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Ever rolled for 5 recipes with an A-merit and been disappointed by the selection? Converters give you a second chance at getting a good recipe. Marketers will also end up buying the really crappy IOs off the market and converting them.

In the long run, provided converters see regular use, we'll start to see the really low prices come up as demand for them increases and the really high prices drop as supply for them increases. I doubt converters will be used in sufficient numbers to normalize all IOs of a certain rarity to a single price, but the outlying margins should move toward the average at least a little.

I do expect purples to eventually settle within a narrow range, though. This means the end of the cheap sets, I fear. The popular sets may come down in price a little, but the niche sets will shoot up pretty far.

Depends, are you posting from the 1400s?

Nice thought, I'd already forgotten about the converters.

Fair deal. I do think it's a little itchy to get an ATIO for a Mastermind and Paragon goes, "Oh, gosh, I guess you can't use that...unless, you know, you'd like to pay $15 to unlock Masterminds." Maybe that's what Paragon intends, maybe the odds get shifted if you don't have the ATs unlocked so that you can never pull a Mastermind IO, maybe you can access the AH to sell that one thing. Dunno for sure.

Haven't got an answer for that, Clever Dan. I don't know how they're intended to work in practice. I'm going off what we were told in a post I remember reading but can't find now, which is why I'm backing off.

Sorry, I don't understand what you're saying here.

A Premium player can buy a Super Pack, open it to find a Brute ATIO, then put that ATIO in their Brute without requiring a license or VIPitude.

Edit: I'll back off on this, actually. I believe it to be true, but I can't find the redname post I swear I remember reading stating as much.

Which means it's most likely not inherently evil in and of itself, and can likely be correlated to that game's developers' ability to maintain control and keep their act together. It's not like SWG was a paragon of the genre and the ability to turn RL money into in-game assets brought them down, after all. They had plenty of dysfunction in general.

Premiums can use ATIOs without a license. There is nothing in the pack a Premium cannot use.

All it tells me is that Kitsune is good at making dire predictions that lack empirical evidence.

City's always had to deal with RMT sellers. This isn't going to be some sudden sea change that will wreck our pristine game. And other games have shown that converting RL money to in-game assets can in fact work.

Well, that's the thing. They want to sell them on the Market. I forget which dev said it when, but he said they'd have had slots for sale already if they could get them working.

To expand math-wise:

Resilience offers a base 9.375% resistance.

Say you slot 3 level 50 Resist Damage IOs. You'll enhance by 58.475%, for a total of 14.857% resistance.

Then you add, let's say a Tier 3 Resilient. 27% enhancement to damage resist, half of which ignores ED. After much formula-crunching, that gets you up to an enhancement of 74%, for a total of 16.313% damage resistance. Congrats, you've knocked off 1.5% of incoming damage over just IOs. (If you're using Tough, you get a little more because the Alpha will boost Tough as well, but you see the scale of what we're talking about.)

It's tricky when you're dealing with percents that get enhanced by a percentage of the value. You're not looking at 9.375 PLUS 27, you're looking at 9.375 TIMES 1.27.

A Defense-enhancing Alpha won't help very much either. Since it acts like an enhancement, it'll only work on powers that grant defense. For Regen, that is nada. If you use a sword primary, it'll boost the defense-granting attack, but that's it. It will not affect set bonuses. Set bonuses cannot be enhanced, so Alpha does nothing. If you have 18.75% Smashing/Lethal Defense from IOs, adding Agility will do jack squat.

As mentioned, you want either Spiritual (Recharge, Heal) or Musculature (Damage). Nearly all of Regen's powers benefit from Heal enhancements, so a Heal Alpha will be amazing for it, and Recharge and Damage are just generally useful. Vigor (Heal, End Redux) also works well, but Regen is typically not hurting for Endurance.

I have to admit, the OP is the first time I've seen anyone shunned for the trials at all, but I play on Virtue which is pretty freeform. Generally speaking, I've found the trials and the people playing them to be very inclusive and tolerant, though I've yet to play UG or the new ones. The worst I've seen is "DON'T ATTACK ANTI-MATTER".

I definitely don't disagree. Out of the 20-some characters I have, only 5 are level 50 and only 1 of those has done anything with the trials. I'm looking forward to I22 and the solo/team content; even if the devs are still confused as to why people want it, at least they're delivering. Either way, I've never personally felt like I have to climb the Incarnate ladder, save possibly for the Alpha slot which never needs a trial to achieve at all.

An apt sentiment. I think I'd better walk before the subject turns to lone wolves stealing the masses' precious bodily fluids.

Good call, I completely forgot about the Kismet proc.

800% recharge.

Good luck.

Natural Momentum lasts 5 seconds, which is enough to whip out 3-4 more attacks after the first one. Build Momentum grants 10 seconds and will renew Momentum, so you can theoretically do Slow > fast > fast > fast > Build Momentum > fast > fast > fast > fast > fast > fast (provided you have the recharge and endurance to keep the chain going, anyway!).

Kinetic Melee too. I'm pretty sure I've corpse-blasted more often with Concentrated Strike than I've actually landed a damaging blow.

I have no idea what you're actually trying to say here. Are you saying it's only the league leaders who like pulling the AVs together and that the rest of the league would prefer to fight the AVs separately?

The biggest problem with splitting the league up and having small strike teams is that each one then becomes more reliant on the individuals. And contrary to your claims, those are less fun, because one or two poor performers can ruin it for the entire league. That's why UG gets played so much less often than BAF, Lam, and Keyes. Those three work well because you don't need top performers in every slot.

Coordination and making sure people know their role is really freaking difficult, especially if the intent is to make trials that are accessible to PUGs. If everyone involved is performing at the top of their game, then sure you can pull off amazing stuff. But you can't expect that.

I'm hopeful that the solo/team Incarnate stuff coming in I22 will give us more chances to feel like individual badasses, but I can't see it working for league trials without abandoning design and accessibility goals.

Yes, missing hurts. Both because you don't get Momentum and because you just missed 5 guys at once. It's a blow to DPS and the ego.

Right now I'm going with Tactics over Focused Accuracy. FA's +to-hit increases the efficiency of all your Accuracy enhancements and bonuses, which makes it stronger than Tactics, but I'm not sure that outweighs double the toggle cost. (Although right now I'm looking at RedTomax and it's saying Tactics is more expensive than FA. Mids says the opposite. ) I'll have to research more to figure out which is better.

That already exists in BAF. And unless the league is specifically going for the badge, people generally prefer to pull the AVs to one spot and hammer down on them together rather than split up and take them on individually.

I'd hesitate at calling 'seeking for' wrong, but normal English typically doesn't allow 'for' with 'seeking'.

I seek the Grail.
I am looking for the Grail.
?I am seeking for the Grail.

It's very awkward at best, and when someone is attacking a writer for an awkward word choice, it's not too irrelevant to point out that the attacker is also using an awkward word choice.