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Quote:Is this redside or blue? I just did a quick check of WW to confirm, but there are huge amounts of yellow (uncommon) set IO recipes on the market with accuracy, at low prices.Originally Posted by Driver 8
I haven't yet seen set IO's with accuracy in the name going for less than 2m. And none of my toons have more than about 200k in pocket. So I'm pretty sure I'm going to need to do some smart selling.
Two examples:
Melee Damage: Bone Snap: Acc/Dam. Between lvl 15 and 25, the range is 5k to about 15k influence.
Ranged Damage: Far Strike: Acc/End. Same levels as above. Anywhere from a low of 111 to 40k or so. Averaging about 10K though.
To be honest, at that level, I would suggest forgetting about frankenslotting. It's not really worth it until around 22, which is when vendor SO's become available. At that point, slotting triple and quad aspect IO's will begin to outstrip SO performance levels easily.Quote:So I guess what I'm asking is, is there a simple rule of thumb a newbie can use to sell the kind of drops he's getting in the 10-14 range for enough to buy these items?
You can slot DO's from vendors starting at level 12, or you can use generic IO recipes that you can buy from the crafting tables. The obvious advantage of using crafted generic IO's is that they don't degrade as you level up. You can slot some level 15 generic IO's now, and they'll last until you hit 22 and can then start playing with frankenslotting. -
Quote:If only more players could grasp this elementary concept...Originally Posted by Redhand
You want something, then put in the effort to get it, and stop complaining.
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Quote:That's assuming it is a realistic expectation to be able to IO out every single character, especially with the rarer, more desirable loot. I don't believe it is, and everything I have ever seen from the dev team leads me to believe they feel the same way.Originally Posted by je_saist
Auction Houses don't work so well in a game that encourage players to have lots of avatars and where items generally cannot be resold. The item generation has never been rebalanced against character creation. The reason why there wasn't a problem on SO's is that SO's can be bought from vendors, and once a player reaches max level, SO's are a trivial cost.
This then does descend back into the realm of a technical issue. Is the balancing of what the drop-rates are consistant with what the expected character generation is? Does this mean that drop-rates need to be rebalanced across the board to account for the number of avatars players can generate for City of Heroes? Maybe, maybe not. -
Quote:Originally Posted by ZachDude
Is there a list of common abbreviations. I've been getting so confused.
Surprisingly enough:
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Fire/Rad controller with perma-hasten/perma-AM. Choking Cloud locks everything down for nearly complete safety. Hot Feet/Imps/APP attack for AOE. Potential massive single target damage when combined with the rad debuffs.
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Quote:The problem with your analysis here, is that you're only looking at a snapshot of a moment in time. There might be 5000 people online right this second. That doesn't mean only those 5000 subscribers logged on today. What about the ones that logged on this morning and played for a couple hours? What the ones that logged on after you did your count?Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba
My disagreement comes from the fact that we are looking at two different issues:
You're looking at the "how does a player view the population" issue and I'm looking at the "what IS the population and what does that mean" issue.
I have read many stories of new folks showing up and thinking things are dead. Those stories, while kind of a bummer, are irrelevant to me. My only concern is whether there is enough of a playing population to rationalize the continued existence of the servers. So far, the numbers I see don't seem to correlate whatsoever with the amount of money being dumped into the development of the game, so I'm obviously missing something.
I'm trying to determine what that something is through hard data rather than opinions.
I would bet there are more players that only log on for an hour or two than the hardcore ones that are logged on for hours and hours. My WAG would be that however many players are logged on at any one moment in time, that the number of actual players who logged on that day is at least double that amount. -
Quote:I disagree. I am nearly always on hide. That doesn't stop me from forming pug teams by using the search tool, and it doesn't stop me from starting or joining teams using global channels either. Granted, I'm only one example, but I have a number of friends that also stay on hide, but still regularly form teams.Originally Posted by Frosticus
IMO people using hide eliminate themselves from the process. They are useless to anyone searching for a team and they are useless to anyone hoping for a random invite. They take themselves out of any population assessment by not participating in the population.
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Yes.
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Probably about the same number of people who think raising the minimum wage to some arbitrary number would increase anyone's standard of living...
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Quote:You're welcome!Originally Posted by Captain_Nick
*Sarcasm on* Thank you for giving your constructive criticism and for pointing out that obvious spelling error. You were such a big help. I don't know what I could have done without you! *Sarcasm off*
You could, of course, try using the search function. Click on the little button at the top of the screen that says Search. In the box that says Keyword, try typing in 'dual' (not duel), then setting it to Search Topics Only. Then hop over to the list of forum sections and highlight Scrappers. Finally, click the button that says Search Now.
