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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Forbin_Project View Post
    What is this the 6th or 7th thread the OP has started about wanting more respecs? You'd think he'd learn to drop it considering the mods have locked or deleted half of his threads on the subject.
    you only pay attention like half the time. thats not what this topic is about.

    yes 1 locked. 1 deleted bc of being too similar. 1 remains. 1 was a question that is still there.

    i know you hate that im still here despite your efforts
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by EU_Damz View Post
    But the thing is though, that the options are now there for people to get non purple/pvp IOs at VERY low costs [2 hero merits] for items that are selling in the [atm on live] 100 - 300 mill range.

    Would i save up 30 HM for a pvp IO? No, because i'ld make the money from the above option well before i get to there and just buy it off the market. However for people who dont want to pay that kind of money [even if they have it], the option is there via HMs now whereas before they would never had gotten it
    oh im very happy about the non purple/pvp io options but those other numbers are just too lame.
  3. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Crim_the_Cold View Post
    I fail to see the issue here. If you really do 220 mission in 40 days as a level 50 chances are you'll have gotten a purple recipe or two while doing the missions. Purples drop at a rate of about 1 every 5000 enemies right. In 220 missions you should be fighting quite a bit more than that even at the lowest settings. So what they've really done is made purples less rare for those with the sense to see it for what it is.
    yes you fail to see the issue with how lame these numbers are.
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by EvilGeko View Post
    The PvP +defense unique goes for 2 billion influence when it's available at all. 30 alignment merits seems a bargain to me. That's the only PvP recipe I care about since they destroyed PvP in I13.
    while someone else spends 7 days farming pvp ios with a friend and works the market, then buys 2 glad armors uniques, slots 1 and sells the other off market for 3 bil and has 23 or 53 days to do something else.
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by EU_Damz View Post
    Just like merits, its a way so a casual player has a chance to get something that they want at their own pace without having to farm as such.

    Just takes a while
    no they just have to farm in a different or different, time consuming and costly manner :P
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Tymers_Realm View Post
    O_I, please stop.

    While your desire is somewhat reasonable, the way you've presented, and continue to present, your case isn't helping your cause any. If anything, your hurting your own cause by your attitude and lack of tact.

    If you want support from the Community, try posting in a more respectful manner.

    Thank you for the time...
    i'll post in what manner i choose. umm war witch said in an interview that her job was to make sure (i'll get the quote when i feel like it) things are not lame and these numbers = lame/boring/unfun.
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Mirai View Post
    What's a "hvam"? Is it good to eat?

    I'm not sure what you're talking about, but I get the impression that you're way way too obsessed about respecs. Why are you changing builds so much?
    hero villain alignment merits.

    im sorry you dont know what im talking about. ask mr europe he figured it out.

    nothing to do with that.

    oh idk maybe having dual builds and lots of changes in this issues patch notes? or dont you pay attention to those and don't know what they are talking about either?
  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by EU_Damz View Post
    Or you could just use your 2 hero merits to buy a recipe thats selling for a lot of money [like a +recharge one perhaps?] and then buy your respec recipe and have change?

    OR you could do that a few times have enough to buy a couple of purples buy the time it takes to get to the required amount to buy a purple/pvp IO.

    OR you could just do the tips as a casual with the knowledge that you will get something that you want/need with the bonus of all that extra money you would have picked up along the way without the "random factor" put in.

    Purples/PvP have to high because they are supposed to be super rare. Though respec recipes for 10 is 10x too high
    kinda what i'm trying to say. there are much less lame, time consuming and more cost effective methods to obtaining these. so why such a lame system?

    yeah purps and pvp ios are rare but those numbers are just way too lame.
  9. RESPEC RECIPE FREE METHOD
    20 days and 110 missions later = 10 hvams

    RESPEC RECIPE 1/2 FREE 1/2 PAID METHOD
    10 days and 55 missions and 250 merits and 100 mil inf later = 10 hvams

    PURPLE RECIPE FREE METHOD
    40 days and 220 missions later = 20 hvams

    PURPLE RECIPE 1/2 FREE 1/2 PAID METHOD
    20 days and 110 missions and 500 merits and 200 mil inf later = 20 hvams

    PVP RECIPE (30 hvam version) FREE METHOD
    60 days and 330 missions later = 30 hvams

    PVP RECIPE (30 hvam version) 1/2 FREE 1/2 PAID METHOD
    30 days and 165 missions and 750 merits and 300 mil inf later = 30 hvams



    what does this fine community think about these numbers?
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by B_Witched View Post
    not bs anymore please. Just tell us once and for all, are you going to fix pvp? See a lot of us have been trying to keep it going, events, ladders tourneys what have you...and it seems like you really really really really really really really really (enough reallys?) don't give a crap.

