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Originally Posted by rsclark

Please explain how your statement in any way contradicts mine. You have simply chosen not to engage in part of the customization in the game - that doesn't mean that the option to customize your character in that way is not part of the game. I don't use emotes, but I don't deny their existence.

Stealth IOs add something to a character they do not otherwise have. Proc IOs can change powers completely and make them capable of doing things they could not before. That is customization. Don't pretend IOs aren't an important part of the game while at the same time claim that customization is, when those are contradictory statements. Customization is not limited to different hair colors.

Originally Posted by Blue_Centurion

Thanks Nal, I have a dark/dark at 36 currently, will look at this for him. Looks like you only have 8 pts KB prot? Or did I miss somethin? My dar/dark only has 4 I/Os so far, 3 @4 pts KB prot, and that End Rech that goes in the AoE heal (that thing was pricey!)

Originally Posted by Bad_Dog

You sure spend a lot of time trying to convince me your economic theory is a fact. It is not, it's your theory of how it works. It's how you believe it to work and you support it by selective and semi-related "evidence". That still does not make it fact.

A lot of this I don't dispute, because in a round about way you are making my case for me that they drop rate should be higher. If you want to make it an economics debate then yes the cap should be lowered. It is obscene that anything in the game sells for $2 bill.

If the cap was lowered, I don't dispute that people will hoard that item for a unknown amount of time. Which I stated in my last post. Certainly not forever, and only for as long as others are willing to buy at off the market prices. It will not last forever, the selling price will eventually be no more than market cap. Will there be shortages? You bet, I don't disagree with that. If the shortage is that high then obviously the supply is too low. Therefore, drop rates need to be higher. Which is exactly what I said in my first post.

You can continue to work yourself up into a frenzy all you want about supply and demand and fluctuating prices, it doesn't change the point of my post or the fact that this situation is the way it is because it was allowed to happen. That makes it a design, whether it is intentional or not, who is to say. But it can be resolved simply. As I stated in my last post, "either drastically increase the drops, drastically lower the cap, or to a degree do both."

Does the buyer have some of the blame, sure he does. But its hard to completely blame the buyer when the sellers are only posting the 3% def pvp IO at $2 bill.

And as for this quote: "seller can't get any more for their item than the buyer is willing to pay", that's not entirely true. It would be true if no one was "playing" the market. I personally know people who periodically go to the markets with the intention of spending a Saturday to make a fortune. Not by buying recipes and crafting them, but by systematically jacking up the prices.

You show your ignorance of the market by assuming that the law of supply and demand is setting the prices and that buyers and sellers are balancing the prices by their honest transactions. The majority of players are using the market honestly, but they are the prey. The minority are there to make as much inf as possible. It is not that difficult to manipulate prices. The longer you want to sit at WW's the higher you can get a selling price, if that is ones intention.

I have nothing against people becoming rich in this game, I am. I already have my billions and I run out of things to spend it on since I finished IOing out my 50s. If I can do it as a casual player then others can. But that doesn't mean I side with those that believe the markets should be the wild west where the sky's the limit. Grow up and give up the psuedo-economics lessons.

My point: The drop rates should be higher for PVP IO's and purple IOs.

Originally Posted by PrincessDarkstar

I am still slightly worried by endurance on both builds though But they should both be extremely survivable.

Originally Posted by Cmls

kk alot of old guide say no self heal. if energize is all i need then it frees up even MORE slots/power... wow after i19 i am goin to end up with wholes in my build with no idea what power to get lol... thats well be epic.

thow to fill in a power pick i may end up with self heal as a set mule.(5% recharge) if i have the extra slots and use it as a between combat top-up skill.

p.s. what does FotM mean...

Originally Posted by Bad_Dog

long boring grudge post

Originally Posted by Blue_Centurion

For soloing Brutes are way better. For teams, Tanks control agro/take damage, and Brutes act as heavy/slower scrappers.

Originally Posted by AllYourBase

Edit: Holy wall of text, flying nocturnal mammal man!

