Ironblade

This is wrong.

This was an intentional change.


To earn Alignment Merits from the Signature Story Arcs:
1) Either start as hero/villain or change to hero/villain.
2) Run a full set of alignment missions and a morality mission to CONFIRM your current alignment. Even if you were always a hero, you still need to do this once.
3) Each arc gives you ONE FREE RUN that does not count against the timer.
4) Once you hit the timer, you can get ONE Alignment Merit - PER WEEK PER CHARACTER.

So, say you're high level and never ran any of the arcs yet. And say you have already done at least one Morality Mission to confirm your alignment - i.e. doing a Morality Mission the same alignment as your current alignment.

Then, you can run arc #1 and get an A-Merit. You can immediately run arc 2 and get another. You can immediately run arc 3 (released today) and get a third. Then you can run ANY of the arcs and get a 4th. *NOW* you have to wait one week before you can earn another on THAT character.

Odd. When the last thread about this was posted (maybe 3 weeks ago), I checked to see if I could still get in there and had no problem.

I see.

<shrug> Keep your rants to yourself. Without details, your post doesn't really do anything except make you sound cranky.

It may just be an issue of 'someone' not reading....


If you were losing your global due to the merging of the server list, that was a policy decision and support had nothing to do with it.

As for the griefing, for anything that may involve discipline against another player, you should expect NO response or update or status information. If they investigated and found nothing, you get no reply. If they investigated and punished someone, you get no reply. That's policy.

This is true. However, people also keep bringing up other topics which are almost universally acknowledged as idiotic and deserving of questioning the posters intelligence/parentage/species.

The fact that it keeps being brought up does NOT automatically mean it has merit. All it tells us for sure is that the issue has a handful of crusaders. My impression is that it's a vocal minority that has a problem with it. Personally, I'm fine with the "current way things are being done" regarding this.

It's a matter of personal preference. My main character can go up against Rikti drones that have just been bubbled by a Rikti guardian and still beat them like a rented mule. Same goes for Paragon Protectors using Moment of Glory.

Short answer: Then you're doing it wrong.

A regular IO at level 35 is worth about 37% enhancement. An IO set piece that affects two attributes applies about 23% enhancement to each. Therefore, if you slot one common accuracy and one common damage at level 35, you get 37% boost to each. If you slot 2 acc/dam set pieces, you get about 46% boost to each. The IO set pieces are inherently better than the common IO's.

Now, does every set out there enhance the power exactly the way you want? No. But there is no rule that you have to slot all 6 pieces if you don't like the results. You can slot 2 pieces from one set and 4 from another, or 3 and 3, etc. I will often slot 5 pieces of Positron's Blast plus a common Recharge since the set doesn't give as much recharge as I want.

On top of that, you get the set bonuses. I have characters with 50-60% global accuracy. You can bet that makes a big difference in their performance. Before Inherent Fitness, I had toons that skipped the pool and had 35% recovery from set bonuses. I had a defender that ran 6 toggles without Stamina.

Summary: Character performance with set IO's will always exceed common IO's if you apply some research. In some cases, you can achieve DRAMATIC improvements at very modest costs. The aforementioned defender cost me 24 million inf.

As a side note, it's worth mentioning that the 'renewing monthly sub' isn't some kind of trap. You can sign up for a subscription, wait a day or so to confirm it is active, then go back to account management and CANCEL the subscription. Your subscription will remain active for the one month that you paid for (which gets charged to your card immediately). Cancelling your subscription does not remove your game access. It just prevents your card from being automatically charged again in one month.

Yeah, but that doesn't matter. The point is, the devs have a system in place and will decide to employ it when they think it's a good idea. When one random player thinks it's a good idea, that's when we get to post funny GIF's.

You left one out:

There is already a name purge script that the devs have run in the past and may choose to run again. You remember the devs - the people who can datamine and actually know how many names are on inactive accounts and on what level of characters.

Those positions are NOT untenable and it WAS fun when we were playing 'back in the day'. Everything you say is based around the premise that it is hard or frustrating or impossible to equip your characters without hitting the market or getting external funding. Your premise is FALSE. All those 'testimonials' that you so casually dismiss prove that you are wrong. If it had actually been a problem to us, we would no longer be here.

The average player is not stupid, incompetent or helpless. Tasks like maximizing your income, managing your endurance, etc are part of the game. If everything is easy, it's not fun because it's not challenging.

Cite as many as you like. You are still wrong. You plainly stated your description and conditions and I fit them. I know this to be the case.

I was not just new to this game; I was new to online and multi-player games and really not terribly interested in them. That changed over time. But, back then, I was EXACTLY the target market you were describing.

You do realize this post casts doubt on your ability to read, right?
I said I was comparing myself as a new player to current new players. This was my first online game, my first MMO, etc.

He gets paid in good karma.

Well, for my shield/axe, my thinking was to go for the regen from Destiny.
For the Lore pets, since I'm doing lethal damage, I'd want something different for when I go up against something with high lethal resist - the Seer pets maybe. My badger took the Seer pets specifically for beating down Marauder without the pacification grenades.


That's where I went, mainly for the defense.

Actually, I think it's disempowering to automatically start giving new players funds. Give them some time in the game, then ASK if they are having money problems.

On the other hand, some people will be hesitant to ask for money, even if you are offering. I usually get to it in a roundabout manner, asking what drops they've gotten, how much inf they have etc. If they comment that they have a particular goal and are about half-way there, now you know how much they can use. And they have had the opportunity to learn that aspect of the game, how to gain inf, etc before someone starts throwing money at them.

WRONG!
I am comparing my experience AS A NEW PLAYER to the experience of new players. I was NOT a hardcore gamer. This is the first online game I ever played. The only games I had on my computer previously were mah jongg, the Myst series and whatever came built into Windows.

If you haven't been playing since before the market existed, then my take on this situation is a hell of a lot more valid than yours.

In my experience, this is not correct.

What I think happens to a lot of people is that they get introduced to Maria at some point while they're busy with something else so they don't remember it. Every time you start doing missions for a new contact, they will introduce you to ANOTHER contact very quickly, often after a single mission. If you're looking for a specific contact, start someone else in the same level range. As soon as they offer a new contact, go to that one and do their missions until they give a new contact. Depending on what missions you get, you can get every contact in a level range in 20-30 minutes at most.