Adeon Hawkwood

That would surprise me. Going by the numbers it should be at least as good as several other Brute sets. In particular Battle Axe and War Mace have a pretty similar power selection although Broadsword has a much shorter recharge on it's cone and trades one of the high recharge single target attacks for Parry.

It probably wouldn't be to bad if the devs did it for the regular sprint as long as they didn't do it for the prestige sprints (although this would no doubt generate complaints from people). However I think they have refrained from doing this for a reason. The Blessing of the Zephyr set has EXTREMELY powerful set bonuses for anyone looking to build up their positional defense. To get bonuses of this level you normally have to 5 or 6 slot a set. By not allowing sprint to take it it means you have to sacrifice both a power choice and two slots to take the set, allowing sprint to take it means you just sacrifice two slots.

Please calm down this isn't as big a problem as you make it out to be. The game is to some extent balanced around the assumption that all characters will take a travel power. You get 24 power choices and have 9 primary, 9 secondary, 4 epic and 2 for travel + prerequisite. Obviously few people build their characters like that but the progression assumes you will take a travel power, by not taking one you're gaining two additional power choices but you have to accept that there are sacrifices beyond moving a bit slower.

Your main interest is in the global IOs from the sets correct? In that case an Arch/Dev can slot a Karma -Kb in Cloaking Device which is enough for most NPCs. As for the Winter's Gift Global? Honestly it isn't that good, I've tried it on a few characters and it can be useful but i wouldn't say it's game changing. It's actually the same magnitude as the one from the empowerment station so you might try running with that for a bit and see if you notice the difference. (As a side note, compared to using a LOTG +7.5% IO, you'd need to get hit with more than 37.5% worth of recharge debuffs for the Winter's Gift IO to be a better use of a slot)

Going solo 25 to 50 in a week without playing 24 hours a day does sound like it's exploitative to me but without knowing the arc being played or the exact time frame there's no way to say for certain.

It's not impossible that there's a loophole in the XP rules the devs put in place. During the open beta I found one that worked best for lower level characters. I reported it at the time and I assume they fixed it but I'll admit I never checked in the released patch.

Are we playing the same game here? The way the game is setup a balanced team is by no means required for most tasks. Team play is ludicrously unbalanced in favor of defenders and controllers to the point that a team of 8 of them will make mincemeat out of most content (they might have trouble with the STF although they can do it). I believe the overall best team is generally considered to be eight Fire/Rad controllers with leadership. How is that in any way a balanced team composition.

In general you can make a team with any eight ATs you want, you just have to adjust your play style a bit. Got 8 scrappers? Berserk scrapper-lock. 8 Blasters? The spawn melts before it can do much damage. 8 Tanks? Herd the entire map and take your time.

This is true. Some defenders (Dark, Storm, Traps and FF in particular) can be made survivable enough to tank most portions of the game but they never have the aggro control capabilities of a Tank and still tend to be a bit squishy (especially against enemies with defense debuffs).

Really? In my experience it's a pretty cheap IO to just buy on the market.

Honestly, a lot of it is people putting in lowball bids in hope of a deal (either due to someone wanting to sell in a hurry or a pricing error). Chances are the single recipes are at or just above the going rate but the bids are to low. Many bids and one for sale means demand is greater than supply so the price is probably not to high.

Yeah damn rpers should get off virtue and go back to their own server.

What is the purpose of the + at the front?

I can see the reasoning and from a fairness point of view it would be a nice gesture for NCSoft to make (although stick with the current friend system where if you reactivate after 90-days inactive and pay for a month you get 15days credit). However, from a business point of view it makes no sense for NC Soft to do this. People who choose to reactivate their account without a friend invite are already planning to return. The purpose of the reinvite system is to provide a carrot both to encourage people to bug their friends to come back and encourage said friends to reactivate.

Drops might be lacking on some items, however the devs could easily fix that if they chose to by increasing drop rates, the fact that they don't suggests they want to keep those recipes rare.

As for why people reacted the way they did to your comment it is not in any way harassment you have a horrible idea and got called on it, but yes there was a large quantity of sarcasm. The reason is basically two-fold. First off a price cap will not increase supply in items, in fact it would have exactly the opposite effect. This is obvious to anyone who has any knowledge of economics (heck spend an hour reading wikipedia). The other reason is that as LISAR commented threads complaining about market prices are EXTREMELY common and the majority of posters are completely fed up with them hence while we reply and take the time to explain why it's a bad idea we tend to allow sarcasm to color our answers. I'm not going to apologize for this since using the search feature would have allowed you to turn up several threads discussing this very topic.

Don't forget Captain Tightpants

I would also say a magic origin robot would be one that was not built using magic but gained the ability to use magic (like the Tin Mage).

Yes, but it's one of those topics that comes up at least once a month. We reiterate the same arguments on both sides of the fence. Occasionally it degenerates into a huge flame war with pointless name calling until mod8 locks the thread.

I really don't think that standing low ball bids drive up the prices on items. It's simple supply and demand. If the standing bids were at or above the natural market price of the item then the market would clear over time and the number of bids would decrease. We actually got a good example of this in reverse during the AE craze. There are plenty of tier 3 common salvage items that have a standard price less than 250 and several thousand in standing stock. When the AE hit and the rate of generation for new salvage went down this stock got bought up at steadily increasing prices until it settled into a new equilibrium.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_clearing

There might be a psychological implication where a high number of bids encourages people to overpay but that's the fault of the buyers not people hoping for a bargain. Removing bids frequently might bring prices down a little bit but I don't think it's going to help the people that you want it to. The majority of those excess bids are almost certainly flippers who will just keep relisting anyway.

I disagree. Putting a time limit on sales might help since it would force people to price their items low enough to guarantee a sale in the appropriate time frame. However canceling bids would hurt people who don't marketeer significantly more than people who do. People who are flipping tend to check and refresh their bids on a less than 24 hour basis anyway so it wouldn't impact them. On the other hand people who play infrequently and put in low bids to try and get bargains would lose out. The only downside for marketeers is that we'd have to store excess influence in stock or on alts rather than as bids for level 53 recipes.