp Power?

The question we all care about. Here's a quick breakdown:

+20% Recharge buff

+17% Recovery buff

+5% Resistance to ALL damage types

+17.5% Resistance to most status effects (Confuse, Stun, Fear, Hold, Immobilize, Sleep)

+20% Resistance to Slow and Recovery/Endurance Drain debuffs

+10 Magnitude Knockback Protection

+100 feet Perception Increase

+25 feet Stealth (250 feet in PVP)

+20% Run Speed (+2.86 mph)

+20% Strength to Jump Speed

+20% Strength to Fly Speed

+60% Strength to Knockback (You might not want this)

 

How much salvage does it cost to craft every Base Empowerment Temporary Power?

The short answer: 45 salvage. 42 Commons and 3 Uncommons. The real question is, what do you need to stash away (or have on the ready to buy from the Auction House) to quickly run in and craft every single buff quickly. Afterall, maybe your buffs ran out during the middle of a Task Force and you need to quickly re-up. Since all buffs are the same, I will just show the breakdown for Tier 3 Arcane and Tier 3 Tech Salvage costs. I'll include a full breakdown in the comment section below.

 

Arcane:

• Ceramic Armor Plate (x2)
• Demonic Threat Report (x4)
• Fortune (x5)
• Hydraulic Piston (x3)
• Kinetic Weapon (x3)
• Mathematic Proof (x3)
• Nevermelting Ice (x4)
• Regenerating Flesh (x4)
• Ruby (x4)
• Silver (x3)
• Spirit Thorn (x4)
• Temporal Analyzer (x3)
• Destiny (x1)
• Psionic Threat Report (x1)
• Sapphire (x1)

 

Tech:

• Ceramic Armor Plate (x4)
• Demonic Threat Report (x2)
• Fortune (x3)
• Hydraulic Piston (x4)
• Kinetic Weapon (x4)
• Mathematic Proof (x5)
• Nevermelting Ice (x3)
• Regenerating Flesh (x3)
• Ruby (x3)
• Silver (x4)
• Spirit Thorn (x3)
• Temporal Analyzer (x4)
• Chaos Theorem (x1)
• Gold (x1)
• Pneumatic Piston (x1)

 

How to check when the Temporary Power will Expire

Now we're getting into how you can verify the duration lasts for 90 minutes, but also it is good to know if you have enough time remaining before you start an assignment. If you check the remaining duration and feel as though it's not enough time, you can delete the power, then re-craft the power to restart the 90 minute clock.

 

To check the remaining time on a Base Empowerment Temporary Power, select "Powers", scroll down to "Temporary Powers", right-click the temp power you want information from and select "Info". 

 

 

 

The Description will show when the Temporary Power will expire. Notice the generic description states 60 minute duration but the expiration is longer. It's worth noting this is the only way to check when the power will expire. There are other means to check the power info, but none of those descriptions will show the expiration.

 

 

 

How to Delete a Temporary Power

Perform the same steps as we did for checking when a Temporary Power expires, but instead of right-clicking to select the "Info", right-click and select "Delete Power". A pop-up menu will display to verify your selection. Select "Yes".

 

 

 

