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Originally Posted by Bocus_King

Well I don't blame the devs for every exploit cause like you said it's impossible to catch them all, but I do blame them for giving people what free access to print influence like they were at a printing press. So yes it's their fault for even letting influence be awarded in AE.

I did place some bids at reasonable prices(fingers crossed) lets hope they go through in a timely manner. It was just a shocker to check out the market after a few months to find prices on something as simple as umcommons quadruple in price.

Like a I said earlier it seems like the proverbial wheel barrel of money is needed for anything these days.

Originally Posted by Bocus_King

I play oh maybe 2 to 3 times a week a few hours each time nowdays. I have a few hundred million on hand but what I use to be able to IO a toon with that now I can't even buy 4 sets pf reactive armor with.

For the record I don't think flippers ruin the market. I have a bit of knowledge when it comes to economics and the only ones to blame for all the inlfluence that is floating around is the developers for letting exploit after exploit into the system. They pretty much let people print influence ie monkey farms, mew farms, rikti com officers farms, mito farms, MM pets not examping farms, etc etc etc.

Seriously they just need to take influence out of AE to stop all this nonsense.

Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha

Except the OP did just that.

Suggestion/Idea: Have an Accolade linked to Giant Monsters

Detail Discussion; how could that work?

No different from a lot of ideas that have been posted before.

Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha

Since when?

I like the idea, myself. /Signed

Originally Posted by Madam_Enigma

Hence why dual pistols was made a 'blast' set instead of a 'melee' set. Don't think it really has any "point blank" powers outside of it's tier 9 either. If your firing a pistol, you could move into point blank range, but wouldn't it be more prudent to fire from farther away most times?

Where as a whip is about 1 or 2 yards in length tops usually. Sometimes larger. The reason whip attacks in demon summoning are longer range is... Your actually firing blasts from the whip, or using an extendo-range whip. As such I could see it as an assault set, or melee. maybe a blast set but that's pushing it IMO. Just don't think we'll see a full whip powerset, melee or otherwise.

Originally Posted by Chaos_Fighter

Again it was a suggested amount of vault storage, I posted this for ideas what the storage should be or what people would think is a acceptable amount.

My point was that I think most people are missing is that throughout my toons I have this salvage (like most others) but it's spread out through multiple toons. I'm looking at being able to access the salvage that I already have instead of running AE or having to pay the jacked up price of it.

If my toon just hit 27, 37, or 47 I would like to go ahead and slot the recipes within that level range. Please remember that everyone just got 3 respecs for each toon they have. Now if you are trying to adjust for inherent fitness and or make some other modification to your toon you will have to purchase some sort of salvage. Now I can only speak for myself that I made a lot of changes to a lot of toons and I did this before I started running TF/SF for shards and yes after I get done doing my respec I would like to finish slotting it so I can do these tf/sf's... I personally don't care to run a toon on a tf/sf that isn't slotted properly.

As far as a global and a regular vault I am all for that as well, anything that will allow me to gain access to salvage quicker that is on another toon without forcing me to log over to every toon I have to get to it.

As far as salvage being gauged on the market, when was the last time someone bought a Alchemical Gold, a few weeks ago it was selling for the same price as some rare salvage (one million for a uncommon salvage and that is just one example of how the salvage market has gone crazy) and now sits at a nice price of 500K... So people do not think that is gauged?

Again, I am looking for ideas for what an acceptable amount would be.

Originally Posted by Residentx10

How long did the download take Clebstein. Can you post the times and average kbps?

Originally Posted by Savos

I really wish I could put the protection above in something like 72 point font.

Protection does not nor should it ever mean the same as resistance. Yet you keep claiming I somehow support this for some unknown reason.

A few things:

A) Mez protection for all melee classes is too high. Disregarding your 1 in a million chance (effectively) in your examples, melee protection doesn't fail.
B) Mez for anything without protection has two potential results: death in 5 seconds without chance of response or doing nothing for 10-15-20+ seconds.

What I would like to see:

1) Melee mez protection reduced to something like -3, enhanceable to -5 as well as providing something akin to a +50% resist to duration (e.g. 66.66% of normal duration base), enhanceable. Perhaps even modified by AT multiplier to protect those tanks that need mez protection that is overkill in 99.9% of the game.
2) Overall duration reduced on players via either global resist, achievable set bonuses or a global nerf to mob mez.

The reasoning is such that if implemented, melee must be aware of mez, though can still just ignore the huge majority of it, while limiting the case of 10+ seconds of standing around doing nothing for anything lacking protection (which is fine surprisingly enough!).

And contrary to what you believe about my "so does everything else" was intended to be for every other melee defense set. For non-melee with limited defenses it has some huge variability based on power set choices.

Originally Posted by Forbin_Project

Not only No, but HELL NO!

/unsigned

/jranger

/jpowerranger


First off sub based games only go F2P as a last ditch attempt to stop the game from going under.

