Adeon Hawkwood

Supply and demand, they used to go for 30-60million because that was what the market would support. We can discuss the reasons (less interest in them, fewer people playing level 50s, higher prices on other IOs leaving less available inf for them) but that fact was prior to I13 the market prices of purples were stable at those levels. Since there was generally supply available it seems safe to conclude that the demand would not really support higher prices.

The changes to the game since then have lowered supply a bit (due to AE farming as a partial replacement for regular farming) and increased demand (more level 50s being played, merits and tickets lowered the prices on a lot of mid-range IOs freeing up more inf for purples). In addition the earning power of a level 50 increased dramatically (both the bug fix and the new difficulty settings) so the value of 1inf has dropped.

Yes in a standard military convention that would make sense. But in CoH it's a reference to the more classical meaning Alpha and Omega so whiel it might sound silly from a military standpoint for the superhero genre it makes perfect sense.

True, but a lot of the features are intended as a mirror of the prime universe. Dark Mirror does sound as if it will have something to do with Preatoria

If I was discussing balance that might be a valid response, but I'm talking about the mechanics and I don't need to play the set to be able to tell you that the mechanics of the power won't work on a player.

As I said above it might be possible to make it work using a variant of the Mystic Fortune code (which grants a limited duration temporary power to the target) but that could have other complications. I personally think a toggle makes more sense from a usability and power perspective for non-masterminds.

Be that as it may, I interpreted his post as claiming that there isn't inflation going on when this is clearly not true.

I'm not sure it would need to be rebalanced, when cast on a pet it has an effectively infinite duration correct? I imagine it'll have a moderate 20-30 second recharge to prevent quick switching but the endurance cost shouldn't be to high.

Well, as a disclaimer I haven't actually played poison, I'm going off what RedTomax says about it so it's possible my interpretation is incorrect. In any case it appears to function using the "Grant Power" command. This is the same command that the mastermind Equip powers use and is something that does nothing on player characters.

For a non-mastermind set this would need to be changed. I'm not certain if it would be possible to do it as a click power. I think that it should be possible using a variant of whatever method the devs used for Mystic Fortune but I'm not certain. Also this may prevent it from working on Controller pets (I'm not sure about this one). I do know that the toggle method would work for both players and controller pets and I think it might be a better option from a balance perspective.

I'm not talking about mid-level in terms of IO level. I'm talking about the IOs that sell in (as Fulmen's said) the 30-300million price range. There are a handful of IOs that sell in the 2billino plus range but there are a lot more (both in number of IOs and quantity sold) that sell in this range. Increasing the amount the market skims off here would help a lot with curbing inflation.

So, how long have you been playing? Purples have more than tripled in price (form 60million to 200million) since I14. The price of low end stuff has gone up as well but not by the same amount. Part of this is due to an increase in level 50 earning pwoer so it balances out somewhat but prices are definitely higher. Hence inflation.

But the thing is the really big ticket sales aren't generating Wentfees anyway. If something is selling for >2 billion inf then the market would need to be changed to accommodate the sale (and people would probably still prefer to sell off-market to avoid the fee anyway). Increasing the Wentfee increases the rate at which WWs sucks inf out of the economy at all levels.

I really don't think you can blame the players for all of the market's woes. Sure the PL'ing didn't help but there were several dev decisions (merits and the fix to level 50 inf earnings come to mind) that contributed at least as much.

That sounds reasonable to me (even if it does make it harder to do the math in my head). The Wentfee is the best tool they have to combat inflation and while they need to be arfeul about upping it to much a little extra on high value transactions would help smooth things out without breaking it I think.

No, no. The price of costume recipes went down because people refused to pay the extortionate prices that the ebil marketeers were charging.

I think you're right about Castle. I'll point out though that mod8 doesn't say anything for or against the high market prices, he simply states that he is opposed to removing the level 51+ recipes as a storage medium.

Hmmmm... odd. I'd still recomemnd waiting 24hours, trying again and if it still fails contact customer support.

Well it really depends on what you're looking for. All of the primaries are pretty good, Super Strength is one of the more powerful ones at high levels but it is a bit weak at low levels. War Mace and Battle Axe are both decent sets and are almost clones of each other Dual Blades, Claws and Electrical are all solid sets from what I've heard. Honestly for primary I'd say pick the one that appeals to you they are all good.

Secondaries are a little trickier. As Tonality said Willpower is an excellent solo set, the downside is in a group you can't aggro control very well with it. Stone has the best defense and aggro control but really lowers your damage (and makes teleport almost mandatory). Invulnerability is a nice compromise that has good survivability and aggro control with no negatives to attack. Shield and Fire will both boost your damage but you'll be a bit squishy compared to some other brutes.

I'm planning to make a trench coat wearing DP/Storm Corruptor when DP goes live. There's a reason the cliches became cliches after all.

All ATs can solo reasonably well but Scrappers and Brutes are probably the easiest. They deal very good damage with their primaries and get pretty decent defenses through their secondaries.

A word of advice, healing is actually the worst form of damage mitigation in the game, defense and resistance buffs (amongst others) are much more effective than healing. Secondly, having a character who is pure support is a bad idea. All characters can deal damage and all characters should deal damage, if I see a Defender who doesn't have any of his blasts I will generally kick him from the team and go in search of someone competent.

Well the drop rate is not his responsibility so I suspect it was more him not wanting to step on anyone's toes by saying whether the drop rate was borked or not.

Rule of thumb is that Virtue and Freedom have the highest populations. Of those populations Freedom has a higher percentage of power-gamers and PvPers while Virtue has a higher percentage of RPers.