Summary of Base Empowerment Temporary Powers

Temporary Powers			Arcane - Salvage Cost			Tech - Salvage Cost
Type	Duration (min)	Amount	Tier 1	Tier 2	Tier 3	Tier 1	Tier 2	Tier 3
Cold Resistance	90	+5.00%	Human Blood Sample Spiritual Essence	Stabilized Mutant Genome Demonic Blood Sample	Hydraulic Piston Spirit Thorn	Human Blood Sample Spiritual Essence	Stabilized Mutant Genome Demonic Blood Sample	Hydraulic Piston Spirit Thorn
Fire Resistance	90	+5.00%	Computer Virus Runebound Armor	Circuit Board Ancient Bone	Temporal Analyzer Regenerating Flesh	Computer Virus Runebound Armor	Circuit Board Ancient Bone	Temporal Analyzer Regenerating Flesh
Smash Resistance	90	+5.00%	Simple Chemical Runebound Armor	Inert Gas Ancient Bone	Silver Regenerating Flesh	Simple Chemical Runebound Armor	Inert Gas Ancient Bone	Silver Regenerating Flesh
Lethal Resistance	90	+5.00%	Brass Luck Charm	Iron Rune	Ceramic Armor Plate Fortune	Brass Luck Charm	Iron Rune	Ceramic Armor Plate Fortune
Energy Resistance	90	+5.00%	Computer Virus Ancient Artifact	Circuit Board Masterwork Weapon	Temporal Analyzer Nevermelting Ice	Computer Virus Ancient Artifact	Circuit Board Masterwork Weapon	Temporal Analyzer Nevermelting Ice
Negative Energy Resistance	90	+5.00%	Boresight Spiritual Essence	Improvised Cybernetic Demonic Blood Sample	Kinetic Weapon Spirit Thorn	Boresight Spiritual Essence	Improvised Cybernetic Demonic Blood Sample	Kinetic Weapon Spirit Thorn
Psionic Resistance	90	+5.00%	Inanimate Carbon Rod Clockwork Winder	Scientific Theory Alchemical Silver	Mathematic Proof Ruby	Inanimate Carbon Rod Clockwork Winder	Scientific Theory Alchemical Silver	Mathematic Proof Ruby
Toxic Resistance	90	+5.00%	Human Blood Sample Runebound Armor	Stabilized Mutant Genome Ancient Bone	Hydraulic Piston Regenerating Flesh	Human Blood Sample Runebound Armor	Stabilized Mutant Genome Ancient Bone	Hydraulic Piston Regenerating Flesh
Confusion Resistance	90	+17.50% (-14.89%)	Luck Charm	Rune	Fortune	Brass	Iron	Ceramic Armor Plate
Disorient Resistance	90	+17.50% (-14.89%)	Brass Clockwork Winder	Iron Alchemical Silver	Ceramic Armor Plate Ruby	Brass Clockwork Winder	Iron Alchemical Silver	Ceramic Armor Plate Ruby
Fear Resistance	90	+17.50% (-14.89%)	Boresight Runebound Armor	Improvised Cybernetic Ancient Bone	Kinetic Weapon Regenerating Flesh	Boresight Spell Scroll	Improvised Cybernetic Spell Ink	Kinetic Weapon Demonic Threat Report
Hold Resistance	90	+17.50% (-14.89%)	Inanimate Carbon Rod Spell Scroll	Scientific Theory Spell Ink	Mathematic Proof Demonic Threat Report	Inanimate Carbon Rod Spell Scroll	Scientific Theory Spell Ink	Mathematic Proof Demonic Threat Report
Immobilize Resistance	90	+17.50% (-14.89%)	Ancient Artifact	Masterwork Weapon	Nevermelting Ice	Inanimate Carbon Rod	Scientific Theory	Mathematic Proof
Knockback Protection	90	+10.0 Magnitude	Inanimate Carbon Rod Luck Charm	Scientific Theory Rune	Mathematic Proof Fortune	Inanimate Carbon Rod Luck Charm	Scientific Theory Rune	Mathematic Proof Fortune
Sleep Resistance	90	+17.50% (-14.89%)	Simple Chemical Spiritual Essence	Inert Gas Demonic Blood Sample	Silver Spirit Thorn	Simple Chemical Spiritual Essence	Inert Gas Demonic Blood Sample	Silver Spirit Thorn
Slow Resistance	90	+20.0%	Computer Virus Luck Charm	Circuit Board Rune	Temporal Analyzer Fortune	Computer Virus Luck Charm	Circuit Board Rune	Temporal Analyzer Fortune
Endurance Drain/ Recovery Resistance	90	+20.0%	Clockwork Winder	Alchemical Silver	Ruby	Human Blood Sample	Stabilized Mutant Genome	Hydraulic Piston
Knockback Increase	90	+60% (strength)	Spell Scroll	Spell Ink	Demonic Threat Report	Brass	Iron	Ceramic Armor Plate
Increase Recovery	90	+17.0% (+0.28%/sec)	Human Blood Sample Ancient Artifact Clockwork Gear	Stabilized Mutant Genome Masterwork Weapon Alchemical Gold	Hydraulic Piston Nevermelting Ice Sapphire	Human Blood Sample Ancient Artifact Mutant Blood Sample	Stabilized Mutant Genome Masterwork Weapon Mutant DNA Strand	Hydraulic Piston Nevermelting Ice Pneumatic Piston
Increase Perception	90	+20.0% (+100 ft)	Spell Scroll	Spell Ink	Demonic Threat Report	Boresight	Improvised Cybernetic	Kinetic Weapon
Increase Attack Speed (Recharge)	90	+20.0%	Boresight Clockwork Winder Temporal Sands	Improvised Cybernetic Alchemical Silver Symbol	Kinetic Weapon Ruby Destiny	Boresight Clockwork Winder Chemical Formula	Improvised Cybernetic Alchemical Silver Scientific Law	Kinetic Weapon Ruby Chaos Theorem
Grant Invisibility	90	+25.0 ft / +250 ft PVP (stealth)	Simple Chemical Ancient Artifact Volume of the Obsidian Librum	Inert Gas Masterwork Weapon Living Tattoo	Silver Nevermelting Ice Psionic Threat Report	Simple Chemical Ancient Artifact Heavy Water	Inert Gas Masterwork Weapon Corrosive Gas	Silver Nevermelting Ice Gold
Increase Run Speed	90	+20% (+2.86 mph)	Luck Charm	Rune	Fortune	Simple Chemical	Inert Gas	Silver
Increase Strength to Jump Speed/Height	90	+20.0% (strength)	Spell Scroll	Spell Ink	Demonic Threat Report	Inanimate Carbon Rod	Scientific Theory	Mathematic Proof
Increase Strength to Fly Speed	90	+20% (strength)	Spiritual Essence	Demonic Blood Sample	Spirit Thorn	Computer Virus	Circuit Board	Temporal Analyzer

