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I'm rarely surprised when I faceplant, it's usually because I've punched way above my weight or because I've stopped paying attention to the screen. In situations like this, I'll have deserved to faceplant.

I'm going to assume you're playing on a laptop here, and don't have the standard F-keys. All of the things you mention can be set up with macros or even bound to the same keys you move with. There's guides on how to set them up on the forums, and possibly the wiki, too.

Again, binds. My old emergency power (Ethereal Shift) was bound to the minus key on my numpad. A lot of builds don't even have an emergency power.

If this waits for a lull in activity and you're button mashing and queuing powers up, these won't fire. Depending on what you're fighting, the inspiration may not cover it and you faceplant regardless.

Not all debuffs do damage, so Health would be useless here.

Slow and Recharge debuff are two different things. Generally Hasten is on auto-fire for a lot of people.

Again, bind.

I would hope for a massive penalty, as this only seems to benefit lazy people.

You don't get experience at 50, so surely doing the arc would unlock everything for a 50? Or did you want us to do the arc repeatedly to access each protocol individually?

I can't see many people paying for a power that saves you having to press one key/click once.

The basic premise is interesting, but the way you've described it, it only benefits the lazy and/or incompetent, and only then for a brief moment. It might be better to have a system which explains the reason for the faceplant in a pophelp type thing, with some tips to avoid it, instead of letting newer people play badly for a few seconds longer each time. Something like an Analysis of the Previous Fight power, with statistics. Like HeroStats can do, but in-game and only for the last combat. I'd be tempted to buy something like that in the store for 200 points or so.

Doesn't it have a chance to fire when it pulses, too? As I'm sure my +2 mag proc fires at the start, and again after a while.

You also get a bonus token for the first time you buy points of any amount, so you'd only have to buy the one lot of 1200.

I had the plan to buy up all the sleep purples, in preparation for Enhancement Converters, but when I checked the markets, the price was already too high for me (90m+). I'm not on as regularly as I used to be. A few years ago, I used to buy up the sleep recipes at silly prices, 10-100k mostly, and I'd sell them for 1-10m, so that price hike seemed too steep to me, regardless of how much I could have made.



I'm not a huge marketeer, I don't put a great deal of effort in, and it's never regular. I've something like 6-8b inf floating about. I'm cheap, though. If an IO is going for more than 50m, I'll use some form of merits to buy the recipe, usually whilst I'm still levelling. I've given away more than I've spent on my own characters.

With Incarnates, I play a couple of select 50's, and have been levelling a couple of others who will likely get retired at 50 like the others. I've began gradually respec'ing older toons, to remove their IO's, ten at a time. With Issue 22, I'll likely be down to a Dark/Dark Defender, Tank and Domi, and the rest will likely never get used, short of the markets. The Defender and Tank are already slotted to suit me perfectly, and neither of those have any purples. The Domi will be built for recharge, so I'll slot her with 5x5 sets.

But I've realised, I've enough inf to slot her up already and the prices will most likely drop for the damage purples. My base has all the bits I need, and I don't care about the leaderboards. I don't spend inf on anything else, and if I had a fortune, I'd more than likely just give most of it away to random people/events.



I had the idea to profit, but personally, the effort just wasn't worth the reward.

So what's Shield's excuse for being positional?

Broadcast and local are two seperate channels. Free players get access to Help, Local and Team. If you limited free players anymore, you'd start losing potential paying customers. The ignore for spammage system really is the best option, short of a GM going all draconian and banning IP's/accounts of sellers and even buyers. I think the EULA allows for it, but if it did happen, they'd be outrage from unaffected, legitimate players (as humans like to complain about something).

A while back (just after the last DXP Weekend), Rubies were selling for over 1 million each. It had nothing to do with companies selling inf, it was because of me experimenting with the market and driving the price to ridiculous amounts for a couple of days. Inf sellers aren't in WW to affect salvage prices, they're their because it's a guaranteed area for traffic. High prices are due to people with too much time on their hands, or people with no patience.

If Iron was selling for 1 million, I'd cash in AE tickets on common salvage rolls (Average cost is 36 tickets, I think) and profit from it with hardly any effort.

Dual Pistols, Demon Summoning, Electric Control and Kinetic Melee were all part of Going Rogue.

By my calculations, if you didn't spend your stipends on fluff items/things that would have been booster-worthy or things which didn't exist before (extra inventory slots/costumes/etc), then you should have roughly enough points to purchase all three actual powersets. If you think we should get the power sets free, I don't think we should get a stipend.

Odd, my Dark/Dark(/Dark) 'fender has soloed the ITF*, numerous AV's, even late 20's flashbacks. Soloed all the Ouroboros badges, too. I usually play like a lockful scrapper, charging off to solo crowds whilst the rest of the team goes in the other direction. She's not superb for damage, but she's not slow either.

*(During Issue 19.5, with Cardiac Alpha as an incarnate, the only thing stopping a Mo was that I had to drop a shivan/HVAS on the Nictus Rommie, as my fluffy wouldn't stick to one target).