Bolstering bug?

[soliticks]

Hi guys. I logged my rank 18 dok and WL today in Avelorn. My stats seem to cap at 500 and I'm hitting unguarded healers for maybe 50. Is this a bolstering bug? Or working as intended?

[dansari]

Make sure every piece of gear is within 5 levels of you.

[Sulorie]

Hi guys. I logged my rank 18 dok and WL today in Avelorn. My stats seem to cap at 500 and I'm hitting unguarded healers for maybe 50. Is this a bolstering bug? Or working as intended?

The cap of 500 in your paperdoll is correct, albeit you should use .getstats to get your real bolstered stats, which are most likely much higher.

[RuffRyder]

Make sure every piece of gear is within 5 levels of you.

It this really a thing?
I can confirm running with lvl 27 with items <lvl20 and being bolstered.

[dansari]

Make sure every piece of gear is within 5 levels of you.

It this really a thing?
I can confirm running with lvl 27 with items <lvl20 and being bolstered.

My understanding is that your bolster is worse when your gear isn't within 5 levels of your character.

[Sedok]

Hi guys. I logged my rank 18 dok and WL today in Avelorn. My stats seem to cap at 500 and I'm hitting unguarded healers for maybe 50. Is this a bolstering bug? Or working as intended?

It means your gear is terrible. At r18, you're cresting, so you should have full advantage of the bolster; without talismans, you should be at 750 of your main stat, 950 with talismans and then 1150+ with stat tactic at r19. At r20, I managed to get my BW to 1250 Intelligence.

Do the T2 Epic Quests for the rare helm and shoulders, park your character at a T2 BO to get some influence ticks and pick up the Belt in Dwarf, and Gloves + Jewelry in Emp, decide whether you want the T2 scenario crit weapon or the T2 ORvR stat stick from Elf or Dwarf, use 2 piece Obliterator unless the +1 gets you something crucial (Runic Blasting for RP, Oathbound for IB, Fuel To The Fire for BW, etc.), search the AH or farm for "Murder's" (r17 blues), "of Woe" (r19 blues), "Slaughter's" (r17 purples), and "Rune-Scribed" (r19 purples) jewelry and cloaks, and invest in "Minor" (r16) purple talismans for your gear.

There should be no excuses; bolster is incredibly strong system at the moment (I'd argue over-performing in certain regards), and you should be taking full advantage of it. I was just skirmishing with Holgarn in BC yesterday and was able to deal with 3 r40 WEs at r21; me and r27 SW friend were able to successfully duo-roam and get about 25 kills. If you're squishy or not doing enough damage, that's on you.

[RuffRyder]

Spoiler:

Make sure every piece of gear is within 5 levels of you.

It this really a thing?
I can confirm running with lvl 27 with items <lvl20 and being bolstered.

My understanding is that your bolster is worse when your gear isn't within 5 levels of your character.

OK, I understand. So technically the items don't prevent you from getting bolstered - that's what I thought when reading your post - but nevertheless, as Sedok mentioned you don't take the best possible advantage off it.

I'm kinda not maxing out the advantage to the edge because of just too quickly outleveling it and don't want to change full gear including bought parts, talis, whatever every few levels, so this is up to one's own opinion and time investment it seems.
I rather just wait for the next set, but I don't run duo/roam most of the time, so it's another PoV.

[dansari]

OK, I understand. So technically the items don't prevent you from getting bolstered - that's what I thought when reading your post - but nevertheless, as Sedok mentioned you don't take the best possible advantage off it.

I'm kinda not maxing out the advantage to the edge because of just too quickly outleveling it and don't want to change full gear including bought parts, talis, whatever every few levels, so this is up to one's own opinion and time investment it seems.
I rather just wait for the next set, but I don't run duo/roam most of the time, so it's another PoV.

Definitely. imo the bolster works fine as long as your gear is up to date + some green talis will go a long way. To be even more bolstered you can throw blue/purp talis in there but that's dependent on how strong you want to twink your lowbie.