Carnifax

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Male widows are only disturbing because up till the release of SoA widows were female only if there had been female and male widows from the start it wouldn't have been as weird.

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Actually it would. Men should not wear something that tight and shiny imo!

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Bad news for you so Sapphic

Having ones precious things squished into horrible shiney trousers is so on-trend this season.

As are pained expressions and falsetto voices.

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Everyone has a guilty pleasure or two.

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So you're saying... we need to round up everyone and send them to correctional facilities, right? Awesome. It'll be expensive, but I'll have the lads hire some vans and start doing the rounds.

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I look forward to meeting my new personality

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I will now divert the point of this post and focus on the fact that you two were watching reality TV....

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See, I wouldn't class Come Dine With Me as reality TV. It's a gameshow. Albeit a gameshow that takes place over several days, with dinner as the rounds. Hell, as a bit of a cook myself, I take great interest in seeing what's being prepared, how it's done so, and what people are using to compliment each dish.

But the copy of CoH in the background was really quite distracting.

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Methinks the lady doth protest too much.

It's a reality tv gameshow. It brings you into someones house and the commentator is always discussing how certain people get on with each other and the like. Yes they also cook, and I find it a lot more "normal" than something like Masterchef or Great British Menu, at least the things they cook are achievable and it's interesting to watch them prep things. But it is a reality show at the heart of things, real life people making and enjoying (or not) dinner parties.

Don't be so defensive FG. So what if you watch a small portion of Reality TV that you enjoy? Everyone has a guilty pleasure or two.

Oh if they hang about a bit take em to the vendors. Actually half the time I just delete em if they've been hanging around too long. That being the Lazy gene kicking in again.

If you need the slots then bin em. But if the slots aren't needed may as well leave them up for 5 inf a pop.

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Capped or no, there is no need to hold that amount at any one time. I have just priced the amount i will need to complete the build I want, I'll end up buying as I save anyhow.

I am now however being more careful with my selling.. Any names recipe is now going into the AH, where as i would vendor anything that wasn't purple before.

I still Vendor all recipes that are not invention type, and all salvage that is not recognized at a value of 5000 get given to the store aswell.

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IO Set Recipes should always be sold in WW IMO, even if you're listing them for 5 inf. Helps your fellow shoppers out and means more supply for everyone.

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This is what I do.

I don't really care what I get for things. The way I see it is I want it sold, mabey someone out there needs it more than I do and it earns progress towards Shiny new badges. So I pop just about everything on there for 100 inf n watch it get snapped up. Apart from insps which I pop on at 1 inf each and the one Hami-o I sold. I knew it'd be worth alot so I only put it on for 1mill and ended up getting 20mill for it. Bonus!

Guess it helps not being greedy huh?

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At the very least it means you won't come to the forums giving out because you Must Have 2 Billion for your epic build

All sounds a bit too close to working for my liking. I'm lazy, at the end of a play session I go to Wents, dump everything I don't want, usually with a listing price of 5 inf unless it's an oddball case (say a half-decent IO at a strange level which I'm pretty sure should have a fair price of 5000 on it, a level 30 something Acc/Damage or something) and then start looking at a few non-top tier set IOs to plonk in for frankenslotting things. Stick reasonable bids in for em and their salvage and log off.

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Well why people bother to deal with WW if they can sell it to the any store with a higher value?

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So that people can find the recipes they want.

If everyone does it it makes it easier for you to find the recipes you want.

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Not after we have merits. WW is only a salvage market for me now. Oh also i can't deny the sweetness of selling purple recipes in WW. People are crazy...

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You don't see the self-defeating problem with this?

It's not like Invention Set IOs even get a good price in stores, usually less than 10k.

i'm baffled if people are really that tight. 10k. It's not even worth the run to the store really once you're any half-way decent level.

I know I'd much rather be able to pick up something like a Hold or Stun set for Frankenslotting cheap in Wentworths and save any merits I do earn for random rolls (or saving up for a top tier IO you can't get on WW for any half-way sane price).

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Capped or no, there is no need to hold that amount at any one time. I have just priced the amount i will need to complete the build I want, I'll end up buying as I save anyhow.

I am now however being more careful with my selling.. Any names recipe is now going into the AH, where as i would vendor anything that wasn't purple before.

I still Vendor all recipes that are not invention type, and all salvage that is not recognized at a value of 5000 get given to the store aswell.