Secondly F2P games end up being more expensive for players to play because they spend more money on microtransactions in the game than they did on their subscription fee.

Originally Posted by Mad_Cow_Milk

Good points. As to the other comment, no I am not talking about adding a series of new powers, just one.

Well if things are capped out, then maybe we could exspand the powers in different ways.

Give teleport the option to teleport up to the 2nd neighboring zone directly from where they are.

Give Super Speed a much higher jump height

Super Jump a faster jump

Flight, IDK maybe teleport to the 1st neighboring zone?

As to the incarnate system. Yeah getting this is nice, but in some way this just seems like more leveling. Perhaps all I want is something little and symbolic.

Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect

My Rad/Sonic AV soloing defender would like to have a word with you about that. (for the record, once I solve his endurance issues he'll be soloing GMs too).

My Dark Miasma/Dual Pistols defender has a thing or two to say as well.

You act like just being a defender means you can't ever solo, and it just isn't true. Sure, my Dark and Rad defenders are among the better soloing sets, but if you're playing Empathy or Kinetics why are you so pressed about being able to solo them when they shine on a team?

If you can't effectively solo with a support character, the problem is with YOU, not the game. Myself and thousands of other people solo support characters all the time. Unless you think the people saying they solo fine are lying just to spite you, and I can assure you, I'm not lying about my ability to solo a defender.

And no, soloing does NOT mean running at x8. Soloing means running missions by yourself, the difficulty you are set at is completely irrelevant.




That's weird, my Broadsword/Shield scrapper tanks for small teams all the time. Sure, he's probably not going to be main-tanking an ITF or tanking Recluse on an STF, but he does just fine holding agro for 3-4 man teams. If he didn't have mez protection, that would be impossible for him to do.

Also, I brought it up before, but what about things like Tsoo Green Ink Men, who have 3 melee stun powers and spawn in groups of 8 to 10 in Talos. They can already stun a melee character through their mez protection. So, the answer is to force a scrapper to run in terror from those groups while a hovering support character can kill them all in perfect safety? (because Green Ink Men have zero ranged mezzing ability, their stuns are all melee range)

Scrappers hit things in melee range, and that is ALL they do. They cannot buff a teammate, or debuff the enemy, they do not have even close to the same amount of versatility that a support character can have. Various support powersets can do many different things, while scrapper powersets are nothing more than different flavors of hitting things.

I've said it before, and I suppose I'll say it one more time: When my scrapper has the same level of versatility as your support character, maybe then your support character can have the same level of self-sufficiency. If you have a support-heavy team, those scrappers that solo so well start to get less and less useful, especially the ones with mostly single target oriented sets like Dark Melee or Martial Arts.

What you are saying is that your defender needs to get the exact same soloing efficiency as a scrapper, without losing any of the team support versatility they are known for.

Scrappers are designed for solo efficiency because they lack any real team support ability. And you think they should lose that solo efficiency without gaining any additional team support ability.

But apparently the people telling you that is dumb are the ones being unreasonable.

Right.

There seems to be quite a bit about game balance you don't understand here. Scrappers are self sufficient because they add very little to a team. Defenders are more team reliant because they can make that team nearly invincible. Thus, defenders should not be as self sufficient as scrappers until scrappers add more to a team. That is known as balance.

But nooooooo. Defenders should be able to solo just as well as a scrapper AND team better, because that's the only way it would be fair. I find it hard to believe that you don't realize how ridiculous that argument is.

Originally Posted by hedgehog_NA

Scrappers dont need mez protection any more than blasters or defenders do. You can team and get buffed. You can take TP and be in melee range instantly. You have high defense to prevent a lot of it from hitting you. You shouldnt be taking the alpha strike, that is the tanks job. He/she need mez prot, not the scrapper. Oh yeah, you can always pop breakfrees. Your defensive toggles wont even drop. Why is it the rationalization for squishies not having any mez protection no matter how minor doesnt apply to scrappers? Scrappers are DPS. they are not and should never be tanks. If they do have a tanking role their damage should be lowered. Blasters gained damage to make up for no defense. Scrappers have high damage and good defense. What exactly did they give up to maintain balance?

Originally Posted by Sbane12

I am sorry, but which part of that is supposed to be a " valid" excuse for rolling as you even admitted " the fotm", or easy mode?
Correct Answer would be it is not.

Doesn't matter if you keep dieing, that is the exact excuse for all the Psi blasters , KM/regens, Shark stalkers....

Once you hop on that bandwagon, and yes it has been proven, if you try and play something else down the road that requires even an inkling of skill or challenge, you will fail, get frustrated quick, and go right back because you are used to playing something a one-eyed, one-armed, 5 year old could succeed on.

It is but this is excuse that is why you will be just another Psi/EM, and never a "good" PVPer.




Big difference between effective, and overpowered FoTM easy mode. Very thick line in CoX's case.
Just another one who Bowls with bumpers, and thinks they know how to PVP.