Maelstrom's Pistol Craftable Costume Recipe

Nice.
But please, why we dont have Resistance pistols YET?

Seems like a cool idea to me. I'll reserve comment on the rarity after I run it a few times and poll my teammates. They can always adjust the drop rate.

I know that different players have different likes, dislikes, and tolerances, but it does not bother me in the slightest if this is a very rare item that sells for hundreds of millions. I have one DP character that would want them as a trophy. He'll try to get lucky (or rely on lucky friends) and if not he'll buy them with merits, not influence.

First off, thanks for the replies to my original question.

Now, it seems odd that we would need two recipes to be able to use guns in both hands. Will the unlock option at Empyrean Michael, for those DP and Thugs toons, require two purchases as well, one for each hand? If not, why the difference?

I'll say it, since people aren't angry enough about it yet.

There's absolutely no reason this needs to be a one-hand only piece that requires you to unlock it twice. The recipe or the emp purchase needs to give it for both hands.

I only have two DP toons, one which I don't play, and on the other I'd rather stick to classical guns. I have no intention of getting this gun. But I still don't like the precedent it sets. It's not a good idea and it doesn't need to happen.

Look, I know sometimes games try to put emphasis on realism. But if you really want this to be realistic, the gun should be non-colorable (which clearly it is by the picture). It needs to drop 100% to one person. And then after that, Maelstrom doesn't have a gun anymore. So there's only one gun on the entire server.

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Yeah, that's a terrible idea. Yeah, realism is kind of stupid in video games. Realism sometimes needs to take a back seat to "having fun." In this case, there's nothing "fun" about having to acquire the unlock twice. There's no reason for it other than an arbitrary "it's more realistic" which still doesn't make any sense. So please throw away this idea, and just have the acquisition of the gun apply to both hands. Because all locking it to one hand is going to do is make tons of complaints over something that doesn't need to exist in the first place. It'll drive up the recipe prices and double the emp unlock cost. For no reason.

Recipes don't have to make perfect sense. I can already "craft" working wings to apply to my character. Just pretend I made my own extra gun after having the original in my hand. Pretend he drops two at a time because he obviously has a few dozen of them if he drops them all the time and still comes back with more. Don't lock this to one hand per recipe/purchase. You're just asking for trouble.

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Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.

Hm. 1/100 isnt as bad as you all seem to think it is. On a given trial, from 16-24, you actually have anywhere from a 16-24% chance of having it drop. On someone. Which means, selling it on the market will probably be more common than you guys think. I know for sure I would sell it on the market, because I have no DP char, nor do I really have any beamrifle or AR char (or thugs mm?) that would have any use for it. For me, its easy money.

If its a recipe drop which can be sold on the market then i dont see the recipe costing that much, sure it will cost a fortune the first day or two [maybe even a week] but after that it'll shoot down in prices.

I am still yet to get insect wings as a recipe drop since they were released, last time i checked they go for hardly anything when at first they cost a fortune.

I always thought costume pieces as drops were a cool idea, and I much preferred that as opposed to the old Booster Packs. I think that, more than anything else, is why we didn't see more costume piece recipes put into the game. Why put something in the game for free when the could charge money for it and earn money above and beyond the subscription fee?

Back then, and I was of the option (pre-Freedom) that booster-pack costumes should have some in-game way of obtaining them, like the costume recipes. Buying them for RL cash a) seemed like double-dipping and b) was much more immersion-breaking than any in-game alternative.

I remember way back in the day when custome piece recipes were very hard to come by due to their drop rate. It was a terrible idea then and an even worse idea now.

Listen up Paragon Studios, stop trying to fix **** that isn't broken.

Also probably in the minority, but I like this.

I'm all for unlockable costume pieces. I actually find getting a costume piece that comes along with a badge more rewarding than just getting a badge for the sake of it.

In fact, I'd say we need more unlockables, like some of the souveneirs in game. Hellions Headband, Skull Mask are just two such things. I wish there was more stuff like this.

I never liked the costume recipes concept myself. Even though it makes more sense to need a recipe (schematic) for say, rocket boots, than it does for a mutant to need something that further augments his powers (science mixed with mutation?).

Which means I'm teetering on the edge of that fence when it comes to a dropable recipe from a raid. I hated raiding for dropable gear in other MMOs. At the very least, CoH raids are fairly short instead of the multi-hour, sometimes requiring a day or two in several hour gaming sessions just to get to that boss that might drop that loot that everyone will want to bid / roll on etc...In that reguard, CoH does things better, I'll give the devs that.

Yet still, I'm not sure I like this as of now minor implementation of dropable, craftable loot from a specific mob. It kind of opens the door to this happening more often with other mobs. Which can be a slippery slope that slips CoH away from it's unique loot drop design to something that looks a little too much like those other types that I abhore.