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I started noticing when I didn't run WoC my endurance recovery was much better. Or I should say when WoC would drop I started noticing that my Endurance recovery was much better.

There where time when all I could do was use burst as I waited for my endurance to get back up. I wasn't getting hit much but it was tough at times. End result missions took longer then needed at times.

I sort of tested this out on gray cons. I noticed when I stood near gray con mobs they would get the damage but act like nothing was going on.

I am more trying to use WoC as an additional damage mitigation tool. But with the additional slots I went with Damage Procs along with the Purple IO CC proc.

I Need to just do nothing and see how WoC with all the Procs and such is really working out.

I changed up your build and added 4 procs in it. I was able to pick up the purple IO as well.

Money is an issue, but actually I had LotG in the build and intend on spending some money / hero tickets / merits to pick up LotG IOs and the recharge. Numi you can't get with Hero tickets will see if I can get it with Merits.

I didn't look at the build yet. I just want to post some comment related to this post first.

Yes.. Without a doubt

I looked at it last night a bit more. They really, really need to spice this power up a bit.

I will need to look that up I'm in the dark with confuse IOs..

Tatum I will say this I think the build could be better. I'm just a bit lazy trying to figure out how to make it better.

I do notice World of confusion going off, but of course the minute they step out of the smallish circle it wears off. At first I panicked a bit because for some odd reason when I first picked up world of confusion I could not drop a trip mine. I though that world of confusion was causing some sort of interrupt. But it's all good now. Just had some issue targeting the floor for some odd reason.

I will post the build for people to look over and give some insight. I have yet to post a build that I thought was perfect that someone didn't fix to make it even better.

Enlighten me. No clue who or what the Smurphy Challenge is

Updating as I type. I just picked up the machine and did the updates a few weeks ago, that one snuck up on me.

I understand the tip comment, but what is the 22 mission part at the end of your statement?

I'm misunderstanding the thread ? I am pretty sure the title makes it clear.. Do you know what a black hat is ?

They clearly talk about buying up IOs and selling them at a MUCH higher price.. They discuss about buying up 1 IO out of a set and then reselling them for a much higher price.. They also discuss about just deleting the IOs.

Here is the deal. I play 2x a week. for about 4 hours a day.. Over 5 years I picked up maybe 5 or 6 purple IOs.

When someone is selling Obliteration IO for 50 million.. To a player like me it might as well be 1 billion.. I just tried my chance to get a Obliteration IO from rolling silver rolls which gives me a 50% chance to get a rare from table A and rolls from table B.. Since both tables had Obliteration IOs I gave it a shot.. I tried to roll for lower levels since it was slightly cheaper. After spending 6000 tickets I didn't get a single Obliteration.. I did get a crap load of turtle something from the slow set. 6K worth of tickets is about a months worth of work.. Pretty much all down the tubes.

I can not afford persay to waste my time playing wall street game when I want to play city of heroes.. I do sell some stuff, but again I do not have 10 hours in a day to research what the latest and greatest IO is going to be. Or what electric characters IOs I should buy out and flip for a much higher price..

TF give you 25 Merits, I might be able IF I am lucky ( and that is a BIG IF ) do 2 a game session. The reality is I might get in 1 a session. So that is 50 Merits a week. If I was lucky enough to get into 1 TF per session It would cost me 1 MONTH to be able to pick up a LOTG recharge. Just ONE LOTG. I'm not even talking about purple sets here.. Forget about Purple sets for this discussion..

The real reality is I don't get into a TF every night I play. Unless maybe if I hang out with my Kin every night. But as many I want to play other toons also. Those other toons don't get invited as much as my Kin persay. So I might, which as of this writing I don't, but I might get 200 merits a month if I put mind to trying to accomplish something. Again do you think that is right or fair ? Hey I understand you, you have much more time to play then me. So you can do all these things. I don't straight and simple.

But when I do run missions I do get salvage. I can afford 1 million to 2 million a week to buy some salvage.

Why can't a average player get the chance to have some decent stuff as well. Why is it required I need to go to the market to buy IOs.

