Intrinsic

If Tyrant's HPs do not dynamically scale, then what's to stop the opposite from happening? I don't have much occasion to lead itrials so I'm just assuming the Join in Progress feature works like this, or even works at all. If Tyrant's total HPs do not adjust mid-fight according to the size of the league, then is there anything to keep us from forming a 12-person Mag league, getting to Tyrant, and inviting in 12 more people?

The combat attributes window does not take resistances into account when listing individual regen debuffs. The value shown for each debuff there is the amount that it would reduce regeneration by if the target had zero resistances.

Notice these lines in particular:

*Base: 0.33%/sec (454.04 hp/sec)
*Favor of the Well: 0.50%/sec (678.84 hp/sec) from Self
*Scaling: -0.26%/sec (-352.01 hp/sec) from Self

Sum those figures and you arrive at this number:

Regeneration Rate: 0.57%/sec (780.87 hp/sec)

According to your data, the player regen debuffs appear to have no effect on Tyrant.

You are absolutely correct of course. It's all about the money; my concern is that by selling purple enhancements, NCSoft is entering a niche where they are not competitive on price, and have to gain market share by creating artificial barriers to entry such as banning players who buy from other companies. Perhaps they should consider focusing on other products that bypass content, but where they would have a distinct competitive advantage.

A good example of this would be powerleveling services. Other companies offer that service as well, but the player has to give them login information which would leave the account vulnerable to hacking attempts. NCSoft could offer a token in the cash shop that would instantly boost a character to level 50 with no risk to the player's account. The player gets a level 50 character, and NCSoft increases their bottom line, so it's win-win. I mean, I probably wouldn't buy something like this, but the demand is obviously there so such a service would be worth it to some players.

They should also consider selling incarnate powers. How many posts have we seen in the forums about people who are frustrated by the amount of time and effort it takes them to progress through incarnate content? In particular for the people who like to solo, it would take forever for them to get T4 powers across the board. If they could just buy the powers in the cash shop, I'm sure many of those players would consider that worth it.

And of course, badges. Some badges are nearly impossible to get or only available for a limited time, like the anniversary badges or ones for special events. If they were offered in the cash shop, badge collectors would go nuts. A mastermind with a first anniversary badge? Or maybe a bughunter badge without actually having to find a bug? Definitely worth it.

I believe all of these would sell like hotcakes if they were offered in the cash shop, and make a fortune. I don't understand why the devs haven't added them in there already.

NCSoft should stop banning players for buying inf then. I mean, it was one thing when NCSoft could claim they were doing it to preserve the integrity of CoH, but now they're doing it to establish a monopoly over the RMT market in the game. Instead of enticing you into their cash shop with competitive pricing, they are using the threat of bans as a bullying tactic in an attempt to coerce you to use their shop over the competitors. I'm beginning to think that the devs don't have the players' best interests in mind here.

You could help to support emerging economies. Seems like a worthy cause.

All the thought went in beforehand I'm sure, to work out the character's build and attack chain. The fight was won before it started.

This topic caught my eye because I just finished playing a beta for an MMO where players need to move around to dodge attacks. Generally in MMO's I don't move around more than necessary during a fight. In particular with CoH, for the most part players can't move and use powers at the same time, so if I'm moving that means I'm not attacking. In fights against typical spawns I may need to move around a bit to use AoE's or catch runners. In an extended fight, such as an AV or GM fight? No, unless the mechanics of the fight require me to move in order to dodge a special attack or such. I don't mind moving around, but I won't do it needlessly.

There are three SG's on Freedom now with over one billion prestige. The number one SG has about 1.7 billion. Psychotix is up to 1.5 billion, which makes me wonder if there was a prestige race on Freedom again at some point.

Sometimes I like to go for a swim.

Numina's and Miracle sets don't have a recharge IO unfortunately, so three-slotting it with one of those sets won't give as much recharge. My slotting in Chrono Shift matches PR's slotting, and I did it for the enhancement values more than the set bonuses. At one time I was thinking about someday switching out the heal/recharge and the heal/end/recharge for the Panacea versions for a bit more recovery, but I forgot all about that (until now).

I'd go with I'm all out of LOTG's.

Given the way that the market easily absorbed the initial shock on the first day of the patch, I'd say they barely moved the needle. And I haven't done much since my initial profit-taking myself. I've bought a few 'cheap' purples to use up some of the converters I've looted, but in doing so I feel like a retired person who works a part-time job just to keep busy. Before converters were announced I was spending nearly a billion inf per week on consignment fees, and I'm certainly nowhere near that figure now.

The only time I considered taking Confront was with my fire/fire, but I simply didn't have a spare power pick in my build. If the devs ever rework the fighting pool such that I don't need to take Boxing as a prereq, then I might grab Confront.

I estimated that I was getting around 130-140 DPS pre-incarnate.using just archery attacks versus same-level AV's. No damage procs, but that did include using Surveillance every 30-ish seconds. Redraw on archery is a real drag on the DPS; I was minimizing redraw by using Build Up, Boost Range, and Surveillance all at once. From what I watched of 2HB's video, you may be leaving a lot of DPS on the table by incurring redraw so frequently. Have you considered using Aimed Shot in your chain, or is that not feasible with your build?

And congrats on the monster kill. That's something my archery/energy blaster could never do.

I don't think we've seen the bottom yet on a number of items, and I don't think they'll rebound anytime soon (and not by much when they do). I plan to put out bids on anything that my scrapper alt still needs, but that's it.

*edit* And I only need 2 purples out of the 15 that I want to slot into my scrapper. I have multiples of everything else from the conversions I made. There's no good reason for me to be buying right now.

Ah, you're right, I just quickly glanced at the image and read it as 1 billion each. Nevermind