Neuronia

My sentiments exactly.
Could have had Staff Melee and Dark sets for 2XP but instead we get a useless pet...not spending 800 points on this junk.

This is 100% cool as long as all teams get an equal number of byes.
Nice fights all.

Two problems with this:

1)Players who are good/making an effort in PvP try to evade, in other words not die...which reduces your chances of getting a drop;
2)Rep timer means you need to cycle through a lot targets to get a very small chance at a drop.

You really do need to farm them or farm pve to get them.
In the last ladder, WARE.gov got hundreds of kills (top team in ladder) and got maybe one drop. Our own team got one, and this is playing dozens upon dozens of matches and practices. Bleh.

Yeah...generally byes are considered wins but have a different weighting when "finals" are decided in tournaments with multiple rounds or for points based standings. No big deal either way.

Enh convereters are coming; people are buying up the low-grade purples (Sleeps) and are going to use converters to (hopefully) turn them into Armas, APocs, Ragnaroks etc. etc.

The drop rates are not increasing since these items are Very Rare drops and aren't meant as anything more than an endgame goal for the powergamer or to keep your sub active while you grind. My only advice is run tons of level 50 content and they will drop eventually; I had a Grav Anchor drop while lackeyed in a paper mission and a Ragnarok drop in a Dilemma Diabolique. Good luck.

Could do the math off damage received - Damage resistance etc, but yeah there really isn't any real way of knowing. It's a PvP event, people will break it pretty much. Depends how much people want it "fun" or not.

Not to mention City of Villains box which stated you could fight each other in supergroup raids...which we had possible for a while until they pulled the plug on IOPs.

Seeing how totally underpowered most of the IOPs are worth these days, how about flipping a switch and letting us base raid for kicks?

Pretty much this.

When I was PvPing regularly I knew I'd need billions and couldn't always rely on teammates for influence or IOs, so I got to work crafting mid-level crisis stuff and selling, or just cashing in Merits or selling crafted drops.
That, on top of the tons of trials that netted me many, many purples got me enough inf to keep me happy for a while. I could probably get into the hundreds of billions if I wanted to, but there isn't anything out there that goes for a hundred billion so...meh.

I forget who the originator was, but someone posted on the forums a looooooooooooooong time ago with a thread called "Big red ball?" and basically asking for a BIG FREAKING RED BALL that we could throw to each other. Everyone at the time, all the forum big wigs from Friggin' Taser to Arcanaville to Texas Justice (?), got in on the fun. We were told the engine couldn't handle it and it ended there...

Now, the disc is NOT the Big Red Ball but it's darned close. It's something you can throw, your friends can get it as well and it's clean, noncombat fun!

Yes, yes it is and this is the first thing that hopped to my mind.
Bought on both accounts and loving it!

Paragon City has the highest density of super-powered beings.

The city has claimed for itself the title “birthplace of the hero,” an assertion that may or may not be true. However, no one can deny the fact that today Paragon City is home to more super powered heroes than any other metropolis on the planet.
Why? Because not only is Paragon City the largest city in the US, it also goes out of its way to support its hero population. In Paragon City, heroes fight crime and villainy with the government’s approval and to the population’s applause.

http://na.cityofheroes.com/en/game_i...troduction.php

The largest city in the States + highest meta population = a huge bull's eye for everyone from Malta Ops to Circle of Thorns to Hellions to incarnates...

This...I have mucho PLing to do once this goes live, and just T3 Alpha on my Widow...for solo path.

So yeah...GIMMUH!!! O_O

PvP is all about range and + HP (and damage I supposed and all sorts of other bonuses, but you want capped HP ((1606 for squishies)) and extended range for attacks and heals).
My Empath has 6 Panacea slotted, 5 of Glad Net and so on. Glad Javs you can sometimes get by with two or three for the range + proc. Generally you'll want as many glad jav procs and 4-5 ofs as possible, especially those that give those hard to find 2.25% Health bonuses....