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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Yomo_Kimyata View Post
    Perhaps there are 50 other people like me instead of an ebil mastermind?
    pshaw! Where's the melodrama in that?



    P.S. Imagine my surprise. The spelling checker in my browser is okay with the word pshaw.
  2. I guess I'll bring Ironblade.
    If we don't get a tank, I can bring one. I have two tanks with the level shift.
  3. Ironblade

    Fastest ITF?

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by UberRod View Post
    What with needing shards I figure bragging about how fast you can run an ITF is like bragging about how fast you can have sex.
    Wham! Bam! Thank you, Imperious!


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    With the incarnate stuff out why would anyone want to do a speed ITF?
    To brag about it on the forums?
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by TwoHeadedBoy View Post
    From ParagonWiki:
    "The character can now create a third build to utilize the Alpha Slot Ability or respec one of his other builds to take advantage of it."

    http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Alpha_Slot
    Wow, horrible line. Horrible! Much better if it said:
    The character now has access to a third build so they have the option to design a build around the Alpha Slot effect.

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    Originally Posted by StarGeek View Post
    I removed that text. It's misleading.
    Good.

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    Slight thread jack, does the Pocket D anti-teleport field prevent slotting of the alpha as well?
    Yes.
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Duneytron2000 View Post
    Come on... if you're running Apex or something and can't figure out how to use 3 entire power choices to make your character better, I'm a little disappointed.
    I'm heartbroken.
    This falls under the category of "Mind your own business and don't worry about my build." If I've done something crazy like take only the first power from my secondary, or take 4 travel powers, then MAYBE it's reasonable for you to comment. If my build works and you're just going to quibble about specific power choices, then take a hike.
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by je_saist View Post
    Hero Merits can only be used to buy RARE recipes.
    Actually, no. There are some uncommons listed. The criterion for recipes showing up on the A-Merit purchase list is that their Reward Merit cost is 100 or higher.
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ironblade View Post
    Well, my empathy defender needs the component from this TF. Or I can bring a tank if we don't have one.
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Mystery_Inc View Post
    My first thought would be to bring MY empathy defender,
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    Originally Posted by GATE-keeper View Post
    I'll bring GATE-keeper, my Inv/SS tank.
    Well, I've run 3 tanks through the ITF so far and ran my emp through it last night. Based on what's listed above, I'm leaning toward a sonic defender.
  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by peterpeter View Post
    See how my theory explains the exact same thing, but without anyone being an evil jerk trying to ruin your day? We can't prove which theory is more likely or more accurate. You can choose to believe you're surrounded by jerks who are ripping you off, or you can choose to believe that market fluctuations are just as random as loot drops.
    My theory is that prices are driven up by people who are extremely impatient or sloppy in their typing. This fits with the old saying, "Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity."
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ad Astra View Post
    I thought you had chosen it from "Men in Black II" - that version goes pretty well with your forum avatar!
    Lara Flynn Boyle's character? Her name was Serleena.
    (Yes, I had to look it up, but Zerlina didn't sound right.)
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Clouded View Post
    Working on my INV/DM Tank and I'm trying to decide which direction to take his build. The most popular route is of course soft capping his S/L and E/N defense with 1-2 critters in Invinc, but I was wondering if a +recharge build would be just as effective.
    Well, from the thread title, my first thought was that recharge is golden *IF* you're talking about a set that really benefits from it. Dark Armor, for example, has the biggest self-heal in the game. With invuln, you get decent defense starting off. Building on that will really help. Soft-capping shouldn't be too hard, then you can look at recharge.


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    Originally Posted by Clouded View Post
    When slotting Invinc, do you go for the HO (or SHO) that provides +Def, +tohit and End Red (forget the name, enzyme perhaps)? Or do you focus on IO Sets?
    Definitely the HO. You're getting +20% def, +20% to hit, +33% endred. No IO even comes close to those numbers.
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by graystar_blaster View Post
    And my purple farm has not had a drop in about 15 runs(dreck map)
    Random is random. I had my best ITF ever last night. My PB got more than a full level, plus a respec recipe (sold for just under 200 million) and a Ragnarok recipe (which I kept).
  12. You can go to the SG/VG Registrar in Atlas Park / Port Oakes and convert influence to prestige. The exchange rate, at 500:1, is horrible. He's offering to match the amount you are converting to prestige. So, if you convert 100 million inf to 200,000 prestige, he'll contribute a similar amount. So your exchange rate effectively becomes 250:1.

