Nethergoat

In the era of super sidekicking I don't think levels matter that much.

I'm not talking about TFs, I'm talking about market supply.

Merits were a massive, game wide nerf on the supply of Pool C.

And some people think a race of elves live at the center of our hollow earth.


Wishing doesn't make it so.

this is funny in a gallows humor sort of way as merits themselves were a GIGANTIC nerf, and yet most embraced them with open arms.

what you personally chose to do doesn't affect the overriding imperative of efficient gameplay for the bulk of players in this game, i/e instead of running Quick Katies for rolls, grind ITFs for outsized piles of merits.

Obviously lots of players play the game lots off different ways, but the bulk of them are reward driven and will thus flow toward the path of least resistance. When the devs change the rules, they change those paths and the behavior of their reward seeking playerbase.

then i'll do it the lazy way too- welcome to ignore!

so highlight the stuff you don't want and then delete it, like I just did with your post.

yes it does.

well, unless you really like pointlessly wasting a lot of time and energy that would be better invested elsewhere.

I'm not strong enough to stop myself so I want y'all to do it for me!

=P

I'll be able to check for myself after his upcoming respec as caltrops will be losing most of its plumage.

I have Caltrops triple slotted for slow, maybe that's it?



Whoops, sorry about that! =P
I have my /dev blinders on lately.
I can absolutely see taking grenade if you don't have any better mitigation available.

I think it IS fun.

I enjoy overcoming obstacles and reaching the point where my characters no longer have to be concerned with end is a fun obstacle to overcome.

Since your fun is no more valid than mine, please find a valid argument to make against the current endurance status quo.


The other point is that end is a balance factor for the game.
If it were nullified entirely they would need to introduce some new balance factor which I doubt very much you would think is "fun".

There are no free lunches in MMO gaming. Sure you can keep wishing for that Magic Pony to come along and make everything all better, but it ain't gonna happen.

I've been generating a LOT of MA tickets the last month or so and rolling everything in the bronze 35-39 range. Whenever I fill up my inventory (currently 25 recipes on my ar/dev) I get between 40-50% 'keepers', defined as recipes going for 500k+ with plenty of outstanding bids. Anything below that threshold I delete on the spot. For a while I was checking the disparity between recipe and crafted IO, but the IO won so often and by such a ridiculous margin that now I just craft everything and either stick it in base storage (all the Melee stuff, anticipating the eventual arrival of the Kinetic Melee set) or list it.

Making the assumption that there's about the same % of junk in the corresponding merit pool (which may be totally wrong, I don't roll many merits so I have no idea), and given the greater prevalence of ultra valuable recipes, rolling seems like a no-brainer to me.

The recent changes to the email system largely negate the volume issues. If I find myself drowning in drops with my market slots clogged, I just farm stuff out to alts. But I've found that pricing stuff to move mostly takes care of the issue. Undercutting the going rate by enough to come in below the marketeers but above where the bottom feeders are looking for deals results in a quick sale at the high end of the current price range 8 times out of 10.

And one of the only handy features of the new market interface, 'find salvage', makes getting what you need super easy. I wildly overpay so I get it NAO, which keeps my slots free without affecting my profit in any meaningful way. When the recipe is going for 1 mil and the crafted IO is going for 10, spending 100k on salvage right nao instead of 20k with an overnight wait is a no brainer.

None of this will make crafting appealing to someone who hates it, but it isn't the PITA it used to be and the profits are absolutely ridiculous.

I don't see a problem there.

Of course, I don't think people should be able to hoard merits to buy specific pieces of loot so we're probably dealing with an unbridgeable philosophical chasm.

China owns too much of our national debt for sending in Delta Force to be practical, sorry.

=(

this I can totally agree with- the activation time is pretty unconscionable.

Agree here too, although I like both powers. More would be better, especially with ARs unspectacular single target damage.


crummy damage + sending people flying all over the map = skip it.

if it did good damage or didn't send people flying all over the place (knockdown instead of back, or a stun component or something) I'd certainly give it a chance.

As is it's a power with several drawbacks and no real selling points.

Not mine.