GavinRuneblade

they're single target because you get into all kinds of messy numbers with aoe, wher you have to figure out chance to hit, number in range, effect of range, etc. single is cleaner so people use it more.

That said, I have never seen dps calculations that DIDN'T take the crits into consideration.

Just give use the same phase that the illusionists use. In otherwords, I can hit you, you cant hit me.

And turn on the pvp phasing rules. If you phase also we can both hit each other.

As far as I ca see, these two are somewhat linked. lack of supply with steady or increasing demand = rising price. Inflation = rising price.

Is my understanding off?

Now, addressing inflation wholesale across the game, will not increase supply of "my favorite recipe", so they are not the same thing. But they do seem connected.

But some of us are not skilled enough to really do it. You can give me all the training in the world and I'll never play the violin in any way that doesn't make you want to throttle me or shoot me to get me to stop.

I've tried to modify builds. But really, I can tweak a given power in a complete vacuum. that's the limit of it. Making it fit a concept or contribute to the whole? Totally outside my skillset.

What helps me play and have fun is when someone just gives me a build and says "pick these, slot these, here's your attack chain".

Really, you don't want to know how bad it gets when I try to modify things or do it myself.

I end up with things like my stalker who has the Serendipity Endurance reduction and no other pieces from the set in hide. Or my cold/ice defender who runs out of endurance on one spawn of two -1 level minions and sometimes gets killed by them. And I've been playing for two years now. I'm a bit better now, but not much.

I appreciate the help because i'll never stop trying to get better, but I really prefer the cookie cutter along with the help.

Some people solo AVs, Frosticus is trying to find a way to take out a rikti pylon in less than a minute (down to 1.50). One day, I will find a melee build that can take these guys at +2/x8 solo.

They are wicked. But fun.

I see a few issues with this, 100% of which are solved by increasing the drop rate as suggested by Shark and Smurf:
#1 it promotes the sales for high volume items where support is not needed. and neglects low supply items where the assistance is needed. Increased drop rates increase supply of everything equally.

#2 it hurts the casual player and helps the hardcore. (note definition used: "casual" = poor, ignorant masses; "hardcore" = wealthy enough to use buyitNAO pricing and pay for top-end IOs). Because no drop was "sold" no casual player gets a sale, instead inf is removed and a wealthy player gets an enhancement. Increasing the drop rate does give more to the farmers than to the casuals, but at least the casuals get something instead of having the market become their competition.

#3 doesn't address the key imbalance in the market of top-heavy focus. Again, with so much activity and emphasis on level 50 IOs and so much purchasing power in the hands of level 50 characters, those who need/want IOs for levelling are left out in the cold (no this is not merely a variation of #1, but the two are related). Increasing activity among level 50s does not help the game as a whole, nor does it emphasize the alt-friendly design strategy. Anything done, needs to work across all levels, not just at the top. By focussing on stocking based on activity, you're necessarily focussing on 50s due to the issue Smurphy described. There is no way to avoid it if you use activity on the market as your criteria.

I'm sorry, but I do see this as a bad idea for those reasons. And I do see the level 50 earning potential as necessarily linked to your idea.

On the other hand, I do like the attempt to find a way to address supply and destroy inf. By itself this won't do what we want, but it is at least starting the conversation in the right direction. =)

I'll add the Banished Pantheon shamans over the totems and spirits.

With the Family though, the bosses often carry leadership. Drop those bosses fast.

On Nemesis, leave the lieuts for last or suffer from stacked vengeance. Take out fake nemesis first, their forcefield protects allies.

Anyone who summons is another high priority target, especially since what gets summoned is worth zero exp, so it just wastes your time and resources, better to prevent them showing up at all. Rikti communication officers, Sky Raider Engineers, Malta guys who summon gun turrets, Clockwork Assemblers (I'm not talking about the gears that appear when they die, I mean how they summon sprockets).

AOE powers and buffs are a mixed bag. Take Rikti guardians. The AM and forcefields aren't much when there's only one or two of them. But 5 guardians stacking AM and forcefields onto a drone makes it really, really annoying to hit.

Purple sets only let you keep the set powers. The enhancement % is still reduced.

Not true at all. I used the midnighter stealth in my aura mission just this past Saturday. COT aren't midnighters.

I'm no sure on the arachnos costume as I play redside so much I haven't gotten one recently.

Wait, I actually have bragging rights on something related to this game?

/em boggle.

In all honesty in my case it's just the sheer stubborn refusal to quit over skill. but I'll take what I can get.

True enough I'll give you that one.

Actually, it is because too many people look at a slow moving item and say "I only have x number of slots, do I really want to tie down 8 of them with bids on this item at several levels and hope that one fills but not 2 or 3, when I could be selling" or "I only have x slots, do I really want to list this Mailaise's Illusion at level 32 that will probably sit for a month, or do I want to sell common salvage..."

I'd rather be able to list as many items as I want and bid on as many as I want and never have any of us forced to delete items or vendor them. I want us to be able to post and sell and bid as much as we want.

I see the Goat's comment about hoarding, and I do understand it, but I think that more slots will encourage more selling rather than more hording. This is based on the supply being so heavily influenced by farmers and other power players who generate huge supply. I might be wrong, but I think they would rather sell than horde.

The Red Caps got to your message and borked it. That's what they do. Annoying faeries!

No, it means most recipes especially including purples, will never be selling at all.

Also there is the Midnighter's Visage which is perfect Stealth, the Arachnos costume from the Faultline Arc which is perfect Stealth, and there is a stealth shout temp you get from bank missions.

I disagree on one point, Many people who do understand how the market works still have complaints about it.

I have a mediocre understanding, and I for one would like unlimited vendor slots or at least a huge number more than we currently have.

Grats to both Fulmens and to you! I hope they can be transfered and don't get wiped like the other one.
I had a small collection of buggy drops on Diablo II, and always wanted to see one here.

Honestly, I think plenty of people would be willing to to put up with a change for the CHANCE at a better system. I know I would.

This isn't really the best way to do it IMO. I think disabling the old editor completely from the player end, but leaving existing bases online and accessible, simultaneous with a new editor and an account with identical prestige to your current base is the way to go. Then you use the base portal to chose to enter current or legacy base. Move your stuff, and eventually scrap your legacy base.

Leaving the old editor functioning, just encourages people to keep using it, when you want them migrating.