Pseudonym wrote on Aug 29
th, 2016 at 1:13pm:
you can really only use the slots for boosting a less important stat or a skill.
That's pretty much all I ever used 'em for, and I maintain it was a great decision
The MLs on colorless augments are just straight up fuckin stupid. You can get a Stat +6 item with masterful at lvl 9, but to get +6 to a stat on an augment? Fucking LEVEL 20. How is that balanced? Especially when, at level 20l, you could get +7 and +8 items, and it only got better from there?
And +8 stat augments? ML 28.
So, yeah, unless you're slotting awkwardly, augments are all about bumping those lower-level stats a bit. All stats do something. A few extra points in charisma for UMD, points in stats for saves, etc.
SO picture making an ML-20 ring that's really good for 20, and then just casually tacks on two +6 stats? I'll take one of those, thanks.