Those special free enhancements which proc for damage - do you use them?

[DougGraves]

I've found some level 19s that are using them.  I have or had a character with the electric chain loaded up with procs.   And a brute with claws spin loaded with procs.

 

Are they useful, or are you just past when they are useful too fast to care?

[Snarky]

up until the proc blows out at 22 they are F-ing gold.  After that they are valuable in that they are dual Rech/Dam Enhancers of SO value.  So, depending on if you are having trouble slotting or dont want to spend on a set.  3 Damage SOs are kinda wasted.  2 Dam SO, one of these feel like you are using your few slots better.  Once you start really putting in sets they are valueless.

[Mjolnerd]

I drop them into my first few attacks, because why not? Usually the knockdown one goes in Brawl, it's a nice bit of soft control at those levels when I'm still using Brawl. At some point around level 15 or so I'll probably decide it's time to get some "proper" enhancements and won't think twice about overwriting them, though.

 

The non-proc enhancements that they hand you during the tutorial, the ones that don't grow with you, though? Deleted the first time I open the enhancement screen.

[Snarky]

23 minutes ago, Mjolnerd said:

The non-proc enhancements that they hand you during the tutorial, the ones that don't grow with you, though? Deleted the first time I open the enhancement screen.

those can be levelled up just like SOs using the upgrade button

[Troo]

47 minutes ago, Snarky said:

those can be levelled up just like SOs using the upgrade button

 

this I did not know

[tidge]

I use them, generally up until I can slot level 25 IOs, or there is some set bonus I really want before that time (e.g. an ATO, or from a PVP set). If nothing else, they speed up getting the Isolator badge on new heroes.

[Mjolnerd]

1 hour ago, Snarky said:

those can be levelled up just like SOs using the upgrade button

I had no idea. Maybe they're good for something after all!

[Spaghetti Betty]

For me, they generally get stuck in the first AoE I can pick up to make progression smoother. A lot of my Tanks will blitz through 1-20 this way.

[UltraAlt]

8 hours ago, DougGraves said:

Are they useful, or are you just past when they are useful too fast to care?

 

The one for smashing I use for as long as I have a character. It goes to the far right of my enhancement tray 7. 

I get this weird glitch sometimes when my trays shut down and I only have access to the ones that have enhancements in them at that point. Puting that smashing prestige IO in tray 7 in the farthest slot on the right stops that from happening, and it can't get thrown into the auction house by accident - seriously, I have started using that one for that purpose.

 

The lethal one is the next less useful one.

 

I tend to slot the Psi damage first.

The knock down goes in an AoE or cone attack.

The Energy damage goes in another attack as slotting allows.

 

I don't always use them because, on some character, the slotting is more useful elsewhere and I don't have any more than my standard 2 acc in each attack power.

 

[carroto]

16 hours ago, Snarky said:

up until the proc blows out at 22 they are F-ing gold.  After that they are valuable in that they are dual Rech/Dam Enhancers of SO value. 

 

This.  Especially because regular or attuned IOs have low values at low levels, but those special enhancements have values equivalent to being some level in your early 20s, which you can't get anywhere else at low levels.  Add in the extra procs and there's nothing better you could put in an attack at low levels.  Once you hit 22 and they stop proccing, and regular IOs are providing equivalent values then they can go.

 

The only other way to get those kinds of enhancement values at low levels is from SOs, but those special enhancements don't go red on you when you level up, which you do a lot at low levels.  So I don't tend to bother with SOs, I just use those prestige enhancements and enjoy the power they provide.

[BazookaTwo]

Always use them. I always slot the knockdown into whatever is useful for it, and as I open up longer recharge, or AOEs or cones, I stack up three in that. 

 

I also always get the LRT asap, and spent the reward merits on 8* amplifiers in all three categories, before I train to level 2, and take XP boost. 

 

It all adds up!