    So just level with us - tell us lol pvp...tell us your adding more supression and heal decay and dr and other crappy ideas.

    JUST TELL US and we can move on. Get War Witch to tell us she has had her finger in every issue (so she says) to get her finger to type something...

    Look you owe us that much..


    if all I get is mod smacked or nothing we can take that as your answer and wait for another mmorpg.
    great post. the dev team has painted a very poor picture of themselves at times (yeah i can get quotes) so it's about time to start saving some face and treating this minority group of paying customers as equals
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Alpha_Zulu View Post
    To Arcana,

    I think everything can be summed up quite simply.


    The devs ****** this one up. Big time. And they should revert it back to the less broken way it was before they ****** it up. End of story.
    you summed it up quite nicely AZ.

    i like you Arcana but we are way beyond the datamining game at this point because we already know the results. it is time for the dev team to fulfill their promise made almost 2 years ago to customers and go into action.

    if the devs want to experiment in the future they should put those experiments in as check boxes only in the arena and not into global pvp mechanics.
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  13. OPTICAL_ILLUSION

    War Witch

    R.I.P. Optical "Cat Girl" Illusion
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by AmazingMOO View Post
    I ran into an interesting RP issue last night.

    Jaguar Strike is my i18 Stalker. He's the son of a European fertility spirit and a South American terror god. I've been working on him and his backstory since before the i17 launch. While he is a troubled young man, the trouble is due to his vast powers and the feelings of despair and isolation they cause him. The majority of those powers have been sealed by a heavenly therapist in order to help him heal from depression and detachment.

    His sojourn in Praetoria to aid the resistance was also suggested by his therapist (an Archangel, no less!) as an exercise to reintegrate himself with humanity.

    He was always intended to be very firmly in the 'Neutral Good' range, despite shadowy powers. His ability to kill so very easily and the fact that ability has been sealed are referenced in his bio.

    A scrapper in a pickup group tried to roleplay with me last night, but just wasn't getting it. I insisted that I wasn't evil and that I'd never been a villain when he expressed reservations about grouping with one. I even tried complaining that his expectations were like those that had caused me such grief in the past.

    About the only thing I didn't do was say 'Hey, look at my character info and the number of times I've switched-- See that? That's the resistance-to-Hero switch. I've never even BEEN to the Rogue Isles, thank you very much.'

    Eventually, I gave up trying to RP with him, thanked the team, and called it a night.

    How would you have dealt with this situation?
    1. why did a spirit of FERTILITY (life) mate with a god of TERROR (horror)??? the spirit of fertility could easily have been seen as corrupt by such a pairing thus easy to label any offspring as evil or corrupt as well.

    2 When training in the martial arts you learn to identify other forms of martial arts. so by viewing your combat techniques (power use) he/she could have easily identified you as an assassin type which are generally not viewed in a good light

    3. perhaps said scrappers family/lover was killed by an assassin which he/she now has a natural hatred and distrust for.

    4. maybe the scrapper has an extraordinary ability to identify the powers and abilities of others just like other comic book characters.

    5. your character is obviously going through a personal struggle with the sides of good and evil so it could be easy to identify those types of struggles normally. given the fact that you use assassin combat techniques it could be more natural to assume you are on the evil (terror) side of things.

    6 what clothing (costume) were you wearing? by the way you dressed it may have been a dead give away as to your profession.

    7. could have been that your european spirit of fertility parent mated with a god of peace, love, happiness and butterflies and left them to mate with the god of terror and the scrapper as a child was left hurt, feeling abandoned and harbors resentment towards any other offspring of the fertility god.

    8. praetoria is in turmoil between the loyalist and resistance sides so it would seem natural for people to distrust each other.

    9. the list of things can go on my friends so perhaps you all should expand your imaginations as opposed to using limited views and possibilities while rping.

    10. some of you should try being more objective and not just agree with friends because it will not help them, the situation or the community.

