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That's exactly my point. No matter how fast you go through them, you'll be doing it one at a time due to all the single target damage. With SR, you have no damage resistance and, as someone that's played a lot of defense based toons, I can guarantee you that attacks will get through. There's even a mechanic built into the game that ensures this will happen. Placate will allow you to be gauranteed that some of those bosses will be incapable of even trying to attack you until you've finished off the lesser NPCs and are ready to deal with them directly. Even in teams, if your character does the kind of damage that you indicate it will, you're going to draw agro.

Why would you have no interest in taking placate? If you're in the mindset that it's only use is to set you up for another assassin strike then you're thinking about it all wrong.

With Street Justice you're going to have one cone attack, one AoE, and a whole lot of single target attacks.

With SR there are going to be times when you're just drawing more heat than you can handle thanks to having next to no damage resistance (especially while leveling up when you're unlikely to be softcapped).

At times like this, placate is great for getting a heavy hitting NPC to leave you alone for a little while so you can take care of some of the other things you're fighting. A good example of that is coming across a mob with two or three bosses and a whole bunch of weaker NPCs. Assassin strike one of the bosses, placate the other, and you've got about 20 seconds to clean up all the others before that placated boss can even think about touching you, provided you didn't hit them before the time is up which is unlikely since you're going to be mostly single target damage.

I just want to take a moment to say that developing Praetoria further is most definitely not a waste of time or resources. This is a very old arguement that somewhat defies logic. The only difference between what's said here and older discussions is that it used to be said about villains.

I rarely looked at the forums in the past but, I used to regularly comment that I wished they'd develop more content for the villain side of the game and all my friends that did pay attention to the forums would chime in that the devs have no intention of doing that and prefer to focus on the hero side since that's where the majority of people play. The problem with that mindset is that it doesn't take a rocket scientist to look at the game and point out that there's more to do hero side than there is villain side so of course people are going to spend the majority of their time where all the content is.

If there are two TV shows, both with similar plots, production values, script quality, and both have actors of the same level of skill but, one of those shows suddenly stops making new episodes and just shows reruns that everyone has seen dozens of times over while the other one keeps developing it's storyline and making new episodes is it any surprise when everyone stops watching one of those shows to focus on the other or would you say that the fact that everyone chose to watch new episodes of one of those shows rather than never ending reruns of the other is proof that the show that stopped being produced should have stopped making new episodes?

Might I suggest a Plant Control/Earth Assault Dominator? Instead of relying on your protective toggles, you've got a nice mix of mezzes to keep you from getting overwhelmed and smacking someone right in the face with a big rock is a lot more satisfying than you might think.

If you're looking for something that can tank, are primarily interested in resistance numbers, and don't want to go with stone, I'd suggest electric armor. It's possible to cap Smashing, Lethal, and Energy resistance on one, it's possible to get energize pretty close to perma (I think mine is about 1.5 seconds away), and the endurance drain is an auto hit, throw a stun proc and some recharge in it and you've got a PBAoE autohit sapping power that has a chance of mezzing as well. You can throw another one in it's PBAoE toggle too for even more stuns.

Nope! That player should not feel ripped off when there's no reason to pay that much influence or more for an enhancement unless it's purple.

Go to AE instead. Get 1,500 tickets from a single mission and spend 8 tickets per roll for common salvage. Spend all of them that way while you're at it! That's 187 common salvage. You're sure to get at least 1 of the ones you're looking for and then you can go sell the rest for 500k a piece just like everyone else! \o\ \o/ /o/

You say it like that's a bad thing.

First off, don't discount mugging so quickly. You get to choose your own hours, be your own boss, get to be out in the fresh air, meet new people and socialize with them every day... Sounds like a job with a couple nice perks to me.

Not only that but, with an MMO I don't think they'd want to have the players suffering from burn out and leaving just so they can get a quick infusion of cash. I'd think the devs would want something that will keep people interested for a prolonged period of time, especially considering how big an impact word of mouth can make on a games playerbase.

I would assume that you mean your friends on this game. I'm also guessing that some of the things you enjoy doing with your friends is actually playing the game, meaning running tips, regular missions, task forces, and incarnate trials. Those are all ways to earn the enhancements that this thread is about so if you're doing that then why bother going and buying them off the market when you're already doing things that will get them for you in game?

This I actually see nothing wrong with since you're replacing IOs that are already acquired in game. I'm assuming you'll be taking them off and then putting them on other characters or posting them on the market which will help drive the market on the auctionhouse. It's when people avoid trying to earn these things in game entirely and make the paragon market their one stop shop that I think it'll be bad for the game.

True. It'll bring the prices down, on those IOs. Purples are already costing up to 800 million inf just for one and PvP IOs cost over a billion. Take a moment to consider how much those will cost when anyone that wants to can just go to the paragon market and buy an IO then save all their inf for those same ultra rares that you're after. Do you really want to spend billions of inf on a single purple or are you going to suggest that they put those on the paragon market as well?

I don't really see how what I said reaffirmed any of your opinions considering that everything I said basically amounted to it not being necessary to buy enhancements using paragon points or going to the gold farmers. Like I said in my earlier post, it's pretty easy to do without having to resort to things like that. I'm sure you've got at least a couple friends that have figured it out so why not save your cash and ask them for help?

Gotta disagree with this wholeheartedly. I don't RMT. I don't buy enhancements off the market, and I have multiple fully IOed toons complete with incarnate enhancements as well and I play pretty casually. I don't play the market game either. Perhaps there are people on this game that can't figure out how to do it but, that doesn't mean they should just make it a situation where money wins over all. What'd be the point of even playing then? Might as well hand NCSoft a blank check and not even log on since that kinda removes any challenge at all of playing. If you or other players haven't figured out how to pull it off then why not ask your friends that have to show you how to go about earning IOs quickly. It's what I've been doing for my friends.

Just wanted to point out that SRs cap DDR without even trying to while I think it'd be great if they did something to toughen up the set, you can't really improve DDR on them.

I can see what you're saying but, personally, I don't think Cloak of Darkness is as bad as Shadow Dweller.

I don't think it's a great power either, mind you, because, just like with Shadow Dweller, it's the only power in the set that adds defense and it give so little that it makes me wonder why it was even put in the set (don't forget that dark armor was made before IOs so it wasn't to help people softcap with slotting IOs and that the devs have stated the game is designed around SOs) but, it does have a higher base defense so even if you just throw one enh in the free slot you'll get a larger return on that.

It also has the advantage of only taking up one of your power choices in your build, unlike for stalkers, that have to waste two powers to get the same thing so again you get more out of it.

I've got a DA scrapper as well by the way. It takes a second or two for NPCs to notice you when using Cloak of Darkness so as long as you keep moving you're usually fine.