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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by saviour123 View Post
    I do sometimes group, but I do play odd hours, and tend to enjoy soloing alot too. My question is basically how far can I get along the Incarnate ladder just by soloing?
    Well, technically, you can get almost all of it by soloing. The only thing you can't get solo is the Hybrid slot, which is kind of 'meh' compared to some of the others. And you can saw a board in half using a nail file.

    Since your only issue with teaming seems to be that you are on at odd hours, I would suggest checking out various servers. A number of them have high concentrations of players from various geographic regions (i.e. Europe, Australia, etc) and have different peak hours.

    As a VIP subscriber, you get one free server transfer per month. If you expect to be playing at the same hours for the foreseeable future, this might be the way to go.

    As for soloing, it's good for getting incarnate salvage. The trials will get you iXP fast, and give you a better shot at rare and very rare salvage. Soloing arcs is a good way to get some additional common and uncommon salvage. Each arc earns you a piece of salvage. This is per character per week, so each toon can get 6 pieces of salvage per week from soloing (there are 6 arcs.... really 7 but one is short and doesn't give a reward).
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Dreaming_Shadow View Post
    I do not take recharge time into account because then I would have to analyze the data by time intervals.
    Then the chart doesn't actually give any useful information.


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    But, to help out: I will run another analysis; to show the average recharge time for the powersets rather than their average damage. It may help give clarity to my point about the lower damage powersets having faster recharge to be balanced with the hard hitting slower recharge powersets.
    Average recharge is even less useful than average damage. What it would really need to show is damage as it is modified by animation times and recharge times. Even without taking AoE into account, this would give a decent DPS comparison.
  3. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Cinaed_EU View Post
    It's probably going to take some time to get used to, but for now I still feel somewhat gutted about it. I feel I have paid for something that have now been forcefully limited for me - because I don't have enough played subscription time.
    Hopefully you can get over that sense of entitlement.
    Previously, you had to SUBSCRIBE and pay every month to have access. Now, if you subscribe again, you'll still have all that and more. But you also have the option of partial access completely free.

    In both cases, you are getting MORE than you used to - but you feel "somewhat gutted about it". Oh well. I don't think that's something we or NCSoft can fix for you.
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Forbin_Project View Post
    My favorite complaint was from the guy that was upset the free items weren't the most expensive items on the market and argued the stuff being given away like "giving a starving person moldy rotten food with maggots and tapeworms in it to where they are dead if they eat it, dead if they don't."

    http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...7&postcount=86

    A classic post. I love how someone can post something like that, yet mention "common sense" in the same post.


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    Originally Posted by I Burnt The Toast View Post
    I actually enjoyed/used every freebie (except the princess hat...cuz uhmm all my toons are guys LOL)
    Actually, that was the one I was most excited about. I could have just bought the others if I really wanted them.
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by GATE-keeper View Post
    You cut and pasted the thread title, didn't you? :P
    I cut and paste the title, and body of the post, every week.
  6. I'm trying to pick a Lore pet for a sonic/sonic defender. He's all about debuffing resistance. I see plenty of Lore pets with -defense; are there any that debuff resistance?
  7. Whoa!!!

    It's already Thursday and I didn't post the TF for this week.
    Well, we did Hess, Moonfire and Citadel, so that pretty much covers it up to level 30. I guess Katie Hannon is next.

    Saturday, June 23 at 1PM EDT

    A Tangled Plot (AKA Katie Hannon TF)
    Level 30+
    Requires 6 to start.
    Contact is in Croatoa.

    1. Ironblade - someone (depending on whether I unlock Katie on Dark Lord Darkness by Saturday).
    2. Ad Astra - maybe Winter Shock (electric/cold troller)
    3. GATE-keeper - Statesdude (brute)
    4. Elllls - Tributary (tank)
    5. Asgardian Blade - Asgardian Razor (brute)
    6. Saint Jon - maybe a brute, if he's awake
    7. Angelica Venger - someone
    8. my awesome display name - probably the antler chick
    9. Flux Overlord - Flux Overlord (scrapper)
    10.
    11.
    12.
  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ynaught View Post
    And THAT is where I'm having problems. I want to do some itrials on my 50's I have here on Infinity but I never see any forming and when I ask, there is nothing but silence.
    The iTrials usually don't get announced on channels. There's generally enough people standing around in Dark Astoria to just broadcast and go. On the weekend, there will occasionally be three running simultaneously.
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Asgardian_Blade View Post
    We'll be there but I'm not guessing who Saint's bringing.
    You could play the wife card and TELL him who to bring.
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by LaDiva View Post
    And the above is exactly what nethergoat was saying. Essentially, according to nethergoat, you cannot buy low and sell high for profit - and keep doing so.
    Not in my recollection. And I read every post. Unless you can link to such a statement, I'll just assume you're misremembering.
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ultimus View Post
    Also another question, are there any spots where there are multiple bombs together? Within 150 feet meaning that if a melee character ran up to the bomb two countdowns would start? If so how many spots?
    The worst part is where six are jammed into a corridor.
    There is a lovely rendition of the entire trial map in this thread.
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Mr_Morbid View Post
    I find it's better not to worry about efficiency on these badges. Just find a mob in an instance (to avoid timing out) that can't possibly kill you, then go do something else for a while.
    Back in the old days, "a while" meant about 10 months.
    Efficiency mattered then.
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Imp_Daddy View Post
    My toon runs into a zone boundary, even though the map (reveal) shows the badge is ahead, and inside the boundary shown on the map.
    The Founders Falls safeguard has this issue also. The mini-map display is wonky.

