Adeon Hawkwood

Outside of seaonal even missions there are four that I know of:
Stop Lord Recluse!
Defeat Statesman and Freedom Phalanx
Save Terra Volta reactor (3 versions)
Attack the Thorn Tree and steal its power (3 versions)

You need a total of 275% for perma-hasten. 70% of that comes from hasten itself and slotting 3 level 50 common IOs in it gives you 99% meaning you need 106% global recharge (you'll need slightly more if you slot SOs instead of common IOs in hasten).

Cat is correct, price caps would increase the actual cost of most rare recipes rather than decreasing them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_ceiling

There are two ways to decrease the market cost of Purples: decrease demand or increase supply. Increasing supply is obviously pretty easy, the devs could up the drop rate or introduce some other method of obtaining them. From comments the devs have made I don't think that they intend to do either, they seem pretty happy with the current scarcity. Decreasing demand is a lot harder, the easy solution is to introduce new enhancements that are superior to purples, easier to obtain and lock you out from using purples in some manner basically making purples obsolete. The second way would be to introduce new sets that are identical to the purple sets except that they have standard level enhancement values and set bonuses, obviously this wouldn't be as effective as the former but it would slightly lower demand since people have a set that's almost as good as a purple set. As an example, Positron's Blast almost does this for Ragnarok, the differences are in the proc and the fact that Positron has a slightly different combination of enhancement values (in particular it's short on Recharge).

I disagree with your assessment that you NEED IOs for anything. But even given that you want to IO your toons, there are plenty of ways to do it without using Purples or PvPIOs. In fact in many cases Purples are not the best choice. My Blaster currently has two purple sets on him (Ragnarok and Apocalypse). At some point I'm planning to respec and replace the Apocalypse set with a Thunderstrike set since an extra 3.75% defense is more useful to me than 10% recharge. Even the Ragnarok I could replace with a 5-slot Positron + common recharge without losing a lot of power, I probably wouldn't notice the change but I'm keeping the Ragnarok anyway. With care you could probably IO an entire toon for less than the price of one purple IO if you stick to uncommons. Even using rares the price tag is pretty reasonable.

Purples are hard to acquire, if you want them you've basically got three options, farm, play the market or spend a lot of time doing content and selling drops. This is deliberate, they were added for people who want to do this and have a long term goal to work towards while they do.

This one:
As of issue 11 this is clearly no longer the case

I'd disagree with this assessment, there are plenty of non-jerk PvPers. The problem is that the ones PvEers are most likely to encounter are the jerks. Most of the non-jerk PvPers are looking for a challenge and a fair fight something that they will not get fighting PvEers.

No, when we enter the zone we don't choose to PvP. We choose to risk getting attacked by PvPers. In addition there are a few reasons to run away. First off losing sucks, and having to hosp is depressing. On the other hand successfully running away is actually fun, you're metaphorically giving the PvPer the finger and saying "better luck next time" in a very sarcastic voice. For a PvEer successfully disengaging from a PvPer (especially if you don't leave the zone) is a victory. In many ways though me stopping a PvPer from getting a kill is no different from a PvPer stopping a PvEer from accomplishing his PvE based objectives. In both cases we want something and the other player is in a position to stop us. So by disengaging I'm saying "yes you can stop me from accomplishing MY goals, but there's no way I'm going to help you accomplish yours".

LFT to grind for badges?

The problem I have with this is that I don't want to be the one who shoots first. If I'm in a PvP zone and I see a villain I have no clue if he's a PvPer or a PvEer like myself there for badges/temp powers. In general I'd prefer to take the first strike, my odds of winning a PvP fight are pretty slim (I think I've won two fights) as it is and as a Blaster taking the first shot would help at least a little. But if the person in question is a PvEer then by attacking him I'm forcing him to engage in an activity that neither of us desires and so what's the point?

As for running versus fighting, it really depends on the odds. Most PvPers I encounter are Stalkers, and in my experience if they don't win in about three or four attacks they almost always run away or hibernate so I'll generally fight them a bit until I die or they leg it. I tend not to exit the zone unless I'm heavily outnumbered in which case I'll leave and come back later (except RV, there I fight until I've died enough times to remember why I hate PvP).

I believe it passes to the next one to log in but I'm not 100% certain about that. Also, as a simpler solution you could set the autopromote time as low as possible and pass leadership that way.

Unless the change was something like "Defender damage increases for every other team member" they'd still argue it . But yeah I think a secondary based inherent would be easier to balance.

