Bill Z Bubba
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Quote:I ran all 6 arcs last night at x8, clearing every map. 2 purples (think it was a hecatomb: damage and an armageddon: chance for fire) and 1 catalyst.Originally Posted by Blue_Centurion
I am planning to try to farm the solo arcs for purple recipe and catalyst drops. Is that doable? +0/x8...? -
The progress you make with your first run through the DA arcs is NOT, I repeat, it is NOT the progress you will get forever after that.
The progress my main will be relegated to with the current design is so far from reasonable as to be laughable.
1 component drop per day with an average straight thread drop rate of 8 per hour running at x8 difficulty? No, that is not reasonable. It's pathetic. Especially after getting 7 common components for running all 6 arcs. -
Quote:I'm here to play as well. The problem for me is that I can play the vast majority of what I want without being VIP.Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect
The pace doesn't matter to me in the slightest, because I'm not focused on rewards. I'm focused on playing the game.
And isn't that what we're all here for in the first place?
I crank up a lot of lowbies. These days, however, I'm using a secondary freebie account to powerlevel my lowbies to SOs. I stock them up with AE tickets buying their SOs and then I go back to playing them as I always have through a mixture of content and paper/scanners until they hit 50. Mostly solo, of course.
I wanted a viable solo path so that I could continue to advance my characters at a pace I didn't find glacial. We didn't get that.
The question is why should I pay a subscription to do something I'm going to find annoying? I like the incarnate powers. I like that I could have real mez protection on my squishies but it's not worth it to me if my choices to get that mez protection are between teaming in raids or spending who knows how long dealing with this one component a day crap especially after running all six arcs last night with BZB and getting 7 commons.
Damn right I was annoyed. My one chance on my main character to make some solid solo incarnate progress and I get crap. From here on out, due to the devs slapping in some rather ludicrous time gates, BZB will never be able to get more than 1 crappy component a day. Maybe an emp. Handful of threads.
They want me to pay for that? When I can instead just do lowbie runs without paying a dime until they correct the issue? What do I lose? The ability to pay base rent and I'm back to being incarnate-less. That's it. Oh.. and I lose the points stipend. 1200 points I spent on titan weapons and the carnival of light costume pack. I felt ripped off by both of those but, hey, that was entirely my fault for not researching before buying. It won't be that much of a big deal to not being able to purchase items after experiencing those two.
I'll still be able to create new characters (minus a few new powersets,) still be able to post to the forums (in all access threads,) still be able to farm and chat and kill enemies by the thousands.
As I said in channel last night, the devs threw the non-trialists a bone while those running trials are dining on all you can eat steak and $500 bottles of wine.
Guess it's back to leeching off of Arcanaville for me. Woot. -
Quote:I might have accepted this argument a couple years ago, but no longer. There's too much in game that leads me to believe that balance has been tossed to the winds.Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
Due to the way SS works, it wouldn't survive a scrapper port intact.
Likely Rage would be reworked into something else. -
Nope.
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Simple math ain't simple for simple folk?
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Agreed. As it stands now, what a hardcore farmer can do in a month is what a PUG trialist can pull off in a weekend.
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Think I'll be leaving work earlier than normal today. There's a whole lotta killin gonna need doin tonight.
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Quote:Since I won't be using the trials, that means I'm not a hardcore farmer and my data points should be used to determine speed of content, right?Originally Posted by Aett_Thorn
Hardcore farmers should not be used to determine a speed for content meant for normal players. Hardcore farmers will likely still be using the trials, anyways.
PhantomRanger, thanks for the kind words. MaestroMavius is right about mine and that other person's future interactions. -
Paraphrasing (perhaps badly so) what I remember on the topic:
Blasters were underperforming all other ATs based on the overall leveling speed and number of deaths. This was determined through datamining by the developers. -
Thanks for the confirmation, yall.
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Why do you rock the warshade?
Why do I solo AVs and spend time clawing up pylons?
We do it because we do it. When it comes to inf, I'm about it much as you are. I don't play the market, I farm when the mood hits me, I make what I need to make and then go back to doing whatever else.
When I heard that there are people sitting on not billions but hundreds of billions, I too found myself wondering why. But then I went and soloed some AVs and realized, "oh, they do it because it's fun for them to do it." -
Went ahead and did a bug report. Maybe Synapse and company will see it.
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Howdy. Noticed that the Force Feedback Proc: Chance for +Recharge Reduction is not functioning in Leaping Pool: Spring Attack.
Is this a known issue? Is it broken because Spring Attack creates a pet that does the damage? Does anyone know if the FF:CF+RR proc works in the other tport attack powers like Shield Charge? -
My view of the market:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZHCVyllnck -
Yup.
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Quote:They were feeding his RttC.Originally Posted by Aura_Familia
Yep.
On a side note, my favorite issues of the Hulk are the ones where he takes on multiple people, kicks their ***** and walks away without a scratch.
A few years ago he took on the X-Men, X-Force and X-Factor all at once. He won. -
Quote:It's turtles all the way down!Originally Posted by SwellGuy
It's round LIKE A PIZZA!
- Brought to you by the Flat Earth Society
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SS/WP Brute.
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Quote:Meh... having the top be painted on instead of fabric destroys the look.Originally Posted by BrandX
If only the corresponding costume pieces looked that good in game.
Though I want the model in green's hairstyle!
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Quote:We can get close:Originally Posted by Arcanaville
One day I would like to see a "without skin" option so I can go all Hellraiser.
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=263211 -
Quote:The more I read the more I think you're right. Gotta love it when the "business brains" get in the way of selling a product people want.Originally Posted by Gangrel_EU
Not going to happen (ME3 hitting steam).
Steam and EA have had a falling out remember so some of their titles will no longer be carried (Dragon Age 2 for example).
side note: Sucks that the major game retailer in the UK isnt going to be stocking it for financial reasons.... RIP Game/Gamestation -
For the record, I'll be on CoH on the 6th. Think I'll hold off on ME3 until it hits steam.
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Quote:That was my first thought.Originally Posted by Aett_Thorn
Before we get away from the important, here...just who is THAT in the lower left panel?
The second thought was, "I am going make a character tonight that looks exactly like that." Fire/Dark Cor probably. -
Quote:I've got two games that went into hibernation due to coming back here. It's the way of the gaming world.Originally Posted by rian_frostdrake
dude, i still aint done with amalur :P