Memphis_Bill
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Quote:Lot of assumptions there. Hell, currently if you enter a PVP zone you've got a better chance of not meeting *anyone.*Originally Posted by Mandu
Currently if you enter a pvp zone you KNOW with absolute certainty that your casual build which was created just to pve is going to wind up stacked up against at least one player who has spent billions on their build and is loaded down with all sorts of soft capping IOs and processes. Even if there isn't actually one of those players in the zone at the moment it still seems a certainty. And you definitely will be up against some people who have spent fortunes on their build.
The people who have "spent fortunes on their build" are a minority. And I'd be more willing to say you'd run into them in organized PVP events than in any of the PVP zones. -
Quote:In order to corner the market, someone would have to really control the source of the item.Originally Posted by Blue_Centurion
It has become abundantly clear why some items cost 2 Billion per enhancer. It is a trick outlawed on Wall Street. It is called cornering the market.
Now, sure, the devs do - by keeping these ultra-rare. However, you - yes you - can get a guaranteed PVP IO (the 2 billion INF ones) once every 70 days without spending a penny... well, past game costs.
Run your hero or villain's tip and morality missions. Get an alignment merit. Save them. The PVP IOs run from 30-35 A-merits.
Is it slower? Maybe. I think I've had, at most, two PVP IOs drop (and that early, before they became 2 billion INF items.) So it might be slower - but OTOH, it might be *faster* for you.
And while it's true some people will *set* their price at 2 billion, if I had some of the most in-demand items, I could put them up at 1 inf and still make 2 billion - because a bid would be sitting there for that amount. The sellers can't sell if someone doesn't want to *buy* at that price.
(For the record, I don't think I have 2 billion if I combined ALL my characters INF. 1 billion maybe. And I have 200+ characters. Why? Because I just don't *care.*) -
Spherical minions won't do much harm, as I'll kick them and send them rolling down the hall/street/cave, where they'll run into other minions and they'll all end up in a giant minion ball-pool thing where I can stand back and just AOE them.
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Wait... is that list the one you're building now, or the parts you have, or ... The AMD 6850 is one of the newest cards they have out. It's (IIRC) running better than my HD 5770. And my 5770 more than handles COH.
The board, per newegg, lists itself as taking DDR3 2000(O.C.) / 1333 / 1066... so DDR2 will not physically fit. Borrowing from Wikipedia's commons for an illustration:
Note the keying slot.
DDR3 will come down in price. DDR2 will eventually rise as it becomes rarer. That said, with enough RAM, you probably won't have to worry about it 'til you're looking at an overall upgrade. (8 Gb? Yeah. Probably set for a while.) -
Quote:Why would they ambush the Rikti? Wouldn't it be better to (a) warn them and/or (b) try to block Nemesis somehow?Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay
They'd just go back in time and ambush the Rikti. It'd prevent all of this from happening, and we wouldn't have this great MMO we have today...
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Quote:Just as an aside, sometimes I wonder if people read Dante's posts.Originally Posted by Dante
Sometimes I wonder if people read my posts. :P
:P
(As an actual aside, who was doing the offline MA editor, and is it still working with the current MA?) -
Well...
I'm not really *against* it, but I do need to point out that you can get one guaranteed PVP IO recipe every 70 days (if not faster) thanks to the alignment merit system. Doesn't take that long to run tips, after all. So I'd say a system *is* in place to increase these. -
Heh.
While not for the same reasons, one of the reasons I have such fond memories of my Em/Ea Brute was having people *continually* cuss me out as "That *&#$# Stalker!" while playing her in the zones. (Pre-I13.) Then telling others to look out for my (slotted-for) stuns that seemed to last forever.
It's just not the same now (and not just because the zones tend to be dead.) -
Quote:Who asks first? That's the first person I'm replying to, if I don't know either one.Originally Posted by DMystic
I know you would Memphis.I've seen you in enough of these discussions to realize that you and a few other people on these forums would take a stalker on their team.
For the purposes of this situation you don't know either the stalker or the scrapper.
The point being, I don't *care.* I'm not pro- or anti-AT. Yes, even when it comes to VEATs. I may not want to *play* them, but it won't make me ignore them if I'm throwing a team together and one says "Can I join?" I'm not throwing together a "zomg we must have 95875 DPS through the whole thing/finish in 5 minutes/nobody can die." I'm throwing together something to have *fun* with. -
Quote:Who's playing it? Is it someone I know is incapable of playing with a team? If so, I'd skip them no matter what they play, otherwise I'd be fine taking the Stalker, yes.Originally Posted by DMystic
Can you honestly say you would take the Stalker?
/this.Quote:Originally Posted by all_hellThe inherent fitness is a stalker buff imho.
Stalker builds are some of the tightest builds I have ever done. -
Quote:o.OOriginally Posted by warden_de_dios
In CoV you never saw a lot of doms
Anyway, if I were going to find a "Take out first regardless of character," it'd be a short list. The only one that really comes to mind is the Master Illusionist. Aside from the phasing in and out, the pets get to be a pain - and if they all hit you with the hold (looking mostly at resist based, but if your DEF has been otherwise dropped, well...) it will break through your mez protection.
The only other thing I'm not fond of seeing are things that resist immobs - War Wolves, most often, simply because (a) I play a lot of controllers and doms, and (b) a good number of other ATs can also get immobs (MM - secondary or PPP, Tank in APP, Blaster in secondary, etc.) and having that just flat out ignored... yeah. -
Quote:Yes, first 15. It'll even tell you how many you have in up to that point when the invite is accepted.Originally Posted by White Hot Flash
If you're a small or solo SG, roll up some alts and get them invited into your group. You get a pretty good bonus up to the first 15 (I think), and as long as they stay there, you keep the prestige. It's meant to be seed money to build up a decent base.
