Grouchybeast
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Scarlet, do you have Mids installed? It's perfect for answering questions like this, because you can just switch the powers on and off and watch what effect it has on your Def numbers. Also very good for answering the IO set bonus v. pool power type of question.
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Quote:If you're primarily a soloist, then the Rogue/Vigilante stage definitely has less potential. There are still a truckload of defeat and exploration badges to collect solo, though, plus any side-switching missions until you make the switch all the way.Originally Posted by gec72
Ok, I have a villain that has started acting heroic enough to become a Rogue. I have access to blue-side zones. To what end? I can't use WW, I can't start heroside missions. Does that mean the only reason I'm there is to team with heroes? -
You're crafting both 25s and 30s, right (8 of each level, plus one which can be either)? If you are, then I can't think of anything beyond the count being bugged, in which case you could try asking a GM to take a look at it.
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Quote:Ah, but surely the question now is, how does War Witch feel about clowns?Originally Posted by Chyll
In short: Positron hates clowns and has made it abundantly clear 'never gonna happen'
It's just a shame there's no space in the set for a 'Go On, Smell My Flower' power. Also, I'd go for Fear over Sleep for the second Prankster. In fact, all clowns should cause Fear. -
Quote:AFAIK, most AE exploits have been based on finding mobs like the hami mitos and manic slammers which presented no or trivial challenge, or by using tricks like ally buffing. Those are all going to give the same XP per mob as they would in the rest of the game, or a little less as AE doesn't apply >1.0 XP modifiers. Even making a custom mob which matches a character's strengths and weaknesses still isn't going to make each mob deliver more than the XP assigned to its rank.Originally Posted by The_Alt_oholic
By keeping track of XP earned in an AE mission and relating it to the XP earned by defeating the same number of foes of the same level in a normal Mission. It should be pretty easy to gauge who's intentionally exploiting the system.
So...I'm just not sure what you intend your system to measure, here.
This is so trivially easy for people to evade by stringing 4 random missions after their farm map and then dropping the arc and restarting that I don't think it would be worth the programming effort to implement even if that effort was five minutes.Quote:Originally Posted by The_Alt_oholic
If the AE is really designed for story-telling, then it should be obvious that a 1 mission arc isn't telling a story. I, honestly, don't think any XP should be rewarded for a 1 mission arc
The only system I can honestly see working is monitoring average XP over played time, and investigating cases where this is excessive, by whatever measure is deemed to be 'excessive'. And even that has tremendous difficulties (granularity, uneven XP gain in normal play) and ways to evade it (starting by leaving a character logged in to an instance overnight). Maybe the problems could be solved, but whether it would be worth it in terms of results, I have no idea. -
Quote:With a little patience and low-ball bidding you can pick up a lot of the IOs stupidly cheap in the AH. (Especially at some levels -- almost any level 50 common IO can be got for 20,000 inf or less in a couple of days blueside.) It's even easier and more convenient now that you can bid on stacks of enhancements. And even where you can't get the enhancement, you can often pick up the recipe at well below bench cost.Originally Posted by Setsuna
I do use IOs when possible, but I wouldn't say they're cheaper (They aren't.. sort of. At least not in the immediate short term.) Between the recipe and crafting cost, they're roughly twice the cost of a +3 SO.
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You can also set your difficulty options to No Bosses while soloing, which will knock the bosses down to lts, and make things a lot easier.
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Standard enemies in MA are capped at the base XP rate. So anything which normally has an XP modifier >1.0 will actually give you base XP instead. Standard mobs which normally have a modifier of >1.0 still have the reduced XP in MA.
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DropStats doesn't have the new Temporary Powers in it, yet. It should be pretty easy for people to add them to a dl'ed copy, though, as all the recipe names are in text files.
Once we're sure of the pool they drop in, I'll see if I can get Archie to update the files, or show me where they are and I'll update them. (He's started a new job with a bad commute, so he's been a bit flaked out in the evenings ATM.) -
Quote:You can always pick up a Cimerora mission via Ouroboros, and use the Ourob crystal teleport to contact function as a work-round.Originally Posted by Kallandra
So basically, unless you've already got a mission in the zone and can use the mission teleporter the zone is now out of bounds.
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Quote:Weighing up pros and cons and choosing to spend your money on something you want and that will provide good value for you is the very essence of learning to be responsible with money. If having access to demons for the next 2-3 months is worth not spending $15 on something else, then it's a perfectly valid and well-informed choice to make.Originally Posted by GlubGlub
edit: i guess that is angst, maybe it has to do with teaching my teen about being responsible with his money. whatever it is, i don't know if i am going to be able to do it
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Quote:And yet, according to what we've heard, Vigilantes will continue to use WW. So we can look forwards to people taking their vigilante heroes Redside to work on those 1000 Longbow kills for the defeat badge, and then coming back to sell the resulting piles of loot in Wentworths. I'm not quite sure how the highly profitable mass-slaughter of Longbow RPs into heroic influence, but I'm sure someone will think of a work round.Originally Posted by The_Alt_oholic
Face it. You are villains.
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Augh! I'm trying to be there, but my stupid computer won't apply the stupid patch. It keeps freezing with it part done.
