Another_Fan

Its amazing the disconnect that happens here.

We have a set of rebuttals that only apply to efficient markets , the game's markets are such that they can't even begin to approach efficiency. The primary commodity needed for efficient markets is information and our markets hide what they don't outright destroy.

Its always good to see someone nitpick a poor description of an obvious problem while turning a blind eye to giant elephant of the problem.

I remember an old piece 60 minutes did on Galudet University, (A university specializing in education for the hard of hearing). The part that made an impression on me was a faction of the student body was resentful of techniques being developed that could potentially restore or grant hearing. Not commenting on the validity of either yours or their argument they just seem similar and if you have a large enough sample size you can always find completely stunning data points.

I do know I see less blasters around in searches even fewer on the teams I play on (at least some of that is attributable to me not playing mine as much). Why ? More people doing better builds ? More people wanting to play better performance archetypes ? Simple need to allocate resources ? Inadequate sampling on my part ? People that play blasters also turn on hide ? Don't know, you can fill in your own blank there.

I know I don't agree that veats are the less breakable blasters. I think that is incredible disservice to whoever thought them up. Some of how they feel is certainly based on blaster complaints. Range is a defense for them. They do have range and real mez protection. Thats where it ends, and the veat concept is far deeper than that.

IIRC only the higher ranking battle maiden people have a stun and its only one attack. The rest do KB. On the one hand insisting that a stone tank use a slot for a kb io is a little much on the other I continuously hear other ATs should be able to live without any kind of mez protection.

The battle maidenites have a mez you cant get defense against ?

But hyperbole and distortion of what was said remain potent as always.

Overkill, and you wind up spending too much time casting it.

There are items that just aren't there. 0 for sale. The ones that are there don't go for much more than the full level items. Just as a data point Decimations when I last looked had nothing in the low 30s recipes or crafted, and Positron's blast had supply but at nearly zero premium to the level 50 items. Anyway the response was for the op on how he could best utilize a locked character .

Try that with items that have 0 bids.

This. You spend far more to get blasters up to good, and its very hard to move them much past good. There was a thread a little while ago where someone was saying how wonderful blasters were and they had what was between a 6 and 10 billion inf build to do it.

E.U. $2.50/gal taxes
U.S. $0.50/gal taxes

Bottom line the U.S. taxes gas at 50 cents a gallon give or take state to state. Its in a small select club of products with defacto federal sales tax. Europe taxes gas at about 2 euros a gallon or $2.50 per gallon. On the production side we have tax breaks for producing oil which are more or less inline with every other type of mining that we do.

The E.U. in general usually hits imported fuels with an additional set of taxes.

What people usually refer to as subsidies in the us are tax deductions for asset depreciation and resource depletion.

Actually you have that reversed. Its expensive in Europe because its taxed to discourage use.

Edit: Don't let me discourage this thread though. So far its been about as funny as Columbus thinking he found india.

If you have 2 accounts

Lock one at your preferred level for rolling. I happen to like buffers for this ice or bubblers are very good. The farmer should be a /fire brute SS/Fire is very effective. With this combination, you should be able to get 3000 tickets between the two in 6-8 minutes. You get a wide variety of recipe production and you can get the bulk of sets this way.

If you don't have 2 accounts forget about production via AE. About the only thing that's efficient is tip missions. Their problem is if you run them quickly you will be producing very little but Hero Villain merits and some mission complete recipes.

Time is money
-Benjamin Franklin

De Beers and OPEC are laughing at you.

There is a range on how noticeable it is, that depends on what its paired with and whether or not you have bosses in your spawns.

It was most noticeable on my AR/DEV vs AR /Energy, /Mental, /Fire. As the spawns get larger and /dev needs more prep

In general if I am making use of devices major powers it adds an amount of time that is a significant fraction of the fight.

Big talk from the guy who made the claim that 99% of the time you can't tell the difference. Do you have specific numbers and comparisons ? Are you going to just pull them out of the air the way you did the 99% claim.

I get that you like devices. I get that dropping mines and having the gun drone drop out of the sky is pure joy for you. That's wonderful glad you are having fun. Making claims that you can't notice the set's speedbumps when you are actually trying to use them is just way over the top.

I get such a chuckle out of this argument. Someone always trots it out as if its revealed wisdom and is enough to shut down all discussion. Short form "The game isn't hard enough for you to notice just how bad X is". Well if you are paying attention you can and do notice.

BTW if the team is small, its incredibly measurable under just about all circumstances excepting the case where the person not playing devices just picked powers at random and slotted with a similar strategy.

Expected, predicted, and amusing, just the same.

Agreed, I am sure both improved play and greater IO use contribute. I wish I could come up with some way to measure them but the task is beyond me. As you point out there is lots more leadership around being run and people don't seem to have end problems doing so. You also see shielders running both grant cover and maneuvers where I can't recall ever seeing that pre I19

No that is any team where the added DPS from the leadership and the expected decrease in hits from ghost widow allows them to win

Why should I deny you, your exercise in self justification ? I am sure you will find endless ways to say you didn't say what you said. You will come up with ways to prove its virtually impossible to note the dps a team is doing or you will argue its impossible ascribe it to any particular source.

I have seen you argue that obvious errors in simple differentiation you made were correct and argue endlessly over it.

In the end as in the past when someone points out an error in calculation or provable logic in my part I will correct and learn from it. In your case you will argue or claim the person doing so is either "illiterate, simple minded" or any other derogatory term you care to use as you have in the past. To use your phrase "I will leave it to the reader to decide" who gains from such an exchange.

Discounting the fact that your position is arbitrary its fundamental assumption is also wrong. Currently you do not need a full team to take down ghost widow at +4, so your use of a full players worth of damage is just a case of making further assumptions on top of the initial assumption.

7 leadership pools running, the endurance discount alpha to make it possible. For something that was non trivial that seemed pretty trivial.




All that's required is a team that is currently barely able to take down ghost widow and has everyone respeced into inherent fitness and with an alpha slotted, hardly difficult to observe.



At this point it would seem you are making assertions to cover your initial error.