graystar_blaster

Originally Posted by Sentry4

If you have an enhancement with +5 and want to remove the extra levels so that it can be sold, it's very simple to do.

1. Take them out via respec or enh unslotter
2. Find a random person, -anyone-
3. Start a trade with them (randoms always accept, lol optimism)
4. Drag the enhancements (from your tray) to the trade window as if you were to trade them
5. A pop up appears, asking if you're fine with the +5 being stripped off (also works on combined HOs). Click yes
6. Cancel Trade

It's quite easy, doesn't take multiple accounts, or friends, or anything. If you're in atlas or cap, someone there will accept a random trade and you can remove the boosters off of it.

GL

Originally Posted by Organica

Very Rare is still Very Rare. I'd expect purple prices to rise from here on out. People still have money to spend, especially if they aren't dropping 2 billion on a Glad Armor, so they'll try to outbid each other on the things that are the hardest to get.

Originally Posted by TopDoc

In the Updater right click on the regular City of Heroes button and select Properties. You'll see the version of the build that went live today, which includes a timestamp of 20120314 (I think). That means the Enhancement Converters were coded, possibly reviewed, and committed by 3/14. Double XP weekend has nothing to do with this.

Intentionally making Reward Merits more valuable than other Merits by selling new things initially only for Reward Merits is possible, but there's no basis for making such a claim that I've ever heard. And this goes against the current push which is for Incarnate Trials which I think just give Astrals and Emps.

Rogues and Vigilantes already have a bone, they can do content on both side. All of the smart people were Rogues and Vigilantes after Going Rogue came out. There was no bone for true heroes or villains till Alignment Merits came out. Regardless, I don't see how not selling Enhancement Converters to Heroes or Villains particularly helps Rogues or Vigilantes. That doesn't seem relevant.

Are you just arguing or did you really mean all that stuff?

It is certainly possible that Enhancement Converters were fixed badly, either by someone who didn't know what they were doing or by someone who didn't have time to think about what they were doing. Then they were committed either without any review or by someone who didn't have the time or competence to properly review the change. The changes may have been tested. Then they were put into production, and after we complained about it they were listed as known to be broken. Maybe internal testing found that they were broken, but there were a lot of fixes in this build. It would not have been appropriate to hold it up due to Enhancement Converters even if they were known to be partially broken. That's a really simple business decision.

It's sad that multiple people dropped the ball, and those of us who have been looking forward to and preparing for Enhancement Converters for upwards of 4 months have to wait even longer. It's sad that the focus of the world today is on profit, do it well enough to attract customers, but you don't have time to do it right, because you have to work on the next big thing to attract customers. I can see someone in NCSoft saying, "Well at least some people will have Enhancement Converters, that's good enough." It's sad that we as customers have to deal with this, because every MMO does it.

But it's also sad that this could have been done intentionally to increase sales of Super Packs. A smart Marketing weasel could have said, "What would it take to sell more Super Packs? We already have unique costume codes. ATOs aren't doing it. People have complained about getting too many Reward Merits. Maybe if we made Reward Merits better somehow. What would make people want a lot of Reward Merits?" This isn't some conspiracy theory. People are really paid to think up things like that.

Finally, It's sad that I would really consider this, and that other people would consider it possible as well.

Originally Posted by PleaseRecycle

12 billion influence in about fifteen minutes and I didn't even have my evil plan in mind before logging on in the first place. The stake through the heart of high purple prices? Let's hope so.

Originally Posted by MaestroMavius

The Dev's mentioned in yesterday's coffee talk that Shards are being phased out entirely. Was more of a stop gap measure put in place to kick off the system. Threads will be the mainstay currency from here on out.

Originally Posted by Zombie Man

If you don't participate in damage, you get no XP.

Originally Posted by Zombie Man

You are now the 1%.

lrn2oprezz

Originally Posted by halfflat

I think the disparity between the solo arcs and trial rewards are ridiculous.

This evening: a TPN run (still in cooldown) and the last three missions in the "To What End Power" arc.

TPN: 45 minutes including league set up time (35 in trial).
One common component; 7 Astral merits; 1 Empyrean merit; 67 (!) threads.

Arc: +0x6, defeat (nearly) all. 115 minutes (excludes selling, travelling time)
10 threads, one common.

In threads alone, that's over 12 times more slowly. TWELVE TIMES. And then there are the merits on top.

I can't understand the dev's motivation here. It's a laughable comparison.

Originally Posted by Coulomb2

Here's my advice, based on experience, for people wanting to make the most of what DA offers (I'm the guy that on beta actually *did* spend a month trying to get a character to Tier 3 in Alpha, Lore, and Destiny, so this is my "if I'd known better when I started, this is what I would have done differently):

Do make sure you do one run of all of the major rewards a day (or however often you can) - one component, one merit roll, 10 threads.

Don't: Spend your threads to craft commons or uncommons - The drop rates are actually going to give you about twice the number of commons you need (relative to rares and very rares).

Don't: Convert your empyreans to threads. Save them up for a rare.

On average, you're going to get about one uncommon for every six or seven commons. (Again, on average - that's subject to the vagaries of the RNG), which is pretty close to what you need anyway. That's why my advice is not to waste threads on uncommons.

In about two weeks, you'll have the threads (and astral merits) to flat out craft directly a rare. By week two you'll also have about a 50-50 chance of having had one rare actually drop. So at the very least you'll have one Tier 3 power, and a 50% shot at having two. On the other hand, if you've been using your threads to craft commons and uncommons, you'll be several days away from having enough to craft the rare.

By around week three, on average you'll have the empyreans for a rare. So you'll have two Tier 3's crafted for sure, and there's a decent (65%) chance you'll have seen a rare drop by then, and have your third Tier 3 crafted.

No disrespect to Bill intended at all, but in my experience, it *is* a good idea to craft powers for Judgment and even Interface. By the time you've got your hands on what you need to make rares for Lore and Destiny, the drops alone are very likely to have given you an excess of commons and uncommons needed for Tier 1 or Tier 2 in Judgment and Interface.

And to be honest, I found having the Judgement nuke available really did measurably speed things up.

Anyway, that's my two-cents, for what it's worth.

EDIT: And getting anything to Tier 4 using DA is something you should consider a very long term goal. It's doable, but you need to be prepared for it to take a while. Specifically, on average, you'll need to save empyreans for about three months to have enough for a very rare. In that same three month time, you've got about a 90% chance of having seen a component roll give you a very rare as well.

Originally Posted by Psychoti

As long as staff gets a rolled up newspaper it will always be superior to beast mastery.

Originally Posted by Zwillinger

There was a bug preventing them from functioning on live. This is currently slated to be fixed in the first patch following today's launch. IOTW, very soon.

Originally Posted by Zwillinger

There was a bug preventing them from functioning on live. This is currently slated to be fixed in the first patch following today's launch. IOTW, very soon.