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I think you're thinking of the combat attributes monitor - see my sig. not sure about the slash command, but you CAN keep some of them up at all times.
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Quote:He KNOWS that's not how they work. He's suggesting they'd work better - I mean, right now you make the choice without really seeing what you're presented with.Originally Posted by Devlin_Quaid
Because that's not how morality missions work.
Now, yes, you're already going through 10 alignment tips to get there, I know - but having that "Wait - no, I'm sorry, but nuking the orphanage just is too much for me" or "Let them run, let them scream, let them curse my name as they bury what's left of their dead!" choice *at that point* would make for a better mission. And the tech does already exist.
(Actually, I was running the Villain one when I hit the same thing - "You know what, yeah, my character's a villain... but wouldn't be that short sighted.")
I think they'd have to rewrite the Hero one for it to work there, though.
Still, yeah, I think this would have been great to present the choice *in the mission.* -
Alternates, sure. Just deleting it, no thanks.
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Quote:And others have absolutely no interest in playing a robotic one, or a plant-like one, or a female one, or a male one, or one that plays in melee, or one that has no mez protection.Originally Posted by BenRGamer
...am I the only person who does not like/has absolutely no interest in making a cat character?
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Quote:I'm still going to go and echo "Why not just push for customization?" Part of what's supposedly coming is changing origin points for some powers - if you could switch between "Classic" and "Rifle" variants for (say) Energy, Radiation, Sonic (with new sounds, say the Goldbricker set,) etc. you'd have the "rifle blast" without having just a duplicate set.Originally Posted by BunnyAnomaly
I should have been more specific sorry: an Energy Weapons (Rifle) blast set. For example carrying an energy weapon rifle, not a frankengun assault rifle with bullets/etc.
There's already quite a number of temporary weapons that have a very energy-weapon-esque look. -
Email Avatea. I know they had a thread on it just after the board change, but I'm pretty sure that's what it took - email with alternates.
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Villains:
Different starter zone for those who *want* to start as a villain and not in Mercy Trash Heap/Rescued by Arachnos.
More contacts.
Heroes:
General content revamp. Some tweaking has already been done, to the Hollows, Faultline and the Posi TF. Just bring it up to date, freshen it up some. -
Looks like Sharkhead, specifically, is giving some serious mapserver issues over on Pinnacle. LCTM every few seconds. (And I double checked with another player there, getting the same thing.)
Switched to Nerva - fine. St. Martial - fine.
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Quote:Only way I've gotten mine. Heck, they're at negative-cost for me. I stick them on the market for 5 inf.Originally Posted by Madadh
Hey, I've never bought a respec recipe. Some people get them the old fashioned way, by getting a lucky drop. So, does that count as earned or free?
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I don't know if that's technically doable. I can't think of an example where having one of one type of pet "kills" another type. Same type, yes (or it makes the power fail, or "refills" it in the case of things like fire imps or current MM pets.)
I don't think, if it IS doable, I'd call it overpowered - you're maintaining the same level of pets, same degree of Bodyguard, etc. On the other hand, I don't know why I'd do that instead of just resummoning the pet in the first place. -
See, here's the thing. I actually DO tend to PVP solo. I don't have to "kill steal," so I'm not sure where that attitude (as in POV, not "having an attitude about something") is coming from. I'll hop into the arena with friends, I'll run through zones, team sometimes, solo others.
Yes, the drops are rare - described as ultra rare, in fact. I think I've had one, maybe two drop - and that's well before current prices got where they are, so these weren't particularly high on the market.
Even so, though, I don't have an issue with their rarity. For the people who PVP constantly? They have more of a chance at them. But that's kind of the point.
For those that don't PVP all that much? Well, 70 days (fewer if you buy some A-merits) of running tips and morality missions guarantees you can get any PVP IO you want. (2 days per merit, most expensive IIRC is 35 merits.) Is it slower? Depends on your POV - I don't PVP constantly either, so for me that would actually be a *faster* way of doing it and I'd be guaranteed the IO I want. If I did PVP every day (which would require me to not be such an altaholic,) it might be slower.
Would I *argue* with the drop rate being tweaked up a bit? Not at all. Do I think it's really, really needed? Not particularly. Even less so with the A-merits available. -
Quote:... so PVP on a team.Originally Posted by Ballista
If you are running solo - you are and you have to basically "kill steal."
Or, just keep doing alignment missions and earn the A-merits. Does it take work? Yes. Is it doable? Yes. 30-35 merits each, never have to step foot into a PVP zone. And absolutely guaranteed that you will get one after earning (and/or buying) that many merits.
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As far as grindy? They're not needed. You want grind, play Aion, where you *must* grind fort raids, grind mobs, etc. to make the money to buy skills and/or get medals for the best gear - and while the "best" gear isn't really needed, the skills certainly *are.* (Hell, you want grind, look at a set of Flash armor there, where you MUST get *5* characters to 30. On one side. Because each can only earn one piece of the armor. THAT is grind.) -
Ehhhh....
Well, you can control the soul extraction, so that might be a bit much. If it were like, oh, the Warshades' extracted essences (dumb pets) I don't think I'd see a balance issue there (though their duration might drop._)