all_hell

servers arent important anymore when it comes to inf transfers


how much inf are you talking about?

It's about utilizing your teams strengths. If you have some folks who can run ahead and solo the mish, then devise a strategy to take advantage of that.
Because, when you can solo the mission, it's not much fun to "play down".

When I do a pug SF, I usually run a toon who can solo the whole thing. My team my rules, right? Yes, but...
It isn't fun for people to have to hang back. Some even feel like they're leeching. So the winning proposition is to find something for everyone to do that fits their abilities.
For example, on the 1st mish of the Silver Mantis, I ask people who don't have the stealth and survivability to surgically hit the mish objectives to start clearing the map on their way to the last room where the tattoo artists are. The folks have some good play experience and they're doing something useful--it's a lot easier to run the artists through an empty warehouse than one that still has battles going on.
If there's someone else who has the stealth and survivability, we split up the objectives.

Different teams need to be played in different ways, imho.
This just requires some creativity and awareness on my part when I am the team leader.

And I suspect the toon makes a difference.

Farming AE is a different play experience than farming a SF.
Merit farming tends to be about getting to the objective, hit it and quit it.
AE farming is a kill-all proposition.

Merit farming works with some sort of sneakiness, the ability to travel well, and burst damage to take out a boss and/or minion group, with only the occasional kill-all.
AE farming is a straight out grind. No traveling, not sneakiness, and DoT is more valuable to the grind than to the SF farmer.

That said, there're some SFs with a large volume of mobs that could be farmed, for purpls while doing a SF for merits. But it stops being SF/merit farming if you're not running it as fast as you can.

Some toons are more suitable to one type of play over another.
Also, never forget the fun/sec ratio. That's THE most important one.

I am all for making storages easier to view and sort.

They do run out.

It's like a mini-farm in the SF

What I did, was more or less delete "everything" and start again. I mean not really everything, but ...

Then I built for compactness. The entrance touches the teleporter room, which touches the med bay, which touches the storage/crafting room, which touches the entrance.

When you enter through either the entrance or the med bay you can see almost every room you're likely to want.

Also I think some minor buffs for having a team with 2-4 VG mate son it would be nice.

50mil seems sorta on the low-end to me too

The storage, tp to mercy, and the enpowerment stations are the main things that are not readily replicable outside of a group.


I would like to see the enhancements stations expanded to make a larger variety of bonus powers all similar in scope to the ones available today.
eg
A 1% or 2% increased to typed defense--instead of against 'all'.
Single status effect increase

Also I would like to see a beacon for Cimerora

If a team leader has rules, they should be discussed up front not as we go.

Other than that, idc

It may well boost a price spike until the pre-accumulated inf runs out.

QR is more powerful than Stamina


an enhancement in QR is worth more than one in Stamina


unless you're slotting for set bonuses, three SOs or IOs is more than plenty in each

I couldn't find it on the wiki

I know that a lvl 1 does less dmg than a lvl 50. but what is the formula for figuring damage? And is it the same both for leveling up as well as exemplaring down?

Level 28 for the triples and singles is too high because Ouro arc break @ lvl 24. [I remembered that I had made this mistake once already with a level capped toon.]
So why not give up the reduced portion of the small fractions difference between a lvl 28 enhancement and a lvl 27 enhancement after exemplaring effects have been applied?
In return you get to have the bonuses for a whole other set of lowbie, merit generating missions from Ouroborous.

Also, for the 1st Respec trial that caps @ lvl33 I rearranged some powers, putting Grant Invis @ 35 and Strength of Will @ 38, which should help getting folks to the last room of the last mish if my vet tp is down. And having SoW available for the Tree is not a bad thing. Stealth is just in the build to hold a LotG7.5% anyway, so why not throw it at the end?

Dechs Kaison put together a survivability analysis spreadsheet somewhere ( http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=226653 ) that provides some guidance on balancing def v res v regen v hp

From zero, it's a lot easier to say what you need most. But once you start having some of everything it's not always easy to see directly which improvement will provide the greatest benefit.

The spread sheet provides a nice way of comparing disparate things.

Ninja run is great.

It's not the fastest, but it's not intolerably slow.

And, most importantly, it's incredible fun. It's the most fun way to travel in cities.