Organica

...that you can't purple your little warshade.

Sorry about that, old chap. Can't be helped. Progress and whatnot, you know.



(Finally my own "proof of ebil" #9 post. Been wanting to post it for a while, but decided I should get my main to 2 bil, and then decided to wait a few more days for my main villain to hit 1 bil (for the 2nd time). ^_^ )

I am ebil because I'm e-bil (an e-billionaire)?

I transferred some 300 million to my main so that I could have 2 billion.

But I've still got stuff in the market for sale! I have to remember that I can't market on that toon... at least at the moment. ^_^

That does suck, though. Sorry to hear that.

At least that doesn't happen during trades. Let's say you're at 1,999,999,990 influence. I trade 500,000,000 influence to you. The trade will go through for only 10 influence, putting you at the cap and saving my extra 499,999,990 influence from flying off into the void.

Man. I can understand "buy it nao" when I'm buying salvage or even lower priced IOs... but paying 550 million for something that is also selling (with patience) for as little as 116 million? When you're talking 1/4th of the total influence cap, I'd think waiting 24 hours might be prudent?

Yeah I know, that's crazy talk! Viva le BuyItNao-ers!

I didn't really think to take notes or anything, but one thing I remember from the panel today was about adding maps to mission architect. There are a lot of maps that they couldn't add or had to remove from MA because they were not completely generic maps -- they included elements that made weird things happen when used in AE. Those maps are supposed to be edited so that they can be added back to AE, but lately everyone's been working on Rogue. But they did say at the panel that there was one new person who was still being trained whose job it was to work on AE maps, so they haven't forgotten about that.

Most of the panel was about their new special author MA missions. They said that those would be sorted above Dev's Choice arcs so you'll see them first when you open up the mission window. The first two are both humor arcs, since one is about Kurtz's Lolbat and his literate rogue's gallery, and the other is about Captain Amazing and his nemesis The Great Face (if I'm remembering the names right).

No Rogue information in that panel, unfortunately. Other than that I played around with I16 a bit, collected my Ring Mistress card, wandered around, bought dice, and then left long before the meet & greet since I was tired and my friends are running a D&D game tonight. (Which I'm ignoring at the moment...)

They only had time for a few questions from the crowd, but of course people asked them about MA boss farms. The two things I remember is that they really didn't expect farming nearly as much as we've seen -- they were prepared to deal with more in the way of language and explicit content as far as misuse of the MA -- and they talked about trying to strike a balance between allowing people full freedom to create custom enemies and be creative with MA and having it give equivalent experience to the rest of the game so that players aren't being cheated by playing MA -- and trying to curb the misuse of AE.

One thing they said was that what people told them at PaX last year had a profound impact on how they did things. PaX 2008 was when they had their big reveal about the upcoming MA system, and everyone told them that you needed to be able to create custom enemies with it. That lead to them completely rethinking it and not releasing it until Spring... and of course, it's a much better system for it (you'd never get the guest author thing they're doing now if they hadn't added custom enemies). So that was just to say how meeting other players and listening to what the players have to say is very important to what they do.

That's what i remember from my few hours at the con. ^_^ I had a Saturday pass, I only wandered around for about 5 hours total.

Let me post another of the usual disclaimers: If everyone did this, it wouldn't work.

The corollary is, of course, that we'll never get everyone to do it.

I spent Friday and Saturday completely respeccing and reoutfitting my level 50 illusion/radiation troller, Shinobu Valentine (spending money, bad bad marketer!). Early Sunday I tested my new build in an AE farm team.

I decided that I needed more endurance recovery. (Doesn't everyone like to run seven toggles and spam heals, holds and attacks while tossing out pets?) I put in a few bids on some things that would help, including two pieces of Unbreakable Constraint set (4% recovery).

I joined an ITF. I logged off directly after it ended without selling.

Later I logged back on and hit Wentworth's to check my bids. Several had come through. I collected my new recipes, then opened up my recipe window so I could see what salvage I needed to buy.

