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Originally Posted by Silver Gale

Fix'd. The bonus merits and Notice are granted before the table pops up (or about at the same moment).

Originally Posted by Santorican

Choose merit rewards and get merits, incarnate shard, and notice of the well?

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

In that case, I guess testing it might be a bit late

Originally Posted by Grey Pilgrim

Well, I'm trying to make these builds as affordable as possible, so slotting Kinetic Combats isn't really a great way of doing that. You're either going to spend a lot of merits or a lot of cash to get those slotted, and leaving a power at 4 KC's doesn't make for great enhancement numbers, either, especially for accuracy. A lot of your boost comes from slotting Maneuvers more heavily and having it running, but I would be reluctant to do that except at level 50 with the Cardiac boost. Yours has less end recovery as well, so I would rather worry about how well that would do as you level up and don't have a Cardiac boost assisting you. Consume is nice, but it can only make up for so much. I know my original build can keep going constantly without Maneuvers going (and using Consume on at least one target), so I'm fairly sure that the heavy end use of Maneuvers would affect that.

But you should certainly come up with the build you want for your characters... mine are just pictures of what you can do and what has worked for me on a modest budget (and adjustments from an original build I made several years ago).

Originally Posted by Greyhame

A-merits are easy to come by, even on mid-level characters. If you can't get a mid-level recipie any other way...

Originally Posted by Kain Tremere

Specifically, Dark Melee as a whole. I absolutely love Dark Melee, but the "cloud of darkness" that surrounds your fists just...isn't appealing. It's too big, and just looks like splattered ink.

Originally Posted by abnormal_joe

I need to crunch the numbers on this but I remember thinking the rare defense buff would make a SR or Shield nigh broken on SO slotting.

Originally Posted by stacker

No sarcasm here i have no problrm letting go of the past for a better future. Even though i have spent hundreds of hours building stuff over the years it would be more space for me to build and bring new life to bases.

Originally Posted by Yomo_Kimyata

All this tells me that sub-lvl 50 recipes/enhancements should cost more than lvl 50s. How I wish this were true!

Originally Posted by Rodion

This is not due to greed on the part of the sellers. This is due to laziness, acquisitiveness and the need for instant gratification on the part of buyers.

I just don't get the rancor about this particular point. It's a red herring. If you don't want to pay 500K for common salvage, nothing requires that you do so. You can just run regular missions and salvage drops like mana from heaven. Save it in the bank, your base or in market slots. If that's too slow for you, spend a few minutes in AE, get tickets, roll randomly for the level of salvage you want for 8 tickets a pop.

If players simply boycotted high-cost common salvage and rolled their own instead of paying 500K each, the price would drop to reasonable values within hours. It's really that simple.

But obviously a large number of people don't think 500K is too much, and just pay the man the money to get their overpriced salvage NOW! Think of this as a laziness tax, and not price gouging, and you'll feel much better.

And about buying items from vendors:

There are very few things in the game that can't be bought outright with reward merits, alignment merits or AE tickets. Basically, only Hamidon Origin enhancements and certain inspirations.

Many people are saying they don't really care how much things would cost from vendors, they just want the option to buy stuff at a fixed price. But we already have that option right now (with merit vendors on every street corner and the Crucible and Fort Trident). And people are still complaining.

So, here's the thing: if the devs made everything available at vendors the prices would certainly be much, much higher than what you can get them for on the market. This is based simply on the fact that the merit prices are so high. The 200+ merits that rare recipes sell for would probably take you weeks of running regular missions to accrue.

The problem with the market really seems to be that some people don't like to see other people do something they perceive as wrong, and want to put a stop to this evil. I'm all for stomping out evil, but the only people who are being hurt by overpriced common salvage are those who are too impatient to take a few minutes to get it themselves.

Originally Posted by Chymerus

It would be REALLY nice to have a market interface item for bases.....then I might actually enter mine once in a while to craft and sell. I just don't' like having to do all the loading and running back and forth.

Originally Posted by MunkiLord

I am very open to the idea that my very high level of annoyance(or nerd rage) is fueled by a bias towards the market.

But objectively there are so many applications for something like this. I will no longer have to delete recipes/salvage mid mission and can instead put them on the market for 1 influence. I normally solo so this won't be an issue stopping mid mission.

Or when I craft a hundred recipes at a time I can sit in my base and save myself countless loading screens.

And there are other uses as well, those are just the two obvious ones for me. Others uses will vary.

Originally Posted by Dispari

The logic is that they either changed the icon to appease the icon modding community, or because they're going to have a similar power come out soon and don't want duplicate icons. Which would allude to some sort of beast run or similar power. It's pure speculation though.

