Adeon Hawkwood

Huh, gimicky isn't it? Hopefully some kind soul with a webcam will post pictures of whatever it is.

Possibly it depends how low they go. They aren't going to go back up tot heir previous highs anytime soon (if ever) so it would be a pretty long term investment. At the same time the Kb one is still pretty useful for providing knockback protection to a squishy at low levels without needing to take CJ or hover so that one will probably retain a decent value.

Also Merit Vendors and AE Tickets

Because some people have used up all of their trial respecs and vet specs but want to try and sell their BotZ sets before the price crashes.

This would also REALLY screw with the market. Basically you could run some AE, spend the tickets on Bronze rolls (already a good deal) craft the non-valuable uncommons pretty cheaply (since few of them need rare salvage). Slot those in your second build and then when it's full respec for the merits. Since uncommons are 50-75 merits each that is several thousand merits. You'd have to make it reward a fraction of the merit cost of each recipe for it to be even somewhat balanced.

I agree, Traps has very high defense and while in general defense is better than resistance adding about 40% S/L resistance on top of that defense does make a nice difference. Personally my preference for APP would be Electric. The shield covers Energy damage as well as S/L which is pretty common end game and it's got some other usful powers. Alternatively if you've got the slots Dark is a nice set both for Opressive Gloom (useful when toe-bombing and using Hail of Bullets) and Soul Drain (nice bonus damage since you're in close anyway).

Once it enters Open Beta you'll be able to test it yourself. For now it's in Closed Beta so anyone providing information would be in violation of the NDA.

I think you will but I'm not certain. If you wait a bit hopefully someone more useful will wonder by this thread and answer you.

Also, since I forgot to say before welcome to the game.

That's probably it then, when you enter the code you get prompted to setup a subscription. If you don't set one up then the code doesn't get applied to the account (as far as I know). Options if you don't have a credit card are to use paypal or purchase a game time card from a store.

I can easily afford it on all my characters and I don't spend much time soloing (mostly just safeguards and other missions I hate doing with a team). Simply selling salvage at the AH is more than sufficient to provide the Inf needed for SOs or common IOs (mostly SOs in my case, I'm lazy when it comes to leveling builds). Sure it would be tricky if you relied solely on Inf drops but if you sell salvage (and maybe run a bit of AE for tickets to trade for rare salvage) it is trivial to get enough inf to afford two sets of SOs all the way to 50. Or of course you can do a bit of salvage flipping. Getting in the habit of putting in bids to buy/sell salvage everytime you pass the AH gets more than sufficient Inf for SOs.

Why? In general the only thing that irritates marketeers are people who post suggestions for "fixing" the market that are poorly conceived or imply that marketeers are deliberately raising prices for their own ebil reasons. If you want to flood the market with under-priced salvage go right ahead, I for one will thank you for it. My marketeering is mostly based on crafting so anything that lowers the price of salvage increases my profits .

It deals 6 damage per target at level 50, it only deals 3.1 damage per target at level 18.

Besides, I'm assuming the controller is fighting a single minion since a controller who's only attack is an unslotted Flash freeze would have difficulty handling anything tougher than a Girl Scout (and even then he's relying on her not biting).

Well, technically if you don't slot Flash Freeze for recharge and never use it on anyone who's already mezzed it provides 6 damage every 90seconds which is equivalent to 4damage a minute. So an Ice controller who only uses un-slotted Flash Freeze would deal 2-4damage a minute.

No, but it is their fault if they decide to use it.

Controllers are low damage, that is true. However most controllers actually have pretty decent single target damage. The first two powers in most control sets are damage scale 1 (some are a little better, some a little worse). Now given the Controllers damage scale of 0.55 this isn't much until you factor in containment. Since controllers deal double damage to a mezzed enemy and most controllers can mez a single target with mez this means that controllers effectively get a single target damage scale of 1.1 (or only slightly worse than blasters) against a single target. They have two reasonably fast recharging attacks they can use this with and can easily take either Air Superiority or Jump Kick as their travel power pre-requisite to give them a third. They aren't damage powerhouses, but this is more than enough single target damage to solo effectively at reasonable difficulty settings. Of course, the fact that they are mezzing their enemies means they are a lot safer than a blaster.

Obviously they don't have a whole lot of AoE damage, for the most part they have an AoE immobilize on an 8 second recharge but with the exception of roots it's damage scale is only about 0.3 so even with containment it doesn't do a whole lot. This does change a bit once the controller gets an APP since these add a decent AoE (especially Fire) and of course Plant controllers already have a semi-decent one. However even with containment a Controller will never be an AoE powerhouse.

So in summary, yes Controllers don't match up to Blasters in damage output and tend to fall behind a well built Defender (with the exception of Fire/Kin but if they don't do enough damage to solo all I can say is "you're doing it wrong". This is especially true for a Kinetics controlelr since you've got Siphon Power and Siphon Speed right off the bat.


There is some truth in that, it would be really nice if we could have one slotting set for solo and one for teaming wouldn't it? Perhaps some sort of "dual build" system could be implemented that allowed players to change their slotting between two sets at will?

I think you undersestimate their value on teams. The debuffs are always handy for a little extra survivability but even ignoring that having a power that allows you to take an alpha strike safely is surprisingly handy on teams. For example, I was doing Tina McIntryre's arc with my Traps/AR. The team had an Ice Tank who was getting REALLY chewed up by the spawns (for those who aren't aware Tina's arc includes a lot of robots with defense debuffs). Sending in Seeker Drones to take the alpha instead of the tank made a huge difference to the teams speed and survivability. There are plenty of other cases where the ability to take the alpha strike and provide a decent to hit and damage debuff to the followup attacks is useful, even on a team.

Well, you were the one who suggested them . Honestly neither of them are the greatest sets damage-wise so the main reason to take them is if you want the added survivability. If you want more damage the Fire, Archery, Assault Rifle and Sonic are all better options. Sonic is a force multiplier, it increases everyones damage even more than a Kin is already while the other three are just high damage.