I noticed a purple recipe in my inventory -- Unbreakable Constraint Hold/Recharge. I didn't think I'd collected one of those bids, but still I thought, "Cool! My bid came through!" Then I glanced at the WW window. My bid for an Unbreakable Constraint Hold/Recharge was still there.

>.>
<.<

That was just a little bit eerie. I've had purple recipes drop to me less than half a dozen times before... having exactly what I was bidding on drop to me is just weird.

On the other hand, I suppose if an Armageddon had dropped to me I could have sold it and bought my Unbreakable Constraint 5 times over....



On a side note, gotta love nerdrage on a TF. We had one person quit on the ITF, apparently because we weren't fast enough or organized enough. Nevermind that we still finished in a little over an hour and dropped Rommy 4 times straight with no special strategy other than clearing the front platform first. Friday I was on a Kahn TF and someone quit because the team "couldn't stay together". Never mind that he was the blaster who liked to attack before anyone else and would run off in a different direction from the tank -- thus the complaints that we weren't "sticking together". We finished fine without him, too.

If you see someone flipping at the market, shun them. SHUN them I say!

In Soviet Russia, jail goes directly to YOU.

>.>

<.<

That makes no sense.

During one day at the height of summer, six glittering starships appeared out of nowhere. Suddenly everything went dark. It was the curse of the evil monkey that eats cotton candy!

The people all fled in terror at the sight of the sticky-fingered monkey. It hurled large chunks of cotton candy at the innocent Omegatron Zeta Warbot, "Koo Koo Katchoo", who, caught unprepared, pulled up his iron underpants, and ran screaming into a brick wall.

Then the monkey laughed and said, "where's my punchline?" A man named Alfredo von Wigglestein appeared and said, "I think, therefore... I don't care. Now, you need to go to talk to the guy about registering for the special buns and thigh class. After all penguins have anurisms and I wear polyester thongs to school. Where was my jar of Honey Bees? Who will not drag my fat butt? Now what was the price of eggplants and bees again? I forget things quite quickly since I'm old. Although old is relative."

So then my sister Bruce bought a banana from a passing street vendor. He grabbed a dictionary and started to read aloud the definition for monkey curses. He then looked at the crumpled warbot, pointed and said, "Beware! Chaos is brewing beer!"

Then the warbot stood and drank beer.

Then my sister stripped naked and started to dance a sexy dance.

But the police helped her undress. Afterwards they ran in circles chasing Folonius while yelling the words to that pop hit polka song by the Andrews Sisters. That made Folonius roll out barrels of Rikti Monkeys. This proved problematic for the newly created government of the Rikti, for it had finally caged all of the barrel monkeys.

Lady Grey said, "I like to do weird stuff in the nude with the Rikti." So I took out my camera and filmed her from within her secret monitoring station. "I will never spy on her," said blpup pervertly as he passed out from poison. But just as he died, a passing noob stole his influence. Then burnt his body.

Soon the monkey scattered the ashes and ran home crying to mommy he'd been Riktirolled. The momma monkey ate Chaos Creator's little can of sausage to get even. Suddenly, the sausage regurgitated itself out of the monkey and said this, "Let my people go you jerk!" But then the Freedom Phalanx came and revealed that Chaos was happy. This surpised noone.

Then Chaos died a little inside. Later, he got on the interwebs,but got lag when he tried to look up sheep tied onto a kite. This saddened the chickens who wanted to eat sheep.

Suddenly a man wearing a big target on his jockstrap with three arrows on it, all pointing to his third nipple, busted into song:

"I can't get any more funny during this chaotic event, please help!"

Suddenly, Statesman said, "He who laughs first loses their chance to punch Defender in the genitalia! Don't laugh!"

Not laughing, Manticore took off his ill-conceived costume and started to dance like a meandering lama in split pea soup. Swan giggled and got naked before Popeye the Sailorman

I made a bunch of these a few years ago...

