118475-luminite-hybrid-power-cores-why-so-not-awesome-carbine

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Same goes for adventus gear, still. I'm barely seeing the new cores put a dent in the original problem with research tier crafting.
 
Here are the stats on a new HA-2S heavy shoulder pad with a luminite hybrid core over charged to about, 9% I think it was?
 
1572 Armor
105 Brutality
47 Finesse
14 Moxie
16 Critical
 
For comparison, here's the stats on an Epochos at the same over charge with the same core
 
1572 Armor
100 Brutality
44 Finesse
14 Moxie
16 Critical
 
And here's the stats on that same Epochos with just old-fashioned hybrid cores, same over charge:
 
1544 Armor
100 Brutality
19 Finesse
13 Moxie
16 Critical
 
So, basically, what I get for using the Adventus assault shoulder pads over Epochos is 5 brutality, and 3 Finesse.
 
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And what I get for using Luminite cores over regular is 5 Brutality, 20 finesse, 1 crit point, and 30 armor.
 
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I will note, it did seem that it was a lot easier to overcharge luminite cores though then regular. It seems like you can get a lot more going from low overcharge, to say 50% overcharge. But I didn't feel like risking that. I suppose though, that does leave room for some nice improvement if you're willing to risk a plat of resources on a 20-50% failure.
 
Any thoughts on this? I'm still bummed that there aren't any purple power cores in sight. What happened to digichron??? There are of course purple research drop schematics, but it seems those haven't really been developed much. There aren't many of them I don't thing.
 
Thoughts on this? I recall the difference between regular and refined at lower levels being far more significant. This isn't even regular to refined jump though. This is LUMINITE. It should be a greater jump, not less.	
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			Did the power of the rune slots increase?	
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Did the power of the rune slots increase?
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I will note, it did seem that it was a lot easier to overcharge luminite cores though then regular. It seems like you can get a lot more going from low overcharge, to say 50% overcharge. But I didn't feel like risking that. I suppose though, that does leave room for some nice improvement if you're willing to risk a plat of resources on a 20-50% failure.
 
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Though for weapons, I believe the increased AP from Refined and Luminite is worth it.
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I think Dual Hybrids are still the way to go. With their current price, it's way more cost friendly to max the overcharge on a dual hybrid than waste any amount of money on a luminite. 
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The static AP/SP distribution?
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Yeah.  I'll check the numbers when I get home tonight, but as far as I can recall a CW-4 HVG will have 1050 AP and a max of 100 finesse when crafted with a Luminite or Refined Hybrid Power Core, while lesser cores will only give 1033 AP and a max of 97 finesse.  The numbers for Impact remain the same, however.
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Luminite cores arent that good on the lower tiered adventus and epochos gear they are better on the higher tiered ones t3-4 where the charge ability is higher. 
For Tailor adventus-4 pants w/ duel hybrid 123Main stat 30 secondary and about 17 crit with like 12-15% failure rate
with Luminite core 125main 50 secondary 50crit rate 8% failure
 
for most the high end adventus recipes for tailor 2ndary stats go up extra 10-30 each	
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The reason the static AP/SP on weapons is changing with the core type is that the core type determines the item level, which determines the ceiling on a stat.   For example (this isn't accurate, just made up for example) a regular Hybrid core may get you to 88 brutality in boots, with the rest of the charge in other stats, but a Luminite-Hybrid will let you get to 102 brutality, with even more extra charge left to put in those other stats.  So weapons AP ceiling goes up, etc, etc.
Luminite-Hybrid will still get you a better item in the long run because of this   I overcharge anything to as close to 20% without going over as possible.   But if you took 100 Dual Hybrids with an overcharge of 40%-44%, you may find that the end stat difference isn't worth the cost of upgrading the Core.
 
P.S. - item level determines the power of the rune slot.   So Luminite crafted gear can end up with like 1 extra stat point per slot, too.	
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The reason the static AP/SP on weapons is changing with the core type is that the core type determines the item level, which determines the ceiling on a stat.   For example (this isn't accurate, just made up for example) a regular Hybrid core may get you to 88 brutality in boots, with the rest of the charge in other stats, but a Luminite-Hybrid will let you get to 102 brutality, with even more extra charge left to put in those other stats.  So weapons AP ceiling goes up, etc, etc.
Luminite-Hybrid will still get you a better item in the long run because of this   I overcharge anything to as close to 20% without going over as possible.   But if you took 100 Dual Hybrids with an overcharge of 40%-44%, you may find that the end stat difference isn't worth the cost of upgrading the Core.
 
P.S. - item level determines the power of the rune slot.   So Luminite crafted gear can end up with like 1 extra stat point per slot, too.
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			I guess so, I honestly didn't do a whole investigation, I just know that rune slots do get more powerful with gear score, and that some cores make the same piece of gear have a higher score.   I'm sure there's a lot of permutations and inconsistencies.	
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