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Even if it's only 5% of the community that can do that? You don't think it's in the best interest of the game to set some sort of limits that keep a higher percentage of people involved and interested in the market/IO game? I just think if the vast majority of players look at an IO they want and see it's going for 10x as much Inf than they have ever had, it's depressing and not good for the game.

I know alot of folks, especially in this part of the forum, like to play the market and are very good at it. They are able to rack up billions and don't want any restrcitons that will hinder them. However, this is first and foremost a comic book hero/villain MMO and if a mini game like playing the market starst to have negative effects on the broader community...then it's in the Devs best interest to do what's needed to fix that issue. In this part of the forum I'm sure most of you don't wanna hear that and I'll get negative comments, but it is true.

I see what your saying, but 5 mil and 150 mil are not the same thing. Most casual gamers can't afford 150 million inf, so I don't think the scenerio you speak of would happen. All it would really do is cap the rarest of the rare at $150 instead of some IOs climbing into the 300s, 400s, and beyond. I mean how far are we from billion inf IOs? There is a point where you gotta just say this is broken and alienating too many folks.

Also, shouldn't there be a formula for drops? Like if there are 100k subscribers, then there should be around 100 purple drops a month. Just random numbers here, but my point is if the ratio of purple drops decreases dramaticly, which it has due to the MA addiction, shouldn't the drop rate be raised to compinsate?

I would just think the Devs would have a general idea of an amount of rares they want to be dropping, and if that # drops to 1/4 or 1/2 of what they are expecting...they would raise the drop rate. If people leave the MA or whatever and too many purples start dropping, then they lower it again. Am I wrong to expect this type of micro managing the game economy?

I'm sure it has been mentioned, but is a price cap pretty much frowned upon? If $150 million was set as the absolute highest price you could list something at, it would help a little. I think $150 million infamy is quite a bit, and personaly don't feel any one item should be selling for more than that. Just my opinion of course, but I'm curious what kind of feedback a price cap has recieved in the past?

A good closed beta team can get be 100x more efficient than open better. Closed beta can be a very focused search for bugs or other mistakes, while open beta is basicly a giant cluster [censored] where most of the important stuff gets lost in the flood of chatter that fills the forums.

I'd like issue 16 sometime this year...so closed beta sounds like a wonderful idea wether I'm in it or not.

Nope....I'm 31. That would be pretty sad.

KD instead of KB would be pretty awesome though. Please Mr. Castle.

We got Claws for Brutes and new animations for MA and SS. Only way to top that would be to give brutes MA also.

Will you use the same code to bold, change colors of text, quote, and that sort of thing?

I'm not a big forums person. Other than these forums, I post on NFL forum...but thats it. I've gotten these forums down pretty well, but I wondering if I'll be completely lost on how to post pics and such on the new forums. Anyone know a link that can get me up to speed on the new forum system we will be using?

I'm curious to see if your AT name changes when you switch sides. Like MasterMinds become Commanders, Stalkers become Spec Ops, Scrappers become Warlords, Brutes become Brawlers..ect.

I'm so glad we are getting claws for brutes, and alternate punching animations for Martial Arts and Super Strength. I really needed something to get me interested in this game again. Nice to be excited about something again

Atleast being able to set normal content missions for upto 8 folks should pull people/farmers out of the AE. I just want to be able to purchase a purple set for under a billion infamy. :/

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Honestly I think if anyone needs a buff it's Stalkers. As far as the melees go, it just makes sense in my head that the more durable one is, the less damage they should do. So it should be like this:

Damage > Survival
Stalker
Scrapper
Brute
Tank

Instead, it's basically Scrappers/Brutes at the top (depending on situation and fury/FS/blah/Rage/whatever), with Tanks at the bottom for damage, and Stalkers just above. Stalkers are the lowest for survival, though, so they get the short end of the stick by being the weakest survival-wise but also being outclassed for damage by at least two other melees. Add to that the fact that they get few, if any AoEs in some sets.

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How are your figuring this? Stalkers just got huge buffs to damage and survivabilty. Chance of AoE fear with assasin strike and not aggroing on a missed AS is huge, plus I believe they got a slight HP bump, or maybe it was the max HP level. Either way they are more survivable now than ever before.

On top of that they now do crits when not hidden more often than Scrappers when on teams. I don't see your logic. Stalker are quite good now IMO.

Noone has. It is a BS badge that forces people to afk farm to get it....which is stupid.

