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You're not fooling anyone, we all know you were exploiting the login screen.

Correct; if you send an email to a name that doesn't exist it just comes back to you. This may be mistaken as an alternate way to send things to yourself.

Time doesn't have mez protection.

You could make everything into an image.

I would think "do it all" would count farming. Which involves lots of enemies in normal spawns. Heck just running task forces and trials counts as "it all" and that has lots of regular enemies.

Yeah, the average price per part is pretty much what I was looking for.

The absolute highest is $1.00 per part for the origins pack. Most of them though hover around 25-30 cents per part. Even if you take the average from the pieces when bought individually, only the origins pack is near $1.00 (looking at that, it's a bit overpriced).

Even if the wedding pack has the worst "savings," you're still only paying 50 cents per part. I'm not as much concerned with the savings when paying for items in bulk as I am overpaying for each individual item. And none of these except for origins ask you to pay $1.00 per item. Averaged out you pay 38 cents per part. That includes packs that have more than just costumes, and the high origins pack. They should be asking, at the very most, 40-50 cents for new individual items.

Yes, there should be value in ordering items as a set, but 1) they're valuing individual items at 1/5th the price of 40-60 items, 2) you can't buy them as a set so you have to pay those high prices. Hell, just the weapons offered in the Barbarian pack are worth $5.00 at the same price we're expected to pay for new auras and backpacks.

$1.00 = 1 item
$5.00 = around 50 items (or 10 items per dollar)

I'd actually be interested to see just how many costume parts each pack contains. Divide that by five and you'll get the estimated worth for a costume part when bought as a pack. For instance, the magic pack has 47 costume parts or so. So is the real value of the magic pack $47, and they're just being nice and offering it for 1/10th that? Is the magic pack in reality worth three months of subscription time?

One single item shouldn't be worth 1/5th of a pack that contains 50 items. Unless all this time they've been super generous offering us costume parts at a 90% discount when the real worth of costume parts is massive. Because otherwise it just looks like we're getting ripped off when being offered individual items for such a high price.

The bottom line is, it's acceptable for things to cost a bit more if they're not part of a set. But not 10x+ more, especially when there's no set option even available to alleviate the price. You mention the real world -- in the real world you usually get something like a 10-20% discount for buying in bulk. Maybe during special sales you'll get a buy-one-get-one free deal. Not buy one get nine free. Even if we're talking fireworks.

I'd probably buy things like these if they were 25 cents each. Which would still cost more than buying them as a pack (if one even existed). But not at a dollar each.

I own every single costume pack, and I bought them all when they were $10 instead of $5. I bought the barbarian pack right away. I even have the party pack. The sense of value I get from those things is worthwhile (although for a while I had no intention of buying the party pack as its price per item is very high). The value of these new items is about ten times less than I've paid for items in the past. They're horribly overpriced. And while I know people are buying them anyway, I will not be. I would love to buy many of the store items, but not at the prices they're expecting me to pay. And I've thrown lots of money at the game in the past, over stupid things, so that's saying something.

Then: "It just tries to do too many things at once and excels at none of them."

Later: "Oh wait, when you add all those elements together it's actually quite good."

All that implies? Like, it's really hilarious to put on an AV in AE and ask people to fight it?

Interesting to see that Cims actually outdo Warworks even though WW do -regen. I didn't think anything would actually be as powerful as WW are. That's kind of scary since as I said the Victoria bot can already solo AVs.

Fiddling with Burnout on beta, I found that a lot of buffs are flagged to not stack with themselves, even ones that normally couldn't be stacked even if you were at the recharge cap. You might want to check and see if you can even have double Recovery Aura from yourself.

Were you referring to the top post that link actually links to?

I don't see that as very useful. First nuke would kill all the minions and nearly defeat lieutenants (if not defeat outright). If you're going to pop enough blues to get enough end to use Burnout and nuke again you may as well just do regular AoEs and finish off the lieutenants. Then all you have left is bosses and it's not worth nuking on a boss. And using nuke on EBs or AVs is also a waste.

Unless the plan is just to nuke two spawns in a row, but then you're dealing with the crashes of a nuke and Burnout, and you already used blues (and you'd need to use 2-3 just to be able to use Burnout and nuke again).

You won't really find a Dom that can do healing. It's not what Doms do. It's like looking for a Scrapper that does healing. Closest you can get is Spirit Tree, and it's a pretty minor boost. As for the others:

Every Dom has good holds because every Dom has at least a single target and AoE hold. If you want above and beyond, Earth Control has a really potent AoE hold and its pet can hold. Gravity and Ice also have pets that hold. In secondaries, Earth Assault can hold with Seismic Smash, and Energy, Earth, and Ice have Power Boost for longer mezzes.

For DPS the good options are Fire and Earth. Some sets just don't have enough AoE, like Elec and Energy. Thorns I'm not sure of the numbers on but it may be good if you can handle the cones. For epics I'd take Fire or Ice. Some primaries add good damage like Fire Control and Plant Control.

For team support that boils down to mezzing enemies the easiest. That'd be Fire Control, Earth Control, Plant Control, and Mind Control. If you want to toss some extra mezzes and soft control in from secondaries that gives you Earth Assault, Energy Assault, and Ice Assault.

The best Dom I managed to put together is Plant/Earth/Fire. She has really powerful attacks whether in ST or AoE. And her carrion creeper vines add more damage. Her confuse recharges about 5x faster than its duration and she has Seismic for extra holds. She hits hard and mezzes hard, and in AV fights I even have Spirit Tree, although I wouldn't count that as a major addition (it's a little helpful though).

But I'm also messing with a Fire/Thorn Dom recently and I tend to like her thus far. It's hard to go wrong with fire.

And more recharge and it also increases the healing people get from your two heals.