Aion Online

Which my friend is trying to convince me will be the coolest game evah

BackAlleyBrawler = 85
pohsyb = 59
TheOcho = 49
The Television = 4
War Witch = 53



War Witch +1
The Television -1

BackAlleyBrawler = 84
pohsyb = 60
TheOcho = 49
The Television = 5
War Witch = 52



The Television -1
War Witch +1

BackAlleyBrawler = 81
pohsyb = 62
TheOcho = 50
The Television = 6
War Witch = 51

The Television -1
WarWitch +1

Having played katana/regen to 50, fire/SR to 50, broadsword/regen to 50 and MA/Invul to 45 (so far), I can definitely say that katana/regen is a great combo, probably my best scrapper, but it does benefit a lot from a good IO build.

I've tried the rikti challenge once and I didn't survive it, but I think if I gave it several tries I could manage it. My katana/regen is built for defense and no recharge -- I don't have Hasten either, but mostly that's served to show me why it would be a good idea to have it. ^_^ When I16 rolls around I'll probably do a respec and maybe swap out some of my defense for hasten and more recharge. I'm still debating it. At the moment I'm near 40% defense on AoE and Ranged and usually soft-capped on Melee thanks to Divine Avalanche... I'm sort of loathe to remove any of that lovely defense even if I know it will ultimately make me better.

I can always count on the market forum to keep me entertained.

/e raises a glass to ebil.

The idea of a buzzsaw build is to take short, fast attacks, load them with damage procs (well, at least 2 per attack) and build for recharge so you can use them as fast as possible. Lots of little attacks like the teeth of a buzzsaw.

During one day at the height of summer, six glittering starships appeared out of nowhere. Suddenly everything went dark. It was the curse of the evil monkey that eats cotton candy!

The people all fled in terror at the sight of the sticky-fingered monkey. It hurled large chunks of cotton candy at the innocent Omegatron Zeta Warbot, "Koo Koo Katchoo", who, caught unprepared, pulled up his iron underpants, and ran screaming into a brick wall.

Then the monkey laughed and said, "where's my punchline?" A man named Alfredo von Wigglestein appeared and said, "I think, therefore... I don't care. Now, you need to go to talk to the guy about registering for the special buns and thigh class. After all penguins have anurisms and I wear polyester thongs to school. Where was my jar of Honey Bees? Who will not drag my fat butt? Now what was the price of eggplants and bees again? I forget things quite quickly since I'm old. Although old is relative."

So then my sister Bruce bought a banana from a passing street vendor. He grabbed a dictionary and started to read aloud the definition for monkey curses. He then looked at the crumpled warbot, pointed and said, "Beware! Chaos is brewing beer!"

Then the warbot stood and drank beer.

Then my sister stripped naked and started to dance a sexy dance.

But the police helped her undress. Afterwards they ran in circles chasing Folonius while yelling the words to that pop hit polka song by the Andrews Sisters. That made Folonius roll out barrels of Rikti Monkeys. This proved problematic for the newly created government of the Rikti, for it had finally caged all of the barrel monkeys.

Lady Grey said, "I like to do weird stuff in the nude with the Rikti." So I took out my camera and filmed her from within her secret monitoring station. "I will never spy on her," said blpup pervertly as he passed out from poison. But just as he died, a passing noob stole his influence. Then burnt his body.

Soon the monkey scattered the ashes and ran home crying to mommy he'd been Riktirolled. The momma monkey ate Chaos Creator's little can of sausage to get even. Suddenly, the sausage regurgitated itself out of the monkey and said this, "Let my people go you jerk!" But then the Freedom Phalanx came and revealed that Chaos was happy. This surpised noone.

Then Chaos died a little inside. Later, he got on the interwebs,but got lag when he tried to look up naked sheep blowing on a kite. This saddened the chickens who wanted to eat sheep.

Suddenly a man wearing a big target on his jockstrap with three arrows on it, all pointing to his third nipple, busted into song:

"I can't get