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Agreed, the pic of the male longbow in GGs picture looks like he's off to a "special interest" adult party rather than fighting crime.

I'm a bit sad this way, for Invention Set recipies I follow the same logic when purchasing them. Any recipe I buy I'll spend at least 15,000 on it. Mostly because when I dump-list the same sort of recipies (generally for 5 inf for almost all of them) and come back to find they sold for 10 inf I get a little cheesed off, even though it's completely my own fault.

^This.

Was wondering why people were walking around with "He popped the question!" and "She said yes!" gold titles last night.

Eh, I'll insert a Frankie goes to Hollywood joke instead.

Or a Jennifer Rush one maybe.

This thread encouraged me to start crafting and selling my own, relatively lowbie gains (level 32 scrapper) from A-Merits as well (although I am running the Tips rather than purchasing them).

My first round included 2 Oblits (actually the triple dropped from completing the Morality mission rather than the resulting a-merit which was nice), the Acc/Dam/Recharge and the quad, both early 30s (30 and 35 I think). Both listed on Monday for 10 and 15 million and both have now sold, for 20 and 25 million respectively.

Threw up a PBAOE Chance for Lethal damage last night so I'll see how that sells too.

Being hit or a pet being hit doesn't break BG mode
Dunno where you got that idea from. My necro/dark has never had it happen

A is the main reason I do it, and I do it on all my characters. Frankenslotting can be very, very useful indeed when levelling up and give you a character with better enhancement values for fewer slots compared to an SOed or Common IOed character.

If I waited to 50 I'd actually have a grand total of 0 IOs slotted in my US characters due to my crippling altisis.

There are plenty of very cheap yellow IOs out there that are very handy indeed to get from about level 27 onwards (that's when I start Frankenslotting in ernest). Focused Smite & Touch of Death are my 2 favourite Melee sets for Frankenslotting.

2 Focused Smites : Acc/Dam, Dam/Recharge, the Acc/Dam from Touch of Death and the Dam/Recharge from Smashing Haymaker is my favourite way of 4 slotting my melee attacks for cheap.

For AOEs Air Burst and Detenation are great (2 Acc/Dam, 2 Dam/Recharge)

For AOE Mezzes frankenslotting as many Acc/[Mez]/Recharges as you can works brilliantly in them, 4 slots can surpass the standard 6 slotted SO versions in terms of enhancement values.

For my Widow / Fort build you can combine Frankenslotting with getting some low hanging fruit in terms of set bonuses. For example 3 Maelstroms Furies in a few of my Forts attacks give nearly 1% AOE Defense a pop. For a character who is already in the 30s in terms of AOE Defense this is a handy way to get closer to the softcap.

Ditto 3 Thunderstrikes in some Ranged attacks are also gold for raising her Ranged Defense (Thunderstrikes are a little pricier though since there's starting to be more demand for them). Once I have the powers fully slotted out going the whole hog and getting 6 Thunderstrikes in the 40s gives even more Ranged Defense, which is pure win for a Fort.

The first time you reinforce your alignment as Hero or Villain you get 50 merits. After that you get 1 A-Merit. A-Merits are separate to regular Reward Merits, are redeemed in a totally different place (the lame looking Fort Trident, linked to from a crappy Caves doorway by a pond in Atlas Park) and offer things far more cheaply (most Uniques are 2 A-Merits but over 100 Reward Merits for example). Turning an A-Merit in can also give you 5 Random Rolls whereas with regular Reward Merits you get 1 random roll for 20 merits.

Poor GMan. If only the community got together, devised a new arc and then some forum moderator posted it to some sort of online forum. Then you could easily try it without having to sift through the dross.

But of course that's a pipe dream. Better off to post here, in this thread which isn't any of the things I mentioned above whatsoever, how you don't play the MA instead.

Technically it wouldn't be hard, given the filtering mechanism they use, to provide that link, along with a "Find Enhancements crafted with this recipe" link to do the reverse (jump from a recipe to it's crafted equivalent).