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IO Set Recipes should always be sold in WW IMO, even if you're listing them for 5 inf. Helps your fellow shoppers out and means more supply for everyone.

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I thought she did a slightly beefed up "old style" MoG? Big boost to defence and res, making her all but unhittable (including by psi - that's the beefed up part) for the duration.

A real hassle as a solo squishy, as she does 2 hits ---> hospital trip for you and she's effectively untouchable (and certainly unkillable) for as long as the power lasts. After trying all sorts of options, including debuffs and overdosing on yellows, the only sane tactic I found for dealing was to dash to the lifts and hide downstairs until she's hittable again. Effective, but a long way from an exciting battle.

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Running around going "Whoop-woo-woo-whoop-woo" works too, she's a bit dim, bless her techno-warrior lil heart.

True though, if it wasn't for their silly emergency God-with no-weak-points powers they wouldn't have lasted very long. Poor Mirror Spirit (I bet her up last night too in a different arc) only took me about a minute to beat. I don't think she even killed a pet on me.

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MOG raises both resistance and defense

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Ah kk. The Wiki page is out of date / incomplete so, it just mentions the Resistance which is why I was puzzled.

She's damn easy to kite though (unlike Posi).

*Edit : Oh, if you fail the last timed mission (by letting it time out) would you still get the arc merit reward? That'd explain why the reward is fairly low (damn you exploiters *shakes fistsicles*)

So yesterday I was running the Ambassador Kuhr'Rekt arc on my Necro/Dark and IO came across Valkerie. After I'd taken her down the first time she rezzed and then activated something which meant I couldn't hit her (neither could my pets), so I couldn't heal and I ended up kiting her for a bit until she calmed down. (Cue Benny Hill music as I'm chased around that Crey Lab by her and she's chased by a stream of undead).

Looking it up on Paragon Wiki it says it was Moment of Glory, but in its description it says MOG raises Resistance. So how come she was deflecting all of my attacks (wouldn't have had much of an issue with her if I'd been able to hit her to heal, even if I was barely scratching her). It lasted at least a minute or two as well so it wasn't the new player version of MoG either was it?

Not too important, like I said I kited her until it wore off, healed back up and my pets finished her off for me. Just interested to know.

Posi pulled the same trick, was down to 25% health and became unhittable but I see he has Overcharge listed in his powers so that makes sense (he's a git too, damn Rad AOEs destroying my -ToHit and damn, damn EMP. Still only one faceplant throughout the arc).

Finally why does an arc where you've to defeat Posi twice and Valkerie only give 3 merit rewards? Sorta sucky.

Three fun fights though.

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It's easy to have plot reasons for kill alls.

Building infested by monsters? If you don't kill the lot of them they will just breed more.

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Twisted Pokemon. Gotta kill em all!! (although stuffing them in airtight balls will probably do that anyway)

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Stuffs Carnifac into an air tight ball

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Talking of air tight balls, I have these really nice batman boxer shorts...

... OK, I'll stop now.

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Ack. Mind bleach

(and no way I'm getting stuffed in THERE!)

And to drag this topic screaming back onto topic here's a US post on how to get 5 stars

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Umm I think this breaks more than a few forum rules...like virtual advertising...virtual trading.... oh and the fact that there is no way anyone should hand over 100 mill to anyone for a "service".

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No, it doesn't break any forum rules at all, there's nothing wrong with trading in-game currency for PLing services. It's when it's real currency that it's a no-no.

I agree with you on the 100 mill though. None of my characters have even held 100 mill (my Warshade got 60 for a purple drop a few weeks ago, I felt so rich!)

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It's easy to have plot reasons for kill alls.

Building infested by monsters? If you don't kill the lot of them they will just breed more.

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Twisted Pokemon. Gotta kill em all!! (although stuffing them in airtight balls will probably do that anyway)

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Might start in game business
Running PL for inf...
100 million to get you from 1 to 22 and into SO's?


Any takers?

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Isn't the PL rate a million a level?

100 mill is silly overpriced IMO, I can't see anyone going for that. It's not like it even takes that long to get to 22.

How come you've only noticed this now?

It's not exactly a new phenomenon (do-doo-de-do-do), nor a particularly bad one.

This is why I don't like getting overobsessed with set IOs.

A smattering of a few cheap ones judiously scattered into a build and common IOs elsewhere and I'm good.

I've even overcome my PROC addiction, for the most part.

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Controllers can't control their pets. Irony upon irony.

