Roderick

Nobody said to avoid mace.

I said to avoid mace (and other high end use primaries) unless you had a plan to deal with the end use. Frankly, there's a lot of people who, especially when they're new, will want to turn on ALL their toggles and go smash everything as hard as they can. Slotting, set bonuses, Stamina, or even toggle juggling are all valid means of dealing with high end use - which Mace/Dark has in spades - unless you take steps to avoid it.

Also, as Finduilas said, slot End Reduction. NOT just in your shields, but in your attacks too. Most attacks use more endurance per second than your toggles do.

COSTS 1 million inf, COSTS a billion inf, COSTS 2 billion inf. As in "This badge costs X inf to buy", NOT "This badge is earned by spending X inf over time".

Translation: "With all these other badges out there that badgers are earning, they accidentally make a HELL of a lot of money in the process of doing it. And THEN they have to go make even MORE money to get another badge."

Not to mention the fact that he's said he wants them to be an outright purchase, and has never mentioned "farming" for the badges. This suggestion - if it can even be called that, since he's just putting it out in the open to see if it's worth suggesting - is a way to DESTROY the excess money in the system, which the current means already in the game do not accomplish. WHY would he want the badge to rely on those existing means?

No, you don't. Because, as this post where he originally had the idea shows he wants you to just pay 2 billion inf outright to get the badge.

And to Chad's question of "Why?": Because there's too much money in the system. It's FAR easier to create money than it is to destroy it, and Fulmens is actively combating inflation by destroying as much as he can, and convincing others to as well. Some of his ideas are better than others. I'm not really sure I agree with this one either, I was just giving clarification to those who were objecting to a different idea than the one he was posing.


EDIT: A better link: The post that inspired his idea.

Shortly after i15, I think. But the cones didn't automatically extend, it required running past them at high speeds and attacking at the right time - kind of a modified joust. I saw videos of it, but never succeeded in doing it myself.

I think you misunderstand the suggestion. There's no stat to track, there's no "lost progress" from said stat not being previously tracked, and there's nothing market-centric.

What Fulmens is suggesting is that you walk up to an NPC, give him millions of Inf, which he summarily destroys, and he gives you a badge back. Think along the lines of the badge you get by spending tickets in the MA.

Correct. Melee cones were having problems hitting targets when the target or user were moving. That was fixed.

Then, all of a sudden, people were hitting entire rows 20+ feet long of enemies with Shadow Maul, Head Splitter, and other 7' cones. The fix to that seems to have caused the bug with moving targets to resurface.

This is completely guesswork, but my thought on it:

Most pet summoners I can think of (Death Shamans immediately come to mind, as do Comm Officers), summon pets tht are lower rank, but con the same as the summoners. For example, a level 41 orange Death Shaman would summon two level 42 orange Dry Husks.

If these pets are Minion Rank (IIRC, you can't tell because their rank is shown as "Pet", but they should have an equivalent rank, even if we can't see it), then they would be +2, so that they con the same as the Boss that's summoning them.

If you're fighting +4s, and my guess is right, then these pets are +6 or +7 (if the Bosses spawn with an extra level), meaning that they're getting a large +ToHit bonus against you.

I honestly can't think of anything else that may account for it, because my softcapped scrapper and brute both typically fight at +2, and rip through Carnies like wet paper.

He also appears twice in Tina's non-arc missions. In one of those, he teleports away, in the other, he can be killed, just like the second encounter in the arc. I know a couple people who keep going through Tina's stuff after the arc specifically to get that mission and hold it so people can easily get Anti-Matter credit.

I would recommend Dark Melee, because it has Dark Consumption, or Claws, because it's fairly end-light.

I'd suggest avoiding Mace, Axe, Super Strength, and Stone, unless you have a strong plan for endurance management. These are some of the more expensive brute primaries.

Whichever primary you pick, Dark Regeneration will be your worst endurance sink. It is definitely worthwhile to save your merits and pick up a Theft of Essence: Chance for +Endurance to slot into it; it will refund some of (or sometimes even all of!) the cost of Dark Regeneration.

And grab a build planner to plan out your build. Watch your End Consumption vs. End Recovery, and do NOT put purples or very rare or expensive in the build. This way, you can know what to expect while levelling, instead of being frustrated because your levelling build isn't as good as your planned final build.

You might also want to find Desmodos' guide for Dark/Dark scrappers. Much of what's in it will still apply for brutes.

Really? That's a bummer.

Also, I guess I shouldn't post things like that when I can't get in-game to test them...

Wonder why it doesn't parse properly... :/

Then save your default binds with the button in the options window.

From then on, every time you press Enter on the number pad, it will open the player notes for "notes_charactername", unique to each character. And since only NCSoft staff can use the underscore in their names, you know you'll never accidentally note a real person, and you won't have to share notes across all your characters like you would by noting your own global.

Roll at low levels, and you can get valuable low-level stealths and Zephyr -KBs. Wait and you can get LotGs and other stuff. It's really a judgement call.

I'm not sure about elec/elec, but my BS/WP can solo the Clockwork King. It all depends on how we'll you built for low levels.

Just use the costume change emote - it changes your costume when you use it. the format is:

/cce 0 ccspin

Change the number to the costume slot you want, and the emote name to the one you want to use.

To make a macro:

/macro C "cce 0 ccspin"

This a quick reply. Sorry if it's already been touched on.

