Nethergoat

There's a point at which you don't need more control, assuming you do reasonable damage. My fire/ice rarely needs any control beyond what Shiver delivers by itself. I haven't played ice/ice, but it seems to me all the slow and -rech in the primary is wasted since Shiver will floor everyone anyway.
Two holds also seems redundant- again, you should be doing enough damage that the difference between being at the recharge floor and being held doesn't matter.

The ice secondary delivers all the control a blaster is likely to need. Pairing it with a control-heavy primary is gilding the lily.


Uh.....no.

The same thing happened before AE even existed.

What's your point?

Ok I'll fess up- the devs aren't stealing your drops....I am.



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no need, the devs already did it for us.

Who cares, play however you like.

Tell the haters to eat it.

In what fantasy world?

Because here in reality they're likely to end up in Pelican Bay than the Ritz Carlton.

yah, we used to have a lot of non-grim/evil looking basic faces, now we have, like, 3.

Also, we used to have a TON of domino-style face masks, now we have like, three.


I'd like all that stuff back.

I was actually looking forward to Posi's "solution" to the market dilemma, in a kind of ooh look at that bus load of clowns heading for a sheer cliff! way.

I remember when you couldn't stop muling underpriced recipes to the vendor because...because....JUST BECAUSE!

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there will be no more "sides" in a merged market, everyone will be in the same boat.


Triumph generates less junk than Freedom, but the market doesn't care because it's a shared pool of supply.

the motivation is simple- 50 is where the most egregious profits are to be had, so that's where the efficient players congregate.

Combine with 50 being where your character is at the peak of their effectiveness and bob's your uncle.

I've been running various characters through my fave MA farm map to see how they compare to each other. Some of them are sub-50. The flood of recipes thus generated moves MUCH faster at 50 than it does at any of the lower level ranges.

Anyone interested in profits would have to notice the same thing.

Honestly, you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a profitable set IO crafting niche these days.

I ran across an okay defense set recipe (Serendipity, I think) that I was able to pick up for almost literally nothing- I got a ten stack for less than 10k- and using cheapo salvage crafted and sold the lot for 5+ million each.

Not profitable enough for me to make a hobby of, but there's a TON of stuff out there just like it, as Fury notes.

it's demonstrably worse than two applications of Trip Mine, which can be laid down faster.
it takes so long to activate from animation to explosion that literally any damage-dealing AT would have mopped up the spawn and moved on to the next one before it even goes off.

I mean, you can like it if you want- I'm fond of all sorts of underperforming powers in the game. But that doesn't change the fact that it just flat out sucks.

I have to laugh moderately hard at calling the grenade "very powerful".

And while I personally like Ignite, it is highly situational and only qualifies as "very powerful" if you've got the foe immobilized or held.

I agree with your basic point that sets are balanced against themselves.
I still think Full Auto is underpowered.