Paragon

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Not sure how fast we finished on Jim's team last night but I had a hard time keeping up. it was wild! A lot of deaths to include me about 4 times. But in all it was a good run; Thanks Jim and thanks again Luna.

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I think I remember him posting 58 mins and 9 deaths, something like that.

Thanks for organizing this Luna, it was quite fun as a Widow (only died once despite holding an absurd amount of aggro a few times).

Please add Hatake Kasumi (39 Widow) to the list. I may end up playing her before the TF, so the 39 is subject to change.... Thanks.

My current 50s on Freedom....

Arthuria Pendragon
Scrapper, Broad Sword/Super Reflexes

Kitten Afire
Controller, Fire Control/Kinetics

Paragon's Envy
Scrapper, Spines/Regeneration

Paragon's Gluttony
Defender, Empathy/Ice Blast

Paragon's Pride
Tanker, Stone Armor/Super Strength

Paragon's Greed
Blaster, Archery/Mental Manipulation

Elemental Paradox
Tanker, Fiery Armor/Ice Melee

Hatake Sakura
Stalker, Ninja Blade/Ninjitsu

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Does anyone else see the fundamental contradiction here? I've seen many statements from people that "Pool C will shoot through the roof" and that "nobody will take random rolls because they are worthless".

Those things can't BOTH be true.

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Actually, consider the fact that a large portion (possibly not the majority) of the game's population does not join TFs. Now, at some point these characters may want to start acquiring IO sets. Where are they going to get the pool C recipes? From the market. Who's going to be selling them? The people who have already completed all their IO sets and are simply burning merits on recipes [u]that people want[u], not on random rolls. The price tag? I guarantee it will be high. The people selling those recipes will want to be compensated for the boredom of grinding TFs to supply others with pool C recipes.

Thanks for answering some of the major questions, Synapse.

I still have to wonder if you guys have done any research into the total number of players that actually run through storylines. I think I've been on one team that did contact missions instead of simply radio/newspaper grinds in the last six months.... With such a low merit reward for completing them, why do them at all now? Especially since only the contact gets said rewards....

Oh, and are you trying to promote not using IO sets now? I know they're always been "optional," but IO sets were the closest thing to "fixing" the ED nerf. I have 0 interest in grinding TFs to get IO sets. ZERO. They already annoy me enough as they currently stand. If I do them at all, it's solely for the badge, not for the random (and usually crappy) IO I have the "opportunity" to acquire. I buy IO sets off the market and with the random acquisition of them departing with the addition of "purchase what you want" with merits, how is anyone who semi-casually plays the game going to ever afford the inf prices the ones people choose to sell are going to have?