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I have over 300 ATOs stashed away... I was going to ask where you could possibly store a thousand of them, and then I remembered, CEBR, base on every server.

Anyway I don't even use my base on Freedom to store stuff. I'm too lazy. ^_^

Yeah. It's good to warn people ahead of time, but I don't know why you wouldn't normally stealth the two missions before the last on a Sister Psyche, or that one mission in the middle of a Manticore, or the 2nd mission in a Numina. All of them require 1 thing to be touched, and that's it. The Numi one in particularly is way out in the middle of Crey's Folly, if someone can mission port there and speed through the mission and complete it while half of the team is still zoning into Brickstown (which, btw, is where the third mission happens to be), then I don't know why you wouldn't do that. The mission bonus for clicking the glowy is not something people should cry over missing out on.

On the other hand, I was on a Manticore a couple of weeks ago with SG mates and most everyone wanted experience, so we did a kill-all steamroll on every mission. Took nearly 2 hours, but that's what people wanted. ^_^

I think the part that sucks the most for a rogue is doing shard missions that force you to go back to Founder's Falls or some other hero zone. You might as well just sit in the Shadow Shard and wait for people to come back -- which is what we've had rogues do before. Any shard TF you run is one you want to run as fast as possible. >.>

Ran an ITF last night and didn't notice anything weird.

I guess I could actually try and contribute to the thread, huh?

I've only run 2-3 of the missions from the first contact so far. Personally I'm not against iTrials, but at the same time I have not run any iTrials since January or maybe even December, except for a successful Master of Lambda in the minimum three runs, strangely enough. I haven't run any of the new trials... just because I'm usually busy doing other things with my time. I'll run them eventually.

So with that said, my Street Justice / Shield scrapper Megamisama has T4 Alpha and has been on maybe a BAF or Lambda or two, and that's it. This is a very heavily IO'd character that I like to play a lot, perfect for running solo DA content since I haven't really gotten around to other incarnate content with her.

I haven't played enough to have a solid opinion of the content so far, but I like what I read in the OP. Of course, I ran last night's mission set to +1/8, so I'm apparently doing it wrong. But I had fun.

Even if I have trouble calling a woman with guns or a giant freakin' 10' long sword a "knife" of vengeance.

Mostly I find myself drowning in shivan goo, rather than blood. Don't get me wrong, I love how they explode and splatter, but surely it should be called "Drowning in Goo".

My 2 cents: I've run this twice so far from LFG queue. Only took a few minutes to start each time btw, but that's on Virtue, YMMV, especially on one of the other servers that I would never accuse of having lower populations but might never-the-less have fewer people trying to queue at any given time.

Anyway, first time through we had 5 people, and at least one of them was a tank/brute/scrapper. Things went well. I think we even had the AVs fighting each other at some point.

Second time through we had only 4 people, and my level 26 StJ/Nin stalker was the only melee. So yes, I TANKED TWO AVs ON MY STALKER. Which actually wasn't easy but with a bunch of inspirations chewed I survived the experience.

The AVs can certainly hit hard, but it didn't seem too terribly difficult to take them down either time through. They're harder than the Hydras in DfB, but not all that much harder.

I like the new trial. ^_^

Who is brute, and why does he feel this need to be nerfed?

I think I saw your Synapse forming last night and I didn't join, it was too late for me to start and anyway I did one Tuesday in which someone quit (not you -- ours still finished just fine in less than 2 hours). I was kind of annoyed at that one too, not only did the guy quit with little notice (Got to go, bye!), not only did he quit right after hiking all the way out to the Bertha mission in Boomtown (really? You came all the way out there and you can't finish a very short mission?), not only did he quit when we were pretty much steamrolling the entire TF, but he didn't actually log off or even switch characters -- we saw him standing around in Steel Canyon twenty minutes later.

Another person with 1 star by their name, heh. ^_^

I've done Synapse twice in the last week and both in less than 2 hours, 1 hour 35 minutes and 1 hour 55 minutes I think. But it's one of those TFs that can drag on forever with a bad team. I'm very reluctant to join a PuG Synapse or Shard TF, or to even join one with friends if it's starting later in the evening. The Tuesday one started right after I got home, so I could have stayed for 3+ hours if really necessary.

That's not Statesman. That's his new replacement, Crotchman!

The game certainly predicts the future poorly.

Many of the trials that have been added to the game in the last year or so have taken a plot of land in the game (Behavioral Adjustment Facility, Bloody Bay) and used that as the background for the trial. In most cases the trial is, of course, intimately intertwined with the location where it takes place, but I'm guessing that such trials are much faster to put together because they don't have to completely build a new map first.

