rsclark

Several people have mentioned running hero/villain tips for the merits, but you also get drops with those. In the past week of running just tips on one character (0/X6), I have gotten 5 purple recipes. That was a bit of a streak, since I hadn't gotten one in a month, but it was still a nice windfall.

Most of them I sold. Purple recipes are good if you're going for perma-dom. It's good on some fast recharge builds. But they give no defense. They aren't always useful for making any particular character the best they can be. And for the selling price of 2 of those purples, I could make an insane build for 3-4 level 50 characters - and even counting my month with no purple drops, I can't level characters to 50 that fast.

You certainly need cash to build characters, but you don't need all the highest priced stuff to build very good characters. One of my friends is one of those people obsessed with chasing the biggest stuff available, and he just put a full numina set (4 pieces of which I gave him) in HA on an emp (he pretty much gave up on the panacea). I have 5 Doctored Wounds in mine. Not only was mine 1/10 the price of his, but I'll let you guess which one plays better.

No. The booster does not change the level of the enhancement.

One accuracy and 5 of these in my tier 1 pets is hilarious.

So, just to be clear, once I hit 21, no need to keep these around for exemplaring purposes?

Yea, assuming that the costume bundle would contain the costume parts isn't a huge leap. Separating auras from other costume pieces is arbitrary at best, and you cannot fault someone for not reaching the conclusion that they would draw that particular line.

Popped down the $100 to get to t9, and then bought everything I wanted. Still have all of the $100 and 400 freebie points and 2 reward tokens.

They need some better stuff on the market so I can spend these piles of points.

I think what people are missing is that the enhancement slots are being priced as a way to pull more enhancements out on a respec. They have said that they would never allow that and that 10 was already being generous.

This isn't a purchase to make if you want to avoid running to the stores for a little longer, it's for people who have 5 purple sets and a pile of LotGs to pull out of a 50 before they delete him. 10 more enhancement slots might equal 3-4 repects which themselves would cost $10 each.

Would I ever buy 10 slots? **** no. But there are people for whom it is a good deal, so it's priced for those people.

The rearranged the buyable enhancements, so now if you are looking to buy something specific, you need to know the max level of the set. Why is that a useful piece of information? Wouldn't lowest level of set be better because then you could be sure to only look at things you can use now? How about set type - like in the market - so you can quickly look at options for the powers you actually have.

For organization, it seems odd to pick one of the more insignificant aspects of the sets and to organize by that.

As for the pricing, I bought my way to t9, and I expect that will last me until this game no longer exists. I bought beam weapon and a costume piece (thinking of buying a second piece, but still not sure), and I don't really want anything else in the store.

Vault storage is a perfect example. I have probably 30-40 completely empty vaults, because getting stuff from vaults to move between characters is annoying - it's easier just to use the market. Give me a 20 space shared vault that holds recipes and I will buy it just to avoid the mediocre mail system, but getting more of something that is already of limited use is not a tempting deal.

I bought points at the NCsoft site last night while the market was down, and the tokens appeared immediately.

Glad I read this post before tomorrow. 12-months was going to be my first purchase, but that's changed now.

I feel for your disappointment, but thanks for the heads up.