Bill Z Bubba

Nahhh. They'll just go to 11.

I'm failing to figure out how something that can possess other individuals and communicate its desires isn't sentient.

Do you remember the posts about those that would never touch the market again because of the market merge "forcing" them to accept goods from evilbadhorrible villains?

Yes, Emberly, the RPers are often silly.

It doesn't really matter if it works for you or not. As a natural character, you've accepted that you can craft items that allow you to do things that natural humans can not accomplish.

You can't jump over a bus. You can't run at 40 miles per hour. You're already tossing out your "natural" origin by creating a character in I-19 thanks to the inherent fitness pool.

One's ORIGIN does not change by adding the Perf Shifter Chance for +End. One's ORIGIN does not change by picking up the Ultimate Nullifier and using it to scare off Galactus. One's ORIGIN does not change by adding an influx of power from the Well of the Furies.

If you wish to avoid the incarnate abilities based on the backstory of your character, so be it, but don't try to pretend that he shouldn't because it will change his origin.

Hmmmmm.

Same here. I wanted the new auras but they aren't worth 10 bucks to me. And I'll spend 10 bucks on two lattes in a day.

I'm not angry at NCSoft or anything like that, I understand wanting to make a buck, but they'll have to do better than that to get MY buck. For the record, I do have all of the origin packs and the ninja pack.

The average player doesn't solo AVs. The average player doesn't complete the RWZ challenge. The average player does average things and needs an average build to do them. The vast majority of my characters use SOs because the vast majority of my characters are still under level 32. I tend to delete them in the 30s to make way for new alts. Supposedly the average player doesn't even read the forums.

You want the items that average players don't need. You wish to rise above average. You wish these things but refuse to put forth the effort to do it. Tough ****.

If you do not wish to BE average, you must stop acting average. You will not buy that Lamborghini while being paid minimum wage.

My "real" body is still in Hell. This shell suffers from many of the same failings as all mortal life.

I answered your question. You obviously chose to ignore the entire post. That's no one's fault but your own.

Were it a two years ago, I'd offer to help. However, I've apparently entered the "curmudgeon" phase of my online presence around here.

Because the current system appeals to a very wide variety of players.

It appeals to the roleplayers with the social areas, emotes and costume generator.

It appeals to the comic lover that wants nothing more than to see his creation running around and doesn't care at all for min-maxing.

It appeals to the market freaks that make more inf offline than that do during play sessions.

It even appeals to freaks like me that do NO marketing but has ONE character that I care about tweaking where all the others are lucky if they get a steadfast +def unique slotted with lvl 40 basic IOs in the rest of the build.

The system works. You think I enjoyed dumping 2 billion inf for that +damres pvp IO? I didn't. I was ambivalent toward it. I wanted it for my build, I did what was necessary to get it, and now that I have it, I don't have to do any of the things I did to get it ever again. Why did I do such a thing? Because I agree that I should have to earn the things I want.

Can I have #3? A character min/maxed as much as possible, using purples and PvP IOs where useful with standard sets in the rest of the build, designed specifically around the guidelines created for that character and played by an intelligent and skilled player?