Sanguine Sentinel

Classy

Unless of course I happen to want/need a nut and bolt, and then...hey, free nut and bolt!

There's a local hardware store in my neighborhood that regularly puts out coupons for free keys, no purchase required. Keys cost a company, what, maybe a nickel to make? and are usually priced around a buck fifty. A free key isn't usually enough of a draw to get me into the store, but if I'm there, and i have the coupon on me, why not. Or alternative, if i need a key, where do you think the first place I'm going to go is?

Of course, the hardware store is hoping I will buy something else from them, but they put no obligation on me to do so, and nothing says I can't just take my key and leave. Should I express my disappointment in the hardware store for doing a crappy job of getting me to buy more stuff, Or my appreciation that they conveniently offered me something I wouldn't have otherwise had?

Eh, I think I'll take my free key with a smile, thank them, and probably go spend that dollar on a diet soda.

The fun lay in the achievement itself. Some people enjoy game mechanics, other people enjoy what they can do with the game mechanics. Speed runs are a meta-game of their own. Actually, it occurs to me that it's very similar to the draw of eeking out every last little percentage worth of performance increase from an IO'd toon.

The suggested change has...uh...changed since the first post. PPM will not be based on global recharge, only slotted recharge. Read through Synapse's posts for more information.

Most of the ones worth having will cost you a good deal more than two. You have other options of getting them (such as using the merits from iTrials, but either way you're going to have a serious investment of time in order to buy them with merits. The way the market is looking now, it would be much easier for you to buy them with inf.

http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Catego...e_Recipe_Drops

click on an enhancement to show you what it takes to purchase them

This is going to sound silly simple but, from PvP. They're drops. You can get these a couple of ways, iTrial merits (it takes a ton of them), Alignment merits (a tone of them), buying them off the market (probably the easiest legitmate way), or through PvP. Actual PvP is probably not the most efficient or enjoyable way to do this, but if you feel like working the system, you can create another free account and let your main wale on them in a isolated corner of a PvP zone. You'll get your PvP IOs soon enough, you also may be shunned by your peers

http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Category:PvP_Recipe_Drops

I would really really really really recommend against this. That's a lot of your own money that you can avoid spending. I can bring in a billion inf with only casually playing the market (5 minutes or so when i log in, and 5 minutes before I log out) over the course of a month and then it's just a matter of being patient while your buy orders fill. Remember, you don't have to have this killer build tomorrow. You've got time before you hit 50 and you can start preparing now, slowing buying up what you need over time. I recommend reading up on some of the basic marketeering guides as, evn if you're not serious about being an ebil marketeer, it will still give you the basic rules for buying what you need for a build.

Seriously, skip it. Or take it now and respec out of it at 50. I guarantee you, there will always be someone with a rez, or someone who can pass you an awaken.

Glad to see a new player who's willing to dig in an learn the game. Keep it up Wilco, and keep seeking good advice!

For me, i don't think it's the fact that you have to pay for something, per se. I mean, it is, but...gah.

Not all enhancements are the same, and you don't necessarily want the same ones as the guy next to you. So having a repository where you can buy them is ok with me. It lets you make choices. Putting them in a store is just sort of a natural result.

But lets face it, in those other MMOs, who doesn't just level up, and buy all the skills anyway? I tried to think of a cogent metaphor for this but i litterally cannot come up with a real world equivalent for something that everybody uses and that people are charged for piecemeal for absolutely no discernible reason. It seems like it's there to give you some sort of choice but that's a complete illusion as everyone takes everything regardless. Why not just give me my new skills when i level, or at the very least new ranks? It seems like its just a nonsense mechanic that keeps getting put into new MMOs because some other MMO did it that way.

I do kind of wish that i didn't have to buy a whole new set of SOs every 5 levels though. That can go away if the devs feel like it and it would be ok with me

Ha! now i'm curious

I concur. I Just came back after about two year away and when i first ran DfB we ran with a good team that picked up all the badges and i thought "this is cool, what a nice addition!" since back in the day everyone was just running sewers anyway.

That was the last time i saw a competent team for that trial. Just to entertain my curiosity i often check badges on people who i'm teaming with, and reliably, 90% of the people i see on DfB, regardless of level, have only a handful of badges, guess which ones?

I think we're training newbs how not to play the game here

Yep, but I find I can actually solo decently (nothing like +4/x8 or anything) but with SC, I can do a lot with active defense (and Temp Invuln handles the little attacks they throw my way when they only have 5 end). I may Work on a solo build some day, but for the moment i'm content just to get this one off the ground

Hmm, That a good point. I sometimes forget that leadership helps me out too. I'm still a little torn on tactics though. Seems like most people don't have a hard time hitting anything but i had forgotten about the perception increase. Is that really in demand at all?

Hmm, yeah I see where you're going at here. I honestly just didn't know what to do with Fort, despite loving it to death. I'm thinking i might switch it over to 4 peices of LotG and Rectified Reticle

Some of that goofy slotting In Voltaic Sentinel, Maneuvers and Tesla cage was just because i was swimming in slots by lvl 50 and i really didn't know where to throw them, but i like that Lockdown in Tesla cage and will probably make that change.

Oversight on my part, that should have the stealth slotted.

This is where i'm still a little in the dark, because i haven't gotten to run this build in a real situation and i have no idea what it's going to look like, practically. Numerically, i can see where i would really only need Short Circuit slotted for sapping. The recharge on this build is enough that i have it back every 3 seconds and i should just be completely leveling everyone's endurance, but i'm nervous about what can happen in those three seconds to someone without much in the way of defense. I dunno, i certainly wouldn't complain about the extra recharge from posi.

Thanks for the input!