Voilà! A whole series of topics about dual blades scrappers. And look, the very first one is about Dual Blades/Super Reflexes and it's only two days old! And there are five more threads about DB/SR on the first page of results!
Whew.. I'm spent. That was some hard work there. Time for a nap. -
du·el
noun
1.a prearranged combat between two persons, fought with deadly weapons according to an accepted code of procedure, esp. to settle a private quarrel.
du·al
adjective
1.of, pertaining to, or noting two.
2.composed or consisting of two people, items, parts, etc., together; twofold; double -
Quote:Hopefully you'll still have Smurph to tank..Originally Posted by Myrmydon
Well, there went our healer...
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Quote:But it's always been that way with a number of servers, depending on day/time. With so many zones, and everything being instanced, outside of a very small number of hubs, the game often looks empty and it has been that way ever since I started playing.Originally Posted by Slashman
A new player jumps on the game and sees nothing but empty streets and maybe 1 or 2 other players over the course of 30 minutes. What kind of impression do you imagine that makes?
I have a hunch the devs are working on improvements to the teaming system that will help the situation. Something along the lines of WoW's dungeon finder would go a long way toward putting players together with teams, and remove much of the feeling of 'empty' servers.
For now, however, we can all exert a little extra effort and explain to new players about using the team search function, how global channels work, sending tells to players on teams, etc. On Protector we get a lot of new players being invited to our global channels, and nearly all of them pick up on the concept very quickly. -
Hey all, just wanted to let you know, I'll be working for the next several days, so I won't be available at all until after Tuesday evening. Have fun on Posi!
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Quote:Originally Posted by Deacon_NA
If by "it'll look like they're caged, but... they're not" you mean they're not actually caged when I see the "untouchable" (or whatever it is) message while the AV stands taking no action, then my mistake, that sure fooled me. Otherwise, I stand by my assertion.
What you're describing sounds exactly like what I saw when using DF on plus-level AV's before slotting it for magnitude, except for the standing there taking no action part. It looks like they're caged. It says 'Detention Field' above their head, they get the little egg around them, but that's it. They can still move and affect other players, and be attacked. I'm not sure what to say about the short time you see them standing there. I never noticed that myself. -
There's a lot of incorrect information in this thread. I've got a pretty fair amount of experience using Detention Field as a FF Defender, including a number of MoSTF runs.
- Detention Field has a fixed duration. It always lasts 30 seconds, regardless of enemy level.
- Plus-level AV's resist the magnitude of the cage power, not the duration.
- The basic magnitude Detention Field will work 100% on nearly all AV's, up until they are +3 to your level, then will stop working entirely. You'll still see the 'Detention Field' message, but they resist the effect instantly.
- The duration of the power cannot be enhanced.
- The magnitude CAN be enhanced however, through the use of Endoplasm HO's.
- Nearly all AV's only have a base mag 4 protection to the cage effect.
- The ITF Nictus all have extreme mag protection against this effect, as well as nearly all status effects. Detention Field is useless against them. The only status effect they are susceptible to, is sleep. They can be perma-slept and removed from the fight, if the team can be disciplined enough to not damage them with AOE effects.
- With two Endo HO's in my FF Defender, which is just under mag 10, I can cage the patron AV's on the STF with no issue, as well as all the Mary AV's during KHTF. Controllers have a higher base mag for their Detention Field, and should only need one Endoplasm HO.
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Quote:Here's a question for you then.. If, as you suggest, any AFK activity is a violation of the EULA, then why are dozens of threads on how to do so allowed to exist in the badging section of the forum? Why aren't they nuked by the mods? Those kind of guides have been around for years.Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
I'm not sure what you're referring to, but if it violates the EULA--go for it.
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Quote:That's good to know.. I'll be sure to start petitioning all the badgers working on their healing and damage badges now.Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
The EULA specifically states that, regardless of how it is done, AFK play is illegal. Your original question, though, is about PvP zone griefing. Again, report the offenders. GMs should be held to a higher standard than even the players.
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Quote:Well, they say knowing something is half the battle... And we all know what the other half is.Originally Posted by Coyote_Seven
Congratulations! You've discovered the reason why anecdotal evidence is inherently unreliable. Please use this knowledge wisely!
