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They only Hibernated twice I think and the second time Rice was smart about it and got out fast (and wasn't right in the middle of us when he hit it).

I chuckled a good bit on Vent the first time, because not having seen a Storm team in action in a loooooong time...

pretty sure my post was helpful but whatevs man, it's cool

Right, except most players won't go out of their way to get a temp power that is incredibly situational unless it's really really good (see: that Longbow rifle temp power). I don't care that you have a zillion copies of Divining Rod or Bow and Arrow or Iron Blade or whatever other temp powers you have, because they're completely unenhanceable and you have to get new ones every time you burn through them

If you are relying on temp powers to "fill in some gaps" with your character, there's greater issues afoot here.

Was under zone rules, but of course that wouldn't matter to you as you think playing a trapper in zone with 9 trays full of temp powers is the pinnacle of competition in this game.

Some people mistake "calling stupid people stupid" for "flaming." It appears you are one of those people.

Ah, so now skill is determined by how many temp powers you use? Seriously if you keep moving the bar like this we'll never catch up.

(Sidenote: I remember fighting a Grav/Therm that pulled a Shivan and Warwolf on me in an arena match and still died in less than 30 seconds lolz)

One does not need to own a Yugo to know that a Yugo is a terrible car.

No target is going to stay in range long enough for you to get great mileage out of one Acid Mortar, let alone two. I mean, sure, you could have two debuffing the target at once if you set them up and someone happens to wander near you while they're both up, but this is one of those "how intelligent is the person I'm fighting?" questions. There's a reason Traps isn't a good PvP set, and that's because it almost completely lacks mobility. It offers decent debuffs and has some neat tricks, but the killer is that it relies on the fight coming to you, and can't move with you if the fight moves.

From that article:
This thread is discussing set IOs drops, which are not weighted.

No, she just pointed out that saying "I've been observing this" without bringing anything in to back it up isn't the best way of getting changes made. You need good, hard data - "I feel that" and "it seems like" aren't good means of making change.

Emphasizing my point: drops are not weighted. Random rolls with tickets and merits are. (Well, if you consider common/uncommon/rare/very rare to be a form of weighting, then yes, but there's no indication that mob drops are weighted based on anything other than rarity, not usefulness.)

Considering how badly they failed at balancing PvP (i.e. unbalanced it even more), your analogy doesn't really hold water here. It should also be noted that price and supply issues have nothing to do with the players and everything to do with changes the devs have made to the game (Mission Architect missions not dropping salvage/recipes, increased leveling curve, merit system, increase inf earning for defeats by level 50s). Want to blame someone for the state of the market? Blame the devs, not the people who actually use the market.

That's a good question. It seems it's mostly RP reasons for keeping the markets separate, and with GR on the horizon, there's really no reason to continue the separation. Unfortunately it's probably not going to happen until it's too late - I'm already mourning the redside market.

No - the market is a means to an end. Anyone can make the market work for them, if they take the time to learn how. The market isn't there to "increase player enjoyment" directly, at least - it's there to allow an alternative avenue for getting things you want (not need) for your character. The only other alternatives right now are reward merits and hoping the item you want drops for you or an alt.

I like how you insist on bringing some analogy to violence into this, like we are attacking you instead of your suggestion (which, again, isn't based on data, only casual observation). If you want to talk about "possible solutions," visit the market forum. One of the better suggestions I've seen was the ability to spend a few million inf to change the level of a recipe, which would both serve to alleviate the lack of supply at non-max level for some pieces, as well as an inf sink to help reduce inflation.

I look forward to seeing the results of this survey, please be sure to include details.

No - he went into a PvP zone, knowing full well that he would likely be engaging in some form of PvP. To expect anything else is naive.

Don't forget, though, (unless I'm mistaken) RoA has a lower damage cap due to it being a pet (+300 vs +400 for other non-pet powers on a Corruptor).

Enhancement drops are not weighted, only random rolls (ticket and merit vendors, basically) are weighted. We were never told exactly what the criteria for weighting was, but it's probably something like "the more powers that can use these sets, the more likely these sets are to drop," or "the more often players slot these sets, the more often they're likely to drop." Some people in the market forum did some testing to find out what the weighting for merit rolls in various level ranges was - you can probably find that information if you look. Regardless, weighting means that sets which can be used in more powers will drop more often, which means that the popular sets (popular because they can be slotted in a variety of powers and have good set bonuses) will be cheaper than they would be without weighting, not the other way around. I'm not sure where you're getting this "completely unobtainable" deal either - I've had no issues filling bids for Crushing Impacts, Touch of Deaths, Mako's Bite, or any of the other melee sets I use (Hecatomb and Gladiator's Strike are the exceptions here as they're very rare simply because of how they drop, though if you can pay enough, you can get them).

Where are you getting this data? I've noticed no such trend. Luckily for you, though, if you happen to find one of those recipes that is "unobtainable," you can sell it for wads of cash. Oh, that's right, I forgot, you can't sell anything on the market, so nevermind that high prices are actually a good thing when you're looking to sell.

The reason for some recipes not having supply in certain ranges is due to either a bug (some lower-level sets do not drop in certain level ranges, which has not been fixed) or how the drop system works - you can blame the merit system for the lack of non-max-level supply on pool C and D recipes. Remember the old adage "one man's trash is another one's treasure?" That applies to that "unwanted and unsellable" stuff. You'll notice that Sting of the Manticore recipes (crap, basically, since they're a snipe set) are actually somewhat expensive.

Eh? Salvage isn't weighted other than common/uncommon/rare. I believe an attempt was made to balance out the recipes that use certain salvage, but of course salvage that's used in more desirable recipes will be more expensive. Salvage will also be more expensive if it drops from enemies that people don't like fighting (arcane salvage was an example of this before I12).

I don't really understand what you're asking for here, but no changes need to be made to the way salvage drops, so we'll skip over it.

Or they could just increase the drop rates until prices lower to a point they deem acceptable. Either way, none of this is likely to happen, as the devs are content with the market being a form of PvP. Making inf is incredibly easy in this game - sorry if I'm lumping you in with others, but those who complain about market prices are usually either ignorant, lazy, or stupid.