Panzerwaffen

Good points, but wouldn't having a defender run by an actual player along provide you with an increased level of performance? How much faster would you be with, say, an Empathy defender buffing you with Fortitude, running Assault and keeping your green bar topped off? What would an extra 50% damage and 20% defense at all times do for you?

I could never put up with such a waste of time, effort and inf. It is much cheaper to slot level 15, 25, and 35 IO's while leveling than to play the SO game. I've been using almost nothing but IO's since I started playing back in issue 11.

Sure you can get two purple drops on two different toons on the same farm. You could also have gotten two purple drops on one toon solo on the same farm. It doesn't matter whether you are defeating 1000 enemies with 1 toon or 3 toons or 8 toons. You still only get 1000 drop chances.

And for the record, I have gotten 3 purple drops on one LGTF run on a single toon. Of course it was 2 Fortunata Hypnosis and a Coercive Persuasion, back when they were worth less than a million each.

OOH! Can you bring me a magic pony and a bag of rainbow gumdrops, to go along with my purples?? I've been really, really good this year! I promise!

Failing.

It's especially fun when playing a scrapper pre-status protection and getting a whole mission of nothing but Lost bosses.

Not to rain on your parade, but..

http://eu.ncsoft.com/en-gb/legal/use...f-conduct.html

Also:


http://help.ncsoft.com/cgi-bin/ncsof...i=&p_topview=1

I love it.. Players complain left & right that the servers are overloaded, laggy, they get locked out on 2xp, etc. Now, when the server hardware gets upgraded on the busiest servers, they complain that the servers aren't overloaded, laggy and locked out for 2xp.

That's because the XP is being divided among all players on the team. 4 players on team = less XP per player for each defeat. That is working as intended, and has always been that way.

http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Experience

Don't be so suspicious of others, especially those you consider to be your in-game friends.

I have plenty of alts, because like many others, I enjoy trying out new powerset combinations & concepts. But at the same time, I also continue to regularly play my main level 50's. I believe it took me about 3 months to hit 50 on my first character. I still play that character now, 15 months later. Most of my in-game friends are the same way. I think you are making a bit of a mistake in assuming it has to be one way or the other.

Let's see if we can fix that up a bit, then..

There seems to be a lot of -neg rep being thrown around lately, by the usual passive/agressive forum types who don't want to actually come out into the open and respond in a thread. (And yes, I'm sure I'll get -neg repped for this thread too!)

In my opinion, if you are looking for merits, you would be much better off running Taskforces, rather than regular story arcs. TF's are balanced around 20 merits/hour vs. only 8/hour for story arcs, and it is generally pretty easy to exceed the 'average' rate by a comfortable margin. Yes, you'll need a team for that, but every server tends to have groups of players that love running TF's. Check out your server's global channels and you should have no trouble finding teams for regular TF runs. If you're on Protector, Protector Watch is a good channel for TF teams.

You'll still be far better off by learning to identify a few profitable market niches to work on. As you've already noticed, there are plenty of recipes out there that can be purchased, crafted and resold for nice profits. It is extremely easy to earn millions a day this way for only a few minutes of time invested. The market is a great tool, even if you do nothing more than use it for selling drops, provided you spend even a minimum amount of effort to learn how it works.

That would be a bit odd, considering they just buffed the damage of it by almost 50%.

All of the above.

Web Grenade's -recharge does not stack.

RechargeTime -50% for 15s [Ignores Enhancements & Buffs]
Effect does not stack from same caster

AV's do not resist -damage debuffs at all, which makes the Seekers quite useful during those battles.

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Archvillain_Resistance

I'm going to disagree a bit here. All that set-up is mostly a waste of time. My bots/traps tactic was generally open with Seekers from range, then charge into melee, drop Mortar & PGT, then start spamming Web Grenade and/or a patron immob. Maybe toe-bomb with a trip mine or two, but by that point everything is pretty much defeated anyway.

As he deserved. I would have joined in the mocking as well given the opportunity.

Simple question for you: Do you feel that every AT and powerset combination in the game should be able to handle every difficulty level and every situation with equal success?

I have a number of rather heavily IO'd builds, including purples. I have even more characters that are not. Guess what? Both types are fun to play. The level of difference between the two is much smaller than you make it out to be. A good player, with a well thought-out SO build will outperform a bad player with a poorly constructed build any day of the week, no matter how many billions the bad player spends on purples for his gimped build.

envy
1. a feeling of discontent or covetousness with regard to another's advantages, success, possessions, etc.

I'm calling shenanigans here. In the entire time I have been playing this game, I have never once seen an example of a player being kicked from a team or otherwise discriminated against because they didn't have an IO'd build.

So let me see if I understand this correctly. You are able to handle almost any enemy group in the game at x4, a setting which never existed prior to this issue, and which the devs have described as a setting for players that want a "challenge", and now you ask for the game mechanics to be changed to make it easier for you because of one enemy group?

Yep. Perfectly logical.

Everybody knows you never go full retard...