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Probably from here - http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=213578 .

(it just took me far too long to find that damn thread, eventually I had to dig through the posts by one person I remember commenting in it regularly since I couldn't remember who the thread author was.. )

4 rolls within Rarity would be 4 converters.

Each converter costs 250K inf, and either 10 Reward merits, 1/10th of an Alignment merit, 2/3rds of an Astral Merit or 1/5th of an Empyrean Merit. Or you find one as a random drop.

(http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Converters)

So, for effectively 1M inf and 40 reward merits (or equivalent other merit fraction), you increased the sale price on something by 150M inf.

Sounds like a good return to me, or at least a pretty damn reasonable one. <grin>

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Perma

So while Hasten's up, you have permadom, but you'd need some more global recharge and ED capped recharge in Hasten to have full time permadom and permahasten, I think. Of course I could be wrong, since I never bothered to make a full IO build on my Mind/Fire dominator and this is all purely theory to me

If I'm reading right, another 6.2% global recharge and ED capped recharge in Hasten will get you permahasten and permadom.

Or, a thought strikes <clang!> you could be permahasten after 50, with a Spiritual or Agility Alpha and not need ED capped recharge in hasten, maybe?

Anyway, you seem to be picking up some momentum on this one a little faster than last time if I'm remembering right. Nice going

Every bloomin' time I log into the game, my Stone/Fire is one of my core 3 characters.

He gets logged on every time I'm on (mainly cos he's one of my marketeers), but he's also one of the three characters I've got who have the Leader badge.

(oh, and Stone has two resist based non-granite defences, Stone Skin (passive) and Brimstone.)

I know this is purely my opinion, but I don't have any problem with Stone armour at all. And I play it as a non-Granite scranker.

It has reasonable, layered protection (regen, resist to most, defence to most, a Dull Pain clone, mez protection to everything bar Fear, Endurance drain and recovery debuff resistance, perception debuff resist), can be IO'd to enhance that protection, and can pretty easily hit 45% psi defence, making it potentially massively survivable against mobs that can melt other armours (Carnies, Arachnos Fortunatas, IDF Seers etc.)

And if all that's not enough, then you can hit Granite and get big lumps of resist to go with your solid amounts of defence. But you need to be aware that if you do that around psi damage, you're in trouble.

Mobility limitations are a source of irritation to a lot of players, and Granite's penalties seem to annoy more players. I've long since gotten used to Stone and how it works so they don't bother me.

It's not a pick up and play set that can be easily mastered like 'set and forget' WP, Shield or Invuln, but it's not weak if the player behind it knows how to use it.

All IMO, of course.

It's not always been terrible, but it has been for the last couple of years.

My robots used to stand mostly at range and shoot stuff back in Issue 6/7. I'd occasionally have to yank one of them back to their firing position, but generally I could keep them at range, and out of the way of the melee characters on the team.

Nowadays, I don't even bother, because the only reliable way I've found to keep the idiotic things out of melee is follow/passive <sigh>

Fire Imps used to be predictably psychotic, but now they're just psychotic.

There's a reason all of my pet using characters have the + key on the numpad bound to /release_pets, and have done since Issue 4 <grin>

Adjust the 0.7 as appropriate for your display settings/screen size/eyesight.

(/windowscale costume 0.7 is a good one too )

You have :P

If he's going to drop, he drops in three or less Ultimates in our experience. so 9 minutes or less.

If he's not fallen over in that time span, then it's probably time to go for plan b and take out 3 lights at a time for 4 times, and settle for 'The Hard Way'.

Nope, no goalposts have been moved, because Tin Mage is a Task Force with Incarnate prerequisites, not an Incarnate Trial.

They're two different beasts.

Also, another note regarding Corruptors, Scourge. Scourge gives Corruptors a damage boost just when it's needed most, when Tyrant's HP are below 50% and his regen is spiking upward. The problem being that if your corruptors are blasting, they're not buffing/debuffing/healing...

So far as [Ultimate] inspirations go, as Arcanaville posted in the other thread, they double the effectiveness of your league due to you being at the deep end of the purple patch.

I'm truly shocked that nobody has challenged this yet...

Sorry, but I don't consider patch notes to be 'very reliable'.

'occasionally', 'sometimes' or 'usually' reliable I'd let you get away with, but my natural cynicism and past experience of patch notes refuses to let you get away with 'very'.

Congrats, so that's 3 successful runs so far, any other servers going to join the club, or shall we enjoy the drinks and nibbles in here by ourselves?

