Robotech_Master

Eden Trial: Make the four rescued heroes be follow-pets, like the cops in Safeguard missions or the jailbroken villain in Mayhem missions. People could rescue the heroes first, then have the heroes help in clearing the room or fighting the Titan.

I'd be more amused if I knew what song that's supposed to be parodying.

I'm not really clear why they put some of these options on Null instead of the menu anyway. I mean sure, I can see where it would be handy for him to tell you the progress on your Portal Jockey AV hunts, but things like Mystic Fortune or Group Fly toggling ought to be just as accessible as the prompt teleport option is.

And also, Null won't talk to you if you're on a TF, which means if you get on a TF with someone who likes to use Group Fly and you haven't disabled that option yet, you're out of luck until it's over.

Let's be honest here.

All the Incarnate trials are grinds in one way or another. We are basically forced into doing them over and over (and over and over and over) ad infinitum if we want to power up our Incarnate abilities. It's not only repetitious, it makes no sense from a story point of view that the exact same thing should happen over and over again (but then, being able to repeat any Task Force, etc. makes just as little sense, when you get right down to it).

Singling one or more of these out as somehow being "more grindy" than the others seems a bit like straining at gnats while swallowing camels.

One of the first few Mayhem/Safeguard mission reward powers is a jet pack, modeled in appearance after the Malta Sappers', that provides a boost to jumping instead of flight. However, as far as I know, this is the only way you can get this pack in the entire game, and once it's gone it's gone for good. (Unlike flight packs, which now seem to be given out in cereal boxes.)

How about adding a recipe for this pack, or adding it to Mayhem/Safeguard arms deals, or making it available again through some other means? Heck, I'd even be willing to drop some Paragon Points on it for a few characters who would find an occasional rocket-powered superjump handy to have.

I can't speak to anyone else's playstyle but my own—but I do indeed end up using all 90 slots, and indeed having them all visible at once in many cases.

For example, here's a screenshot of one of my CoH characters in question.

While I will admit I don't use all of those powers all the time, the awful way that the CoH powers tray is set up means that if I think I might need to use one of those powers at some point, it's better to have it in a tray where I can click on it (or, at need, temporarily swap it with some other power in a more convenient position) than have to open the power tray, scroll scroll scroll through a list of a zillion powers to try to find it, and then drag it into the slot where I need it. It's annoying enough that when you claim a power from email or craft a temp power recipe, the power doesn't get placed in your tray even if you have an empty slot for it…

If I had more trays, that's what I'd use them for: moving my macros and lesser-used powers to a tray where it's out of the way but I can still locate it easily when I need it.

As others have said, these powers are working as intended. They're not meant to be used in combat, or along with other powers, and devs have explained elsewhere why those limitations exist.

If you find you're accidentally clicking on them too often, why not move them to an out of the way power tray? In most cases, these powers aren't things you're going to need to use on the spur of the moment, so you don't need to have them convenient for instant access anyway.

I never thought I'd say this, but I've gotten to the point where ten power trays are not enough. Between all the temp and Incarnate and vet reward and Accolade and Day Job powers, and all the macros I need to make things easier for incarnate trials, I've discovered I'm having to bump things out of my trays so I don't have access to them anymore.

I don't know whether it's feasible to do this—the ten trays could be one of those hard-coded limits that would require too much recoding to work around—but if it is possible, it would be nice to have it. When things get bumped out of the tray, they're pretty much never going to have the chance to get used.

Don't have time to go through the thread so I don't know if anyone's suggested this yet:

Add the ability to pay Astral Merits to unlock Midnight for our other characters, the way we can now with capes, auras, and the Alpha unlock arc. That would neatly solve the problem of (most) vet players getting frustrated while still keeping it there for newbies.

And if it's not in one of your trays on the screen (which can happen if you've filled up all the slots on all three of your first three power trays), open your Powers screen and hunt through the temp power list for it.

The arch-villains in the Apex and Tin Mage TFs count, too.

Over the last few weeks, I made my first marketeering billion by noticing that I could get and build L50 Oblit quad recipes for about 63 mil and sell them crafted for 90 to 100 mil. The market seems to have slowed down considerably over the last two weeks—and odd thing, now the pricing of recipe and crafted 'hance is about the same (or at least it's close enough that the 10% market skim-off would wipe out any profit I made from reselling). I've still got some lowball bids in, but they seem to be fairly slow to materialize.

I expect it's time to look for another case of market inequality I can exploit but I'm not really very experienced at this—I basically stumbled onto Oblit quads by accident. Why is it that they are so much in demand that they go for these exorbitant prices? How can I look for other things that meet the same demand?

I expect at least part of it is that people use them as the cherry on top of their slotting strategies, to get an extra bit of "oomph" on multiple things without wasting too much going over the ED cap. But other L50 quads I've checked for other types of attack don't go for anywhere near that much. What's the secret?

So yeah, as the posts above this one have said they have definite advantages over regular Enhancements. The question is whether they're big-enough advantages to shell out real money for.

I tend to think that L30 crafted IOs are "good enough" in most situations, representing a great compromise between level of enhancement and keeping the bonuses as low as possible. (I make an exception for the LotG global recharge IO, given that it's useful to slot a single L25 to have that all the way down at level 22.) A lot of IO sets get into ED territory if you slot them all at level 50.

But there are certain sets where you want to be as good as possible, like if you're near but not quite at softcap on Defense. In those circumstances, I would be inclined to go Attuned when they're available.

(I also wish I'd bought more attuned LotG back when they were on sale. Oh well, I expect they'll come around again.)

I don't know about "looking through toons and moving stuff around" as by and large salvage is cheap enough that I just buy whatever I need from the market when I need it, and almost nobody plays in my SG anymore so I can use base storage for anything I craft without worrying someone might take it.

But boy is that current respec process annoying. Aside from the fact that it's all-or-nothing (really annoying when you realize you've just 3-slotted a power you only meant to 2-slot and you have to respec every power and every slot to fix your mistake), but it also scrambles your power trays and you have to spend ages dragging everything back into place.

I agree, I'd love to see a more Mids-like interface where you can spec out your powers and slots all at once, instead of having to rebuild one thing at a time.