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This is what I'm experiencing as well.

Add to that that I can now use the market without having to 'claim' the same item 3 times. And that almost all the lag in Lag Hill on the ITF is fixed and I couldn't be happier with the new servers.

No, it's not.

But since they aren't doing anything of the sort, I think we're safe.

I get logged out automaticly if I stay off the forums for 24 hours. If I log in every day I can stay in principle logged in forever.

Unless of course, I run into the completely random log outs, usually occurring when I hit the 'submit reply' button or when I try to refresh a page ...


The game server works great now though! A higher ping, but I gladly trade that for less lost packets and the resulting lag spikes, smoother gameplay on large teams and best of all a useable market that doesn't frustrate me because it bloody refuses to give me my bought items!

Well, that's plenty to get started. You will turn a profit. But it's up to you. Just get A-merits from tip missions in that case.

I don't farm. Ever. It bores the tears out of me. I did enough farming for the rest of my life in DiabloII. Never again. I'm not a marketeer either. I just sell my drops and turn my merits into random rolls and craft and sell everything I don't use myself. I'm not even a hardcore gamer, though I'm probably more than 'casual'. Though there are weeks that I play 4-8 hours a day there are just as many, if not more weeks, that I barely log in at all.

I still have all the inf I'll ever need. Among my 4 most played 50s (got 8 in total) I got 2.5 billion of unused inf atm. My play time is divided 50/50 between those 4 favourite 50's doing TF/SFs and leveling all the rest of my toons.

As far as IO slotting goes I'm probably a bit strange. I build my characters for concept first, ie I pick powersets and powers that I think are fun and fit my concept over pure performance. Hardly any of my characters have hasten for example. Then I try to make the character as powerfull as I can with IO slotting. I don't use purples though. They're simply not worth the cost for the return imo. Though apparently everyone else disagrees with me. I don't bother with IO's till I hit lvl 47. Since I hardly ever exemp down, unless to get badges, I just slot lvl 50 IOs. All my 50's are slotted this way. Builds varying from 200-800 million in costs.

Even though I won't be soloing any AVs or clearing +4x8 maps with these builds any time soon (though my dark/dark corr could probably do the latter one, but it would take forever and my SS/invul brute could too depending on enemy type.), I got various Mo badges on several characters so I don't think I'm doing to bad.

Same.

Yep. 50 reward merits + 20 million inf = 1 alignment merit = 5 random rare recipes.

It's still a way better deal than doing random rolls 1 at a time for 20 merits.

Very much this.

I really don't see the point in all the hero deaths and whatnot if nothing is permanent. Either they come miraculusly back to life, usually in very cheap way, or the series gets a reboot. Or both at once! Lame.

Having little mistakes like this go uncorrected potentially causes bugs.

Just sayin'.

You need to add 20 million inf though.

The difference is that all those arcs contain at least 1 kill all in a cargo ship map or something. That mission alone takes as long as a whole Praetorian arc (slight hyperbole).

No, I wasn't thinking you were lying at all. I just meant what I said, I don't understand *how* you manage not to get enough merits in a year for even a single random roll, even by accident you should have that many.

Neither did I. I bought my first wings recipe, the draconic wings my main still uses, a week or two after the invention system launched. I used all the money I had saved up at that time: 22 million infamy.

Go for random rolls, 20 merits a piece. Craft the recipes you get. Sell those. Buy the recipes for the IOs you want from the market with the profits. Much faster than saving up merits.

It's even beter if you do tip missions and earn A-merits. You get 5 rare recipes for those. Even if you do only 1 tip mission per day, you can get an A merit in 11 days.

You can also convert 50 reward merits and 20 million inf in an A-merit. But I guess that's a big investment if you don't have that kind of money. You need a very, very unlucky roll to not at least make those 20 million back, after crafting, though.

I made over 500 million profit (so after the 20 million and crafting expenses) from 8 A-merits converted from reward merits. And that's without selling the 3 Lotg 7.5% I got as well. The other expensive ones I recall are: 2*Miracle unique, 3*Numina unique and 1*Kinetic combat triple. (I roll in the lvl 35-39 level range.)

You picked one of the least available sets on all the market. All you can do about that is place some bids and wait for them to be filled.

Sounds like a normal night for me too. Though I usually have loads of trash temp power recipes nowadays ...

Why do people keep saying things like this?

I only did the STF 3 times (villainside player ), all on PuGs or half-PuGs, and never had a granite tanker. Invul, willpower and fire. All completed without to much difficulty.

I can tank the LRSF on my invul brute, without much problems, and he isn't purpled or softcapped. (I built him for +life. Yes, for concept reasons. I don't have hasten for the same reason.)

All you need is a *team* of people who know how to play. They don't even need to have done the particular TF/SF before.

-us is a Latin ending with the plural -i.

-os is a Greek ending with the plural -oi.

I don't get this. At all.

You can earn 25 merits (1 random roll? or is it 20?) in a matter of hours, if not less, from doing solo story arcs. Even if you can only play 30 mins a day it should be doable in a week.

Also, in my experience playing solo doesn't earn you that many fewer drops than on a team. The drop rate per enemy is the same, and the drops get randomly devided over teammembers. So, more enemies, more drops, but also more people to divide the drops over. I'm tempted to say you'll actually get more drops while solo, even on +0x0. If you raise the number of enemies you'll definitely get more drops solo.

that's what, 30-50 million per Incarnate salvage piece then? I'd have my whole stable of 50s outfitted in minutes.

Providing that such a system wouldn't put rare salvage prices through the roof.

This is an important point.
If anyone still had any fears that the EU servers time was limited, this, at the least, should put those fears to rest.
Nobody invests in new server hardware if they're planning on closing the servers down in the forseeable future.

1. Roll A-merits.
2. craft resulting recipes
3. hundreds of millions profit.

There is more to NCSoft than just CoH you know.

6 hours to get a new set of servers completely tested and online is not long at all.

The NCSoft EU people are marketing and located in the UK. These servers where in Germany and had nothing to do with the UK offices.

Honestly, who gives a crap about were the servers are physically. All that nationalistic stuff is as dumb as it is old. And as they said in the post the newer hardware and more stable pipeline is more than likely enough to balance out any ping related problems.

I never got why people had problems with THAC0 either

I'm not opposed to simplifying the whole enhancement system, but I'd rather the devs spend their resources and efforts elsewhere, because I really don't see the need for it.

Of course it's simple inconsistency by the writers. That's what I hate about it. I really, really dislike sloppy writing, especially when it breaks the consistency of, and thus my immersion in, the world/story.

Things that existed first are official canon. If you want to change the official canon, then go and actually change it, don't leave a trace of it. Don't shoehorn in some half-cocked lore that completely contradicts existing lore and leave it to sit side by side. That's just sloppy and unprofessional.

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You sound like a comic book writer.

Sorry, but explenations like this aren't any better than the actual offensive content.

Which makes all that 'origin of power' and 'power diversification' crap even worse. It's not even consistent with the game's own canon.

We were? Source please!

I'd love to see Power Pool Customisation and Ancilliary Pool Customisation aswell. But to be honest I'd rather they finished all 10 levels of the incarnate stuff first.