Every player can have up to 36 characters per server. Even if you haven't bought the slots, there's probably storage space allotted for them. So that's 396 characters per account.

Assuming that there's 100,000 accounts, that's 39,600,000 characters. Maybe more, because of inactive accounts, maybe less because the overhead storage space might not be that high. For easy math purposes, let's round it down to a nice even 35 million.

You can currently type 1000 characters into your bio. Let's be really generous and give you 10 times the space. That's +9000 bytes per character in the database, even if for the characters whose bio is blank. That's 315 terabytes of extra data. Even if we were only to increase the default slots of those 100,000 accounts, it would be 105 terabytes.

Then you have to take backups into account. Double that number if there's only one backup. There's probably more than one copy of the database though, since people have had deleted characters restored up to 6 months afterwards. So assume 6 backups (1 per month). That's potentially up to 1890 terabytes of storage space reserved. For a feature that would probably not be used by a very large percentage of the population; less than half the characters I see even USE their bio, and of those that do, it's rarely close to the limit.

It's likely that the devs would not reserve that much space - afterall, as it gets used, they can still add more before it reaches the limit. But still, anything which increases operating costs is potentially detrimental to the game's longevity, unless the change increases subscription numbers.

Short version: I'd like more bio space for the rare time I use it. I don't think we'll get it because the potential costs are probably too high to justify.

There was a bug a while ago where this was happening frequently to a lot of people. There were several posts on the forums about it when it was happening.

I thought the bug was squashed; I haven't seen it in a while. Guess it's back.

Last time I decided to delete a mid-levelled toon, I did a couple respecs to clear him out, put a few things on the BM for 1 each, vendored the rest, then went to Kalinda and /info'd the newbies as they showed up. When I finally found one with no vet badges, I walked over and said hello in local. The conversation went something like this:

Me: Hello.
Him: Hi.
Me: Are you on a trial or a full account?
Him: Full
Me: Excellent. *Send trade invite*
*He accepts*
*I dump 14 million in the trade window and hit "Trade"*
*He accepts*
Him: Thanks!
Me: /powexecname Self Destruction$$quit
30... 29... 28... 27... 26... 25... 24...
Him: Whoa.
23... 22... 21... 20...
Him: Holy Crap!
19... 18... 17... 16... 15... 14... 13... 12... 11...
Him: Thanks so much!
10... 9... 8... 7... 6... 5... 4... 3... 2... 1...

By the time I rolled my new toon, he was gone, so I didn't have a chance to reply. I hope that he stuck around though. Always good to have new players in the game.

I think you TOTALLY misunderstood what I was saying. I'm not talking about 50s fighting 50s, or the pre-i16 effect on exemplared earnings.

If a 50 fights while exemplared, they ignore the "Earn XP" settings and always earn Influence according to the old rules. The reason you always got the same rewards, regardless of the settings, is that the system was forcing you to take the Bonus Inf, even if you tried to refuse it, NOT because you never got it.

Get a 49 and exemplar them, and play with the XP settings. THEN you will see the settings take effect.

Force Feedback would actually work better in the bugged version of LR.

The procs in LR were checking on each mob hit and the caster. With a damage or debuff proc, you had a chance to affect yourself as well as the enemies. With FF, since it checked against the caster, you got one extra check. Granted, it didn't do much, since the proc doesn't stack, but it made it a little more likely to proc.

Chain Induction has ben fixed. Lightning Rod, I can't remember a patch note about it, but I'm not sure.

I hope to one day buy these Luck Charms, and do exactly that. I've yet to get my first billion yet, but one day, it will happen.

I just re-read the OP, and I think I see what was happening.

There are (as people have discussed in this thread) two options that affect XP earning: "Earn XP" and "Earn XP while exemplared". (can't log in right now, so I probably have the names wrong)

The first setting turns off XP earning. All XP earned while it has disabled XP is lost.

The second setting decides if XP earned while exemplared is granted as XP or as bonus Inf.

If you disable XP in both at the same time, all XP earned will be dropped to 0, and then that XP will be converted to Inf at a 1:1 ratio. Of course, the XP gain was changed to 0, so no Inf was gained by converting it.

I'm going to do some testing when I get home, and if I'm right, I'm gonna send a PM to a dev requesting that the order these are parsed in gets switched. Doing so would prevent people from being able to, essentially, choose "Earn less while exemplared".

This is correct. 50s don't get any XP, and therefore ignore the "Donzt earn XP" setting. Also, per one of the devs in beta, and (I think) in the patch notes, level 50s also ignore the "earn XP while exemplared" setting, automatically getting the extra Inf.

To test this reliably, you need to use a sub-50 character.

That's the way it used to work. About a year ago they changed it.

Now, the top result is the last server you logged into (if any) and then the rest are listed from lowest sever load to highest.

Server load refers to how much the server is currently doing. It is usually directly proportionate to the number of people logged in, but other things can affect it. For example, Invasion events or Raids increase the amount of work a server is doing,and may make it have a higher load than its population would suggest.

From what I've heard, when the game was in Beta, it only had one server. As a result that one server (Freedom or Virtue, I believe) had a head start on population.

Until about a year ago,The servers were listed with the last server you had logged into on top, and then with the one with the highest population at the top, and the rest descending. For new accounts that had never logged in, they were just listed from highest to lowest population. Most new players would just click on the top of the list, not knowing any difference, thus resulting in greater population disparity.