Neuronia

This ^.

Makes the matchups a little less lopsided.
Caps should really have a vent meeting and vote on it though.

Xanatos proposed some kind of redraft where you could jettison inactives and so on and pick up others. Wouldn't be a bad idea; think something like that happened in the last Freedom league when Rice's team picked up the remainders of Kat's team.

This is laudable.

However, you don't want to get into how the old NHL was with the Adams/Patrick/Norris/etc. diviisions and you had really bad teams making the playoffs because 4 out of 5 teams made it in each year....and they were basically speed bumps (I'm looking at your Hartford and 1980s-early 90s Toronto) for the teams that would be perennial contenders. Unlike irl sports there aren't really injuries/media/etc here...it's a video game. Sure you have people with better rigs, teams, skill and that's 100% fine.

If you want everyone to be in it, do it like this:

1 fights 2.

3 fights 6.
4 fights 5.

Winner of 1 vs. 2 gets a bye into finals.
Winner of lower matchups play off.
Top team (1) fights remaining team (3-6).
Winner is declared.

There are a lot of permutations you can go through. I mean MLB has what...four or six teams making the playoffs, NHL has 16 of 30, NFL has ?. Playoffs should be attained on merit, not parity.

To be fair, the Devs could crash into GG's house with an Amtrak and she'd be delighted...those of us with a critical bent not so much.

Now, make Shivans and Warburg Nukes or accolades available in the market and we can talk...

I must be the weirdest marketeer out there, don`t think I`ve ever flipped a single item. Everything has come from Merit rolls (locked at 33), regular play crafting and sales and speed-running STF and the occasional PvP IO drop in Arena.

Lazy and aware I guess is my category...I`m almost to my goal of escaping "High-end poverty" in being able to buy 4 of any item in the game at a whim...(including off-market items).

>.>

Extra market slots are convenient but not game-breaking. I`ve pulled in a ton of inf lately not due to those, but due to unslotters, which have allowed me to gain back my stranded level 52 Hamis and pvp IOs as well...all to the market for a hefty return.

We don`t even know how much it would cost for these purples. If it`s less than getting X billion from RMT or the time required to get X billion, no one will buy them...

$100 is a lot. I`d pay maybe $25 or so for that...maybe a little more. I would only get it if I could choose my slotting and get vouchers for IOs and it had accolades...and I would use it to PvP, of course.

How did you score 85 with respawn timers and escape powers etc?

+1

Have you tried some tier 3 or even tier 4 versions? That should be enough to defeat him. Use some big reds, a few big oranges and maybe a green or three. I'd be glad to help out if I have a character on your server.

I like the new picture of Numina, makes her look good for a dead folk.

I might have missed something, but not sure why the Rulu-Shin are in the Abyss...I took it that they're trying to harness Hamidon's power (he's becoming the new Terra Volta reactor...everyone wants a turn) or somesuch, I'll read the clues a little closer next time.

Overall I enjoyed the arc. Still think it's Nemesis/Cole though.

Remove it from Arena, tweak it for zones. Basically there should be a small amount of TS when Melee attack, but that's it. You should not be getting TSd when you hit an inspiration, buff, etc.

The new hold system ensures you're going to die sometime, as does the two minute Phase timer. Since you always get held for a limited amount of time, this will allow the damage spam to get through.

^ This.
Was really annoying heading to RV on my Emp, buffing and healing then trying to evade an attack and...TSd off the attack, TSd off my inspiration use, TSd again...and HDd off my using Heal Aura. Yeah, no thanks.



Maybe Zwillinger actually had a constructive, almost hour chat with a bunch of us when PvP University ended. Maybe Zwillinger is still in the Freedom ladder and gathering opinions and such. Maybe now that PvP is on the radar again the Devs can make some changes, if not wholesale, to the system.

Yeah I also got my points today and would really like a set date in my Master Account for the tokens. That was the great thing about vet rewards, it told you when the next one was coming. Not really liking the nebulous "Limited Time" on Tier 9 VIP rewards either...if I wait it out until November 11, will I still be able to purchase Celestial items or am I going to be behind forever?

Unless stated otherwise, three even con minions vs. a player entity is still the base metric. Perhaps three +1 minions if you have IOs, many more with set IOs and purples.

My StJ/Fire Brute, with only SOs, breezed one of the Fire farms at +1/x4 at level 26...are SOs too powerful now? I run most missions at +1/x2. IO sets make the game too easy and make Incarnate trials just the right amount of survivable.

To answer the OP, people are already dumping money on RMT for PvP IOs and infamy...so why the Devs would want to steer away from this (apart from publicity concerns and power concerns) not too sure.