Nethergoat

given the blinding simplicity of earing fat piles of inf in this game those ARE cheap.

Expensive is a relative term. Given the earning power of even the most anemically slotted fire/rad only purples and selected PvP IOs should be considered 'expensive'.

Last night I ran one MA mission with my much less survivable ar/dev blaster, rolled the several hundred tickets he earned at the level 35-39 bronze sweet spot and picked up roughly 100 million inf worth of recipes (got two RES recipes that are going for 20-40 million each and a few other good ones), more if I bother to craft them. That is obviously an outlier, he usually nets between a few hundred thousand and 10-20 million per mission, but is hardly unprecedented and didn't include any of the *really* good drops available at that level range.

And given the vast array of powers on offer to a fire/rad def & resistance are luxuries, not necessities. With Lingering Radiation, Enervating Field, Choking Cloud and Hot Feet running and his imps deployed mine can jump into the middle of pretty much anything the game has to offer without much worry. He has the shield power from Pyre Mastery (or whatever the fire EPP is called) but never needs it, it's just a place to park IOs.

It's very nearly faster to earn a fat pile of inf and just buy what you want (within reason) than to scratch your head planning out a "cheap" build.

I was thinking more along the lines of how such a system would impact the efficiency at which teams roll along.


Current system, someone starts a team, everybody sits around waiting for a while then runs a few missions, then people drop out and things either fall apart or everyone waits around some more while the leader sends tells (not universal, obviously, but in my experience fairly typical of PUG evolution).

I'd expect any sort of decent auto-team system to drastically reduce that kind of down time and in doing so increase the overall rate of rewards.

that's a good idea.

before MA people whined constantly about how Sewer Runs were killing the game.


Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

you were much more polite than I would have been.

i already have a PPD Psi blaster.

IMHO the game already provides the tools to emulate either faction for interested players.

I disliked that aspect of WoW, but I do think this game tilts a little too far in the other direction.

Instances are handy but they do tend to suck the life out of the zones themselves. I'd like more reasons to play the game 'in public' so to speak- I like seeing other people's characters, reading their bios and generally feeling like I'm in a City of Heroes, not a City of Conveniently Instanced Content.

I wish I got an inf every time this was posted, because then I'd totally be a THOUSANDAIRE!!11

Noted.

marketeers are like cockroaches in that we can adapt, excel and drive the 'casuals' crazy whatever the environment throws at us.

=D

no, it's red because you are quite often full of it and knowledgeable people get tired of your act.

MA is vastly more efficient at generating common salvage (if that's what you're after) than running regular missions.

Which is why I don't have you on ignore.

=)

just delete it.

the inf generated by commons is too minor to lose any sleep over.