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Force Feedback: Chance for +rech 37 (crafted)
Mako's Bite: Add/Dam 37 (crafted)
Smashing Haymaker: Dam/End/Rech 35 (crafted)
Efficacy Adaptor: Rech/Acc 37 (crafted)
Gaussian's Synchronised Fire Control: Chance for Buildup (recipe)
Kinetic Combat: Acc/Dam 37 (crafted) x2
Red Fortune: Def/End 37 (crafted)
Titanium Coating: Res/End 37 (crafted)
Doctored Wounds: End/Rech 44 (crafted)
Touch of Death: Acc/Dam/End 26 (crafted)
Mako's Bite: Dam/End 37 (crafted)
Detonation: Acc/Dam/End 37 (crafted)
Focused Smite: Dam/End 37 (crafted)
Efficacy Adaptor: End Mod/Acc 37 (crafted)
Doctored Wounds: End/Rec 34 (crafted)
Touch of Death: Acc/Dam 37 (crafted)
Miracle: Heal/End 37 (crafted)
Decimation: Acc/Dam 37 (crafted)
Air Burst: Dam/Rech 37 (recipe)
Detonation: Acc/Dam/End 37 (recipe) x2
Aegis: Resistance (recipe)
Red Fortune: Def 37 (crafted)
Red Fortune: Def/End/Rech 37 (crafted)
Red Fortune: Def/Rech 37 (crafted)
Crushing Impact: Acc/Dam 37 (crafted)
Mocking Beratement: Rech 37 (crafted)
Doctored Wounds: Heal/Rech 37 (crafted)
Luck of the Gambler: Def 38 (recipe)
Numina's Convalesence: Heal 38 (recipe)
Decimation: Acc/Dam 37 (crafted)
Adjusted Targeting: Rech/End (crafted)
Smashing Haymaker: Dam/End 30 (crafted)
Adjusted Targeting: To Hit/End 43 (crafted)
Numina's Convalescence: End/Rech 45 (crafted)
Positron's Blast Dam/End 20 (crafted)
Some of them have already sold, some are still up there. -
My Fire/Ice/Fire blaster, who would've been my first character except I rolled a rad/rad defender first to get the hang of the game.
I love Fire/Ice/Fire so much. Shiver, RoF, Fireball (with added Ragnarok Chance for LoLs) Fire Breath, Blaze, mmm, so much firey goodness. All topped off with Rise of the Phoenix, best power ever.
I hope when GR and side switching hits, I can persuade Archie to resub for a while, so I can team up with his Fire Brute, crank the difficulty up high and rampage through redside content. -
I think there's a chance that the BM could pick up for a period after GR, depending largely on how easy it is for Vigilante characters to access missions and SFs redside. If it's easy for Vigilantes, then they'll stay as Vigilantes and have no effect beyond maybe increasing the numbers of SFs and arcs run. However, if it's made difficult, and switching the whole way makes it a lot easier, then badge hunters and blueside players wanting to take a tour through redside content might switch all the way to villain/rogue. Since I'd expect 'content tourists' to generally be higher-level, already IOed characters, with little interest in hording IOs redside, then they could end up dropping a reasonable amount of stuff on the BM. For a short while, anyway.
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Blueside, they can also be found rarely in spawns in the south-east area of the RWZ.
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Quote:OTOH, people playing AE missions are only visible to others when they're between missions. The majority of the time, they're inside instanced missions.Originally Posted by Eiko-chan
Sure, there's some selection bias there - AE buildings are considerably smaller than PvP zones, so it's easier to find people
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For me, in terms of time spent it's badges>>>>MA>[a lot more >s]>PVP. The only time I've actually PVPed was in pursuit of badges. Although I'd probably be casually interested in PVP if it was easier to get involved in, and there was actually some of it around. It would be nice to get the rep badges, and I hate the idea of farming for them.
Quote:You made a slight miscalculation, here, as the MA is split over two different sections of the forums, with a total of ~46000 posts. Also, the PVP forums go back as far as October 2005 (although a lot of the posts have clearly been lost over time), whereas obviously the MA section posts go back only to April 2009.Originally Posted by Xanatos
There's only 25,000 posts in the MA section of the forums, whereas the PVP section has about 80,000 posts. -
Quote:Archie says that he doesn't have any statistical proof that EBs and bosses drop in the same way. However, he thinks that they do, and whenever the devs have talked about them, they've lumped the two groups together.Originally Posted by GavinRuneblade
Thank you!
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Quote:Their animated hair technology is especially awesome, I thought.Originally Posted by Catwhoorg
*uses the Magic GG Summoning incantation*
So I played a Trial of CO, and I found that the game was OK, maybe even quite fun... -
Quote:It's mandated in the Paragon City building codes, as part of a plan to improve the cardiovascular fitness of Paragon City's inhabitants by making them walk further. The same codes prohibit elevators from connecting more than 2 floors.Originally Posted by Robert_B
Why are not the subway lines (Green/Yellow) connected at common transfers points in the same building?
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Quote:There's a post describing the problem here.Originally Posted by Capa_Devans
WHAT?!
* *Ponders stripping everything from the market across two accounts, three servers and way too many alts*
It hasn't been talked about much in beta, partly I think because it required having items in stock on the test AH when the new UI came in, and the AH doesn't get much traffic on test. Exactly what happens isn't clear -- if the items are really gone or just invisible, if it's due to some peculiarity of the test server. Hopefully someone is looking into it. -
Quote:Like 'mundanes'. I hate that word.Originally Posted by Camper
Also, I wish people would get off the sheeple bandwagon. It's the sort of word that makes me immediately think that the person using it is going to be an annoying putz.
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Quote:He isn't subbed at the moment, but I'll try to remember to ask him when he gets home tonight and see if he knows for sure one way or the other.Originally Posted by StarGeek