Bionic_Flea

Sometimes you can have all the ingredients and fail due to bad luck. Sometimes good players have different styles that don't mesh well. It happens.

I have been crafting and selling as I leveled my new archery/pain corrupter, but I haven't kept track of what he's made and sold. It's been mostly pool A and B items and only 3 or 4 pool Cs. I do know that he frequently has no open slots in the market and then something will sell for several million.

I think villains are so used to something NOT being available and not selling when they make it available, that they don't even bother with the market until 50.

So I think I will give my villains a rest for a few days to see if stuff moves and play some mid 20s heros. Striga sounds really good.

AmeriKatt, it's ok not to like PvP, or to dislike COH's particular type of PvP. I respect anyone's decision not to engage in PvP or their stated distate for it. But I'm sorry that I just can't feel sympathy for someone who goes into a PvP zone and expects not to have to engage in PvP.

If you dislike PvP, don't go into the zones or the arena and you will never be burdened by it. But if you decide that you "need" to have a certain badge or one of the temp powers only available in a PvP area then you consent to be attacked by being in the area. It's stated very clearly in red letters by the zone contact.

Alternatively, you can spend a few inf. and buy yourself a temporary phase power. Use the countdown timer to run in (you cannot be attacked during the countdown), and use phase at the first sign of an attack. I would also pop a yellow inspiration periodically (unless you have some +perception from a power or friendly buff), so that you are more likely to see an enemy before they attack. You should have more than enough time between the countdown and the phase power to get any exploration badge.

If you are trying to get defeat badges, then I forsee you having continued problems.

Oh, and one other thing. There are badges one can only obtain by gaining enough reputation via PvP kills. What makes you getting your badge more important that a PvPer getting one of the reputation badges?

Per the rules above:

I've had a very strange relationship with PvP in this game.

I have dabbled in it since it was first introduced on the test server for I4. I have never been exceptional at it, but I am good enough to have won a few tournaments as part of a team. As a solo player, I would die more than kill but also had my fair share of kills.

Every iteration of PvP has made me excited to try it out as much as I get excited to try out a new TF or new powerset. But eventually, I get disappointed.

The most fun I ever had in pvp was when RV was introduced on test and everyone was granted enough experience to instantly level to 40 and enough influence/infamy to buy SOs. It was exciting, chaotic, and while their were certain imbalances everyone was on an equal enough footing to keep it fun.

A similar experience is low level PvP. An arena match of characters at level 4 or 5 is a trip. A lot of it is just button mashing. But so what? I found it entertaining.

I also initially enjoyed base raids until we fought a team with a death trap spawn point. Our opponents had cleverly raised the floor on the spawn point and dropped caltrops and tarpatches and had players and guns waiting for us. We were half dead before we had fully zoned in.

The latest incarnation of PvP is the worst. There is no countermove to anything. You cannot escape unless you phase. The only slow effect is suppression upon attacking or being attacked -- but powers that are meant to slow do nothing. You cannot avoid being mezzed. And even melee characters need to have several -kb ios or risk being tossed around like a rag doll.

I could build a character with phase and the -kb ios, but I have no desire to. Under older systems I could casually participate in PvP even with SO builds. Sure, people with better builds could still beat me, but the differences weren't so extreme. The devs design intent of making it more casual friendly had the exact opposite effect.

So yes, I would PvP more if PvP worked better. I know that because I used to PvP more.

Robots never sleep. They wait . . .

Nine gigabytes? How long did it take you to complete that farm? Three days!?!?

May I recommend some reading material?

Space station shaped cookies for everyone on me!

Congratulations!

Set me as a seal upon thine heart,
as a seal upon thine arm:
for love is strong as death;
jealousy is cruel as the grave:
the coals thereof are coals of fire,
which hath a most vehement flame.

Many waters cannot quench love,
neither can the floods drown it:
if a man would give all the substance of his house for love,
it would utterly be contemned.

Coffee can also be art!

Call her ma'am and cougar in the same sentence. I DARE YOU!!

May you all be happy and safe tonight and it the year that follows.

Dispari, if you have any 45+ villains on justice, or would be willing to transfer one while it's free, I am sure Uber and I could show you how we can advertise for a team in global channels, get an interesting mix of powers, and complete the LRSF in under an hour (90 minutes tops if we have to do a shivan run).

My forum name is the same as my global, but without the _

@Bionic Flea

Now, I could see building a team of doms, stalkers, and brutes that do smash/lethal damage and have no -regen having a difficult time. But I would either have to do that purposely or have a bad run of luck in finding only those powersets.

I don't think Uber or I are claiming that any old team can do this easily. It's like building a good balanced meal of a protein, a starch, and a fruit or vegetable. Yes, that requires certain ingredients. But there are so many possible combinations of those ingredients that it's unreasonable to say it's restrictive because you can't have a balanced meal of burgers, hot dogs, pork chops, and fried chicken.

I can't speak to your experience, but I can tell you that I have several level 50s that don't have all the accolades. Some don't have any. My namesake character and my main villain have them all.

Some of the badges needed to get those accolades can be real boring grinds, although they've recently been improved. I just can't be bothered with getting the accolades for all my 50s. There's so much other stuff to do, including leveling up my next 50!

And what would happen if you conducted a survey of persons that frequent Colorado's bars? You would have people judging the bars based on all sorts of different criteria that are relevant to them, including whether the bar allowed smoking or not.

Is it stupid for a survey taker to rate that way? Perhaps. Would you have that survey taker punished for answering in a way you consider to be stupid? Don't they have the right to voice their opinion (in the survey) based on factors relevant to them?

What I'm saying is that it is unrealistic to assume that the game will have any better chance to have people choose things they like or dislike based upon anything other than their own personal whim. That is the essence of "taste."

You cannot successfully argue taste. No matter how often you tell me that caviar is the food of the gods and reserved only for the most discerning of palates, I will still think it tastes bad.

Therefore, having HighTreason tell Shubbie not to rate based on rewards and going so far as to intimate that doing so is griefing was unreasonable and distasteful.

(Can you feel the irony?)

And don't redcaps have extra accuracy with their bows like players do?

My suggestion would be to try +1/x7 and see if that is a better run for you. The combination of extra accuracy from higher levels, debuffs, inherent accuracy, and the sheer number of attacks being thrown at you is overwhelming your defense. My only other suggestion would be to pick up aid self or a tray full of greens. Even soft capped characters get hit sometimes so you need a back-up plan for when you do.

I like the "desire to leave the zone" reason the best. It's certainly not going to be a speed run if people are leaving the zone, but if you want to store drops or pick up inspirations that seems like a good reason.

And that extra 10% run speed from slotting two procs and two end mods makes getting from mob to mob that much quicker.

Very nice!

But no Performance Shifters?