So let's say you're in charge of making a new CoH trial. Maybe something like DfB or DiB, but say for a 20-30 range or something. Is there any part of the game that you think would make a great backdrop for such a trial? Shadow Shard? Croatoa? Sharkhead? Any particular enemy group you think would be cool to develop a bit for a new trial? I'm not suggesting that we need another trial like these, but I like how DiB uses a part of the game that many people never see and develops enemies that have been around for quite a while but are still a bit of a mystery.

Your ideas?

Ran DiB once last night. There's two AVs at the end, and they're pretty freakin' impressive too. I did this on my level 27 street justice/ninjitsu stalker (made 25 Monday night and 26 and 27 on a Synapse earlier Tuesday). I gained more than half a level, maybe 3/4s of a level, which isn't bad at 27 I guess. I don't think I would have gained more experience on a DFB run at level 27.

Anyway I liked DiB, I'll be running it more.

Having bought a 99 cent VIP starter kit in December, and just last week having spent $15.00 on points so that I could buy some fancy attuned IOs and costume pieces, I was pleasantly surprised that this earned me enough reward tokens to fill in tier 3, so that I can now join SG and talk in global chat channels. I feel like a real person on my alternate freebie account. ^_^

I'm actually experimenting with different levels of free/premium on the side just because I'm interested in how things work for other people. I have a premium account from last August that cost me $1.99, and I may have subscribed for another month I think, and I have one level 50 on that account fully IO'd and recently bought the inventions license so I could play the character. Quite cheap, actually, and for whatever reason I had 1200 points on the character to spend so I can afford to keep doing that for a while without spending more money. And I have a free account that I've never spent a cent on. So my experiments have so far been:

1. Free account with nothing. I've PL'd the one character a bit but I'm mostly curious about the experience of not being able to talk to others freely and using only SO's and possibly hami-O's in my build.

2. Premium (free) account with inventions license and fully IO'd character. I should add that I IO'd out with money I made on this character only, though this was also last Summer and it is a claws/fire brute.

3. Premium (free) account with a build making as much use of ATOs and attuned IOs as possible -- just to see how well I can build a character who does not need an invention license.

So far it seems to me that the big restrictions on premiums are having so few characters to play and not being able to play certain ATs. Beyond that, it's pretty cheap to do just the invention license and, barring stuff like side-switching, hero merits, incarnate stuff etc., you're capable of quite a bit for virtually free. I think the people that complain about what they don't get for their zero dollars are really off base.



Eventually I think I'll be able to start any TF and then solo it without bothering friends.

5 replies and GG's is the most informative... >.>

Like you need another alt.

No doom today.

Doom tomorrow.

That's awesome.

Pretty much what Bill said. As for me, I enjoy marketing on a certain level, so I regularly market on a bunch of characters. This usually amounts to logging all of them in at least once a week to check up on what they've sold and bought, craft some stuff, put it up for sale. This is good because a lot of my characters are in a SG with a kick policy if you're inactive a certain length of time. ^_^ But aside from doing it for those two reasons, I like to have enough cash on hand to fully IO/purple a toon when I want to. ATM I have a Widow at 47, my Titan Weapons brute is at 43, and I have several other toons/projects in the 40's. I'll probably IO out the Widow at 50 next.

So in that sense I'm more like Bill and the original poster, because the ultimate goal for me is to build really powerful characters. Except that I market all the time with that goal in mind.

I think those posters are in the secret lounge in Faultline as well, yes?

You people aren't taking into consideration what a bleeding edge build is worth. Level 53 Enzymes gave a bigger bang for the buck, of course, but to the right players they were worth any amount of money necessary to get them. These things don't drop anymore, so their value only goes up. If 23% defense / 38.3% endurance reduction helps your build and/or helps you save a slot, then an extreme bleeding edge AV/pylon/whatever solo'er is going to want it, and will pay whatever they can for it.

I believe a level 50 Cyto is a better deal than a level 50 +5 defense/endurance IO, so this is probably worth a good deal of money to the right customer. Eventually.

Anyway, it amazes me that anyone on these boards would consider it "shady" to offer something that is rare for a ridiculous price. I thought that was the entire point and goal of being an ebil marketeer?

As always, if you can buy it for less, then good for you. ^_^

I think if I were doing this I'd have a max 4 accounts when needed for the clicks, and everyone for the AV fight. But I'd be soloing everything else, well, solo. ^_^

Congrats though, that's pretty impressive no matter how you do it.

I'm curious if this:


Alignment Change

• Fixed an issue where Villains and Rogues could retain active status on some Broker contacts when changing alignment.

fixes this problem.

Pedestrians don't simply push you if you happen to be in their way... they target you and follow you in order to push you.

Temporary pet: Nemesis Automaton. Appears as a normal guy in a suit who does nothing but random chit-chat: Did you see the game yesterday? How about this weather? War, huh! What is it good for?