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Originally Posted by Ultimo_

That's not exactly true. A foe that does multiple instances of damage in one attack can still oneshot you. Energy Blast does Smashing and Energy damage. If the total of the two is more than your total health, you're oneshotted.

In any case, I don't think any foes should have the power to oneshot any heroes. I really don't know why there's a discrepancy in health totals. Tanks, yes (and maybe Brutes). Their defining attribute is resilience. I don't see why everyone else can't have the same health.

I think the suggestion has merit.

Originally Posted by Lascher

Delicious candy!!!! lol You get them if you have Going Rogue and by running tip missions with a lvl 20 or higher toon....Hero or Villian tip missions, not Rogue or Vigilante. It's all in the Going Rogue part of the Forum. You trade A-merits for IO recipes. Can make a ton of cash, or slowly IO out a toon without spending anything, except salvage costs.

Cheers, welcome back!

Originally Posted by Lascher

I don't want to come off as rude, but you said A-merits....which is all my post was about, so where are we not seein eye to eye here?? We seem to agree on everything, yet not at all! lol

And you do need cash, how would one get a few LotG Global recharge io's, let alone over a dozen other complete sets of any kind, with the cash they'd make just playing the game? Again, just playing the game meaning without using any of the ways you suggest to earn inf.....just by "simply playin the game and selling their junk" as someone said....this is all assuming a newer player may not know the better ways, or care for them....like crafting.....I can't stand crafting and selling. The less time I spend in the market the better and many feel the same way I am sure. Or crafted IO's would never sell. Personally, I don't want to have 50 bids on the market, waiting to get lucky to IO out my toons, I want to earn inf and buy them, now! lol So my preferred method is exactly what my opening post explains.

So to quote an old commercial.... where's the beef?

Originally Posted by Forbin_Project

Just curious, You don't think that 300 billion (or was it trillion) that was accumulating during the years prior to the market being added to the game had nothing to do with it? Or the supply and demand that came around during the intro of the AE?

Originally Posted by Savos

Still keep mixing up terms. Protection is not what I want. Some reasonable way to create resist is, hence why I attempted to slot this IO but was sorely disappointed.

Support with protection is just stupid. As is melee with guaranteed unbreakable protection.

Originally Posted by Jim_G

I was confident that this opinion would be expressed soon, and here it is.

I suspect, Sharker, that you do lots of little things to maximize the amount of cash you get. Thus getting money seems easy to you, and you imagine anyone else must be playing badly.

There are many of reasons a player might not be able to make the 500+ million to outfit a character with enhancements like LotG global recharge or +Recovery Numena. A few basic ones include 1) not having enough playtime, 2) not enjoying playing the market, 3) mainly doing missions with friends who are low-level characters, and 4) mainly playing characters who are less than level 50.

I understand you might be surprised to hear that someone who is doing missions and then selling their stuff doesn’t make as much money as you normally see. But telling someone else they are “doing it wrong” makes it look like you simply are locked in your own limited perspective and confusing your opinion with objective fact.

Originally Posted by Lascher

Jim...... I know! I played the game and sold my stuff for years, and only ever managed to io out 1 toon with decent sets. Unless your heavily farming or doing many tf's, just playing the game and selling your stuff ain't gonna cut it. Maybe if you get many real lucky drops, maybe. Now thanks to a-merits tho, I finally have a nice bank account. Still can't purple out a toon, but can get some decent sets now on any toon I want!

I haven't agreed with the direction of this game in general the last couple years....but the a-merit system was a winner for me!

Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill

So, which are you doing - showing it to a friend, or running it 5 times an hour? You can't see the difference in that? Run, finish, turn around, run immediately, finish, run again immediately, finish, run immediately, finish - I'm sorry, I like some of the arcs in the game, both dev and AE created, but there's no arc I'd do that to solely, or even mostly because I like it.

