Robotech_Master

Funny thing; I was running a no-telepathist TPN trial the other day and wished I had my character with Incandescence--a lot of people kept dying in the halls on the way to the rooms, hospitaling, running back, and dying again on the way. It would have been useful to be able to yank everyone in all at once.

There are a number of recipes and IOs that now sell for more than 2 billion Inf each. These transactions necessarily take place outside of the market (go to the Marketplace board, you'll probably see solicitations for several of them right now) because they involve more than one character sending money to more than one character.

When you've got market forces pushing prices up like that, it doesn't do anyone any good to force players to go outside the system to buy and sell. It means the auctionhouse can't take its 10% cut of the Inf, for one thing, and for another it means that people who want to buy or sell these recipes at "market value" have no choice but to risk the other party reneging on the agreement after they've handed their half over.

It would be simplest all around if you'd raise the cap, at least for VIP players. People probably would still go outside the market to trade, but at least they'd have the choice of selling within it.

Something I've noticed that seems to be "missing" from the patch notes: you no longer use up Patrol XP when you're running an XP Booster temp power. It just gets pushed off, the same way it does in a double XP weekend. It didn't used to do that. It's annoying. :/

That's nice. Where in the costume editor do I find these new costume parts?

Before I came to work today, I bought all three new packs, then went to the tailor and couldn't find anything new in the Costume Sets menu.

Where the hell do I find the Fire and Ice costume sets? I put the tokens in the slots and it said I can now access them at the tailor—but when I went to the tailor and looked through the list of costume sets, they weren't there. Celestial was, but no Fire or Ice.

I really wish they'd make them easier to find. Like set aside a separate section at the top of the list for costume sets you bought or otherwise unlocked.

I don't really have the patience or desire to grind enough to save up enough to unlock something like a PvP IO. I tend to break them down into threads when I need the threads. (I didn't even know you could save them up for rare Incarnate salvage. May have to try that next time I'm waiting on a piece.)

Also bought all of Ascension Radiance and the Electrical Path aura because they looked cool.

Really, leveling pacts aren't needed as much anymore thanks to super sidekicking. You don't have to worry about matching exemplars to mentors anymore, and even if you exemplar you get 2 or 3 more powers than you otherwise would have had at that level.

People with varying play rates don't have as many problems adventuring with each other anymore, which was the problem pacts were meant to fix. With that in mind, I wouldn't be surprised if they never came back.

It's also worth pointing out, as I didn't have time to when I wrote the earlier message, that you don't necessarily want to slot out everything at 50. You get better numbers on the individual enhancements when you do that, yes. But on the other hand, a lot of IOs at level 30 have reasonably good numbers (especially when you consider the effects of all the set bonuses if you stack them), and at 50 may well be over the ED cap on some things (which is kind of a waste when you get right down to it).

Given that CoH isn't one of those MMOs where 99% of the content is in the end-game, there are plenty of reasons to exemplar down lower to take on lowbie content. Having all those set bonuses down to level 27 means you've got those benefits for that much more of the game.

(And if you really care about maxing out your stats at L50, well, you can put an all-50s build in your secondary slot.)

Now that being said, sometimes even as much as .39% of Defense can make a big difference when you're approaching the 45% Defense soft cap. Consider that if you're at 45%, bad guys only have a 1 in 20 chance of hitting you. That's 10 times out of 200. But if you're only at 44.5% Defense, then they'll hit you 11 times out of 200. That half a percentage of Defense means you'll be taking 10% more damage than you otherwise would have.

A while back, the store offered an Attuned version of LotG, which acted like L50 IOs at L50 but L25 IOs at L22-25, and offered the fringe benefit of keeping bonuses intact all the way down. I snagged a set or two for characters who could benefit from all of it, and bought a bunch of Attuned recharge-rate IOs which I've been using on characters who want to squeeze every last bit of Defense bonus out but still keep the set bonuses all the way down. (I usually go with L30 IO sets on my toons, 'cuz I exemp a lot.)

The problem with the LFG system is that people by and large would rather fill teams to the maximum, leaving no room for people to jump in. Which means the LFG people will be waiting a long, long time.

Which is kind of a shame, really, given that LFG queuers don't have to be in the same zone as everyone else. I took advantage of this during the Winter Lord trials a couple of times, keeping my character where she was but jumping in LFG, and letting the trial-runner know so he'd leave a few slots free.

You know, I could wish you'd chosen an acronym that didn't overlap with "PeaCEBRinger". (Or, for that matter, "iCEBReaker".) Means a lot of unrelated junk shows up in the AE search when you type it in.

Nice that they're offering the free months again, rather than a measly $5 worth of Paragon Points.

CEBR = Claws/Electric BRute? Or Claws/Electric Brute R???

How's this better than fire farming?

I'm trying to slot out some characters with L30 IOs (my preferred slotting for keeping exemplar effectiveness while still being reasonably effective in themselves) and finding it hard going in some cases. Many of the ones I want don't show up very often on the market, or when they do they're priced too high for me to be able to afford them all with the Inf I have. My alternatives are buying them with Astral, Reward, or Alignment merits, all of which seems to take a lot of work (especially given the quantity of recipes I end up needing). Is there some easier way of doing this?

I know some people do a lot of Architect farming and keep their characters locked at level 30 and do a lot of random rolls on the AE reward tables to get level 30 recipes they can craft for use or sale. If I were to make such a character, what would the best character class and power sets for such a character be?

Is there anywhere I can get the original Gnarly's Speed On Demand program? I'm starting to think CityBinder is a little overkill for me.

In this thread - http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=234669 - someone posted some update files to add newer powers to CityBinder, but they're not there anymore.

Can anyone tell me where I might find them?

Also, can someone tell me where to find the option for keeping weapons drawn when the character moves? I know there used to be a way to choose not to have the weapon stashed on moves. I'd like to avoid having to keep redrawing it; even if the animation is the same length it just looks messy.