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Originally Posted by Doughboy

The enhancements on the market are BETTER than what you can earn in the game. It's frustrating that players cannot earn the same level of power in the game.

In the past, I bought a few of the sets market previously released just because they're better than other versions, but I won't make that mistake again. It seems to have encouraged the company to sell items that are even more powerful.

Between this and the gambling packs, I'm pretty disillusioned with CoH right now.

Originally Posted by Psychic Guardian

I heard someone tried this recently and it was nerfed their toon arrived on the new server they had the name already taken on, with a 1 thrown onto the end and no free rename. So they had to move it back to the original server with the 2nd transfer AND buy a real rename token just to get the original back or select the new one. That's just stupid. If people are willing to burn transfers they don't want so they can use it as a rename instead then stop throwing the stupid transfers at us and give us real rename tokens.

Originally Posted by Caulderone

There is a limit of 20 (I think it's 20) things stored in email. Any chance you are at the email storage cap?

Originally Posted by MrCaptainMan

I meant where did the portals lead to?

Eco

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

It would be washed away anyway by the tears caused by the solo "grind"

Originally Posted by Call Me Awesome

The biggest PITA mobs for that scrapper are Knives of Artemis thanks to those damned caltrops.... I'm coming to kill you... eventually... seconds .

Originally Posted by Dz131

The only thing this "fixes" is that your casual mace/fire broot can't get fast tickets anymore. The hardcore farmers that charge 40mil a run with 5 purples sets and vengence will just get more business.

Originally Posted by shaggy5

There has been a lot of downtime, BUT I am not complaining. There is SO MUCH new content I can barely keep up. I will take the downtime to keep the game new and fresh.

LOVING IT!

Originally Posted by Gray_walker

Smart *** comments are the reason I don't post very often. Let me explain a couple of things, I'm a 60 year old retired man so the opinions of people I think of as children don't really matter a lot to me.

I've been here as long as any of you whether I've been posting or not and my opinions and concerns are as valid as anyone here's. If you wish to impress someone with your wit go play with your peers and go mock someone else kid. Oh yeah, save the get off my lawn comments too.

This game is basically my hobby and it upsets me when I can't play. I'm well aware of the maintenence schedule and all of the stated caveats about downtime. It doesn't lessen the impact it has on me and if I wish to vent about it I will.

Originally Posted by UberGuy

I don't know why folks are disagreeing with what I said, and then repeating it slightly differently.

I'm going to assume perhaps people are getting hung up on the word "claim"? "Claim" is being used very specifically here: after you buy it from the Paragon Market, you can claim that purchase exactly once: I was trying to make clear that you can't buy them and have some sort of per-character font of Touch of Death enhancements. You can buy a set and claim it from the Market with one character, and then it's claimed and you have enhancements.

Once you claim them, you can mail them to other characters on the same account. That includes the examples of unslotting them and moving them to someone else later. I'm not sure what I said in my original response that made folks think I was excluding that possibility.

Originally Posted by EarthWyrm

Lisa, I like your posts, but I find this one baffling. The reason Fire Farms got whacked with the nerf bat wasn't because the story-focused AE users complained, it was because the rewards they offered were out of line with the effort involved in them.

If you really want to draw a parallel to this, I guess you could, but it's again a case of minimal effort (plonk down some $$) giving a better reward than you get from playing the game as designed, and I don't know that you want to make the case that less effort ought to lead to better rewards. IMO, that doesn't create a sustainable game.


I think there were overriding game balance reasons for the changes made, which may have made the authors happy but which were, at best, incidental to the happiness of that portion of the playerbase.


I'm curious why you seem to want to insult broad groups of players. That doesn't seem like you.

As far as it goes, I don't know that I have a particular problem with the selling of crafted IOs on the market, provided the price-point remains high enough that it won't obviate the in-game market. Like Adeon, though, I'm bothered by the precedent of selling strictly better versions of these sets. People keep saying, "Well, as long as there are no purples, I'm fine with it..."

Thing is, the types of bonuses offered by the purple sets are very limited. The ginormous +recharge bonus is nice, but purples don't generally grant non-psi defense bonuses (the exception being the 6th slot in the confuse set). Being able to keep your +def set bonuses down to 27 or 22 (respectively) means that these sets grant something purple sets cannot. They are better than the standard versions of these sets, and in terms of set bonuses granted, arguably better than the purple sets people seem fine with painting as "off-limits".

Originally Posted by Spectral_Ent

For criticism of the actual arc itself... This one really lost me. Way too much conning who your friend immediately kills. Oh, and the model that should have been a corpse fell to the floor and dusted herself off before fading out while a clone of her suddenly appeared, dead, on the floor.

Originally Posted by Arnabas

The worst part?

Trying to find the damned contact.

I was looking for the name/ location of the contact, skimming through some threads here to see if I could find that out. Still don't know who it is, or where he is, but I have managed to spoil the "reveal" for myself.

Originally Posted by Placta

She was already dead, killed either by Darrin Wade or a player villain. That was an illusion fading.

Originally Posted by Irish Fury

I made a build for my best friends fire/fire scrap and he is as tough as most brutes out there. I built for softcapped S/L defense and a decent amount of recharge. Generally his stupid good damage is enough to melt spawns before they ever get through his defense. He is easily the most survivable scrapper I have ever teamed with and gets many comments on his toughness when running TFs and the like. He and I duo'd an MoITF without breaking a sweat (I was on a WP tank).

The bad news, I am at work and don't have access to Mids to share the build. Once I am able, I will post the build so you can take a look and decide if it suits your needs.

In the meantime, play with Mids and try building for S/L defense first and then recharge. Took quite a few sets of Kin Combats, which are fairly pricey at WWs, but well worth the investment if you use the toon a lot.

Originally Posted by PleaseRecycle

The extra trays actually increase the size of the enhancement window rather than making the enhancements smaller so you don't have to worry about that. They're freaking expensive but the QoL improvement they provide is so ginormous I personally had to go for it. You've clearly got my number, Paragon Studios.