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That said, unlike some other games SGs are optional. (No that EQish nonsence of only a few truly good items per activity, making use of things like DKPs mandatory.)

You participated to the death of final boss, you get your reward, period. Although these days that reward is most often merits, which work like DKPs in some regards, SGs have nothing to do with them.

Well, for me it's the other way around. That is, team of IOed 50s at levels where they don't lose IO bonuses anyway is exception rather than the default assumption. Differences in teaming styles I guess, plus on EU servers being too picky is counter-productive.

That said, sure, IOs negate most of the advantage FF defender has over FF troller.

Not to my knowledge, although you may always try to just type it in Paragon Wiki and see if it leads anywhere...

http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/IO
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/SO
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Inf

If it is to "make an outrageous buy bid and wait" strategy more viable, then like most things on the market this works both ways... It would be also more viable to make higher sell bids.

The overall effect would probably be that bids would fill slower, so more temptation to "just buyitNAO!" making those outrageous sell bids not so outrageous...

If this is exactly what you want, uhm, ok, but frankly, although I neither believe in INFlation being caused by Ebil Marketeer Conspiracy, nor do I see any way to fight INFlation efficiently, I still don't think it's particularily good thing.

In theory, yes... In practice...

1) A single defender can only softcap if the rest of the team stay within the bubble all the time. Almost nobody does that for obvious reasons. (And let's not speak of those ninjas who somehow manage to ALWAYS be outside of LoS when re-bubbling time comes)

2) The nature of softcap being that it is, 33.4% a troller with Leadership has. aren't even close to softcap. And again, it's only 33.4% if everyone is within the bubble.

3) There's a little matter of bubblers themselves.

All this is excellently solved by a second FF defender/troller on the team. Two defs' small bubbles stack to nice 46% (not to mention end drain resist... Carnies? Lol. Malta? ROTFL.) they can softcap each other and well, team split at the wrong time isn't guaranteed faceplant.

Def+troller is still formidable, - although big bubbles (or just Maneuvers) are needed for softcap again, there are two of them, giving better coverage.

Was on a random PuG team lately with my FF/Ice. It was nice enough as it was, but when a Stone/FF joined we pretty much got godmode.

NO ONE'S life bar moved. EVER. I kid you not.

Respecs wipe the old build, but you can use enhancements from it in a new one (In fact, you have to, as you need circa 70 enhancements at level 50 and your character can only carry 10. Ones that weren't either slotted or put into inventory at the end of the respec are sold at rip-off prices. (Ok, theyu aren't rip-off sor most basic ones) )

Then, there are dual builds. Dual builds are the exact opposite, - you keep ypur old build, but enhancements for a new one have to be bought separately. Builds are switched by trainers (NPCs you ask for level up) and you must wait 15 minutes before switching back, but other than that there are no restrictions.

Also, if you use dual builds and devs decide to do a major change that affects both of your builds you're in a bit of trouble as you get just 1 free respec per character per major change, and you need 2 respecs to respec both builds.

Sure. It's simply bare minimum you have to do to be in business. But peopke in the thread claimed that a) It's not advertising at all. b) TV ads would be great for CoX subscription numbers.

Whether or not NCSoft does enough online advertising on right sites is another question entirely, and you're probably right, - it could do more and better.

Would it be of any advantage to advertise those peas on TV? Not likely. Do pea manufacturers advertise? You bet. Quite a lot more than "place this on ur shelves, pls, kthx" goes into this nowadays.

First, they have to persuade distributors and retailers to place their product on the shelves instead of somebody else's.

To do so, their product must be easy to sell. Measures to ensure that are called "in-store advertising", "merchandising" (not to be confused with entertainment industry phenomenon) and a few other names, depending on what exactly is meant. Those pea cans weren't designed, placed an priced willy-nilly, but with a very certain customer in mind. An average shopper who just needs peas, any peas and doesn't care? Flashy, overpriced can on a best place. Bargain hunter? Ugly, store-branded one somewhere far away... Someone who wants to be "organic"? Yet another strategy.

And I'm not even speaking, about, say, cola manufacturers asking distributors to report any stores that place anything else in fridges meant exclusively for their brand...


Would it be of any advantage to advertise GR on TV? Well, let's see... Who is most likely to buy GR?
1) Existing subscribers. No comment. TV ad is about the most wasteful way to reach those.
2) Those who left the game: Nearly as wasteful as 1.
3) Comic book fans. While they certainly watch TV, they're comic book fans. So, if we want to reach those, we have better tools at our disposal. (And NCSoft uses them)
4) Online gamers wanting to try something that isn't Tolkien ripoff #167433. Where those would look first? Well, Internet, I guess...
5) J. Average who doesn't care about either MMOs or comics... Sure, he watches TV, but to justify the expense of reaching him, we need... Google says that the going rate for an 1-minute ad time is about $50-200 k. Ad production itself ought to cost something too. In other words, we're looking seven figures for reaching someone who is unlikely to want our product in the first place. Compare to the cost of email newsletters, website interviews, review copies, etc.

