Pounding Slugfest: Attuned vs non-Attuned (display bug?)

[cohRock]

I have a tank character I haven't played in a very long time.  When he was young, I remember teaming with an advanced player who gifted me two attuned enhancements for the Pounding Slugfest melee set. acc/dmg and disorient bonus. The char was young, probably mid-teens, and he didn't want to give me weak elements of an already weak set, so he attuned them so I could slot them right away.  They would remain as strong as the set could be as I leveled.

 

Note that Pounding Slugfest has recipes rated from 15 to 30.  It has four elements.

 

As I started playing him again recently, I completed the set with the two missing elements with the recipes bought at level 30.  The power was 3-slotted with an level 30 acc invention filling the third slot.  He respecd and gave the power four slots so he could have the final set bonus. (2% damage but I had the slot available and I'm a completionist when possible.)

 

I noticed something on my level 50 tank.  The attuned acc/dmg showed attribute strengths of 26.5 for both attributes, while the two level 30 elements only showed attribute strengths of 21.8.

 

"Aha!  Attuned enhancements allowed level-capped sets to scale to 50!!"

 

Apparently that was a wrong conclusion based on confusing and/or misreported data.  I experimented with slotting the level 30 ones.  Here is the full report.

 

Quote

acc/dmg: 26.5
dmg/end: 26.5
dmg/rech: 26.5
disorient bonus: 2.5 times/min
average damage: 44.38 --> 73.34x(65.3%)
accuracy: 1.00x --> 1.22x (21.8%)
recharge: 3.00x --> 2.46s(21.8%)
endurance: 4.37 --> 3.59(21.8%)

level 30
acc/dmg: 21.8
dmg/end: 21.8
dmg/rech: 21.8
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average damage: 44.38 --> 73.34x(65.3%)
accuracy: 1.00x --> 1.22x (21.8%)
recharge: 3.00x --> 2.46s(21.8%)
endurance: 4.37 --> 3.59(21.8%)

 

The take-away is that individual elements report higher buffing, slotted or unslotted.  But the combined reports are identical, limited to the level-30 maximum of the set.

 

I'm not sure this is some sort of reporting bug or not.  It seems so to me, but maybe I am missing something.  Anyway, it you didn't already know, don't bother attuning capped sets to make them strong at high levels.  It doesn't work.

[Uun]

This is a known display bug for all attuned IO sets that cap below level 50. The in-game numbers incorrectly report lvl 50 values rather than showing the values for the level cap of the set. As your research shows, the actual enhancement values applied are the correct level capped values.