Grey Pilgrim

No, from what I've seen about it, any opponent can drop a tip, even if they're gray to you. It's not salvage or anything, so it's not like they want to keep you from getting tips... by all accounts, they want you to be able to get these fairly easily.

Most of the marketeering types I saw posting seemed to think this would affect "regular" recipes, but not Purple or PvP recipes due to the cost, which makes sense. I'll probably do these from time to time since it is nice to be able to buy an expensive recipe with an A merit, but I'm not going to focus on it too much.

The tip drop rate is kind of weird... I have them drop all the time. Usually have a few drop in just one mission, though sometimes it gets as low as one. I suppose one good thing you can do about this is team up with others, and that way you can run someone's tip mission.

Yeah, can't they stretch to help out the EU types? It doesn't affect me, but it does seem kind of unfortunate that all these contests are NA only.

Anyway, the contest seems neat. I'll be logging into MMORPG.com to up my chances!

For what it's worth, I'm just discussing KM (though I think it probably would sync up decently with most sets pretty well). I'm also trying to say if you know the numbers add up... you should try to let that affect your perception, right? Hate to see you not liking a set that you think doesn't do good damage when the numbers say otherwise.

But hey, I can understand not liking a set on a feeling. I like Warmace more than Battle Axe even though they're not very different, for instance. And though I do like Dual Blades, I enjoy Fire Melee, War Mace, and SS more, even though it balances out by the numbers.

I also agree with the Gauntlet stuff... think the proc just works on what the attack is hitting, not Gauntlet itself. From what I remember, anyway.

Hmmm, so it sounds like you need to do some on Saturdays so I can join in!

Do you really need prescribed teams this much? Seems a bit annoying if you need to have that many spots for colds and rads only.

Even then, I don't really see how KM makes for issues keeping mobs in range of RTTC (or any more than other attack sets). KD a mob, and they're not going anywhere. Stun is the only objection I can think of, and that's mostly because of most people believing that mobs stagger all over the place at sprint speeds (or faster) like they used to. Usually they' stagger within melee range, and if they happen to move out of it, you should be able to move just fine.

I have a lot of characters with Stun in their attacks, and it's not an issue like it used to be at all. Repulsing Torrent is the only real issue, but its numbers are so bad at this point most should avoid it anyway.

Not liking a set I can get for its looks or feel. But this... confuses me. You acknowledge that the numbers for the damage will say otherwise (unless you're trying to say the number crunchers make stuff up for some reason... and you don't seem like someone that would argue that), but you still feel like it's not good? Even though it works by the numbers and isn't a bad set?

Or do you just not like sets that are more ST focused? Again, I can certainly understand that. Just not an argument that the animations take too long or its damage is meh (though it is a weaker AOE set for sure, it's still better than EM in that regard).

Not sure, but are you trying to imply that the animations are too long... that the gathering energy part is as long as the whole activation for other attacks? If so... KM's animations are shorter than a lot of standard attacks (first three are all faster than Mace's first three, for instance). And Focused Burst is a faster AOE than most AOEs out there: all of Fiery Melee's take longer.

Look at the numbers, and you'll see that animation times are on par for KM with other sets.

If you look at the animation times, they're not that bad and work pretty well. I'm not even sure what people are going by with "gut" feelings, either, as my KM Scrapper doesn't feel slow, either, even if he is a lowbie.

I'd only disagree with you on the control aspect. It does mostly KD and Stuns, which work well on Mace as well. The effects happen fairly often with the first three attacks, too. So I think it works pretty well in that regard. Damage doesn't seem like it would be that bad if you don't mind focusing more on ST... I know I don't on my Scrappers, as I have a MA scrapper already. Don't mind it much with Energy for Tanks, either (and KM is better for AOE there at least).

Repulsing Torrent is just... bad though. Bad damage, not reliable enough of mitigation to warrant the lower damage, and KB is bad on melee characters. Not sure how this was seen as good after all the work the devs did changing numerous powers from KB to KD for melee sets.

You should have a main contact with the resistance or praetorians that you can talk to and get you going with a new one. Level 8 is when they introduce you to a new set, actually.

Yeah, it's nice... I just would like another half second or two for server hiccups and powers not activating as they should (I'll sometimes have a power queued up only to have it not fire off, etc.). Anyway, I thought MA was great before this, and the changes pretty much rounded this off. Don't like that Cobra Strike lost its 100% chance to stun, though. I thought EC had its stun chance changed to 100% to work better with CS, but perhaps not.

I liked being able to have a guaranteed boss removal, especially ones with annoying Tier 9s like Paragon Protectors.

And FA has less room to deal with those serious issues because of the kb hole. It's a debuff to the set that is a distraction and isn't warranted given how the set is designed/balanced with the game and other sets.

And if there are serious issues it needs to deal with to be survivable and dish out the damage (and I do agree with this), than having to deal with being KB'd is a concern: especially since part of FA's survivability is a click heal that you can use about every 20 seconds with slotting.

It's not really a minor issue, even if there are things that you can do about it, and even if you want to argue it's minor, we go back to the point I keep beating on. Nothing about FA or DA screams "overpowered" so much that having a KB hole is warranted. They have other pros and cons already, get rid of this random annoyance.