Of course, if CoX had WoW popularity in the first place, things would have been different. Then yes, everybody you could reach that way either is subscribed already, or won't bother no matter what you do, and trolling for that one-in thousands TV viewer who would subscribe after seeing the ad would be profitable. But...

I suspect, though I can't prove, of course, that this was meow farming more than anything else. Back then Atlas was laggy and full of "PL meh!" chat even on low-pop servers. So people just started to use global chat more and pretty much stopped hanging out under Atlas. I personally certainly did so.

When meow farming was finally reigned in, people just got too used to the new arrangement to return.

Actually Perkele/Perkons/Perukunas/Perun is well... balto-slavic-finno-ugric pagan god usually associated with thunder and lightning.

In modern Latvian "perkons" means "thunder", in Lithuanian "perkunas" is both this and a curse (then again, my Lithuanian is... Well, it isn't.) and in modern Russian the word is well, not used for anything.

Anyway, I can speak Russian, English, Latvian (though it's bad), and kinda-sorta-almost understand French. They tried to teach me German in high school, but it was a miserable failure.

Wait... Siphon could be stacked with itself? (And yes, I never played a kin to a level where I could notice)

Anyway, my other point (that you'll lose PBU at just lvl 35 and nuke itself at lvl 32, unlike blasters) still stands.

Well, I would be at least the 3rd person to answer this...

1) Yes, there are multiple ways.
a) Just level up. Every now and then your salvage and recipes inventory would grow.
b) badging. http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Invention_Badges Level 25+30 badges add +2 salvage each, level 45+50 add +1 recipe each. You may want to familiarize yourself with the way auctions work before trying this, though.
c) Auctioning 50 pieces of salvage. Adds +2 salvage and a badge
D) Vanguard 500 vanguard merits can be redeemed for +10 salvage storage. (you have to be level 35+)
ADD: Except for a) all methods only increase your PERSONAL storage, not one in the locker.

2) Yes, you can mail it. It's a bit tedious as you should mail them one at a time, then claim them one at a time, but...

3) Yes, you can sell salvage anyplace you can buy or sell enhancements. but it's not recommended nowadays. Even absolute trash like Human Blood Samples is often worth auctioning. Luck Charms and Spell Scrolls are worth tens or hundreds of thousands of inf in the auctions. They're just 250 inf if vendored.


And here's how you auction stuff: http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Consignment_House

Also you may want to look at "The market and inventions" forum here and various inf-making guides.

Add: No, I was the second.

ADD2: A bit more on the bidding: Basically, you trade your time and (limited) number of bid slots for inf, whether you're buying or selling.

Sell low, buy low if the item is inexpensive and there are many sellers. The faster you get rid of the stuff, the faster you can replace it with something more profitable.

Buy low, sell high if there are sellers, but price is high, say for mid-level orange salvage. http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...5&postcount=16

If there aren't any sellers, but many buyers, well, http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=223246 You either won a jackpot (if you're selling) or you're in for a long, long wait till the bid fills (if you're buying).

It's not like the game is chock-full of /Ice defenders, isn't it? To use nuke as a main damage-dealing power you need an expensive build, your choice of primaries is limited to ones you can use without toggles, and exemped to 35 or below you're just another guy with a perma-Hasten build. Ok, you also have got a powerful rain and can permahold a single boss.

As a power used to prevent those "OMG, they gonna wipe us" situations Blizzard is rather in line with, say, Fallout. Yes, it deals twice the damage and can be used anytime, but you get the nuke-crash to deal with.

That said I'm levelling an /Ice right now and yes, it's partly for the nuke.

Defenders CAN get PBU from their epic, and it's 6 min recharge time doesn't matter if we're talking nukes.

So Defenders get +130% from Aim+PBU, 100% from enhances, and (if we really-really want a nuke Defender) +20% from Assault. Less than a Blaster, but not much. And uf there's anything +Dam or -Res in the primary...

Yes. The problem is that for Posi that threshold is just 10% which means that you would need to 5 or 6-slot a power that works fine 3-slotted (say, FF small bubbles) without exemp and get lower values unexemped for your troubles.

So I tried to calculate whether just brute-force overslotting has any advantages over being clever.

Thanks for helping me.

Sorry for epic reading comprehension fail.

No, sorry, I've read that page multiple times before posting, it doesn't say anything about this particular point, namely whether ED is calculated before or after scaling due to exemp.

Or at least it doesn't it in a way I can understand.

That's why I talked about slotted sets.

Anyway, my point was that not all, not even most, lvl 30 recipes are bought at lvl 30 and for lvl 30 and your correction only reinforces it.