Chad Gulzow-Man

It's not my argument. That's just what the devs told us when they removed Ice/Ice from Brute options during the CoV beta. You'll have to take it up with them.

Also, you can skip Cloak of Fear and/or Oppressive Gloom. You can't skip the speed debuffs that come with the ice attacks. Ice Armor would feasibly be okay (just skip Chilling Embrace)... but how are you going to tell the playerbase that you can have Ice Armor but not Ice Melee on a character? It just doesn't make any thematic sense to offer one but not the other.

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Another thing I'd like to see that I thought of after my previous post... rather than giving Broadsword to Tanks and Brutes, why not just give them the Broadsword models for their Axe powersets? Don't they use the exact same animations anyway?

Then, of course, do the same thing with the Axe weapon models for the Scrapper and Stalker Broadsword powersets.

Can't do Ice powers for Brutes, due to the fact that they inhibit the ability to build your Fury meter. Since the secondary effect is to slow your enemies, they attack less often, causing you to do less damage.

Quote of entire awful build. (Not actually going to do so here, I do have some semblance of a conscience.) Complete ignorance that this is the wrong forum. Derail thread. Point out a few minor issues in the build, make suggestions that don't actually improve anything. Ignore the six slotted defense powers and the interrupt enhancements in Aid Self entirely. Begin a series of insults upon noting that you took Fly as a travel power.

Use the term "noob" a lot. Make biggoted remarks regarding your gender or sexuality. Begin or end every such term with "lol," because that means that moderators can't punish me and other users can't give me negative rep.

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Follow up two posts later calling everyone in the thread some combination of obscenities for the resulting negative rep. Claim that I'm rage-quitting. Offer to give stuff to next poster, but don't follow through.

Roderick's post that you quoted up above mentioned that you'd see alot of level 49 recipes.

As for still not getting any purples, it really is all a matter of luck. I've gotten I think 6 total on my main character, who has (up until recently--he's temporarily shelved while I work on some new characters) participated in a lot of ITF and LGTF runs. Most of them were earned grinding the wall in Cimerora. However, I guarantee you I've taken out a lot more than 9000 (6 x 1500) enemies solo to get those, and a countless number while on teams or TFs.

Also, keep in mind that one big 400M inf payoff isn't necessarily going to outweigh a lot of smaller payoffs. You're almost certain to score a few dozen level 50 recipes worth 5M or so during a week of +0 difficulty runs. Check both the recipe cost AND the crafted enhancement cost when dropping things off at the market; you can often score an extra 2M or more by throwing away a little of your own inf for the crafting costs.

The short version of that is "internet argument," but yes, you appear to be 100% correct.

This has only ever occurred for two zones before: Faultline and the Rikti War Zone (formerly the Rikti Crash Site). I don't believe that either of them invalidated existing SG badges, but any group who had not yet earned those badges was required to get all the new badges as well as the previous ones to unlock the beacons.

Yeah... the Cavern of Transendence Trial really needs to be lowered to a minimum of 4, rather than requiring 8 players to all click an object at the exact same time.

And like I said in my last post, I'd very much welcome TFs (not standard missions) that required you to start with no more than 2 or 3 players with the option to solo. But again, requiring that you solo anything in an MMO is just bad design.

Given the apparent increase in the developers' interest in Exploration Badges, one can assume the trend will continue to (or possibly, that this is a continuation of) the new zones that will be released in Going Rogue.

Between new Exploration Badges now, the new Going Rogue badges soon, and the presumed ability to switch sides and get all of their badges as well, having 1000 badges isn't really out of the question.

I was just coming to post something not unlike the above...

BADGES!!!!!!

I hope they keep the original accessible through Ouroboros. Not that I'll be sorry to see it go or anything... >_>

I second this.

Sooo many new badges... <3

That's... not a bad idea at all! It doesn't go against the purpose of an MMO as long as teaming is still allowed. A TF with a team number maximum rather than a minimum could definitely work, as long as that number is never less than two.

Artificial restrictions on a mission are a bad idea. You'll notice that the developers haven't put in any more simultaneous glowie click missions in since what, Issue 3? They don't exist at all redside that I know of. (By the way, if you want to progress that contact, take the mission and then drop it--you can drop one mission every three days, and it counts as completing it.)

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And BloodFairy, dude, it's not the game's fault you don't want to team with anybody. The missions are called task forces for a reason, and you're engaging in an unintended playstyle by trying to solo them. As far as not being able to find a team... I'm not sure what server you're on, but I know that on Victory there are members of my SG on virtually all night until 4:00 or 5:00 AM Eastern and starting again at about 9:00 AM, and we all love running the Imperious TF. You're also even more likely to find a group of people wanting to tackle the TF on Virtue or Freedom. (Of course, if you keep the tone your post had and call everyone on your team idiots when you chat in-game, I can understand why nobody would want to play with you.)

You win a Swiss Draw tournament for Tournament Victor, or a Pentad/Septad match for Pentad Victor.

You can check www.badge-hunter.com or wiki.cohtitan.com for more details about the requirements for any badge.

Dude, I've got 700 badges on my Hero. That's more than anybody right now. I would love some more badges added in with things to actually do to get them.

I was very vocal before i13's release in saying that Day Jobs were the worst thing ever added to the game, period. I still hold that stance. I'm sick of getting anything where the requirement is to not play a character, be it through farming the still-ridiculous 100M points of damage (my 5½ year old Scrapper had to farm the last three badges, and I played him every chance I got... after all that time, he'd only earned 16M damage through actual gameplay in over 1200 non-afk hours) or the healing badges... or even the mindless repetitive grind of the inf badges where you just do the same thing over and over to maximize your inf earned...

The developers have specifically said that they're deviating from the old way of doing things after the Architect Badge fiasco last spring. They're consciously choosing NOT to add things that require repeated grinding or AFK farming. And as I previously mentioned, they have to maintain a stance that any character has the opportunity to earn any badge, so you can't have one for taking out a GM or AV, and certain low-damage characters probably can't even take out an EB by themselves if things like Shivans won't count.

What you're honestly probably looking for has already been stated: crank up some Ouroboros challenges. That's pretty much where the best solo action is.

And again, as I stated in my last post, this is an MMO. The focus will always be on teaming; putting reasons in the game to specifically not team is actually a bad design decision that would hurt the game in the long run. (Can you imagine being a new player looking for a team, but all the vets are off doing solo quests for solo badges? Not a good first impression.)

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Sidenote: I actually earned the first healing badge through using Aid Other on my Scrapper, before giving in and joining a heal farm.