    Before you ask the next question: Yes, he's basically giving away free money.
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zerlina View Post
    hit me up @zerlina
    Unusual name. Only place I recall ever seeing it is in Don Giovanni. Opera fan?
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by The_Laughing_Man View Post
    I've been on a few ITFs this week with snotty teams. Also seen a lot of folks asking to join "non-speed" ITFs perhaps for the same reason. Regular mission teaming and non-WST-TF's are absolutely fine. If you're looking to do WST content, it might be worth being picky about your team. After all - there's a LOT of players running the various TFs.
    Yep. I'll usually log into a toon that needs to do some stuff at Wentworths and watch the global channels while I'm there. When I see an ITF being formed, by someone whose name I recognize and have teamed with previously, then I'll go for it.
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Stormfront_NA View Post
    Maybe its bias, giggles, but I would have thought CoH would have more than a mere 125K players. I would like to learn more on how the statistic was collected, so its true meaning can be better understood.

    It seems the statistics for some of the games are solely U.S. data, while others are global in nature, not sure my perception is correct.

    It still concerns me that CoH is 125,000 players, seems kinda low to me.
    Interestingly, for a lot of us who have been following subscriber numbers for a long time, going back to when NCSoft published numbers - that 125,000 number seems surprisingly high. If it really is that high (I'm skeptical), this is extremely good news.
  16. Ironblade

    Veteran Awards

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Kitsune Knight View Post
    A level 50 Scrapper that's regularly using Nem Staff/Blackwand in their attack chain (as a melee attack) probably has serious issues (or a very exotic build). Shadow Maul could situationally be worth it (due to the AoE nature, for a set heavily lacking in AoE... like EM/ Stalkers).
    Sands of Mu is great on a tank, though, since you're likely to have enemies clustered around you. All you need is some boost to accuracy/to hit since you can't slot the power. I love it for my invuln. If there's enough enemies near him to be worth it, then there's enough enemies near him to buff his odds to hit.
  17. Quote:
    Originally Posted by srmalloy View Post
    Just go and check the Two Brains One Jar website.
    Too slow. I mentioned that in post #46.
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Forse View Post
    I don't care how small the numbers are for conflicts.

    Any move by a business that shows preference to one group of customers over another, to the point where the business is admitting they're deliberately showing a preference, will cause a drop of morale in the 'victim' group.
    I'm glad that you're familiar with the character database structure so you know the decision to handle it this way was based on favoritism, rather than any pesky details like data integrity, costs, etc.
  19. Quote:
    Originally Posted by White Hot Flash View Post
    They chose the route that affects the least amount of people (whether some choose to believe or not, the math doesn't lie).
    The math doesn't lie, but it can be misunderstood. The fact that the number of EU players is smaller is completely irrelevant to the discussion. If there are 500 name conflicts, then 500 EU players and 500 NA players are involved. Kindly explain how 500 EU players is less than 500 NA players.
  20. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha View Post
    Despite your later point, very few posters here have been 'yelling and threatening'. Theres been a lot of 'We are not satisfied with this' and requests for it to get looked at and hopefully changed.
    But none of the 'toys out of the pram' that you seem to see.
    Oh, I wasn't saying most, or even many, were acting like that. But the original post definitely fits the bill.
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by jacktar View Post
    I was shocked at the vitriole and bile that was scrolling past my chat window and at the way some players were abusing each other.
    Wow. If I had seen that, I would have filed a petition myself. When that kind of abuse is on broadcast, everyone seeing it has a valid reason to file a petition.
  22. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Sir_Zane View Post
    I can get to from 41 to 50 in only 3 1 hour TFs - is that WAI?
    Spread out over the course of over two weeks so, yes, it probably is intended.
  23. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Dr_Occult View Post
    being a huge fan of "Girl Genius",
    tsk tsk

    Awesome comic! So, since you're mentioning it, take the opportunity to introduce new readers to it by linking to the comic site.
  24. Quote:
    Originally Posted by mousedroid View Post
    If he's still in that SG, he's probably the leader if everyone else quit. Just use the storage in the existing base or add to it, and change the permission levels so only you can take stuff out of it.
    And with the 'per storage unit' granularity on the permission settings, you can do what I did. I have a VG that I bought that I was using for storage and some alts. A couple of friends asked if they could leave their inactive toons in that SG so they would still have access to teleporters, storage, worktables, etc. I just made one Enhancement Table accessible to top 2 ranks only (me) and everything else is accessible to everyone.
  25. When this has happened to me, we have always been able to continue the TF by trying the following:
    1) Have other people try to call the contact, particularly if you can remember who had the star before.
    2) Have the leader log out and back in.
    3) As a last resort, have EVERYONE log out and back in.