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I wouldnt mind having knockdown in Shockwave instead of knockback

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Oh mighty Castle....lord of the Devs. Please make this so and I shall personally hand deliver 50 virgins to your doorstep.

(disclaimer: all virgins are likely male nerds living with their mother and playing this game)

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In a word, "poorly."

I only have it slotted because of the defense bonus that the set offers. Otherwise it's infrequent enough and short enough that I can never rely on it to go off when I want it to. If it does actually go off in combat, I don't even notice it.

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This exactly. The 5% chance is fine, but it's the 5 second buff time that kills it. Your lucky to get one attack off with the extra damage buff on it. The defense bonus for six slotting is the ONLY reason to take this.

i think a few days with no forums will be good for folks.

I don't think Scrappers are weak in any way, but I think raising the chance for crit % a tad would not hurt.

One alternate idea would be to let Scrappers choose to use Crits as they come randomly as they do now, or to toggle on you "Crit Bar" Instead of getting Crits randomly, your bar would fill up a littel each time you would have got a crit. Once the bar is full, you can go into "Critical Mode
" for 20 seconds or so where all your attacks crit 100% of the time.

It would allow folks to [i]use[/] the inherent in different ways. Use it as is most the time, but perhaps build your crit bar up when you know you have a big boss coming up soon. Just an idea.

In the quotes he is asking about Follow up and you responded about Focus....just thought I'd point that out.

I don't see Follow Up being altered in any way considering Blinding Fient is nearly the exact same power. Only difference betweennt he two is BF's cast time is .37 seconds longer The scrapper version of Follow Up and BF both give 37.5% buff to damage, while Brutes version of BF gives 30%, so the only change I expect is for Brutes Follow Up to also do 30% instead of 37.5%.

Focus and Shockwave on the other I'm a bit more concerned about. I personally don't think they would be any more overpowered on a brute than they are on a scarpper....but I look at the Night Widow set and can't help but worry that Brutes will get a similar version with no range and more damage/higher endurance cost. Sure hope that isn't what happens. Focus and Shockwave are what makes Claws.....[b][i][u]CLAWS

I think you can make any set viable. I've been doing pretty well with my DB/WP brute in RV, and I hear everyday that DB and WP are both horrible in PvP. You just have to look at how the powers work differently in PvP and make a build to work with what you got.

I think Slash, Focus, Shockwave, Gloom will kick some serious [censored] in RV once I get the build slotted out right with Procs and all. Might use Follow up quite a bit as well to keep my tohit buffed high, but I'm thinking more about Focus and Shockwave being able to keep some folks on thier ars. Throw in Gloom and the Nemesis staff and your pretty much all ranged with near tank defenses.

Also, I've noticed the popular thing to do atm for scrappers is use Katana's DA or Broadswords Parry every other attack in duels. It's quite affective when dueling another melee AT, it doesn't do jack against ranged or aoe damage.....so claws tend to win those fights quickly.

I walked in on MA and my mom.

I Io'd my main brute out about a year ago with 3 purple sets and a bunch of 7.5% LotG and other uniques. It took a little over a billion inf, which was all I had combined on all my charcters, but I pooled my funds together and made it happen. It was worth it.

Fast forward to today. I'm all excited about Brutes getting claws and have decided a Claws/WP brute is going to be my second build worth IOing out. So I wander over to the BM to start pre-purchasing the expensive uniques and purples to stash away in my base while I wait for issue 16 to arrive. To my surprise I see that not only can I no longer IO out my brute with a billion inf...I can't even buy a full purplr set with a billion inf!

So seriously Devs, do you want purple sets to be THAT rare that they cost over a billion inf? It would seem this ridiculous inflation is either do to a.) all people do is farm AE which equals no purples, b.) folks are just buying inf from those dirtbag .com sites, or c.) a little of both.

I don't have an answer, but this [censored] is ridiculous. You put things into the game and then create a situation where only folks that farm AE 24/7, or purchase infamy from an offsite .com can afford to buy them.....which motivates people to farm even more and buy more infamy from offsite .coms. Please do [b][i]something.....

You smash people and cause anyone flying to fall to the ground....it's a stretch, but there you have it.

I not sure which is more pathetic. The 20+ OPs like this every week, or the group of folks that feel the need to respond to everyone of them.

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Also Desdemona is so hot with a nice nice booty. she's built the way a woman should be...soft in all the right places

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It always creeps me out when people talk like this about cartoon characters.

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You should check out some adult anime. You'd love it.