    Most of my characters are on Infinity and I've done that safeguard enough that I know where the badge is without needing a map. I should be online within about 30 minutes or so. If you're on any of the following channels:
    Inf Badge Seeker
    Infinity Badges 2.0
    AE Anonymous
    Infinity TFs
    - look for Ironblade One or Ironblade Too
    Or just trying sending a tell.
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by PrincessDarkstar View Post
    Because the majority of the focus of new content is incarnate related, which requires you to get to 50 in order to participate.
    Of course, the incarnate system is still relatively new, so it makes sense that there would be a lot of focus on it currently.


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    Originally Posted by PrincessDarkstar View Post
    I never said there wasn't low-mid level content, but previously any content was accessible by any character of any level.
    Absolutely, complete, FALSE. Or were task forces and trials, which have ironclad minimum level requirements, just introduced today?
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Schismatrix View Post
    And thus it was changed.
    Really, it's that simple for most people.
    The world is not static. i'm sorry, but it's true.
    WE FEAR CHANGE!!!!!


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    Originally Posted by PrincessDarkstar View Post
    That is all I am saying. And no Schismatrix I am not lying (Or getting worked up,
    The number of posts you have made on this subject suggests otherwise....
  16. Quote:
    Originally Posted by PrincessDarkstar View Post
    I really don't want to be negative again but I have to be
    orly?


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    Business decisions that start with 'lets do it at midnight' then stop when they realise nobody actually works at that time really make me sad. They could save face by automating it but didn't.

    I don't mind when it is scheduled for, but changing the schedule for a reason which seems to boil down to 'lack of foresight' gets me annoyed.

    I have quit jobs because bosses just don't look ahead (And ignore my usually correct predictions) and I hate seeing people making decisions when they don't show the most basic decision making skills. I know this is only a small thing, but if all the small things are done right then everything works properly.
    <sigh>


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    Edit: On a more positive note you are quite right,
    Yeah.... but you just had some vitriol to unload before admitting that?
  17. Quote:
    Originally Posted by SinisterStairs View Post
    but one of my characters is in the Abandoned Sewers with a fully blacked out map. He didn't get there magically!
    He could have been teleported there. That's sometimes done when running the Abandoned Sewer Trial - one person runs ahead and teleports everyone else.
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Hyperstrike View Post
    Win7-Pro/Enterprise/Ultimate: Maxes at 192GB
    <runs out to buy RAM>


    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Texas Justice View Post
    Sure, we finally got it to finish loading. We let it sit through the initial boot for a two hours (including lunch). We let it finish logging in to the Desktop about a half hour later. We finally got it to bring up the Control Panel 20 minutes later.
    Gee, that's actually worse than my computer at work. With the recent replacement of our file server, the computer at my desk is now the oldest system in the office. And I'm the only person who actually does software development. Yay for cheap companies.
  19. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Hyperstrike View Post
    This is being killed by the death patches in MoM where there's no purple crud on the floor. This is being killed by charging back in after Tyrant finishes his lightning strike, with no ground effects whatsoever and taking damage from the lightning patches. Basically with no VFX around me other than ones I'm generating and I have red numbers start floating off of me out of noplace.
    I've never experienced any issues with the patches in MoM.

    Tyrant's lightning in the Magisterium is a different story. I have seen the following:
    - The lightning VFX fade out before the damage effect so it looks clear but you can get killed by it.
    - The lightning fails to appear AT ALL. And I don't mean the VFX - it gives the 'crackle' warning, he does the animation, then no lightning. You can run anywhere you want and take no damage.

    So, while I haven't seen the issue you describe, that lightning is awfully flaky.
  20. Well, I don't really chat on these channels myself. I use them to recruit for task forces and see when other people are starting them. I see more chatting on channels like the market channel where people have questions about the market (consignment house, not the Paragon Market) or are commenting on unusual price movements.

    Mostly, I chat:
    - With the team or league I'm on.
    - On private supergroup channels.
    - With people on my global list.
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Nethergoat View Post
    Anyway, finished up Temblors arc & got SilverRage to 20.
    Now do the Penelope Yin task force. It starts at level 20 and replaces the Sister Psyche TF. It's SHORT and all the missions are in the same zone. Even the part set in Terra Volta is accessed from a Longbow chopper in Indy Port.
  22. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow View Post
    Giving out your stuff when you leave is generally a mistake, just because I've heard enough tales of people doing this, then kicking themselves when they come back and have to start over to fill a book.
    I know someone who left the game and gave all his stuff away.
    Then came back and had to re-equip from scratch.

    Then he left the game AGAIN and didn't learn his lesson the first time. He gave everything away AGAIN and - you guessed it - he came back AGAIN and had to start from scratch again.

    I mention this partly out of amusement and partly out of bitterness - I didn't get any of his stuff!
  23. Quote:
    Originally Posted by PrincessDarkstar View Post
    But I really do hate posts making excuses for the devs not doing this or that,
    A lot of the so-called excuses are simply business decisions. We hear a lot of complaining about why things get scheduled the way they do. Frequently, the reason is that it needs to take place during normal business hours at whatever location is responsible.
  24. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ukaserex View Post
    Thanks for letting me hang out with you folks tonight.
    <waves to Snow Miser>
  25. Well, I use Infinity TFs any time I'm recruiting for a TF or trial.

    I usually also hit:
    Inf Badge Seeker
    Infinity Badges 2.0

    If you want more activity on these channels, say something.
    They do seem to be quiet lately. I think it's because of all the iTrial activity, for which people just congregate in DA and often don't bother with the channels.