Boosts leveling worth it?

[Awmax]

Is it worth merging boosts after you get the lvl100 completion bonus in the item list? I noticed that merging them does not increase the "total boost with bonuses" stat.

[Fel]

Only the one-time per boost level 100 bonus increases that total (well, that and other bonuses like "boosted boosts" from itopod) but even if it looks insignificant at first it piles up to a massive amount as you get stronger and stronger boosts.

Each tier of boost has 3 entries (power, toughness and special) so 6%.
There are currently 13 tiers, so 78%.
As you can see +78% to all boosts is incredibly impactful since you only need a bit less than 60% of the amount of boosts you would need without that bonus.
1/1.78 = 0,561797753

Of course getting to the 13th tier means that you are somewhat close to the end of the current content but the numbers pile up quickly even early on.
With all 3 boosts of the first tier levelled to 100 once you only need about 95% of the boosts you would otherwise need for the same amount of boost.
With 2 tiers you go down to about 90%, meaning that you are already saving a fairly significant chunk of time when boosting items (not that you need to do it that much in the first few zones at the current balance).

When you get to "a very strange place", you would have had the opportunity to level 5 tiers, meaning a bonus of 30% and only needing about 77% of the boosts you would otherwise need if you neglected that bonus.
The more you advance through the zones, the more boost value you need, and even if the boosts themselves also go up you still need more and more boosts to get the items to their maximum stats.
This means that without this bonus you are subjecting yourself to farming a massive amount of extra boosts, when the only cost for getting that bonus is levelling each boost type of each tier once, which is a significantly lower amount of boosts.


TL;DR: Don't even think about it, as soon as you start getting a tier of boost you didn't level yet, level all 3 types to 100, you will save yourself a massive amount of time by doing that.

[Awmax]

Thank you.

[kevinshow]

You just need to do it once.