I've NEVER seen a team buff expressed in that way before. It's a bit of a bizarre way to express how a power functions, really doesn't do anything but muddy the waters in terms of how a power functions. I mean I don't say "My Regen Aura grants a 4000% bonus", because it doesn't. It provides a 500% bonus per person.

Having said that 50% for a Pool Power would seem to be a bit high to me too, I'd say given Healths 40% you'd be hard pressed to find a decent argument as to why it should be anything more than 25% IMO.

A resistance toggle of about 4.5-7% (going on the rule of thumb of 2 resist to 1 defense and basing it on Maneuvers) would be interesting, although outliers like a Demon/Thermal MM might gain too much from that.

As I've posted before this too baffles me. I simply cannot fathom why on earth people buy crafted items at huge prices when the recipe and salvage are sitting there available at a fraction of crafted price.

Last night I decided just to run with it and craft the 2 Obliteration IOs that I got from running a Hero Morality mission (the Acc/Dam/Recharge pleasingly from completing the mish, the quad in the 5 random rolls afterwards). Listed them for a reasonable price (compared to the Last 5) and hopefully when I go back tonight they'll be gone.

If you want to avoid being a pure buffbot then sets like Traps, Cold Domination (the Defender support set) and things like that are nice. Obviously since it's a Kheld duo team Villain ATs are out.

Things I'd personally try would be :

• Traps/Dark Defender : FF Gen is nice and a Traps/Dark would be a good "I'll hold them in place, you kill em off" combo
• Cold/Ice Defender : For the Rain of Death you'll be able to do by 26, Cold has nice buffs for the Warshade and excellent debuffs
• Plant/Emp Controller : My US main and she's great at doing horrible things to spawns, doesn't really feel like a Healer but excellent support
• Elec/Sonic or Thermal Controller : Bit of a Buffbot but both come with debuffs too and Elec is a busy control set so you'll still feel busy. Stacking +Resist shields on a Kheld is lovely
• Fire/Cold Controller : Fire has excellent damage and Cold has nice buffs and excellent debuffs.

It's more likely to be a knock-on from some MA exploit (whatever this weeks one is) rather than the activity of RMTers.

Possibly the best way to do this would either be in a rolling bind (a bind which does the Say and also loads the next bind file in the chain which changes what is said) or via a POPMenu, which at least would be neater than trays and trays of macros.

Obviously the POPMenu wouldn't be rolling or dynamic though but at least can be organized.

The servers are in no way "your stuff". Interestingly neither is any of the data stored on it, it's all property of NCSoft (even if it describes your character).

Speaking as someone who was awoken up at 3:30am this morning (all I had to do was ensure I inserted a bottle into the right end of a baby though) I certainly wouldn't want anyone awake at that time to make critical modifications to a server set-up, just to appease a few people who think a once-off 6 hours of downtime to upgrade their service is an outrage.

You think the time that the Support Staff are in and available in the destination data centre is a bad time to do an update?

For the time needed (to get 87 you'd have to do all 4 storylines all the way through basically) that is crappy. Especially compared to the alternatives Hero and Villain side where a 4 mission and 1 hunt arc tends to reward anything between 9-16 merits.

Yeah, by my reckoning you get 7 from running White + a storyline in Nova (as there is only 2 contacts in each here here but you get 4 for the second as they have 2 arcs), 8 for a full storyline in Imperial (4 contacts here) and 6 in Neuropolis for 21 in total.

Might go as far as 25 as the Wiki is incomplete but even allowing for that and doing all 4 storylines somehow you'd still only be at around 97 if you did absolutely every mission you can in Praetoria.

187 merits??? How on earth? It's 2 per arc isn't it??

I came out with a grand total of 20 or so. That was basically managing 2/3s of an arc in Imperial before I outlevelled and the entire zones worth of the 16-20 zone.

I did just one "strand" though, I didn't stop XP and run the other or anything.