graystar_blaster

Originally Posted by Ice_Wall

Mostly I'm disappointed that they nerfed the players ability to perform the Trial, while leaving bugs in the trial that favor the NPC.

As Minotaur pointed out, there are no rewards for killing the mobs in this. You only get a reward if you win. Even then, for such a tricky trial, you only get 10 merits. ITFs can be done in an hour, much more easily and you get 24 merits.

So you have a tricky trial, doesn't give any drops from the mobs, doesn't give great rewards and you just decided to take out some of the player's options because it made it too easy. But they left in the bugs that let the AVs perform in a way that they aren't supposed to, and make them that much harder to perform.

It's like the Devs are trying to make this Trial, which many people waited for a long time to be put back in, un-popular.

I've played on virtue and run several of these now, only 1 has been successful. Any time we see the Purple AV show up, people throw in the towel, it's too hard to beat him, even if we don't team wipe he regens so damn fast, shooting through his forcefield and all that. Even with nukes, we couldn't beat him.

Now there are no nukes, so now what? The trial is going to be pointless if you don't have a really good set of 24 people. There are no rewards at all if you don't win, even if you do win you don't get much and even with a really good team, you have a 50\50 chance of getting an AV that's bugged and completely over powered. And now we don't have one thing that made it a little more bearable...

I wouldn't mind the lack of nukes if they at least fixed the AVs at the same time..

Originally Posted by seebs

Unless you are under two years old, you just lived through exactly the situation we're discussing.

What happened to housing prices when a huge amount of "money" in the housing markets suddenly ceased to exist?

Here's a hint: They didn't go up. And they changed a lot.

And what that has meant, in turn, is that other prices have been effected. Thus far, they haven't gone down -- because various world governments just created (by fiat, because they're governments) enough money to mostly fill the gap.

Because in a real-world economy, deflation is incredibly destructive and can result in millions of people starving. (In a real economy, deflation means that investment becomes stupid. Deflation can completely destroy an economy. Lucky for us, video games don't face the same pressures.)

But think about it. We just saw hundreds of billions of dollars pushed into the economy to keep it from collapsing. Collapsing how? Collapsing in that since there was no longer enough money to continue paying existing prices for things, they'd have to either cost less or not get sold.

See? Take away money, prices drop. Prices on some things drop, and generally, as a result, prices on other things drop one way or another. In the real world, that's dangerous enough for people to commit to paying higher taxes for fifty years or longer to avoid it. In a video game, though, it's harmless; no one cares whether the inf they're spending today might buy more stuff a few months from now, because they'll have more inf by then anyway.

But seriously. We just saw this happen on an epic scale, resulting in record unemployment, billions of dollars of wealth disappearing from all sorts of people, and so on, and you're acting like this is unheard of and speculative? IT JUST HAPPENED. Like, in the last two, three, years. Repeatedly.

Originally Posted by Misaligned

Actually, our Alter has bottles of freshly squeezed marketears on it for the members. Only the best for us

Originally Posted by Chaos Creator

Quite a lot of it in fact. The common recipes are worth way too much.

Originally Posted by Misaligned

And after much testing, it was found that an average farmer can generate about 20-25 mil inf per hour through drops and vendoring. This does not count market sales as those don't generate inf, but shuffle it around and destroy it some.
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Originally Posted by Yomo_Kimyata

You (the collective you) "create" inf in one of two ways: mob kills, and vendor sales.

Originally Posted by PC_guy

the pvp rewards get DRed to nothing, are not worth slotting, and are basically useless to pvpers. short of glad jav procs and pana's, pvp ios are pve rewards

Originally Posted by _Deth_

all of those are wrong, especially stone/dark for tanking, seriously, that combo just makes it sound like you hate yourself.

I mean really. Since when has emp been the posterboy for defenders. Seriously, there are so many better choices than sonic like rad/, cold/, kin/. Not that sonic is bad, just not the overachiever you seem to be making it out to be.

seriously tho, there are no "ATest of the AT" or whatever the hell you stated it to be. It comes off almost as obnoxious as "whats the most survivable Tanker/Brute set".

The different powersets within each AT are just different flavors of a certain playstyle. You can be just as "Brutish" with any of the sets if you play them like a brute, the problems come when people try to play a brute like a tank. It's further exacerbated when people expect Brutes to be tanks.

Just roll a set you think looks fun, or looks challenging. If you learn to play it right, it will be the "ATest of the AT" all on its lonesome. Otherwise you are just trying to force yourself to play a toon you may despise, at which point you do everyone a disservice, and look like a tool to boot.

Originally Posted by Darq_Scratch

I solo farm +3/x8 farms all the time with my blaster....I don't need a kin or a tank. Some powersets just work better with a partner or group than solo. Blaster's have that little problem when it comes to Stuns, Sleeps, Holds....yes you can still attack with your first 3 powers, but when you are surrounded....those single target attacks aint doing you no good. Its pretty much instant death.

Add in the fact you get really no consistant form of healing, unless u pick up Medicine (which may happen with the new changes in Isssue 19) or If you pick up Cold Mastery and slot up Hoarfrost and get Hibernate for emergencies. Blaster farmin is tough business, but very fun and fast if you are built right. In many aspects, I think Blaster Farming is faster than most other farming builds, but again it depends on the mobs you are attacking.

In case you were wondering....mine is a Fire/MM/Cold

Originally Posted by Ghost_Ripper

I rejoined for GR after a couple month Hiatus, and was hopeing to do some level 50 content for some Incarnate goodness, and I find out it wasn't released with GR (Thanks by the way for that by the way NCSoft...bought this GR for the Incarnate and didn't get it) I digress, so when is this Incarnate System supposed to drop?

Originally Posted by Beef_Cake

On a off subject, I would much rather the devs allow us to purchase IoPs for the base and pay upkeep for them. At least it would give us something to do with our prestige, because right now, prestige is worthless.

Originally Posted by TamakiRevolution

I think a lot of us have found our own niche groups, so the server appears to be "dead". I also blame the free server transfers (which I would love to be permanent) for the lower numbers. I just love how people will say that the server is so dead and leave.... they're the reason why.

Originally Posted by DrGemini

As I have said before... PvP has NEVER been that popular on this server. Yes, there are those who engage in it. But, the vast majority of the population engages in casual PvP at best. And, any decent PvP that happens only lasts for about 5 minutes before the super leet people show up and start (essentially) harassing the casual PvPers with their "leet" skillz.

I think that the more casual PvP population on the server might actually be encouraged to participate more IF the hardcore PvPers backed off a bit... and maybe that might entail having a character that isn't so uber that the casual guys don't have a prayer. I mean, not all of us have the time to go farm all those uber IOs that some people have. And, not demeaning the people who get the uber IOs.

But, I dunno. I'm not really that much into PvP in this game so I guess it's not my job to figure out why the PvP zones are so dead.

Originally Posted by TamakiRevolution

D: Lies.

Originally Posted by eryq2

LOL, sucks for those that actually want the purps to slot. By the sound of it, most just look to raise the value so they can sell for more. I reallly don't understand the mentality of it. What good is all that inf? Really, not flaming, just asking? Just to build it up, then what?