PumBumbler

Why is your avatar wearing a big mask on his head?

ZOMG You heard it here first! SERVER MERGE!

I always wanted to defeat my teammate with [Death]. I guess I better get on it before it's too late.

The word 'could' is the difficult part. Rolling a dozen times isn't a guarantee that you'll get a really good drop nor a drop that you really want.

Of course it is also level dependent. I don't think any rolled drop has gone that far above 200 lately either?

The last bought recipes I crafted went for 350M and 500M respectively, and I only needed to buy enough salvage for 2 items.

Personally, I think it's a wash. Rolling isn't that much better than choosing when you factor in the overhead of crafting and selling those items. Of course, I view the crafting part as a hassle nowadays so YMMV.

Why do you automatically assume that everything must be slotted with purples? Why do automatically assume that every build will need +def? It seems like every post you take to the extreme or only looks at things from your own POV without taking any consideration of other POVs.

If you're chasing merits you should know that set bonuses aren't even that important regardless of TF level. It's really the players behind the keyboard that make the difference once you get to the SO level. Set bonuses are nice, purples are nice, +def set bonuses are nice, but none of it really matters that much for merit hogging or TF speeding.

Chasing merits is kind of like chasing perma hasten. By the time you achieve perma hasten, it's almost like you didn't need hasten at all. The merits, once flowing, are superfluous to you because they are so easy to get. If you can earn a thousand merits then you can afford a purple set or two, or most of the PvP IOs, excepting the stupid expensive ones. If you can't, well then, I guess you can come here and whine.

From what I recall there would be always 2-3 teams looking to fill up a KHTF during the prime time hours until the wee hours, when it would reduce to around 1 TF per hour or two. I can't recall exactly when it was, but it was definitely before IOs appeared. 15 min TFs x 2 for a 4 hour stretch being advertised is quite a lot compared to what I see now.

Why not acquire them and slot them as much as you can? I wasn't commenting on the difficulty of getting them but you seem to discount them because you consider them so hard to acquire.

I was simply pointing out that your statement that players need to choose between 2 options isn't limited to the two you put forth.

I don't know where to begin.

Or use purples and PvP IOs.

I don't generally roll because it clogs up my salvage/auction house slots too. I'm averaging about 2M per crafted merit so it's not that bad.

I didn't see it as a nerf other than to any TF that awarded less than a random roll. At the time that was 25 merits.

It was a huge bonus to the longer TFs, but I've always maintained that it was another redistribution of wealth which would make the speeders way more rich than before.

As to Uber's comments about TFs being run more, yes and no. More different TFs, yes, absolutely more, probably not.

Nothing can compare to the KHTF PLs and drop runs since everyone was doing it and finishing in 17-24 minutes. Most TFs that people are running now aren't in that range or run as frequently.

So the devs did accomplish their goal of spreading out TF rewards to encourage TFs other than KHTF/Eden, but the side effect was that the supply of recipes dropped severely.

Doc Q can be done in 2:30 or so, but it is a tedious TF regardless.

If rep farm threads and circle jerks didn't exist at least the system would be meaningful to the extent that a high rep person deserved to be so 'influential'.

Anyhow...I'm very tempted to neg rep you because of your 140 status, just to see what happens.

I'm kidding!

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*clicks rep button*

It almost forces you to bring a stalker to use the 'kill all ambushes' switch, if you bring squishies. Even MMs and their pets can get overwhelmed if the pets don't have enough defense/resists.

AT required tasks are kludgy.

That makes it only fun or challenging if you try to zerg the whole thing. Otherwise it is just a snooze fest.

I guess the twist to the end is supposed to be the other AVs jumping in to help, but story wise it made such little sense that I was totally turned off by it.

So Reichsface is in trouble, and after capturing all those AVs, who are supposedly the pinnacles of their own realms and are being forced to join Reichsmann, they actually help him? Even if they were all forced to help him, he only releases them one at a time?

Most of them would probably chuckle and run away, if not actively helping the heroes.

/rant.

Yah, I'll be the first to admit that I've been spoiled by the volcano of riches that rolled down the merit train.

I'm also really cheap (in game) so I find it hard not to lowball and wait for salvage to come in. I list things for a good price (pretty much the same way you do it, except when there's zero for sale, hehe).

Getting my first (and only) Crafting station accolade broke me of wanting to craft things, so I kind of find a lot of it just plain annoying now. I suppose I'm getting curmudgeonly as time goes on. Now get off my Lawnworth's!

Heh, second hand exposure can be fatal.

Sometimes yelling at a wall is cathartic. =D

Part of your voyeuristic nature makes you come into this thread knowing what you're going to find anyhow. >.>

As usual, you've lost the entire point of things. Just because something is doable in a roundabout fashion does not make it good, especially if there are demonstrably more efficient ways to do it. Those are your 'whiners' and 'morons'.

Your need to be right has led you down a path in which you feel that you have to prove yourself superior even to the point of making ridiculous claims.

The entire point of software is to make things easier for people to accomplish tasks, so trying to force people into a workflow that probably less than 1% of the users are working with is a pretty poor idea. That's just fundamental software design theory. Everything that you suggest flies in the face of it.

+1.

Poorly coloured text makes things illegible.

This has been up for a while but worth reposting"

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/438711/

This page should help.

To be honest, I'm not sure if rolling is better than buying. Rolling and getting a numina 50 +/+ isn't the same as picking a numina 30 +/+ in terms of market worth.

In theory, rolling monetarily works out to be way better than buying, but the major problem with rolling is that if you are seriously considering maximizing your return on merit investment, you must also craft the good drops before you sell them.

This means that for the drops you are getting, perhaps 10-30% of them are craft worthy. Maybe more, it's just a WAG. That means there's the salvage and crafting overhead attached rollling - potentially 11x more overhead than just buying a single recipe and listing it on the market.

For me, I have to balance that with the convenience and 'down time' of NOT running another TF. In some ways it also is easier since I have too many merits to deal with. Blasting away 200-250 merits in one go is alot easier to manage than waiting on all sorts of bids because I decided to roll 500 merits to avoid the cap.

Selling a specific crafted IO, 200-250 merits -> 200-350M is good enough for me versus spending an extra 15 minutes per session running around and dumping recipes/salvage because my marketing pipeline/salvage storage is clogged up. 15 minutes is 10-15 merits for me so sometimes rolling doesn't feel as fun as fighting.

They are the same faction, so your example makes no sense to me.


*runs*

Because having 100 catgurls standing under Atlas has been done to death.





I'm KIDDING!

*runs away*

*runs back*

*waits for catgurls under AP*