Nethergoat

why would it be?


aside from the shamans they're pushovers and they're one of the few enemy groups extant that are susceptible to lethal damage.

My fire/rad makes hay farming that one portal Pantheon mission and of course in the dim early days of the market my fire/ice blaster made a career out of farming Dark Astoria.


Being highly resistant to cold, negative & psi they're obviously not for everyone, but they do have their attractions.

Since they won't do that in great enough numbers to matter, there's a ton of profit on the table.

it's pretty dire, isn't it.

I'm still making inf, but there is a very definite pull-back effect at work.
Enough people are stocking up for the merger to make a noticeable difference.

sheesh, you're right.
just compared the two in Mid's.

as my ar/dev is a career-long speedster, that makes YET ANOTHER skippable power in his secondary.


>:e

and there are also lots of us who played it back when it was objectively speaking much, much better than it is now who would prefer not to delete characters we've devoted many hours to just because their secondary has become an under-performing mess.

My dislike of /dev is exacerbated by the fact that mine is an ar/dev, yes, but dev lags anyway.

My project to see what a ridiculously expensive l337 IO build can do for my ar/dev has been going pretty well- the process is fun and he has improved measurably over the last couple of months. The problem comes when I log in one of my other blasters with their comparatively less awesome builds and they still out-perform him.

Observed in a vacuum, /dev has some things to recommend it.
Compared to other blaster secondaries, it is an obvious underperformer.

CD does provide some 'extras', but its main function is easily replicated by a widely available IO.

When the main argument in favor of a power is "well, it gives you a place to slot for bonuses!", that's not exactly a ringing endorsement.

I took CD and it's slotted with a full set of Red Fortune. But if /dev as a secondary had more powers I wanted I wouldn't have felt any compunction about skipping it in favor of a stealth IO in superspeed. That other power I took instead of CD would also give me somewhere to stick helpful IOs and slot for bonuses.

I wonder if Maneuvers would provide more benefit than suppressed CD for defense? It would deliver the same slotting opportunities plus give a little boost to the rest of the team.

uh GR is a box.

how dare they try to remain profitable and stay in business, the NERVE of some people.

If I had a lot of playtime like the old days, I'd probably roll that way too. Purples are fun. But they're also genuinely rare- with my current play schedule (a few hours a week, broken up into 15-30 minute chunks) I could easily go a year without sniffing a purple.

quite likely.

the average gamer will willingly trade away much in pursuit of their fix.

It shouldn't take Vivendi/Activision/Blizzard long to figure a way to shop their players profiles to 'corporate partners' without rubbing their noses in it to the point that they openly rebel.

add another hamster to the wheel inside your case?

Seriously though, system requirement whines are really out of place with this game. I run a stock Dell budget box I bought on sale a few years back for 300 bucks. Plugged in my old video card (pretty good about 3 years back, now I could probably replace it with a bottom-feeder card and see improvement), plugged in my old monitor and voila! I can't fully utilize Ultra, but the bits I am able to activate bumped up zone quality noticably.

This game is very, very, very forgiving of your hardware. If I didn't also play FPS's I'd probably still be using the hand-me-down single processor machine I had before this.

Good luck with that.

You don't have to be 'ashamed' of anything to understand that certain segments of the professional world think poorly of WoW players and that if you play WoW it can have adverse effects on your prospects in that world.

I don't particularly care if anyone knows I play CoH, but if playing CoH could impact my professional life adversely I would absolutely keep it under wraps. Not from shame or embarrassment, but from clinical, logical self interest.

there are a lot of extremely valuable recipes in the Bronze pool.
I regularly hit recipes that sell for 50 million. Not every run, but often enough for it to bump up my average a good bit.

It's entirely normal in a farming sense.
I have a map I like, I run it a few times a week and make a ton of inf.

One of my 'farmers' is an ar/dev blaster with a far from optimized build- if he can do it "most players" certainly can.

cap a map.
that's 20 35-39 bronze rolls.
Most of them will be junk, the % varies slightly- either slightly more than half or slightly less than half.
Delete the junk, craft and sell the good stuff.

I've never made less than 50 million doing this, that's my worse result. 100 million is what I expect to get when I roll, and I'll sometimes exceed that.

I've been doing it long enough now to be sure it's not some epic fluke of good luck.

Mostly junk, sure. "Vast majority"? Nonsense.
And irrelevant anyway since it only takes 1 good recipe to validate a run.
That's why you roll a lot of tickets at once. You're bound to get a couple of very valuable recipes.


Silver rolls are a waste when you can get ~8 bronze rolls for the same # of tickets. And the silver pools are choked with junk due to massive supply of whatever pool the mission complete drops are.

Silver recipes would have to deliver a much higher price point than they do to justify the ticket cost.

watching my ar/dev's gun turret charge headlong into the nearest spawn is pretty hilarious, it doesn't even HAVE a melee attack.

exactly- they've revealed their long-term agenda here.

they aren't going to abandon the profits they think are on the table just because some silly, annoying customers didn't want to be stalked and harassed, they'll be sniffing around for a less obvious way to achieve the same result.

IMHO all that's changed is the timeline, it'll come later rather than sooner.