Yes you did. An attack with more than one positional tag is basically unheard of (I'm not aware of any although as far as I know there is nothing stopping the devs from making one). What might be confusing you is that AoEs with short ranges can have either a Melee Tag or an AoE tag. To use the example from the wiki, both Fire Sword Circle and Blazing Aura are melee range PBAoEs (with ranges of 10' and 8' respectively) but Fire Sword circle has the melee tag while Blazing Aura has an AoE tag. There are no hard and fast rules for tagging, the devs can tag powers however they want although in general they do it based on what "feels" right.

It's more to do with the usefulness than the rarity (since I'm reasonably confident that the drops aren't weighted for purples). Apocalypse is particularly expensive since most characters have at least one ST Ranged attack that they want to slot and it offers a combination of set bonuses that no other ranged set has (the other two with recharge have less useful ones for their first three and Devastation doesn't have Recharge). Ragnarok is cheaper since it has to compete with the inexpensive Positorn's Blast set which offers almost as good set bonuses for a fraction of the price (plus plenty of melee toons don't have any TAoEs).

Similarly the mez sets go for very little since there just isn't that much demand.

That might work. At the same time it's a chicken and egg problem. Unless there's demand people won't bother to list recipes that might sit for weeks.

The problem is that a market needs both supply and demand. Few people bother to try and purchase low level recipes, unless you are willing to spend a lot of time and effort placing bids across a wide range of levels and potentially waiting weeks for them to fill buying level 50s is significantly easier and for popular recipes normally cheaper as well. This low demand means that most people choose to either save merits and roll at max level or do direct buys of high end recipes like LotGs. Increasing merits is unlikely to fix this. Adding more merits to the game is unlikely to change this unless they drop fast enough that people feel they have an excess. Allowing random rolls to be at any level would probably help. People who like to design exemplarable builds would roll at mid-range for themselves and put the excess on the market which might be enough to stimulate consistent demand. The problem is that these people are a minority of the population. Using low level IOs is not something that instinctively seems like a good idea to most people. I think what you'd get is two separate markets, one based around mid level IOs (probably either 33 or 35) and one based around level 50 IOs. The level 50 market would still be much larger.

I think this would actually make the problem worse not better. Unlike merits tickets drop at a fast enough rate that hitting the cap is possible, Keeping tickets means that someone who levels exclusively in the AE might choose to spend some of them on mid level gold rolls. That being said, I think the ticket system is stupid and should be done away with .

I don't disagree with this sentiment. But in general players will find it in their best interests to consolidate the market onto a single level since it means everyone is buying and selling the same items. This leads to greater market activity which in turn helps to stabilize prices. This is compounded by the market interface which do to the way the information about the market is presented makes it much easier to get a view of the market at a single level so a market focused on a single level has greater transparency for the average user.

This means that as long as the devs choose to allow players to select the level of their reward the market will tend to focus on a single level. Giving the players more flexibility in their choice of level might change the level from 50 to 33/35 but I don't think there is enough of the population who are interested enough in performance to ever move the entire market to that point.

I'm not sure that the devs could do anything about it even if they were so inclined. A large part of the problem is due to the player choices and actions rather than anything the devs control. The market for most mid-range set recipes has dropped below the point of being sustainable. There is relatively little demand and consequently low supply which in turn causes the lower demand. Mid range recipes generally take a long time to sell unless there's a bid already up and you fill it for what is usually a pittance. This leads to a perception that selling mid-range recipes on the market is a waste of time as even if they sell you won't get much for them. This is exacerbated by the fact that Pool C/Ds are rarely generated at anything other than max level. The devs could (as many people have requested) allow us to make random rolls at something lower than our true level, but even if they did I'm not sure that would help the market. Many people would still roll at max level simply because the more people who participate in a market the stronger it is so it makes sense for everyone to roll at the same level and 50 is a convenient level to choose.

I think I worked out a build with about 35% for my TA/A (although I never got around to finalizing it enough for a respec). In general I find that most blasters and defenders can get in the 26%-35% range without needing to use mule powers so that tends to be my target (obviously FF and Traps defenders can get higher than this quite easily). The one thing I generally advocate for any Defender doing a ranged defense build is to pick up Maneuvers. It's a nice way to get an extra 3.5% defense assuming that you can afford to run it (I know storm is a toggle heavy set so you may find it's not practical).

If you don't want Maneuvers, take Recall Friend (heck, you may want it anyway). Blessing of the Zephyr is a very easy way to boost ranged defense since two-slotting the set gives 3.13% ranged defense which is normally a 6-slot bonus.

No, once the SG has earned the badge to only way to "earn" it with a character is to start a new SG. However since they don't count for your personal badge total there is very little point beyond personal satisfaction.

Damn straight, now you kids get of my damn lawn.

D100s are the work of He Who Brings Ones as demonstrated by the fact that they are not uniformly random. Sacrificing one will not appease the RNGs but instead drive you further into darkness.