    11. i got rp skills yo. meow
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Schismatrix View Post
    Just an additional thought: while i disagree with most of O_I's 'reasoning', i think that it's not unreasonable to increase the number of freespecs available, and i expect to see an upgrade/revamp of the respect system in the next several issues to make it more friendly to IO users.
    ok so you don't agree that a freespec for each build for multiple build users should be given when the devs make changes BUT you would like to stack or save up multiple freespecs for convenience when YOU have a need to use them and for IO swapping/removal.

    i like your reasoning lol
  16. guys/gals don't act like there are not players here in the game that just stand around rping, socializing and don't care about min/maxing and such.
  17. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Schismatrix
    Again, if you have to redo all your builds on all your characters whenever a new issue goes live to function you're either a bad player or psychotically neurotic.
    yes because when power changes are made by the devs and i change my builds because of then it makes me a bad player or psychotically neurotic.

    are you really that clueless?
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by PennyPA View Post
    And you can't comprehend that something is free as a kind act by the devs. Giving 2, let alone 3, is over the top for entitlement.

    You, the player, plan ahead with the knowledge that games change over time. You burn up all your respec (free, earned, etc.) making those tiny tweaks over and over is your own fault.

    I am betting this is coming down to IOs and someone not wanting to replace them as they are intended to be.

    really?

    plan ahead what? when powers are changed by the devs they give a freespec to make necessary changes. only having one freespec when tiny or big changes are made by the devs makes it very inconvenient for multiple build users.

    i can't wait to read the community cries after power changes are made and they only have one freespec to use for their pve and incarnate build that does not exemplar down.
  19. 3rd builds are coming

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Positron View Post
    Thanks for that. Yes, we're not scrapping the system. We were actually very happy with the beta test of the Alpha slot, as well as acquiring the powers for it. What we DO want you to have is something to do with it! Since Incarnate stuff doesn't exemplar down (by design), we needed to make sure that getting the Alpha slot and abilities wasn't considered "useless".

    Oh, and I will take this opportunity to clear up some confusion. There are currently 10 slots for the Incarnate system. These will likely not all be in one single issue, but doled out over several.

    And for those who were not in beta: one of the last things we did before the slot was pulled was give you a third build upon unlocking the Alpha slot, so if you wanted an "End-Game Incarnate" build separate from your "exemplaring" build and your "soloing" build, you will have access to it.

    so currently for the second build and then eventually the 3rd build we will need to use up one of these methods

    *one of 3 (1x only) respec trials
    *vet spec
    *100mil inf respec recipe
    *$10 paid respec

    let's say someone has 10 characters that use 2 builds. they will need to run 10 respec trials or use up 10 vet specs or spend 1bill inf or spend $100.

    now when people start using a 3rd build they will need to run 20 respec trials or use 20 vet specs or spend 2 bill inf or spend $200.

    sorry people but freespecs are given when changes are made not just because the devs are nice. the 1 freespec only is outdated now that we have 2 builds and eventually we will have 3.

    i know some of you can't comprehend certain things but providing 1 freespec per active build when changes are made is called good customer service and yes we are entitled to it.
  20. OPTICAL_ILLUSION

    2 ?s

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Forbin_Project View Post
    Yes the OP's tried that argument in at least one of his other three threads and it failed miserably.
    still grasping at straws as usual. nothing i said has "failed miserably" like you consistently do.

    LOL
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Positron View Post
    Thanks for that. Yes, we're not scrapping the system. We were actually very happy with the beta test of the Alpha slot, as well as acquiring the powers for it. What we DO want you to have is something to do with it! Since Incarnate stuff doesn't exemplar down (by design), we needed to make sure that getting the Alpha slot and abilities wasn't considered "useless".

    Oh, and I will take this opportunity to clear up some confusion. There are currently 10 slots for the Incarnate system. These will likely not all be in one single issue, but doled out over several.

    And for those who were not in beta: one of the last things we did before the slot was pulled was give you a third build upon unlocking the Alpha slot, so if you wanted an "End-Game Incarnate" build separate from your "exemplaring" build and your "soloing" build, you will have access to it.
  21. OPTICAL_ILLUSION

    2 ?s

    how many toons do you have?

    how many of those toons make use of the 2nd build?


    i have 13 lvl 50 toons that i rotate playing.

    9 of them use the 2nd build.
  22. positron said "PvP from now on will be on our priority list. If something isn't working out, we'll be in there tweaking it and making it work, for the entire future of the product, not just Issue 13." but then castle said they won't be looking at pvp again until after GR.

    my guess is issue 20 after incarnates.

    when do you think the devs will work on pvp again for all of us and the entire future of the product?
  23. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha View Post
    I think I've seen this thread before. But surely I couldn't have, since cross-posting of threads is against forum rules.

    I.E. just look at the answers you got to the first one, m'kay?
    umm one was a direct suggestion thread that didn't ask any ?s, but this one is a "what do you think about it?" thread. very different. m'kay?