That's farming activity, no matter where it is. And I'm not coming down on farming in and of itself. In fact, you'll see it again shortly when the Winter event comes around as people try to - yes, farm - candy canes for rewards. I'll be doing that, as well, to get that Winters Gift slow resist IO for some of my characters. I won't be doing it because I just loooooove dealing with Baby Mutant and Snaptooth.

And as far as "the people who find these exploits doing what the devs should have done?" Sure. If you find an exploit, say, level 14 skulls providing 100,000 XP and INF a piece, great! /petition Reward issue in AE, send them the info. THAT is what is supposed to be done. Not "Make map, tell everyone to try to keep it quiet, PL 1-50 in an hour for the next few weeks."

And no, running an arc over and over, again, doesn't make it an exploit. The exploits, however, lead to running the exploitive *maps* over and over. Again, going back to my theoretical skulls - if they're giving normal rewards, people will run them on occasion, sure. Maybe someone will run it twice in a row to show it to someone (though they can send the arc number) or see just what I did in the mission. If they're giving 100k XP and INF for a minion? You'd better believe you'll see groups grinding that map out and restarting as fast as possible.

All the above is why I'm perfectly fine with the "5 level limit" suggested elsewhere. If someone wants to run an arc several times, they can. If someone wants to PL on that arc, it'll take them 10 days, and if they want more rewards, well, they can stick their nose out into the rest of the game world (or, yeah, go to an alt, but that will still be limited to 5 levels.)

(Edit: For one of the other PLing reasons, I'm still up for PVP-only characters that can be made @50, yes.)

Originally Posted by SkarmoryThePG

If you want to run it again so badly so soon, grab an alt.

Originally Posted by Suspicious_Pkg

Hmmm...might that not be the reason the old Dreck map was turned into a timed mission?

And I never said players couldn't re-run arcs to their heart's content. Just that XP would only be awarded on that arc once every 24 hours.

My suggestions were geared toward penalizing the MA exploiters or making them jump through excessive hoops while imposing no penalties on players using the MA system as intended.

Discuss...er I mean, Make a Placemat!

Originally Posted by Savos

I already have Acrobatics and Combat Jumping. They provide an immense amount of extra survivability. Yet Stuns and Sleeps still exist and I can't do anything about them. I even slot the Steadfast -KB and +Def IOs. Everything to provide more durability. Currently working towards a build with about 36% S/L defense (which I'd expect will be nerfed at some point, but for now it is relatively cheap). Going higher will roughly triple the cost of the build and I do not wish to do that.

Taking those powers does nothing to solve the core problem of too long of a duration for NPC mez. If you don't die within about 5 seconds of a mez, it doesn't matter how long it is, you will probably be fine. Having durations easily 5x that or more doesn't provide difficulty, it provides "lol you thought you could press buttons now?!"

Originally Posted by Hot_Head_Mike

In my line of thought a broadcast is more intrusive then a tell. Think about it. Everyone is seeing the broadcast. The broadcast is longer which then takes up more of your chat bubble, and I assume that pisses people off. So really I see your moderate spam to be much more intrusive then my classic 3 word tells.

Originally Posted by wjd

As somebody currently working on making a viable PVP toon one annoying fact has become apparent to me: PVP IOs drop when you defeat other players in PVP, but you can't defeat other players in PVP (or at least not many) if you don't have PVP IOs. So far I've been using AE tickets and exploiting market behavior to generate inf, but it's been fairly slow considering the billions of inf I'll need to buy the PVP IOs and the fact that I'm really only just starting to learn how to use the market to get money. So my question is this: would simply setting up an arena match with some of my sg mates (who also lack PVP IOs) so we could fight each other for a few hours yield any PVP IO drops for us, or is the drop rate so low that we'd be better off doing something else?

Originally Posted by Wytchven

Thanks for the tips guys on a topic that I am sure has been posted numerous times before. I am still lacking a lot of influence so the conversion of reward merits and 20 mill is still too rich for me atm, so I think I am just going to run the morality missions and task forces when I can (mostly because I just want to experience them).

Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha

/Unsigned
Fine with SJ as it is now, thanks.