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I always assumed the Control bit describes what they do with their enemies, not their pets (that's what Masterminds do).

Controllable PAs would be sick.

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Any arc that has 5 kill-all's in a row will get blasted by me!
I also hope that we don't get successive missions in opposite corners of the world.

As for content, I'm waiting to be pleasantly surprised. Has to be something in keeping with the overall CoX theme but different from the old missions that we've all become accustomed to. Sounds like a toughie and I haven't come up with anything yet.

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I'll make one brimful of snipers just for you Cal

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No offense, but taking screenshots at night time and/or with steamy mist running, aren't really ideal to show off a costume.

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I know, most of them were previously taken and on the web so I thought I'd throw up the links, the Steamy Mist one of Carni was the only one I had with her original cossie.

My laptops damn power supply died last night too so I was rushing against the battery life (who ever designed the "Battery life remaining" system on Vaios was having a laugh).

Quantums are daytime though.

Some of mine :
Carni's main cossie

Carni's second cossie

Carni's "gone evil" emo cossie

Quantum Arrow, my Grav/TA controller.

Dark Lament, my Dark/Sonics defender, along with a chap with the most unsettling costume I've ever seen in CoH (warped genius)

And the album containing these and a few more from various random alts

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It'd be nice ingame too, although currently icons do go slightly transparent when there are 10 seconds or less left on buffs.

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Build up only lasts 10 seconds so its always slightly transprant

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Well yeah, I knew that. With build-up it's a case of "3 blasts and you're out" really, not sure how a timer will help with that specific case. It's nice with Eclipse though ( if( eclipse buff not transparent) then jump_into(spawn) ).

It would be nice, I agree totally. Until then (if it happens, I'm not sure it ever will since the devs already introduced the transparent thing instead of a proper timer) you could try Herostats if you haven't already.

The only drawback I found with Herostats is that the XP/Min timer thing turns you into a bit of a hyperactive mongoose in terms of earning XP as you watch the figure drop

CoH developers do seem to have a tendacy to favour third party add-ons rather than adding the feature into the game themselves (there's even a Loading Screen Tip extoiling Mids Heroes Designer & the Paragon Wiki).

Doesn't Herostats do this?

It'd be nice ingame too, although currently icons do go slightly transparent when there are 10 seconds or less left on buffs.

Had another bad experience last night with herding.

First they were +6 to me. Happily once I asked for an sk and refused to take no for an answer they were +3. Unhappily they were Nemmies and I was a Dark/Sonics (I really, really hate Nemises with that toon).

The worst thing was that since lots of Nemises have massive perception while he was gathering one bunch (not very well) a second lot would come around another corner having seen him rushing about and would start on us. Died twice (on a tiny, tiny map) and it was so messy and horrible that when he told us to Exit without completing so we could farm the mish (normally urrgh, in these circumstances URRGH!!!) I made my excuses and logged onto my Necro/Dark MM instead, where I found a nice small early 40s team and we steamrollered Crey instead (sans any sort of tanking brute).

So maybe it is overtarnishing them all but when you get a bad (or just plain unneeded) Herder it really is painful

The more I think about it the more it shows when someone herds without thinking how inappropriate it is for the team and, more importantly, the enemy you're facing. Not only did running about result in a herd plus an extra spawn of unherded but aggroed enemies coming around the corner but you really don't want to be herding together an enemy-type who actually give off huge PBAOE buffs to their allies when they die (ones which further screw up the only person with defensive debuffs and ToHit AOE heals on the team). The Eluding Paragon Protectors in the Creys mish ended up being less annoying than any of the 3 or 4-stacked vengence survivors of the Nemises herd.

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You do have to wonder though, will we still get the free booster pack if we get the Architect edition as a download? Or is it just in the box that we're not getting?

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Another thing that only the yanks get, just like actual contact from the Devs, closed Beta invites, etc...
(Yeah, we're getting closed betas now, but for the first time ever since launch woop de doo )

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WHY WON'T YOU LOVE US!!

Oh wait, I don't actually care too much if some US developers don't have the time to answer questions which they've probably already addressed on the US servers anyway.

Cya Col. I seemed to have a habit of teaming with you on PuGs on Friday nights recently and always had a blast (although I'm a bit confused now as to why we all had a debate in the last LGTF as to who was going to take the Clockwork Kings Alpha when we had 2 Masterminds with pets and an Illusion controller on the team ).

Hopefully you'll get monies and be back to us soon.