The Grim Heaper

Hrm... Is Westly still flaunting his challenge? Need him here, stat!

I think part of the problem is electriciy's secondary effect. When the blast set is paired with something that complements it; it can be godly. The only problem with the endurance draining is that it is very much an all or nothing effect. particularly against the npcs.

Although I think, within the past year, elec blast was brought more in line with other blast sets. the tier 1 and 2 powers anyway...

You know how big blocks of text tend to be turn offs to the average reader, and result in calls to utilize some white space? ... I think you've made a compelling case for "too much white space"...

huh.. I could have sworn this was not the case, but looking ingame, you are correct... Numinas slotted in health.... base regen of 0.42%.. should only give 0.084%, but it's reporting 0.14%; which is correct if you factor in a 63.1% enhancement value (and then rounding).

Learn something new every day.

Hmm...

Witches; much of croatoa & magic bous pack...
Monkeys; Well, they're either on fire, have a bad case of gas, or are betted on in a cage match that is probably only legal because it occurs in another dimention... (and I'm not sure who, beyond PETA, would argue in favour of the of the little mutants in a cruelty to animals case)
lying "wizards"; ok, you've stumped me here...
midgets; We have our fair share of min-height heroes/villains.

Technically, not always 10%.. Considering the minimum fee appears to be 5inf up front, and 5inf after sale... If you place it on the market for 1inf, and it's bought for 1 inf... market fees are.. over 100%...

That's why I like to sell for 119 minimum. It's that magic number before they charge you 6 upfront.

If previous issues are any indication; the following is likely to occur.

Many people are going to be creating new characters. There's at lest 2 known about sets; a new MM primary that will be popular if for no other reason than it being a new MM primary, and dual pistols - which will likely be rather popular if past action in the suggestion boards is any indication. And if there's any additional set proliferation on top of that, more new characters.

What does this mean? As they level up, there will be increased demand on current IO recipes (Dual pistols alone will likely place more demand on the ranged damage and targeted aoe types.) Increased demand of recipes will also increase the demand on salvage. exponentially.

Unfortunately, generation of supply of both the salvage and recipes will remain, AT BEST, constant relative to demand. But I expect, to some degree that is not going to be the case for recipes, which people often like to purchace at certain levels - usually 30-40 - So until these new characters reach this range, there won't be sufficient new supply to compensate for the new demand. Purples? I recommend getting them early, because once these new alts start hitting 50... you thought prices were bad now?

Add to this that a good number of these new characters are going to have stockpiles of inf on alts that they can transfer to fund these new builds, market prices are going to go in a generally upwards direction. Eventually, as more and more of these alts either get abandoned, or make it to 50; market prices will stabilize and reach an equilibrium similar to what we have now.

However, because Praetoria is new content, there will be people playing their 50s through much of the content.... but this presents an unmeasurable variable. side switching. How many villains are switching to heroes? Will red side players switch over, take advantage of the lower prices of blue side then go back? how will this effect prices on either market? *shrug* that last bit is something that's harder to predict. We've had issues with new/proliferated sets before, so we can reasonably predict how THAT aspect of GR will impact the market... but side switching is an unknown.

Me? I've already got a plan. I've got a stockpile of Winter's Gift Recipes that cost me, at most, 3mil each to buy from the candy cane store. Which is now closed. That closure has already cut off the supply, and market prices have gone as high as 20mil in less than a month. Imagine with all the new alts being roled in "x" months with GR?

Although, be aware that there is one mission against AntiMatter (I believe) where he is scripted to teleport out, and doesn't count towards the badge... That has confused many a running tally that I've kept.

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Originally Posted by Prof_Backfire Great, now I'm going to have to come up with themed Pokemon teams for each Arachnos patron, with Lord Recluse as the Champion.

Black Scorpion; Probably want to go with Drapion for the high leveled one in the party, Gliscor, and probably fill the rest with the previous forms of those two and bug/steel types like Forretress, Scizor, and Wormadam. Might want a Metagross for good measure.

Mako; Sharpedo, Carvanha, Corsola, Qwilfish, Garchomp, and, for lulz, Mudkip (or, for less lulz, Swampert)

Scirocco; Here, I'd probably deviate from the type norm, and go for things like Scyther, Shedinja, Weavile, Kabutops, Hitmontop, Gallade, Farfetch'd, Marowak, or Lucario

Ghost Widow; Heavy focus on Ghost/dark types, with move sets that involve curse, status effects, and self healing. Mismagius, Spiritomb, Dusknoir, Froslass, Sableye, Umbreon

Y'know? doesn't look that different from your standard Elite 4 load-out... Got your one-trick ponies up front that a single damage type could mop the floor with... the tough-guy and ghost/dark bringing up the rear to soften you up before the champion.

Oh, he doesn't... but his feelings towards you are kept separate from his respecification duties.

EDIT: curses. beat by under a minute.

1. No, at the moment, you cannot bring villains to hero zones (or the reverse). That is, however, one of the main features of the upcoming expansion Going Rogue. (edit: exception being PvP zones, and co-op zones, which are shared between both sides.)

2. Architect edition is not an expansion as much as a bonus pack. It grants full access to the current game, adds 1 free month to your account, and your choice of booster packs; Cyborg, or Magic. You do not need the Architect edition to access the mission architect building an it's functions.

3. Going Rogue, when it is released, will enable access to Praetoria, wherein there will be mission arcs that will allow characters to switch sides, should they wish to. This is an expansion, and will likely require purchase to unlock it's features. There are still many unknowns about how much of it will work. the devs have been rather tight lipped.

Aaand; there's a special subset to a number of these:

LIMITED TIME AVAILABILITY: A couple of our yearly events have things that can only be obtained for the duration of the event. Often, during the event in question, market prices will plummet. But the further you get from that event, and the more reason people have to use the things, the higher the price will go.

Halloween salvage; not as good an investment as it used to be, as there's about 2k units each on the blue side market right now. Prices drop like a rock around Halloween, and tend to spike during periods where people make new alts (2x XP, issue releases that include new/proliferated powersets). However, as these are easily stored in supergroups for free use, or just in an alt's salvage; it's not exactly hard to come by in the off season anymore.

Winter event; although you may consider doing the same with the Candy Cane salvage, this is a more long term investment, because with the exception of certain rare dev events, the ski chalet is closed for most of the year, and you can't use the candy canes unless the chalet is open. Although I did find that the salvage had a decent price spike about a month or so before the event started (people loading up the salvage to get all the shinnies as soon as the chalet opens, I guess).

Winter event profiting is mainly in redeeming the candy canes for stacks of Winter's Gift recipes. During the event I paid at most 77,000 per candy cane (often, much less). each recipe costs 40 salvage (3,080,000inf per recipe). Currently, at barely a week since the event ended, those recipes are going for 5-10 million each. And the further we get from the event, the fewer of them on the market, and higher prices. I somewhat expect a spike around the next 2x XP, or the Going Rogue expansion. As people make new alts and builds to fill with IO sets.

Personally, I still find swift useful in missions, and it does take some of the sting out of hover's slowness if you use it in combat. With swift and quickness (and a couple set bonuses), my scrapper has near sprint speeds while hovering, and is almost at the flight cap when I hit the GvE booster pack.

I know, right? After figuring out WHAT it was... I YouTube'd it.

I moved every single character I have a smidgen of desire to level up over to Triumph. ... ... I'm going to have to start buying slots soonish.

Perhaps... perhaps the 'gift' has chosen a new host...

If I could direct your attention here, you might be able to harness it for the amusement of everyone. Just make sure to change names to protect the (not really) innocent.