Edited June 15, 2020 by Bopper
Initial Formatting Completed

[Bopper]

In the guide I showed a breakdown of Salvage costs for Tier 3 only. It turns out all Tier 3 salvage has a Tier 1 and Tier 2 counterpart. So for a simple conversion, here is that breakdown.

 

Arcane Empowering Station - Salvage Required for All Temporary Buffs
Tier 1	Tier 2	Tier 3	#
Brass	Iron	Ceramic Armor Plate	2
Spell Scroll	Spell Ink	Demonic Threat Report	4
Luck Charm	Rune	Fortune	5
Human Blood Sample	Stabilized Mutant Genome	Hydraulic Piston	3
Boresight	Improvised Cybernetic	Kinetic Weapon	3
Inanimate Carbon Rod	Scientific Theory	Mathematic Proof	3
Ancient Artifact	Masterwork Weapon	Nevermelting Ice	4
Runebound Armor	Ancient Bone	Regenerating Flesh	4
Clockwork Winder	Alchemical Silver	Ruby	4
Simple Chemical	Inert Gas	Silver	3
Spiritual Essence	Demonic Blood Sample	Spirit Thorn	4
Computer Virus	Circuit Board	Temporal Analyzer	3
Temporal Sands	Symbol	Destiny	1
Volume of the Obsidian Librum	Living Tattoo	Psionic Threat Report	1
Clockwork Gear	Alchemical Gold	Sapphire	1

 

 

Tech Empowering Station - Salvage Required for All Temporary Buffs
Tier 1	Tier 2	Tier 3	#
Brass	Iron	Ceramic Armor Plate	4
Spell Scroll	Spell Ink	Demonic Threat Report	2
Luck Charm	Rune	Fortune	3
Human Blood Sample	Stabilized Mutant Genome	Hydraulic Piston	4
Boresight	Improvised Cybernetic	Kinetic Weapon	4
Inanimate Carbon Rod	Scientific Theory	Mathematic Proof	5
Ancient Artifact	Masterwork Weapon	Nevermelting Ice	3
Runebound Armor	Ancient Bone	Regenerating Flesh	3
Clockwork Winder	Alchemical Silver	Ruby	3
Simple Chemical	Inert Gas	Silver	4
Spiritual Essence	Demonic Blood Sample	Spirit Thorn	3
Computer Virus	Circuit Board	Temporal Analyzer	4
Chemical Formula	Scientific Law	Chaos Theorem	1
Heavy Water	Corrosive Gas	Gold	1
Mutant Blood Sample	Mutant DNA Strand	Pneumatic Piston	1

Edited June 15, 2020 by Bopper
Added Salvage Breakdown for all Tiers

[Bopper]

Reserved

[CaptainLupis]

Thanks for this. If nothing else knowing they last for 90 minutes, and not the stated 60, makes them a bit more appealing.

[Giocondi]

Excellent information, thanks!

[Bopper]

21 hours ago, CaptainLupis said:

Thanks for this. If nothing else knowing they last for 90 minutes, and not the stated 60, makes them a bit more appealing.

 

3 hours ago, Giocondi said:

Excellent information, thanks!

Thank you. I just finished my first re-formatting sweep. Let me know how it looks and if it's still helpful. And feel free to give me feedback if something is not clear or if something could be said/shown differently for better clarity.

[CaptainLupis]

3 hours ago, Bopper said:

 

Thank you. I just finished my first re-formatting sweep. Let me know how it looks and if it's still helpful. And feel free to give me feedback if something is not clear or if something could be said/shown differently for better clarity.

Yeah, that's much clearer and easier to read now. Good job.

[brasilgringo]

Is there a clear list of what the buffs work in -- for example, do they work in all standard TFs and missions, but not any iTrials or other trials?

 

[lemming]

1 hour ago, brasilgringo said:

Is there a clear list of what the buffs work in -- for example, do they work in all standard TFs and missions, but not any iTrials or other trials?

They work in any of the non-temp power situations.   So any TF that doesn't have no-temp powers selected.  Posi is a great one to bring KB protection to for example.

 

Trials are a bit trickier to answer.  There are some like SBB which seem to sometimes allow them, sometimes not.

[tidge]

I usually try to remind PUGmates on the Penny Yin TF to consider getting the Endurance Drain Resistance and Increased Recovery buffs.