<raises glass>

Psst, Nethergoat, it's the Arachnoid cave tileset with a reskin and no webs

As Arbiter Hawk said here :

So just losing APP/patron powers isn't an indication of being dropped to 50-3. In fact, if you'd been dropped to 50-3, you'd still have had access to your 47 power, and possibly the 49 as well if the system treated it like being exemped down.

Damn you Arcanaville! I hadn't actually noticed it until you wrote that... Now every time I see it, there's going to be a little flag in the back of my brain pop up and say 'This is silly and wrong, and this is why!'

Well, one of two things will happen.

Either our little group of idiots were so uber that no other server will manage it, and so we'll be a merry little band of outliers, the badge conditions will be adjusted eventually to make it more achievable and that'll be regarded as an upper limit on how difficult to make a badge to achieve.

Or, in a few days/weeks/months it'll start turning up semi-regularly on other servers, and as more Incarnate shinies get released it'll become easier, thus meeting the stated badge design criteria. Nothing is changed in the requirements and eventually a new, harder badge will be added to cope with increased incarnate power levels.

On a complete side note, I used to watch my brother swearing at Molten Core in the gorilla. Then a few years later, I saw him go back and it was a cakewalk.

So far as I'm concerned, it's the nature of MMO's. The older stuff becomes easier over time with power creep and playerbase experience, and there's almost invariably something newer, shinier and more difficult.

I think the problem is that for a LONG time, this game had no power creep. SO/HO builds were the pinnacle for issues 0-9 (with AT/Powerset FoTM's), IO builds from 9-19 (with slow escalation over that period as techniques and builds were refined), whereupon the Alpha slot appeared and suddenly things started going nuts...

That's 19 issues, 6 years and 7 months (ish) of a pretty flat powercreep graph for people to get used to and comfortable with. I personally can't see things calming down too much any time soon. People enjoy seeing their characters get more powerful <shrug>

Apologies if this is a little incoherent, it's getting late

Have you TRIED to get it on live? o_O

Put it this way, so far as I know, and nobody's popped up yet to claim otherwise, we are the only league to get the badge yet since i23 went live.

Yes, it was apparently bumped up the difficulty scale quite a lot going from beta to live.

Also, note to self: next time taking a screenshot to post to the boards, turn off player ratings as apparently they get more attention than getting one of the hardest to acquire badges in the game does <grin>

Umm, pass.

I think I burned 2, maybe 3 Ultimates, so 10 minutes or less?

It was a little stressful, so I wasn't really paying attention to anything other than staying alive, moving out of the way of Crackles and firing my Debuffs/Attacks as and when I could. (and believe me, that was plenty to be paying attention to )

Hang on, It should be in my chat logs...

and
That comes out to approximately 6 and a half minutes if my brain's still working, but it's stupid o'clock in the morning here now, so don't take my word for it.

Use Black Swan as a gauge. If she drops like a sack of spuds, and only manages one set of portals? You probably stand a chance, if the league can dodge lightning and stay alive.

:edit: scanning the chatlogs, I found the name of the 24th league member - Fire Magus. They left the league pretty much straight after Tyrant fell, so weren't in any of the screens posted elsewhere.

Get a League of people you trust to not go afk, chat or whatever during the trial.

Get them to practice and get good at moving away on the Crackle warning.

Be prepared to burn some resources. [Ultimate] insps available in Ourobouros from Astral Christy for 2 Astrals each are *very* useful. Take 5 in to each serious attempt.

Stack the odds in your favour. This means not everyone may be able to get the badge on their primary badge character first time round. I didn't. I was on my Sonic/Cold Corruptor helping out.

During the final fight, Concentrate.

And the final ingredient is sheer bloody mindedness. Keep plugging away at it and I'm sure other groups will get the badge.

Good luck to those who are still trying. Now I just need to try and get the badge on the three characters of mine that I actually want it on

I will add, that it was really rather nice to be in the first group to get the badge on the live servers (as far as I know, and nobody's popped up to claim otherwise yet.)

Yep, we can get all the Magisterium badges now

Oh, for the love of...

<sigh> Star rating paranoia strikes again.

I use the ratings as follows.

1 Star - You're a numpty and I want nothing to do with you, ever.
2 Stars - You're a minor irritation and I want to remind myself that I may need to keep an eye on you.
3 Stars - I've teamed with you several times and I consider you to be a good player.
4 Stars - I've teamed with you a lot, you're thoroughly competent and I don't need to keep an eye on what you're doing.
5 Stars - I know you in real life.

No stars means nothing other than I've not teamed with you enough to have a firm opinion either way. Nothing else. I'm not slighting you.

Also, my current player ratings are somewhat out of date, but I only update them when I think about it, and mid trial is NOT the place to do that, and also I play solo a lot so probably haven't teamed with too many people enough to form an opinion.

So ner :P