+1 Booster Enhancement pullers

[MsSmart]

From time to time, I respec my alts to get different capabilities for them and as a result IOs that I have boosted to +5 are no longer needed, when I try to sell them in AH, they are stripped of the +5 bonus and I get nothing for them, that is nearly $5M influence!, sadly the best solution to prevent such horrid waste is to ask to have AH upgraded to allow for +5 IOs to be sellable, I have early dementia (old, have neuropathy; have diabetes induced dementia; and lastly I have liver terminal disease, but at this time under remission for now), but I believe that the suggestion was very negatively received with a healthy doze of how stupid I am, that I should learn how to play the game, and suffer the consequences of my stupidity.

 

So now, I am thinking, there is an enhancement you can buy and use to pull an IO from your enhancement build, so why not have something similar? Maybe a window you can click from a modified convert, where you put the +5 IO from your inventory and convert it to a +4 and so for, and get the +1 bonus placed in your inventory as you spend the hopefully cheap (1 merit cost) IO puller? It cost 5 merits to buy one +1 bonus, so paying 1 merit to regain it, seems reasonable to me.

 

Well I said it, let the beatings begin, feel free to tell me how brilliant you are...

Edited Saturday at 02:38 AM by MsSmart

[srmalloy]

There's always sticking them in an enhancement storage rack in a personal SG base; they retain their boost, and can be used by an alt. 

[Snarky]

12 hours ago, MsSmart said:

From time to time, I respec my alts to get different capabilities for them and as a result IOs that I have boosted to +5 are no longer needed, when I try to sell them in AH, they are stripped of the +5 bonus and I get nothing for them, that is nearly $5M influence!, sadly the best solution to prevent such horrid waste is to ask to have AH upgraded to allow for +5 IOs to be sellable, I have early dementia (old, have neuropathy; have diabetes induced dementia; and lastly I have liver terminal disease, but at this time under remission for now), but I believe that the suggestion was very negatively received with a healthy doze of how stupid I am, that I should learn how to play the game, and suffer the consequences of my stupidity.

 

So now, I am thinking, there is an enhancement you can buy and use to pull an IO from your enhancement build, so why not have something similar? Maybe a window you can click from a modified convert, where you put the +5 IO from your inventory and convert it to a +4 and so for, and get the +1 bonus placed in your inventory as you spend the hopefully cheap (1 merit cost) IO puller? It cost 5 merits to buy one +1 bonus, so paying 1 merit to regain it, seems reasonable to me.

 

Well I said it, let the beatings begin, feel free to tell me how brilliant you are...

I am so brilliant.  Unfortunately my memory is nearly as bad as yours…. I would just as likely forget this step in a complicated afternoon of character rebuilding.  
 

Whenever i make a new 59 or rebuild one it costs a lot. Whenever i shatter one there is “shrinkage” as stuff that seemed valuable in the build is tucked into an odd container in the base and possibly never used again. 
 

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[MsSmart]

22 hours ago, srmalloy said:

There's always sticking them in an enhancement storage rack in a personal SG base; they retain their boost, and can be used by an alt. 

I already have 5 bins full them, after evolving over 50 alts and periodically upgrading based on what I have learned of the game, they accumulate.

[Ukase]

I have a rule, which I've broken many times. Never boost a common IO, outside of the run, jump and recharge. 

I still have a toHit +5 IO that's been in my bin for 4 years. I keep trying to find a use for it that won't gimp the character. I don't even remember why I was using it. 

As for the invention set IOs, the math tells me I come out only slightly ahead by just converting that boosted invention IO into another invention IO. 

Unfortunately, you're not taking into account what these boosters really are - an influence sink. Sure, we use merits to get them, some of us. But when they get stripped of the boosts by placing them in the AH, those are resources that you've lost that are no longer part of the economy. It's a beautiful thing when resources go up in smoke and taken out of the economy. 

Even though we may buy some for 1M or 600K, the seller is still losing that 10% fee that goes poof, into thin air. So, as reasonable as your suggestion is, and as much as I'd like it to happen, I don't see it ever happening. Just keep storing those items; maybe one day, the need for us to reduce storage will outpace the need for resources to go poof into thin air. 

[tidge]

I occasionally boost common IOs for use with other enhancement sets: this typically happens on powers with two distinct attributes, such as defense/healing/EndMod.. one of those attributes gets a set, the other gets an IO. I've also used Defense or Resistance IOs boosted when I've already gotten the set bonus I want but I want MOAR defense/resistance.

 

There are a handful of non-purple/non-pvp pieces I have boosted that aren't slotted... but those are quite few and they do get recycled (things like Accuracy/Damage for Brawl, or Accuracy/Endurance for %damage attacks)

 

The boosted purples/PVP not being used... I just convert those into another piece I want. The boosters are pretty cheap (5 merits each), it's not worth sweating IMO.

[Maelwys]

I must be in the minority... rather than keep dozens of racks of old IOs in my SG base, I just keep 5 1/2 racks permanently full of boosters (one's half full of Catalysts) so that each new alt can go wild. IME it's easy enough to restock either via merits or the AH (as long as you're not using "buy it now" prices!)

[tidge]

1 hour ago, Maelwys said:

I must be in the minority... rather than keep dozens of racks of old IOs in my SG base, I just keep 5 1/2 racks permanently full of boosters (one's half full of Catalysts) so that each new alt can go wild. IME it's easy enough to restock either via merits or the AH (as long as you're not using "buy it now" prices!)

 

For me it is four racks of enhancements, one for things like catalysts. I make every character buy its own boosters!

 

My enhancement racks ended up being mostly full... for a while I was doing a good job pulling/replenishing(*1) the typical sorts of enhancements I use, but...

 

...for me the real space hog are the attuned PVP pieces. I use them while leveling, but at 50 if they aren't swapped for purples (or whatever) they are swapped for level 50s that can be boosted. Even converting them into pieces that are on as attuned, I have too many of those things. On the vary rare occasion that I have an unslotted 50+5 purple or pvp... if it looks like it won't get used I just reroll into something that will be used.... typically such PVPs become a Shield Wall or Gladiator's Armor, Purples can become almost any Damage or Damage/Endurance piece. I follow a similar practice for superior Winters and ATOs.

 

(*1)Part of my own replensihment is that the level 50 respec grabs certain pricey (on the secondary market) pieces that are not attuned and swapping them to be attuned. LotG, some globals, etc. which makes the (old, previously) attuned pieces for the next character.