Chaos Creator

Originally Posted by Hyperstrike

Originally Posted by InsanityPeak

Just use something else, a Panacea or Shield Wall proc, or hell even a Glad Jav would probably have the same effect...

Originally Posted by Neuronia

Amateur Prediction Hour:

i)Common and Uncommon Salvage will be dirt cheap, talking 5-1,000 influence cheap as there will be a glut of these on the Market.

ii)Rare salvage used in purples and high ends will spike to the 3,000,000 to 5,000,000 level them drop back to around 1,500,000 to 2,000,000. Mid-level rares will gain supply as player roll a ton of new alts.

iii)Increased demand for melee sets send Kinetic Combat, Crushing Impacts, Mako's Bites et al. on a large spike for the first three weeks to a month. I expect to see Kin Combat triples to sell for hundreds of millions over a short period.

iv)Many sought after Pool C will drop to the 45,000,000 to 75,000,000 range. Canny Villain/Hero Merit earners will likely grab their share of LOTG 7.5 and so on and sell them; both sides supply means more of these will be on the Market. There will be some crazy mavericks that spend spend spend but after a few weeks prices will stabilize to a new equilibrium. I'm calling 80,000,000 for LOTGs, about 55,000,000 for Miracles and some level 30 or so items (Shield Break Proc, Eradications) hovering at high levels as people tend not to produce many of these.

v)Expect more Karma KB, Steadfasts and so on to hit the Markets as lowbie content in Praetoria is run.

vi)Purples will likely be a madhouse. All those villain players with purses meet the hero players and spending sprees cause happy marketers/sellers. I'm expecting to see some Apocs and Ragnaroks and so on around 300,000,000 to 500,000,000 for a short time then dropping to around the 200,000,000 range.

vii)Respec recipes won't be worth much...but will be in a month or two when people decide they don't like their current builds for new alts. Expect these to be around 110,000,000 or so.

viii)I expect...oddball bids on stuff. A friend of mine collects those Titan Origins and wants them in our villain base for fun. He'll likely drop 50 million on a bunch of them. Some hold and sleep sets will rise because of Electric Control, as well as Recharge Intensives and Soulbounds.

ix)Players will complain that stuff is two expensive and we'll explain how to make money, be ignored and the Devs will make a kludge fix.

x)My Warshade will continue to power up, casually and under the radar.

Originally Posted by Stefanie

:O HOW did you get soft cap all over the board!? I LOVE THIS BUILD! Saving it for later... <3 TY!!!

Originally Posted by RedSwitchblade

Wasn't sure.

Anyway I've seen a petless bots/Traps in action.

Sit down kids, let me tell you the tale of Professor Freak.

Professor Freak was a man who sold out his enormously flawed superscience to the villain world at large. Always thinking grandly and delivering poorly, Professor Freak was loved and reviled, depending on whether you were on the bystander side or receiving side of his genius, respectively.

In 50 levels of my teamings with this NoBots/Traps, I was surprised to find that he still was as valuable to the team as ever, even if his only sources of damage seemed to come from pulse rifle blasts that could barely melt butter and seeker drones that actually managed not to slice their own master's head off in carnal lust for blood.

One time, I saw what the fuss was all about, and it was a doozy. The sun, if you could call it that, was dimly lighting the obscured sky of the ruins of Atlas Park in some dismal, grisly future where Lord Recluse finally had hiked up his gonads, roflstomped Statesman, and proceeded to crap all over his kingdom by letting it calmly burn to ash around him. Content that he was secure in his Fortress of Burning Lolwut, Professor Freak merrily hopped, skipped, tripped occasionally, and finally stumbled across the landscape unnoticed.

We engaged Lord Recluse in all manner of attack that some would call downright uncivilized. Professor Freak spent most of his time tickling the Spider with his guns, until finally Recluse turned and looked at him angrily - only to be shot in the face ten times with an acid mortar that was loaded to the gills with Damage Procs, and a couple of seeker drones buzzing at him like angry metal bees. Oh, how the Spider hated the bees!

Knowing he could not go it alone, or even with my assistance, Professor Freak calmly asked a few friends to assist in the beatdown.

What I saw next was something that blew my mind. The team descended, and in pitched battle the Spider taunted them all with his army of Banes and his sliver of insurmountable health. Then, from the heavens above, descended a single Assault Bot. The label above its head was emblazoned in green with the moniker "My Life's Work" and it promptly landed, shouted an error code and made the bootup noise from an OS9 PowerPC, then exploded, killing the Spider. Sparks flew from Professor Freak as the Super-Villain Advisory Board granted him clearance to level 50. My jaw hit the floor for critical damage. This little turd of a character violated his idiotic noPet rule for an equally idiotic chance at glory with a marginally idiotic use of Detonator. I then imagined what he could have done if weren't an idiot.

Never in my years had I ever seen something so amazing, until 3 weeks later when an Ill/FF named Subconscious scored the final blow to Lord Recluse, at the feet of Grandville City Hall, with a baseball bat after we took down his WEB device.

That's the story.

I know all too well the power of Bots/Traps in reality, but to say that even WITHOUT pets, you are super useful, is something else. Also Professor Freak is very real, he's a good friend of mine, and he's far from an idiot. But that moment blew my mindhole wide open.