crayhal

Seems that a bunch of folks are coming in on Friday, so I'll probably end up hanging around that area.
For Sat morning, I can pick up folks in Berkeley and we can carpool to Palo Alto.
FYI, I see the hotel offers 'Free-wifi'. Pre-summit ITF, anyone?

I will take Friday off and play host/bus driver until folks can check into their hotel.

I run x8 tips also and I don't care if there's just 1 or 7 more on the team besides me since the mobs spawn for 8 already. I play villain, so I try my best to fill since vill-side tends to have fewer teams.

I'm one of those 50s who will invite any level to join the team. However, I provide free T3 barrier and speed boost to members. The following temps may help:
- Kinetic dampner: if for some reason, the mobs ignore the 50 or the 50 agro caps, turn on when getting too much agro.
- Recovery serum
- Stun grenade: use with too much agro
- Smoke flash: use with too much agro

Bring lucks and insight. You may want to slot a Kismet +Acc if you join 50+ teams often. Pop 1 or 2 lucks and insights and bang away. If you are getting too much agro, just run around the corner to break line of sight. Kill any that follow. If there are less than 20 in the mob, and the 50 has a dmg aura, you can try hiding withing the dmg aura. The aura should keep the mob's attention on the 50. However, if the mob does AoE on the 50, you are caught too...

As the leader, I don't expect lowbies to do as good a job as an actual 49. I just want to provide lowbies a team to join.

The help channel is also used by spammers. Not once, but repeating their ad 5x. Having played on Freedom, Virtue and Champion, I am quite glad not to see this on Exalted.

There are 2 possible villain morality missions. The most ebil morality is to do the most nefarious act possible... kill the Ultimate villain. *wink wink nudge nudge*

Nope. Not me. It's in WW and I play pure villains.
If that happened to me, I'd look at their badges first. If it's a 3+ month vet, I'd remind them that they can send money to a new toon by email. If they insist, I would say: You must be really poor. Here you go. Then I would trade them 1 inf.

*clap* *clap* *clap*

I applaud you, sir.

^^ This. Just play. Let people get to know you. A lot of my friends use the comment/note system and will often form TFs based on their list. Other friends create their own private channel and invite players who work well in TFs. When they need to fill spots, they ask in their private channel first before broadcasting in global channels.

Crossing over: (B/W because I forgot to uncheck grayscale >.<)


Katie:


Sorry for delay in posting. Had problems logging into the forum
Cyall next Monday!

Speedrun TFs that can be accomplished at the shortest amount of time, ie 1 merit per minute. Assuming 3 hrs (180 mins) of play time per day:
15-25 mins: ITF, 25 merits
45-50 mins: Silver Mantis SF, 42 merits
20-30 mins: Mort Kal, 22 merits
25-30 mins: LRSF, 25 merits
25-40 mins: LGTF, 37 merits
20-30 mins: Apex, 40 merits
20-30 mins: Tin Mage, 40 merits
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Total: 170-235 mins, 231 merits
231 merits x 7 days = 1617 merits / week

Note: the above can only be accomplished by team mates who know how to do speed runs. IE, if anyone stops to kill the 1st mob that is not associated with the mission objective, that player is not a speedster.

One of my regular speed mates hits the max of 9999 merits almost every week. He manages to spend about half of it with rolls.

Ouro also has some missions that have a good merit/min ratio and can be soloed.

My experiences with crafting in games:
1) Fantasy single player:
- 1 scroll = experience (yes, the player's experience) + expensive components + memorized spell + game time. Crafted scroll is 1 level lower than the player. Somewhat useful for support type spells, but combat spells would be too weak.
- 1 weapon = expensive components + gold. Crafted weapon is not magical. When sold at vendor, cost of crafting is more than what vendor would pay. Weapon quality is equivalent to a common drop.

2) Another fantasy single player:
- closest thing to crafting is putting runes or gems in existing armor and weapons. To get the runes/gems, player repeatedly farms a level and a random rune/gem is rewarded after defeating a boss. This approximately takes 30-45 mins.

3) Some other superhero game:
- In order to craft, the player must have skill points equal or more than what the recipe requires.
- To build up skill points, player must research dropped gear of a certain type. Gear is broken down into components.
- Player buys recipe when skill point requirement is met. Recipe is learned.
- Items can be crafted from learned recipes with the correct amount of components. Sometimes, 20+ of a certain component is required.
- Player throws hands up in disgust after discovering that recipes to be learned produce items that are inferior in stat enhancement compared to mission drops. IE, it is better to equip drops from missions rather than crafted items. Said crafted items don't sell well in the auction house either.

I subbed a little over a year ago, and during my first 2 months, I slotted only the drops that I got. If I didn't have the parts, I didn't craft it. Even with this hodgepodge slotting, my toon made it to 50, finished the major story arcs and even completed lvl 50 strikeforces, albeit more dying than usual.

Like what other poster have mentioned before, this game doesn't require optimal power slotting in order to succeed. Also, compared to the 3 other games I played, this game has the best so far in terms of usable crafting. The crafted item is usable and tradeable. IE, if I make it for someone else, I can get compensated for my work. There are several ways to get recipes and salvage. The player doesn't have to constantly grind and raid for gear.

I like to do speed lowbie SFs, so my 1st build starts using set IOs at lvl 20. This build is used until I hit 50. Along the way from lvl 20 to 50, I make 5 IOs every 3 levels or so and it doesn't take as much time as replacing red DO/SOs. At level 50, I use the 2nd build for level 50 content.
Since respecs are expensive, I try to save them and sometimes use the 2nd build to redo the lowbie build. If this happens, the 3rd build is then used 50 content.