Da_Captain

This is what I usually do, put my setting on heroic difficulty 1 and choose an arc and run through it real quick. Did the Anti Matter arc in like 2 hours with my MA/WP scrapper and got 29 merits, I really just needed to beat Anti Matter for the Accolade but the 29 merits were nice too. And there are easy arcs that could probably give you better merit/time, but just giving an example of how much you can get.

Too Funny.

Yeah, it kinda sucks they way they have the system now, I think as far as the drop rates go it is something like this.

Minion 2%

LT/Snipers 6%

Bosses 9% (Not sure on these going from memory since I can't find it on paragonwiki)

of those drops you have like a 2% chance of getting a purple.

I have ran a couple of tests as far as trying to calculate how long it would take someone to get one. I did nothing but radio mishes and skipped the bank ones, solo it took approx 25 mishes before I got one. The next day I did 22 and got one off of a LT. And on my last day of solo testing I did 32 before I got one.


I was not able to do team testing as often I was solo, but I was able to get one day in. Did a total of 3 TFs and about 10 paper mishes. Started with 2 ITFs back to back and got nothing but common IOs. Then went to PI and ran with a full team for about 10 mishes, got a couple of Uncommons, a couple of rares, and a butload of commons. Then I got a tell to join a LGTF and it was probably like the 2nd mish I got it.

At the end of all of this and it was said and done, without including what I made off of the purples, and just including how much I made off of market selling and just selling, I had enough to buy a couple of purples maybe even a set (depending on the set).

Would I say it is worth it NOW? Depends on the person. To me, No. I would rather not spend all day solo trying to get one thing, if it comes it comes. And the toon I used to get them has no purples, just regular sets like ToD, Mako's Bite, GFC, etc. However, it was nice to have enough money to get some of the uniques that I wanted.

So on average if you do about 23 - 28 mishes solo, killing all enemies on map, you should get one (Not a guarantee though).

Now here is the good thing, it isn't worth it to me now, but in i16 when I can get on a map set for 4 or 5 this could possibly take the number down from 23 - 28 mishes to 5 - 8 mishes.

At level 50 most Scrappers should not have acc issues, not sure if that comes with experience or common sense.

Yeah Not too many people can match a defenders leadership values, I tend to take it on the defenders I try to play with.

It is just a game, sometimes people like the way it plays and not the way it performs.

Depends on what the primaries the scrappers and the brute were, not to say it couldn't be done, but if no one had any defense debuff and ne extra to hit buff it would be extremely hard, however, if all the defenders had tactics and Maneuvers probably wouldn't be an issue. Overall it just depends on what powers the team had altogether.

P.S. This would not be my dream team either, I only need one Kin.

No Argument there, just as long as I can solo EBs, I don't feel too bad, never really tried to solo an AV with any of my toons, I would imagine I have a couple of Scrappers and trollers that can do it, but I have nothing to prove.

I tend to not like posting here that much about Banes, since most think I am Biased toward them, however, in your calculations a couple things you forgot to include...

Survallence and Venom Grenade w/ the AH -res proc giving a total of 60% -res to all and 80 -res to toxic (looks at Poisonous Ray).

Not sure if you included the buffs from follow up, but I think it would be fair to average in the use of Build up.

What about the damage that is given off by the pets, I would imagine that they too would be doing some serious damage with a 60% -res boost on an enemy.

Also in terms of survivablity Banes can easily soft cap defenses, however, in the same sense they also have the 20% hp boost 12% dam res to all. Which is something a Widow cannot achieve easily through IOs. I state this because even at Capped defenses an even level AV has a 7.5% chance to hit you, so you are going to get hit and a Bane can take one better than a Widow can.

Not sure if these aspects would help Bane do more damage, but these are key factors that were left out.

Minus the inturrupt, I think that fits the description for the Operation Engineer for Malta, I get mad that his stays up even after death and mine will leave in the midst of battle.

On another note, I would gladly take a melee stun if it had the duration of theirs too.

I took Hover/Fly which isn't too much different than CJ/SJ 3 slot each of them with Blessing of the Zypher's easy 6% range and AoE.

I myself won't be doing 8 man, but I will be upping it to about 4 or 5, and with the way percentages are set, I should get atleast 1 purple every 5 - 10 paper/radio mishes along with a load of money. However, I think you are right, it may not be a steep decline but I think prices across the market will be going down.

So range enhances adds cone to the cone making like a 30 degree like a 45? or what?

A lot of little improvements makes a big difference, compared to nothing at all.

To you it may not be, to someone who doesn't want to spend his life in a PvP zone trying to get that one enhancement it maybe. Remeber they are some of the hardest IOs to get.

You know I wanted to defend this, but for some reason I am thinking that the Devs think resistance is better than defense, because it is a lot easier to higher levels of defense than it is to get decent levels of resistance. 3% is a joke it really should have been like 10%.

It would be a nice Christmas gift to wake up and Play Going Rouge.

Tell that to the MM who was mad at me because Dom's got patron pets and he didn't, he honestly believed it wasn't fair too.

The bad part about it is that you can't attack while using it.

Great minds think alike, I was thinking the exact same thing.