Tenzhi

Indeed. It's been a possibility since they added XP to Exemplaring. The DfB trial makes it simpler and more convenient to do, though. Mind you, I don't have a problem with that.

I thought they gave you those melee attacks for when the enemy finally gets in your face, at which point you push the 'either die or get away from me' button and hope you don't get turned into paste. Not so you can walk up to the Ancient Red Dragon and say "Hi! I've only got 1d4 HP! *dagger stab!*"...

IIRC from when I was looking at the numbers this morning, it would take selling over a hundred of even those to make up the difference to 700k+ influence. Even if one got really lucky and filled up one's tray completely on each run (the best I've gotten so far was 6 enhancements in one run), I believe the number of runs involved would put a person well over level 15. But I've slept since then.

If I had an Arcanaville in my pocket, I'd whip it out and tame the numbers in a much more accurate fashion. But anyone with access to the game can look at the rewards involved and see that that much influence at that level would be atypical of normal play at the very least. We're talking about an amount of Inf that's something like 25 times the total XP to achieve that level. The ratio of Inf to XP from defeated enemies/missions isn't even a tenth of that. It's more than vendor sales of that level could reasonably explain. There's a smelly Danish corpse somewhere.

Loincloths generally also cover the buttocks to a varying degree.

Given the price of DOs, it seems he's spent around 500k on DOs, and has 300k inf leftover. At level 15. I'd call that an impressive feat without selling salvage or having a sugar daddy. I currently have a level 17 character who hasn't purchased any enhancements. That character has 110k influence before I grab the influence earned from the salvage sold in the auction house. And after, about 140k influence. From doing DfB and some missions. Quite a disparity in numbers there. I couldn't even buy all the DOs once, let alone thrice. Is it any wonder I don't buy any until level 22 and SOs unless absolutely necessary?

I prefer the term loincloth, personally.

It's certainly better than some of my characters have been doing, and I drop salvage on the market if it's an item that will sell in a useful fashion. I've been holding off until level 22-23 to buy Enhancements lately just so I'm not spending Inf on DOs and I've only been able to slot with SOs if I either get lucky with salvage drops (as opposed to my usual haul of salvage which has several thousand for sale on the market and no bidders) or transfer Inf from one of my other characters.

I find it visually dull overall, hate the zone layouts, and dislike the Destined One arc. Though I'll grant that there are some great story arcs here and there, and missions are generally more conveniently arranged for travel purposes (but when they're not, it's almost as bad as being sent across IP). I currently only go there if I feel like making a new SoA, and then alignment switch ASAP.

Heck, I wish there were more to choose from now. More and more I find myself at a level where I either have every available Primary and Secondary power or every available one I want and there are no Pool powers that I want to pick up. Occasionally I've even gotten the Travel power I wanted and been in that position. I've taken Presence powers on a few characters just for oddball filler that I probably won't ever use/slot but which kinda sorta fits the character. I hate Fighting, I hate Medicine, and I don't always want Leadership. There was a time I'd occasionally ponder Stealth, but that's been a rare occasion for quite some time. It gets even worse later on if none of the APPs fit.

It seems to me that the suggestion in question doesn't reduce the number of any "hard choices", though it does get rid of some nonsensical ones.

According to Mids, standard with no slots Super Jump is faster than Ninja Run.

The game working like it's supposed to is an odd scenario? Hilarious in the implications.

I'm not sure what magical hax you're using, but for all the years I've played KB has consistently worked the way it's supposed to, whether it was me using it or not. Regardless, it doesn't change the fact that radial knockback in targeted AoE powers is a myth.

It is always true in practice. The only time it isn't true is with click-and-stick AoEs that summon pets/pseudopets that originate the knockback, as I mentioned before. But targeted AoEs always knock enemies away from user - whether you target the enemy on the near edge, the middle, or the far edge. The only thing that factors in is the position of the target relative to the source of the knockback, which is the player in the case of targeted AoEs.

Targeted AoEs knock a group of enemies away from the user, not the target.

Yes. And still, Knockback only knocks enemies directly away from them. It only becomes "radial" if they stand in the middle of a group of enemies and use AoE knockback. It's a matter of positioning rather than being incumbent to the power.

You should at least be able to wander into trouble that your friends will need to get you out of.

They don't really exist, isn't that good enough?

Indeed. Not nearly as useful as the queue which automatically slams you into a team. Especially since it seems so many people ignore Search in favour of Broadcasting 'lfm pst'...