Jophiel

They nerfed that one to stagger out the ambushes. Actually, I skip it now because it's no fun without the sea of Malta.

I don't know if it's really the case. I have no issues paying some premium on a lvl 35 knowing that it'll be cheaper as a lvl 50 due to the supply glut of lvl 50 recipes. But I want to have the benefits earlier and pay more for it.

That doesn't mean that I'm willing to trade A-Merit values for it, though which was the point of the quoted text. Pay 3mil for a lvl 35 I could get for 500k at lvl 50? Sure. Pay the equivalent of 85mil by spending an A-Merit for it? Not really so much.

5. A requirement to purchase Going Rogue rather than one of the cheaper versions if you want to continue playing your first character or any cross-faction type (hero masterminds, etc).

Hell, I started back when my first "main", who came to the US to fight the Nazi remnants of the Fifth Column was told that everyone magically became generic Italian space-fascists overnight and the Fifth Column never really had any place in Paragon City's history -- as evidenced by dozens of ret-conned plaques, markers and NPC dialogues.

Threads are like children: You create them, try to give them a good start, set them in a direction and where they go from there is anyone's guess. No sense in getting ruffled about it.

You know that one commercial where the brother says that he has all of his sister's friends as his calling plan "favorites" because they're hot and the sister complains and the father shrugs and says "Maybe you should have uglier friends..."

Haha... that still makes me laugh. I'd be okay if that was the commercial each time Ghostbusters was on.

Moved a mountain of snow off my driveway.

Unless you're stuck explaining your natural character fighting a Malta Titan?

We went around with this once before but I just assume a superhero-trained martial artist is finding weak points in the construction to damage, roundhouse kicking the hydraulics, damaging the wiring and circuitry, etc. And, of course, dodging the attacks or at least the worst of them. At the time, Sam said he visualized his fire blasts to be cataclysmic explosions of raging infernos (instead of the fire poofs the game actually displays) but couldn't visualize a martial artist doing anything beyond punching a Zeus Titan in the knee over and over. I can't personally get behind that distinction but then I don't have any vested interest in making Sam play natural martial artists either so he can do whatever makes him happy.

Keep in mind that this is not a "highly trained" person, this is a superhero-level trained person. The level of skill and training is beyond that of a real world martial artist just as the level of technology, magic and science in CoH surpasses anything in reality. If I'm being expected to believe that you can teach someone to shoot fire from their hands via magic or build a tech suit that allows you to create tentacles of dark energy, I'm not going to draw the line at saying you can't train someone's natural abilities far beyond that of today's actual martial artists.

Same here. The alpha slotting stuff is really just another enhancement. I don't sweat asking whether my character would really invent and use a "Mako's Bite" either.

I mean cowling!

I don't feel picked on but I don't see a way around it, either. I'm just never going to view a lvl 30-35 IO as being worth 175m inf, especially when I know I can just suck it up and SO my way to 47 and then get the IOs at 5-10% of that cost. If the answer is to start valuing the "premium" to that extent, it's just never going to happen.

Biggest blow in my opinion is that the lack of supply effectively kills Frankenslotting in a lot of instances. I used to rely on it for my up-&-comers but now it's not worth the Wentworth's time it takes to actually find a couple available cheap yellows to mix and match. And, again, there's just no way I'm going to view temporary yellows in a Frankenslotting application as worth the "premium" versus A-Merits or R-Merits or whatever else.

Sticks in your craw though to be effectively paying ~175mil for a recipe that way. I don't mind dropping a million on some yellow or several million on some orange. 175,000,000 on a lvl 35 orange is a bit much

Just do the new arc and then start hitting Ms. Jenkins up for the one-off missions. Take and abandon (not complete) them until you get the one for Siege. Only issue is that New Siege is much more annoying than Old Siege due to some giant heal when he hits 20% or so.

Oh, and the last time I did the arc, I made sure to Ninja Run off and leave my "helpers" behind. It's just easier that way.