Ukaserex

Thought I was the only one that had that problem.

Magma bosses - why not try that mission with a full team - there will probably be plenty of them in there. I know in about 45 minutes, a team of two can get 100 of them in the hollows.


Oh, my best time was 7:36 with my fire/fire blaster. My scrapper just did it on 8:04

My absolute worst time was with my kin/rad defender. No defense, offense is weak, and I ran out of purples in the second mission and getting more would have probably saved time in retrospect, but I was trying to push it.

I can't speak for the other ATs, but for a fire tank, when you use burn, there is an initial accuracy check. Say you have 5 goons around your toon, and you cast burn. There seems to be (to me anyway) an accuracy check for each one of the bad guys around you. It may miss on one, and hit the other four. But the subsequent ticks don't seem to miss.

The only time I've ever noticed the subsequent ticks missing has been when I was substantially debuffed (i.e. 6 or 7 Nerva Spectral Demon Lords ) or when I was tackling +4 level bad guys or higher.

In practical terms, I do not slot burn for accuracy. The recharge is fast enough so that when I'm done with the attack chain, it's recharged and I mash it again.

Whether or not to put a proc in burn -- well, the thought never occurred to me. I'd have to have some slots to "use up" to put something that is only gonna work 1 in 10 times, unless it's in a passive power like health or stamina.

When I use burn, I want to burn, not try to slow recharge or hope for a chance of build up. This is just me - I'm not right or wrong, it's just my opinion.

As for being valid for a part of single target attack chain, I still say yes. The endurance it uses is so comparatively small, and it's recharge is fast enough that aside from scorch, it's simply the best choice for me. Combustion is close, but the animation time takes longer than I would like, particularly for one target.

In summary, get burn, slot it with three damages and three recharge IOs or use two and two and use the nifty enhancement boosters on the remaining 4 and save yourself two slots. Or use an IO set for bonuses. But definitely get it and slot it.

My apologies for being late in replying to this. I thought about doing what you suggest - saving the hero merits and getting one of those bazillion inf recipes. I did the math a year ago and determined that at

$150 million per LotG = 2 H Merits.

If you converted from award merits, that's 40 million to subtract. 20 million for each one. So, you'd net 110 million. But, at 150 million, you'd have to pay 7.5 million up front, and another 7.5 million when it sold. So, you're 150 million recipe only nets you 105 million.

Say one of the PvP IOs goes for 2 billion. To reach the 2 billion mark, you would need 20 of the recipes, which at 105 million each, would give you
2,100,000,000. That's using 40 Hero merits to get 2,100,000,000.

But wait. If I use the 35 merits to get, say, the Shield Wall proc and sell it for 2,500,000,000 I'm gonna end up walking away with a lot more! And, because folks are willing to pay above the inf cap, you MUST do this in a couple of e-mails or a couple of trades, and that saves you the 10% fee from Wentworths.

But wait! Don't those LotG's sometimes sell for 200 mill? Yes, they do. (but since the Signature Arc came along, the price has dropped for some of them I've noticed) But, let's say demand (with all these new Street Justice toons) creeps up again and the value remains around 150 million.

If so, it pays to hold your alignment merits. If you notice that the market will support 200,000,000 inf LotGs. After Wentworth and Award Merit Conversion fees, you get to keep 140 million. 140,000,000 * 20 recipes = 2.8 billion for 40 Hero merits.


So, with all that math stuff, I would go for the PvP IO.

1. LotG prices are not as stable as they used to be. Each month a new arc is coming out, and I assume the same award table will come out with it. So, the supply may very well increase even more.

2. The perception is that PvP farming has been ....adjusted. The drops are not as frequent as before (that publish that had MARTy.) Because of this, the PvP procs are even more rare. I don't think anyone will pay more than 3 billion for one because of the ease of earning a hero merit. (and then earning 34 more in the same fashion) Mind you, I find it hard to believe anyone would pay more than 25k inf for any IO recipe. Yet, it's done every day.

Because scarcity increases value, the PvP IO is a safer choice. And, if something about them changes, you'll have a whole bunch of hero merits to get something else with.

<gasp> I wish I'd known about this before - this actually sounds interesting.

And don't I know it. I think once you have them memorized, they ought to stop showing up in the other list.

Although your name scares me, I think you'd be fun to team with.

I did this solo with almost all of my toons. Oddly enough, my human only PB had the roughest time with about 18 minutes. But, that may have been the void next to the av, and I was running it at +2.

Most of my other toons, I had sense enough to reduce the diff to 0/1 to speed through them as fast as I could, sort of compete against myself.

I have long page loads, so the fastest time I got was about 8 and a half minutes. Suffice it to say that teaming for this one seemed to me to be a completely hilarious idea. In fact, I did team up a few times - and it always took longer with a team. It wasnt' any more difficult, but with load times, recruiting, afk time, etc. - let's just say that for this specific one, I will always run solo in the future.

I even ran this solo with my energy/energy blaster that I had just transferred to my home server -- not a singly IO is in him, and he still has hasten six slotted, and the attacks with 1 acc and 5 damages. Stamina is six slotted as well. All are SOs that are +'d to make each one level 53.

And, maybe, if I can ever force myself to do it, I'll respec him and put some generic IOs and a few lotg's in him.

So, yes, not only do I recommend you solo, I recommend you not team for this one.

Ok.....why? I play the market a bit - at least I sell stuff I don't need. I'll look at the price the last five paid and if bids are equal to or greater than the amount for sale, I'll list it for the price people seem willing to pay.

And you....buy all these and sell them for far less? Am I understanding that correctly?

So, when I cash my hero merit in for a random roll, instead of getting 5 recipes where 1 or 2 might be worth about 40 mill, and the others only 10 mill, because of you, They may all cost more to craft than the selling price.

This is fun for you? What's the point? Because I don't get it.