Adeon Hawkwood

It's probably not the end of the world, but personally I'd sacrifice damage rather than survivability in order to increase Accuracy. If you replaced the 4-slotted Devastations in you single target attacks with 4-slotted Thunderstikes you'll lose a small damage bonus but gain a nice chunk of accuracy. At the same time, everyone has their own priorities so I'd say go for what you want.

I doubt it. There is already a problem where if you can randomly lose the ability to make EATs until you log in one of your level 50s (or level a new character up to 50 if you deleted them all) and I'm guessing the change in EATs is just a change to the number in whatever code handles them currently.

He also clarified that you can send emails to your own global name and that you can't use it to send items between sides (no word on different servers though).

Heel Face Revolving Door!

It is one of those things that can seem contradictory, I'll go though your points and try to clarify.

The intent of the consignment is that you do not use it as a store. Instead you place bids and go do something else while waiting for them to fill.

Both of these were simply to establish why a store like market is a bad idea. The current market makes it easier to get deals (since you can leave bids up overnight) this in turn encourages competition and marketeer HATE competition (well, actually our profits hate competition, a lot of us actually enjoy the market PvP that competition brings).

No, prices will still continue to fluctuate at pretty much the same rate. Overall prices might go down a bit but the difference between the high and low prices won't change a whole lot. The price fluctuations aren't caused by a lack of information on the current prices, they are caused by a lack of information on the range of price fluctuations. If the BBO was displayed all that would tell you is what you can currently get for the item, it gives you NO information on what you would get if you let the bid sit overnight (or for a week). The fact is that the BBO is a horrible indicator of the actual market price for most items, it's ok for items like purples where the last 5 already tells you the 24 hour fluctuation rate but for anything else it's horrible.

The problem is that they're learning the wrong thing about market prices. Having a BBO tells them "this is what you have to pay to get this now" instead I want the market to tell them "if you bid this you'll probably get it sometime in the next 48 hours". Having a visible BBOencourages people to engage in activities that are to their detriment (paying BUY IT NAO instead of waiting). In some cases they will still pay the buy it nao price no matter how much information you provide, but I'm sure that many of them simply don't realize that they can get a better price by waiting.

Sure marketeers make profits on the fact that people don't know our exact asking price but that is realistically a very small portion of our profit margin. The main portion of our profit is made from the fact that people either do not know that they can get a better market price by waiting or don't care. I'd much rather focus on educating the people who don't know than trying to help the people who don't care.

My objection to the suggestion is not that it makes the market more like a store because it doesn't, it will simply make player's regard it more as a store (and maybe change prices a bit for those who do regard ti that way).

I think that devs implemented a double blind auction system for the market because they recognized that a store style auction house (such as the one in WoW) greatly favors marketeers. If you want to get good deals with a store style system then you need to spend time camping the auction house instead of playing the game. With a double blind system you can get good deals while engaging in other activities (either playing the game or off doing things in real life).

Adding a visible BBO to the market interface encourages people to regard it more as a store and less as a consignment house which in turn means they end up paying more for items than they should. I have no problem with adding more information to the interface (even if it probably would decrease my profits) but lets add information that attempts to educate players as to the nature of prices on the auction house rather than information that encourages them to use it in a way that results in them getting poor prices. My recommendation is to add more time data, a high/low prices for the last 24 hours and week would probably be a good starting point, not perfect by any means but a good place to start.

I believe that it's Hero > Vigilante > Villain > Rogue > Hero

Although it might be Hero > Vigilante > Rogue > Villain > Rogue > Vigilante > Hero

There might be one or two things featuring multiple teams (like Hamidon Raids) but I suspect most of the end-game content will be for a single team. This makes the content a lot more accessible which I suspect will be one of their goals. Even in WoW all of the new raids contain a 10-man variant specifically because Blizzard realized the larger team sizes limited the number of people who got to see the content. Realistically developers want content to be accessible to as large a portion of the playerbase as possible since that helps retain subscriptions.

Yeah this is actually what really irritates me about it. I can easily get around limitations either by converting my wealth to IOs or just paying Fulmens but more casual players don't have that option and they're the ones who really need it.

Well, we clearly need both so we can do ninja's versus pirates.

No, I16 removed the level restriction on most of the hazard zones.

Defense of marketeers including suggestion that poster actually study economics.

I think you're going to have to put another Thunderstike set in one of your single target attacks, nothing else leaps out at me.

Well Blapper is a viable playstyle, especially for a /EM Blaster but it's a completely different build style so yeah Total Focus doesn't really help you much aside from being a set mule.

But there isn't an infinite supply of widgets in the game.

Smartalec response

Attacks are almost always limited to one positional tag so ranged attacks that do AoE damage are tagged as AoE and not Ranged (there might be one or two exceptions that have both but I'm not aware of any). As for how many, it really depends on who and what you fight. Malta have a LOT of AoE attacks (and ones that do knockback/mez to boot). AoE Defense is less useful than Ranged Defense for a Hoverblaster but if you can build it up without sacrificing to much it's well worth the effort.
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Defense

Correct, you need two applications of something to mez a boss. You'll either want a mez with low recharge or take Scramble Thoughts and Stun. Personally with my AR/Dev I take the lazy man's route and turn off bosses while increasing the spawn size. But AR is an AoE monster so turning off bosses and upping the spawn size plays to my strengths.