Also, I use musculature on my widow because she has no use for any of the other bonuses.

Originally Posted by Bionic_Flea

2. I believe that the Weekly Strike Force will include all or most of the existing Task and Strike Forces at all levels. The ability to gain XP while doing them certainly suggests that. And without using the lower level TFs we would be running LGTF, ITF, RSF/STF, Apex, Tin Mage, and Khan/Barracuda ad infiintum. Including the lower level content is a good idea, in my opinion. And I can understand that completing a Task Force would make the Well Notice us. We have completed something epic.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

My MA/SR currently has a Nerve slotted. I actually crafted a Spiritual Radial for her, but I decided to also craft a Nerve. The reason is her theoretical final build uses Gladiator to get the last 3% defense to soft cap: without that nigh-mythical enhancement I'm short at about 44% defense. Slotting Nerve Radial Boost added more than 2% defense to my build and puts me a little over 46%. The net effect is a drop in incoming damage of about 20%, and I get some free accuracy.

Its temporary to be sure, although given what I have to do to replace it, temporary might be a significant temporary. Nevertheless, I do think Nerve is the least attractive of all of them. Damage is at least the default: no one can fail to benefit from more damage. The mistake I think was in not realizing that while Accuracy, Damage, Recharge, and Endurance reduction are the big four most commonly used enhancements (the anchors for the four Alpha variants) Accuracy can be saturated. Damage and recharge cannot be, and Endurance reduction is common, but almost never slotted to the ED soft cap. Given that, Accuracy should have been paired up with significant qualitative bonuses that are nice to have but rarely taken. Cardiac and Nerve should probably trade range and defense and fear and taunt. End/Def/Res/Taunt makes more sense, and Accuracy/Range/Hold/Fear makes more sense. I can see why they might have wanted to split them up, but the more I think about it the more I believe that split up just ends up devaluing both relative to Recharge/Heal and Damage/Recovery, and it weakens the sense of power progression through the individual trees.

Originally Posted by SilverAgeFan

This makes me giddy. And my magic 8-ball thinks it bodes well for some sort of beastly run in the animal booster pack.


(I know I know, prolly just setting myself up for disappointment... but sometimes it's fun t' dream!)

Originally Posted by Eva Destruction

It's a good thing we're not playing Diablo, or we'd have to leave piles of it all over town.

Originally Posted by DumpleBerry

Except soloing the Alpha unlock, and soloing the common and uncommon boosts would entirely be...soloing.

The fact that you have to go above and beyond, and team, for the rarest and most powerful boosts has no bearing on your reference to Posi's, "...solo path for people to do incarnate content..." If anything, Black Scorpion's tacit, "We'll take your feedback under advisement" would seem to indicate that there won't be solo uber rare stuff for at least a while, if ever.

Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect

Something has been bothering me slightly for a while now.

That thing is: Why are so many people obsessed with being rewarded for the time they spend playing City of Heroes?

I see complaints about the drop rate of Incarnate Shards, purples, and any other thing that you get while you're playing, and I can't for the life of me figure out why it is so important that people get these things.

Try something real quick: Think back to when you first started playing the game, and why. I can guarantee that, whatever your reason for playing the game was, it did not involve purple drops or Incarnate Shards. In fact, I would go so far as to say you started playing the game because it was fun.

Now, when I read the forums, it seems that for a lot of people, the amount of fun they have is directly connected to the amount of rewards they get while playing.

Look at anything else you do for enjoyment. Lets say you enjoy bowling, for example. When you go out bowling with your friends, you're going out for the express purpose of going bowling. Having fun while bowling is it's own reward. You don't get upset that you didn't get a trophy for it, you had fun bowling and that was the point of doing it.

Why are video games, and MMOs in particular, so different? You would think that it would be the same. If you go bowling to have fun, why wouldn't you play video games for the same reason?

But I see a lot of people saying that they are playing to get the rewards associated with it, and complaining when they feel that they aren't getting them fast enough. That would be the same thing as going bowling and getting upset that you didn't get a trophy at the end of the night.

What happened to the fun? Why do people feel the need to be rewarded for entertaining themselves? You don't expect a reward from watching TV or a movie. You don't expect a reward for playing catch with your son (or dad, as the case may be). You don't epect a reward for going bowling, or hanging out with your friends. In all of those activities you do to entertain yourself, the fun you have while doing it IS the reward.

Why is a video game so different?

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

That makes a nice change from the usual porn pictures that a lot of male illustrators use as body and pose references.