TIP system. Okay Every 10 missions I get a Hero / Villain Merit. Which I can use every 20 hours. First off I have done these missions as mentioned on -1 +1 setting. Let me just say even at that setting these missions do not take minutes as described. Especially ones like the one where you need to do the 3 escorts out of the mission. So again I am compelled to do 5 hero / villain merit missions when several of my toons in attempt to farm some tickets for the following week when I can turn some in.

I know all this stuff seem trivial when you have all the time in the world to spend. But many don't.. Why can't I use the items that drop for me in the normal course of game and convert them to what I want. At least now I am not pegged to running 5 hero / villain missions on my toons then trying to get a TF/SF. Selling the IOs I don't need. Figure out if I can make more selling them crafted or uncrafted. Move stuff around from toon to toon.

You know those Orange con Pacing of the turtles, I don't need them. And they sell for garbage. So for the amount of time I spent on the obtaining those tickets I feel cheated. I feel like I'm a hamster on wheel with no reward at the end. And its a bit disheartening and a bit of BS for spending 6k in tickets and getting nothing out of it that I can use on any toon. Or sell for any real value so I can buy something I can use.

Now if I could break them down into some sort of salvage to make another IO or build up my supplies towards making that IO I might need. Then at least I feel I have gotten something out of them. At least they went towards something I can use or eventually use. But as of now I got junk for a lack of a better word.

I mean really think about it.
By the time I log in and square my stuff away and what not. I'm already down 30 to 40 minutes. I'm down to 3 hours and change. Unlike what one poster said about doing 5 missions in 10 minutes. Another 20 to 40 minutes later for the TIP missions. I'm down to 3 hours or less. Again that is just one toon. If I get lucky and get on a TF / SF thats another hour. Even if I am hanging around Cim or RSF waiting for a speed run or just doing it normally time is going to wasted. Again this is assuming I am running on a 50. If I am doing something on a lower level toon much of this can be kissed good bye.

The simple thing your missing is you have to either run AE missions or Do TF / SF every game session. Why should I have to do either or both or any. Why can't I obtain what I want through normal game play of running radio missions or doing the many, many story arcs the game has to offer.

What your saying is the AE system and TIP are part of the normal game play. They are absolutely not, they are additions, but not part of the regular game play. Otherwise it wouldn't matter if you were doing a hero or vigilante mission for the TIPS, but it does. You can't be screwed by doing a radio mission or story arc mission. AE missions are in a building in certain zones. You don't leave the building. IF that is what this game is about then might as well get rid of the zones and have you just log into that building after creating your toon. So again AE is not standard game play.

Story arcs a flawed as I mentioned. If you help a player do 8 out of 9 missions for a story arc you get ZERO credit.. Even if you have the contact or could get the contact. You would have to do all 9 missions all over again.

End result normal game play for a average player is useless. You get random drops during missions, you get random drops for AE system and the Merit system in one shape or form has limitations placed on it. Understandably why, but nonetheless Limitations are there.

Again a to a Billionaire a million is not a lot. I think that is the way many of you guys are thinking about this. Hey dude, every night when you get on do this and this and leave the weekend to doing this and this. Well if I could get on every night then maybe it would be good.

I could understand if someone feared that a player might flood the market with IOs and lessen the value of a IO, thus preventing you from making billions. Then just tag the IOs created by players as not trade able or sell able.

http://boards.cityofheroes.com//showthread.php?t=239155
Your right I don't, but it seems they do. I think you can do your own searching in that forums for other similar threads.


Average players are not doing Trials, Strike Forces or Task Force missions every day. The average player is doing regular story arch and radio missions. Unfortunately I can get an invite to a team in which the Team Leader is running his story arch and has already started and has done the 1st or 2nd mission already. So though I am gaining the regular Inf and Exp. after running the story arch missions only the TL ends up getting the merits for the arch. Even if I have the contact but just never picked up the mission from him.

I am doing the TIP missions pretty much as to what was mentioned already. I thought it was something else others might have been talking about. Regardless the above reply still holds true.