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Quote:Your suggestion contains far too much logic and not enough DOOM! for this forum. Please revise it to better fit in with the spirit of this thread.Originally Posted by Camper
Isn't it possible that the declines in population have nothing to do with marketing or the devs or the lack of server merges, but are just the natural, slow,inevitable decline of population that would be experienced by any 6 year old MMO?
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Quote:I have come to the conclusion that there simply must be different versions of City of Heroes in existence. That's the only explanation I can come up with for the wide discrepancy in reported player experiences about the same topic.Originally Posted by Smurch
I originally played on Protector. When I came back to the game after a hiatus a year ago January, Protector was dead. All the SGs I knew: gone. Streets: Empty. Pocket D: Vacant 99% of the time.
I moved to Virtue, and things were much better. Recently, a player we knew from the old days logged back in after a couple years break and said Protector was so dead, so he moved to Virtue too.
I understand having loyalty to your chosen server to a degree, I do, but honestly, many of the servers are seriously underpopulated these days, especially compared to how they used to be. To pretend the populations haven't been steadily shrinking because you have "no problems" finding a team is sticking your head in the sand.
Sooner or later, the devs are going to need to cope with the fact that some servers have populations that are drying up. As someone pointed out, it's not good for the game for a new player to log in the first time, select a server at random, and see no one else around. Eventually, something will need to be done: a server merge, a single-server solution, something.
You can stick your fingers in your ears all you want but there is a reality that while you might enjoy playing on a server where you can usually pretend successfully that it's a single player game, this is not good for a business, and a business decision is likely to be made at some point that is probably going to make you very unhappy.
It'd be alot more productive to talk about real solutions to dwindling populations on some servers and thus have at least some voice in shaping that eventual solution than to keep asserting that everything is fine and nothing needs to change, ever. Because like it or not, that's probably not true.
I started on Protector 2 years ago. I'm still there. I can say, with absolute 100% sincerity, that from my perspective, the population is MORE active than it was when I started 27 months ago. There is always activity on our global channels, there is always something going on, and I can find or form a team any time, on any day of the week, redside or blueside.
I've always paid attention to the number of players showing in Team Search ever since I first started. The numbers, on average, really haven't changed much, outside of spikes like when Exploit Entertainment was released. SG's come and go. Players come and go. Many of the players I knew when I first started have moved on, but there are plenty of new ones to fill their shoes though. -
Quote:Sam pretty much hits the nail on the head here. There's nothing wrong with a little initiative, as long as the team isn't being put at risk.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
But again - it's not a question of rushing. I only consider it rushing if it's done at the expense of safety or performance, or if people are trying to do something else but are interrupted, such as exploring corners or chatting. But I simply will not stand for empty waiting when people are just standing in place and fidgeting for no reason other than because no-one has any initiative. That's not rushing in these cases.
Controlling or overly cautious team leaders who want every player to wait around until everything is precisely the way the leader thinks it should be before doing anything, are just as bad as the player who runs off, gets in over their head, and causes a teamwipe.
There are few things more frustrating to me than standing around in a mission twiddling my thumbs waiting for everyone to get their butts in gear. It doesn't matter what kind of AT or powersets I'm playing; if we're standing around for more than about 5 seconds, I'm going to take the initiative and get the ball rolling. -
Quote:Or a player could just have fun playing the game and simply exercise a modicum of common sense and intelligence when using the market. Making influence most certainly does NOT require endless hours of farming. Between merits, AE tickets, and the market, influence practically rains from the sky.Originally Posted by je_saist
Farm.
Farm.
Farm.
Farm.
Farm.
Farm.
The big problem is that the prices on the market have basically spiraled way out of reach of the average player. Some players can afford to farm all day. Some players build archtypes specifically FOR farming. Some players specifically work the market, sitting on cheap bids then turning around and placing items they win at higher prices.
So, your options to get those megabucks enhancements are fairly slim. Either you farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, every chance you get, or you hope you get really lucky and score some purple drops you can sell for mega-bucks.
OP: There's plenty of good advice in this thread (with the exception of the above). Head on over to the Market Forum and you'll find plenty more. -
Quote:Awesome! My global is the same as my forum name.Originally Posted by Demon Keeper
With Smurphy's dual-box toon, we have eight; I'll see if he doesn't mind playing just one toon like us normal folk.
Edit: Actually, @GATTACA just gave up his spot. I'll update the roster; what's your global? -
Any room left on this? I've always wanted to try an all-Empathy team...