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Originally Posted by Stormfront_NA

Shaker:

You are likely to be right about the no change, I still would contend that changes to AT vulnerabilities should be considered because the environment way back when they were defined for each AT has been dramatically changed.

The use of IOs has gone a long way in making the environmental changes not as pre-empting as they would be without them, yet current trends which include mobs now with superior accuracies, greater emphasis in negating defense, insta-on your face-spawns with the use of spam status effects is now eroding the benefit of IOs.

Ironically, in the past TFs I participated in, many a player have commented on the team being heavy melee built, each time I looked it was mostly filled with Scrappers, and Tanker/Brute; in general I'm finding at least 5 out of the 8 players being melee, a single MM, and then variations of ATs for the last 2 slots, often debuffers. If the game was indeed balanced, would we not see a more even distribution of ATs in teams?


It would be an interesting statistic to keep up with team compositions, and see if any class is over-represented and if any class is under represented. It may also be interesteing to see if the over-represented class has a "flavor of the month" trend to it as well...

For myself as the game keeps evolving into a massive status effect fest and insta "on your face" spawn, I find myself enjoying it less and less my support alts; and as a result I play them even less; when I do play them now, is more likely out of sentimental reasons or I am trying to get some badges for them.

Stormy

Originally Posted by JoshexDirad

I still think this is a good idea for all sorts of occasions when you can't find a team but need merits.

lets put it this way, trials can be 1 player and can yield 1-8 merits, a single run of one AE mission disallows you to earn more than a certain number of tickets for the map (usually 1500 to 2000 tickets/200=7-10 merits) that's it, then you have to do another run. mind you that takes about 3 hours to solo on most tanks.

secondly, math; lets talk raw numbers, so you can use reward merits to buy a recipe worth 100 million inf, maybe even 200-300 million inf on a good day. thats costs 160-300 merits, thats alot of merits.. at the rate above, that would take a good tank (160 merits/10 per run x3 hours a run= 48 hours for 160 merits)

so at the rates of buying AE tickets above, 200 tickets per merit really isn't that appalling.

Originally Posted by RaTBaT

I have a lockdown chance for hold IO on total domination on a dominator and a fortunata. I think that IO is really good when it goes off, it got me thinking, why not make some sort of powertray system that will let us know when the IO is active. For example, take the Dual Blade powerset, the powertray icons are highlighted for its combo system, why not do the same for proc io's? I think it would be awesome to know exactly when the proc is active on a power. For total domination with a Lockdown chance for hold, knowing when that IO is active would be a great help. The same can go for Devastation on a ranged power and other Proc IO's. What do you all think?

Originally Posted by PumBumbler

I have about 50,000 merits if you want to buy them at market rate.

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Originally Posted by IanTheM1

I'm betting it's something more creative than giving enemies an I Win Button against defense.

Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood

The general consensus I've seen from people in the market forum is that Gold rolls are already to expensive. Most people who farm tickets spend them on silver or bronze rolls instead (and my own experience supports this strategy). Similarly with merits it's generally considered that random rolls are, over time, more profitable than direct buys. By setting the price in the 200-300 range it means that the conversion is only beneficial to people who are planning direct buys (since with rolls you could spend fewer tickets directly) or using them to buy A-Merits (which are time limited anyway).

The time aspect is not a convincing argument to me. Let's say you farm up the 48,000 tickets necessary to direct buy a LotG 7.5% (using 200 tickets = 1 merit). With that amount you could already buy 88.9 pieces of rare salvage, 685.7 bronze rolls (level 30-34 or 35-39) or 13.7 gold rolls (level 30-34). Even taking the rare salvage option (a reliable but low profit item) and selling them for 1.6million each (in the middle of their standard 1-2million price range) you would get 140.8 million which is about what you'd get for the LotG 7.5%. If you converted the 48,000 tickets to merits and did direct rolls there you'd only get 12 rolls so that's clearly a loss as well.

Even at 200 tickets = 1 merit I don't see the conversion as being a better option than spending the tickets directly. The A-Merit conversion is a little trickier. It enables people to do that solo more easily. I don't think it would be game breaking though since those are time-locked most people who farm merits or tickets are going to have more than they can convert to A-Merits anyway.

Personally I agree with Bill that it isn't really needed however if it was implemented I think 200 merits would work fine as a price (alhough I'd probably set it to 250 to make spending the tickets on bronzes more appealing).


I realize that this is hyperbole but think about what that actually means. The earning power from being able to convert 250-300 tickets to merits is not out of line with the current options for directly buying items with tickets as I think my analysis above indicates. Yet despite that the AE is not the most popular method of farming. I really don't see how adding merits to the purchase option for tickets would make AE farming the most popular option unless the price was significantly lower than 200.

Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill

Um...

Use Ouroboros? Do your missions? *Get the exploration badges for the zones?*

I see no reason to have to buy reward merits. No, not everything dumps 50+ merits on you. Doesn't mean farming AE should suddenly be rewarded again.

250-300 tickets? Might as well give everyone 10 merits every time they log in.

/unsigned.

Originally Posted by Maniac_Raid

A beacon to Cim or the Midnighter's club would be awesome. Cim would be preferable in my mind, but that would mean we'd probably need more exploration badges there. And hey, more badges are good badges!

I'd also like to see bacon added to the game. Perhaps as part of the incarnate sytem. Eat bacon, get more powerful. Maybe it could be a new tier 4 insp.

PS: I only expect half of this post to be taken seriously. I'll let you guess which half. :P