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Not even close.
No one had used bridging to PL since AE came out. When you can ding 1-50 in 2-4 hours during 2XP and a bit more outside of 2XP, who needs them?
Bridging was a relic of the previous incarnation of the game. You level so quickly now, gain so much influence now, that it's unneeded.

I'll still be PLing PvP alts and avoiding the 1-32 grind as necessary; the crtiical difference is now I won't have to ask anyone to pad my farm mission, to bridge or to do all sorts of "teammate Tetris" as Posi called it.

This issue is awesome.

You were attacked big boy, your Funk was just too strong!


Good times, looking for some RV action sometime so my Therm doesn't get rusty.

This post wins a Bubble of Win (the first such awarded).

Try it in Hexadecimal though, it's sexier.



As for why, a friend of mine is in Closed and telling me everything...so it's like I'm there anyway.

Eww.

I think if you /ignore charactername it will do that and gignore at the same time? Now if I go /ignore PerfectPain it says You are now ignoring @globalname...

No.

I started an experimental hero on Triumph, a Warshade called "The Casual Player". I play this character at most 45 minutes per day, sometimes 20-30 minutes. I don't flip stuff, I just sell drops and craft drops and sell those.

I'm about to hit level 9 and I already have close to 2,000,000 influence.
"What? How?"

My missions had Circle of Thorns, which were gracious enough to drop Luck Charm, Spiritual Essence and Runebound Armor salvage on me.
My last arc mission from Shadowstar was in...Perez Park.

Perez Park is overflowing with Hellions Pinatas. I just AoEd Green Cons until my salvage sack was full, faceplanted and sold at Atlas.

After that, I'd noticed I'd had tickets awarded me for my lowbie arc.
I used 540 of them for a rare arcane salvage and netted a bunch more influence.

Before I hit level 10, I have enough for Dual Origins AND Single Origins at level 22.
The game is filled with Influence-filled Pinatas standing around waiting to be cracked open by your character. It is truly impossible not to make influence in this game, even if you list your stuff at a bare minimum.

Salvage drops? Sell for 100-1,000,000 influence.
Recipes drop? Craft and sell for 100-several million influence
Tickets drop? Use them to sell salvage people want, or roll in Bronze and sell the results.

If you want to ignore the Market, feel free and you can play just fine without it. Price Caps are NOT a solution. They will DRY up supply as crafted IOs are sold inter-server in specialized channels for MORE than the enforced price.

Will "The Casual Player" be purpled? Who knows.
Will "The Casual Player" be set for life by level 20 odd? Certainly, considering SOs/Basic IOs as the baseline.

Just keep pounding those pinatas, the game world is populated with them...

(Edit, I would have had a stronger base but I misclicked the big Enrage and big Respite you get from Outbreak when trying to sell them, curses!)

Yeah, 5 person teams is what seems to be ongoing now, but I don't know if there will be enough interest on Pinnacle for that many people per team. I'd certainly be up for it though.


Not sure about us. Pretty sure Funk had around 20-30 kills, James about 10-20. My Emp got 3 kills heh but those were mostly killsteals.
Defeats against...I think until that last match JD got downed four or five times, Funk maybe two or three and myself at most once.

This...PLEASE at least lower the damage requirement to the 1,000,000 one. It is SUCH a garguantuan annoyance to have to farm 10,000,000 damage on EVERY PvP vill I make.

If you're going to make changes to the zone entry etc...at least consider reviewing some of the Accolades and making them somewhat more sane.

Overall, I like the new changes a lot but I will have to test them myself before I decide whether they are worthwhile. Thanks for the great QOL stuff guys.

This, have a 50 Ill/Emp on Freedom atm, Accod/IOd.

Damn right. I remember when we used BBSs instead of these newfangled websites, my 2400 Baud made me rule the neighbourhood. Commodore 64? I was spinning Apple IIE hun.

Those were the days.
Seriously, have fun with Twitter Devs, not my thing.

Ooooh I've been there on one of my infrequent trips to Maryland...don't they have some awesome crab dip as well? Yummers.

Also, hi MHM. >.>

If Praetoria were a world with multiple zones instead of a tacked on zone like Cimerora or Croatoa that would be beyond incredible.
I'd love if it had a starting zone/entry point, other zones scaled by levels with Arenas, Stores, Trainers, a Market...just no AE *laughs* as it would break the immersion factor skyhigh.

If they just give us some Rikti War Zone quality writing/arcs, it'll already be great.
Perhaps also RWZ style Denari Merits...which we can't trade and buy stuff with.

Sure, I'll take a stab at this.

Travel Suppression was added for two reasons at least:

i)Melee was having a rough time kiting efficiently when people were attacking them from 40-80 feet away. With TS, a 'forced engagement' occurs.

ii)With everyone sporting Swift/Hurdle/Super Leap/Superspeed, it was pretty impossible to catch up with a good PvPer (webnades and such aside), which was frustrating to new people. Now everyone stops and everyone has to fight.

Heal Decay:

Devs didn't like the Emps APing/HO to counter spikes, found it was too much a factor in Arena and cut the legs from under Heal-sporting classes.
If you don't worry about someone healing, you can just spam holds/damage/more damage and eventually they'll die.

Diminishing Returns:

Goes back to too many stacked buffs/ToHit/etc on players during team matches. Lower returns on buffs means buffer classes aren't needed...so anyone can play their favourite toon and get kills

Mez Res:

This is one of the worst changes they've made so far, needless to say the least. Not sure where the Devs stood on holds, but they either didn't like that Break Frees countered them so easily or they didn't like that Sonics/Emps/Etc cound stack enough protection to make incoming holds useless. Again, getting held constantly forces an engagement, which is what the Devs wanted...

As for RV Freedom, it was pretty hopping last night, and the kickballs were fantastic too, lots of people around.

The Devs should be posting on the CoH website; we shouldn't have to access a third-party site for infornation about CoH since...this site can already do that.

Now, hopefully we get the Devs back here once their digest is fixed. I won't be following them on Twitter at all.