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Originally Posted by Traska

I'd like to see a new mission type: bounties. "Defeat 30 Outcasts", "Defeat 10 Hewers", "Defeat 15 Family Lieutenants", that sort of thing.

Originally Posted by Madame Pistacio

The purples add nothing to the defense portion of the build. They are a nice toy if you have them and if you don't there are definitely cheaper options! You could do a set of Posi Blast for Rags and a set of crushing impact for the Hecas. If you have a specific price point in mind, just let me know, I can revamp a build for you with cost in mind.

To answer your question- grinding is probably the slowest way to make inf in game. Playing the market for a few minutes each day is the fastest. As a simple exercise... I would tell you to find a moderately priced set that you like... let's just say Posi blast. Bid for a reasonable but low bid on each recipe (level 50), but don't just bid on 1, bid for 10. When they fill, craft them. Save 3 and sell 7. You'll pay for the three you keep and have a tidy profit. This is how you start building up a stock of enhancements of sets you are likely to use often (crushing impact, posis, maybe makos, kinetic combats (more spendy), thunderstrikes, doctored wounds, etc.). When you have a stock pile created it makes your future builds a lot less costly since you can just go steal from your base.

Additionally, you could join in for the events that are run on the server and win some prizes! There are usually 3-6 small prizes given out weekly at Hami and there will be well over 5 billion given out at a Victorious Spring Fling (tonight!).

Originally Posted by Venture

Good for them, but you have to admit American companies have a huge reputation for short-term thinking.

Originally Posted by Lucky666

What you quoted and what your response was





What now you quoted it and said it was true for blue and red side. My reading comprehension is fine you just like to make stuff up to make yourself look good but I call people on their BS. What you said was pure BS. Don't lie you said it go back and read it. It's there I quoted it and there's nothing you can do about it.

Originally Posted by InfamousBrad

I think Z_M nails it, above.

When I listened to the Paragon Market panel at the Pummit, I noticed that the only things people are willing to pay extra money for are character-related. Notice that neither Praetoria access nor First Ward access showed up in the best seller list. The best seller list consists entirely of powersets, costume parts, enhancements, and the "cards" that give a random costume part or enhancement.

Players have voted with their dollars and with their time for less low-level content, less mid-level content. The cash-paying customers want a new character subclass (or class, eventually), or a new costume set, so they can roll new character concepts ... which they then want to PL up into the end-game raids as fast as humanly possible, skipping all of the content up until then if possible. Note, after all, that upcoming releases for the market include much stronger XP boosters, and several-hour substantial self-buff temp powers: exactly what you'd need so that as soon as you get done with Death from Below, you can crank any character's difficulty up to +4x8 and PL yourself through the 20-50 range. Note also that they long ago altogether gave up on stopping the AE PL farms that are designed to get you to level 50 in 8 to 16 hours; Power Amplifiers and Double XP boosts will only reinforce that.

That's not how I play City of Heroes. Right this minute, I have a whole crop of mid 20s, playing leisurely through the mid-level content, which I mostly still enjoy, and a half dozen or so low 30s waiting for Night Ward. But people like me are apparently as much of an unprofitable niche market as the PvPers. Paragon Studios is, arguably correctly, chasing the big money: selling people a wider variety of characters to grind Incarnate Trials with.

(Although, I say with a wry grin, there's very little point in caring what your character's costume is once you get to the end game. On a 24-man raid, the particle-effect smog is so dense that nobody can see your costume.)

Originally Posted by Venture

You're not from America, are you....

Originally Posted by Lucky666

What having to drop a team cause a solo mission? Cause your wrong I have never had to drop a team cause of a solo mission red of blue side. Gold side just sucks and the fact it's deserted proves it.

Originally Posted by Diggis

The other thing was that if you teamed you blew past the story levels and missed out on the arcs, plus the having to unteam to do the solo missions at the end of each arc. While I very much enjoyed the stories there I found I had to be very careful of my leveling speed.

Originally Posted by Lycantropus

I'd rather they update it to reflect the changes in story. Make an Echo of the old one and make all the old content available through Oroborous (which it already is). I really enjoy the new "Echo" tech for this reason.

Then make it a maybe 20-30/30-40 zone, covered in Lava in the middle (a-la the SSA's) Take out the Outcasts short of the random gangs in Steel (Frostfire's trying to be a hero now, anyway). The Trolls retreated to Skyway, The Circle and Tsoo have their own problems to deal with in Dark Astoria.

Now the Minions of Igneous, Coralax (advancing their story) and... the Devouring Earth (trying to 'heal' the damage by destroying everything in sight and taking over) are the main movers and shakers in the zone. Maybe that's why the Coralax started popping up. They knew there was a mystical breach and were there examining it... Meanwhile Longbow and the Legacy Chain are just trying to keep everything contained.

Mayby they could even have Frostfire as an ally or contact in the zones activities, trying to clean up the mess that was his old neighborhood.

One of your missions (off the top of my head) is to prevent the lava from reaching and polluting the Red River, and of course just as importantly, the dam.

That might be cool.

Originally Posted by Black Zot

I stopped having anything to do with the Hollows when I ran into Frostfire. Seriously Paragon? An AV with double control powersets in a level range where only a fraction of characters have any sort of mez protection and NOBODY is geared to stand up to the power of an AV yet?