EarthWyrm

I am fairly certain that the game doesn't care what drop pool the rare came from - or, frankly, that it's even Rare in some cases (e.g., I converted a Call of the Sandman into a Touch of Death acc/dam, which is uncommon, and then converted the ToD A/D into another rare). I did a bunch of random converting last night, because I got bored flipping purples and wanted to turn some of the junk random SGmates have stored over the years into more useful items. I can't remember whether it was a level 10 Erad Damage or ADR that I turned into a BotZ KB protection, but I know it was one of the two.

I just combined an Enzyme Exposure and a Synthetic Enzyme Exposure on the test server. Worked fine.

Unrelated, the new feature where you don't detoggle after 15 minutes? Really nice. I logged on test earlier this afternoon, probably 5 or 6 hours ago, and turned on all my toggles. When I logged back in to check this, the toggles were still running.

Which is fine, and why I included the language about posting on behalf of a suspended user. If CB is suspended, posting on his behalf violates the rule.

On behalf of the Forum Rules and Guidelines (http://boards.cityofheroes.com/annou...p?f=600&a=28):

Not angry enough. Here's an alternative approach.

"Play and you may lose. Rage and you will win - at least a while. And dying in your bed many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance, just one chance, to come back here as angry players and tell our devs that they may take our RP, but they will never take our DRAMA!"

Sorry about that. My quoting of you was largely because you were the most recent post in the thread. I probably should have just hit the "reply" button.

My concern was that something had happened that made general combination of special-origin enhancements (specifically, Hami-O's) impossible. That does not seem to be the case. Having never had a Hydra-O I can't test combining un-like special origins, but I'll take your word for it.

I went over to test, just to see, and was able to combine 2 Enzyme Exposures just fine.

The flip side, of course, being that most of the complaining happens in the forums...

I'm not sure how you got an entire thread on your motorcycle, but you cleared that shark by a mile.

Out of deference to those coulrophobes in the thread, I will not post the standard Joker "Not sure if serious" image in this space.

However, I will ask for a citation relevant to the depiction of insane Buddhist clowns.

Used to be, when someone would argue that /EA was great with IOs, there would be those who jumped in and said something to the effect of, "Yeah, but if you made the same investment with a different secondary, it'd be that much better!"

The same logic kind of applies here. Getting 70% global recharge on a stoner means that you're back to having no penalty. Getting 70% global recharge with any other secondary means that you now have the equivalent of perma-hasten.

That being said, I'm from the weird school that doesn't believe stoners should live in granite. We have to keep Rooted on, sure, what with it being our mez protection. But granite flat-out isn't needed in most content, and particularly for a brute, you don't want something that reduces your damage output right off the bat. Yeah, if you're in granite, you'll almost never die. (Unless you're going up against psi-users. I love the "WTF?" moment when a granite tank teleports up to the psi AV in the STF and faceplants in two seconds...) You'll also provide way less damage to the team's cause. The team is only as fast as its slowest member. Personally? I hate being That Guy.

Of course, I also don't think the movement debuff is particularly meaningful once people get used to the shift+lbutton teleport bind. If somebody gets to a spawn before I do on my stoners, they went to the wrong spawn.

It comes down to a playstyle choice. Having done both (over a thousand hours on the stone tank, over 2,000 on the /ea brute) I know that /EA fits my playstyle better, so that's what I'd recommend.

Something to test (since you're over on the test server) is whether the Hami-O's can be boosted in the same fashion as IOs (i.e., with Boosters). Tha'ts not the case on live, currently. If (on test) they can be boosted and can no longer be combined, that would point to an un-advertised but intended change. If they cannot be boosted and still cannot be combined, that would seem to be a bug over on test.

We'll get them eventually, I'm sure. This strikes me as a way to bleed the truly ridiculous number of RMs generated by super packs out of the system somewhat. The irony is that doing so is not just slowing down some of the crazy-making with purples, it's also creating more crazy-making with anything that's not purple/pvp by pushing people away from using their RMs for anything other than converters.

That's just a WAG, though. I'm not trying to understand the logic too much. I'm just logging in, playing, and continuing to get fake-rich. I figure the week that I don't re-position some alts to be in Fort Trident/Crucible will be when they finally push these out via other means than RMs.

At least they had the foresight to throttle alignment merit-based converters to 1 purchase per 20 hours per character. Won't help with the glut of astrals and empyreans, though.

I had much better luck with out-of-set conversions than I did with in-set conversions. Twelve randoms on one character got me 2 Panacea procs, and another ten got me a GA and SW unique. It's the in-set conversions that somehow feel way more like a sucker bet, which makes me wonder about the weightings.

There's not much to be mad about, objectively, since I pretty much made back everything I spent getting purples and pvpo's with two GA sales for a billion each early on, and have a ton of purples and PVPs to convert over time, to trick out my characters. I don't need the fake monies, since I have more than I can spend already. I'm really just disappointed that this is twice I looked for the roll-out on these, and twice that it didn't go as I expected it would.

My own fault, and ultimately, my own lack of perspective. When I'm the angriest person in a thread, it's time for me to take a break from the forums for a while.

Good luck with that. I just spent 400 doing in-set conversions and couldn't hit the one I wanted. I started out with 63 stacks of 25 merits in my email and am down under 40 from another set of conversions, and only hit 2 things I was trying to hit out of that run.

They introduced the least-optimal, most cash-relevant, option first. This is about as skeezy a move as I've ever seen this team pull, and I'm really disappointed in them.

My first thought was, "Well, if there were any way for them to actually make money off this, I'd be really annoyed."

My second thought was, "Well, crap. The easiest way to get reward merits is to buy super packs..."

It was a nice reminder of why, when I sit for 5-10 minutes every time I make a new character claiming items and setting up trays, one of the first things I do is remove "Help" from all applicable tabs.

There's about an order of magnitude's difference between "working a niche" and "cornering a market." I'd be shocked if converters turned the market into a "store"-like entity with totally stable prices.

That's good information to have. I hadn't noticed, but that's because when I've run in teams we've not been auto-completing the arc-badge mission because of the other funky thing that happens when you're on a team and complete an arc in DA.

I don't think we've gotten to any of the non-arc badge missions thus far, but we've been working our way through fairly slowly.

So... it fails twice as hard?

Except that for such a model to work, they have to be able to spend my money for me. And they can't, so it won't, so I'm pretty sure your interpretation fails.

I've got tons of recipe and salvage storage just through normal play and vet rewards and Vanguard merits. I bought extra storage on Beta and don't notice it much. The utility that goes along with having multiple enhancement trays got diminished when I picked up a stack of unslotters that allow me to pull IOs out one at a time.

What they offer is QOL convenience, but it's nothing I can't live without for $20. I'll spend money on other games before I get that free with my spending in this one.

If it's worth it to you, though, that's cool.

I think there should be a joke about leprechaun blood after this, just to make the gratuitous Charlie Sheen reference complete.

As was pointed out to me on the beta forums, he'd be greyed out on the iTrials.

I fail to grasp the logic that attempts to balance in-game rewards by making them prohibitive to purchase with out-of-game money, but that seems to be what's going on here. It's bizarre.