Originally Posted by SickSadisticBomb

I want to make a tank or a brute, which one is better for fighting hordes of enemys? and what would be a good build? i never made a big guys such as a tank or a brute before, sugestions?

Originally Posted by Cmls

cool sounds good as for the more tanker reply i have a dark/ice tank(lvl 39 now) he is all the tank ill ever need. even with SOs i seem atleast to me tuffer then any IOed out = lvl invis/ i have ran into..


nice ss sound fine then still goin to pick up CJ one stam gone for the imob but other then that ill have alot of breathing for other stuff.

Originally Posted by Cmls

k one last thing. k so far i have goten my ss/wp to lvl 25(liking him ) a ss/nrg to 25(agian liking him thow a little more all or nothing then ss/wp)

now wood like to try one last brute to lvl 25 and pick one to stick with.. this time looking at
/elec armour. i figer i have a both(WP) a def(NRG) now try an resist set (ELEC)


SS seem like a good idea just because the def crush of rage doesnt mater at ALL
is it a good combo??


i figed for power pools.
-hasten (lvl 6-8)- super speed(lvl 14)
-Aid self(get ASAP no self heal w/o it)
-box or kick and tough( get at l8tr lvles but no weave)
-stamina tell i19 (then change travel power. figers combat jump[more imob def] SJ[just like using it]and drop super speed off my build.)

well post build for SOs one i get home.(not for a nother 5 hours or so lol)

Originally Posted by Smiling_Joe

Blinding powder doesn't break hide or draw aggro, and it can and should be used pre-emptively to mitigate damage from alphas.

Originally Posted by Slashman

Please don't put ideas in the devs' heads...

Originally Posted by dave_p

I usually farm Tips w/my controllers, blaster or scrappers for the combination of stealth & kill speed, but sometimes on my Fire tank as well, since he can kill plenty fast, and I stuck in a stealth IO in a prestige sprint. Yesterday, I was running Tips w/my SD/Axe tank who I hadn't equipped w/a stealth IO yet, and I sorta wanted some XP anyway (sitting at 40 atm), so instead of setting the missions to -1/x1, which is my usual Tips settings for speed, I put it at -1/x4, for easy, but many kills. AAO running, I'd speed by mobs to get to the glowies, but not really care about picking up aggro. When I'd get to the glowies, any mobs nearby would completely ignore me, because I'd already filled up the aggro cap! I'd click on the glowie undisturbed, the trailing mobs would eventually catch up, I'd kill some, then the mobs nearby would start shambling towards me. Prolly works even better at -1/x8.

Anyone else try this alternative tanker stealth approach?

Originally Posted by Rodion

I think he means that it's relatively easy to soft-cap Shield to all three positional defenses, but that Ice can be easily soft-capped only to Smash/Lethal and Energy/NE, leaving significant holes in Fire/Cold and Psionic defense. (I also had to throw in two-slotted Combat Jumping to hit 45.1% S/L/E/NE defense in my quickie Mids build to test this.)

Ice is hard-capped for Cold resistance, but has very little defense or resistance against pure Fire and pure Psi.

Since most Fire attacks contain some Smash/Lethal component and Psi is less common, it isn't usually a problem. But Ice tankers can be extremely vulnerable to a few specific attacks.

Originally Posted by DumpleBerry

Having just released I18 and GR concurrently, and currently beta testing Issues 19 AND 20 simultaneously...I wouldn't bet on any changes to Halloween.

Originally Posted by Grey Pilgrim

? There are some mobs in a lot of those groups, but they're not necessarily known for it. I'd cite the CoT for -to hit much sooner than -def, for instance: the main ones that do it are those Earth Mage mobs in the 30s, and they're not always there. Tsoo... sword wielders, I guess, but most of them do Kin type powers and -to hit. Rikti? Not even sure who does that... maybe the occasional Magi, but I thought they were mostly Stalagmites and mez.

Originally Posted by lmt1979

I admittedly do not much like tankers, but am considering a real go at this build, any advice/insight would be great. Thanks.