Biospark

Very workable Idea Rigel !

Tier 1 : Placate Version, AoE Taunt

Tier 2 : Single Target Fear

Tier 3 : AoE Fear

This is exactly my thought on how to fix the pool.

Tier One should contain : Single Target Taunt, Single Target Fear

Tier Two should contain : AoE Taunt, AoE Fear

Tier Three : Something new


This way you can take the taunt(s) if that is all you are seeking, or... take the fear powers, but not get railroaded into taking a power you have no use for.

Ideas for a new tier three?

***Thinking out loud; a weakened version of Practiced Brawler for us squishies***

I agree with you completely. Thats the real challenge with custom critters; how to design ones that are challenging for as wide of a range of characters as possible. The arc in my sig is one that I am still perfecting. Just recently it was changed to level 22-54. I would prefer it was possible for all levels of play, but there was just no way to make it satisfactory for pre-SO levels.

That being said, it is my hope to get feedback on the custom critters especially, and the missions as well.

Oh trust me, this is a very desirable change to me.

My Illustration was less about the fact that it is a travel power, and more about using a power-pick to compensate for the frustration of another power. That kind of "linking" would happen regardless, I just dont think it should happen with travel "in general".

Hmm, well I didnt think of that. T
To be honest I think Stone Tankers deserve the same repair that Invulnerability received long ago when the "Unyielding" root was removed.
I know at least one person that breathed a huge sigh of relief with that change.

Many (most maybe) Stoners take TP, which is silly since it probably breaks any RP concept. I also ALWAYS take hover on any character that is going to take Teleport as their RP travel power of choice.
Not quite the same thing, but these linked "necessities" should be fixed.

Why can't Stone tankers just have a movement reduction, instead of an "impairment" ?

I am not saying that you are being untruthful here, but I need to see your build.

Having done the STF and having all my accolades (with major help from my SG friends), its very hard to imagine tackling any AV solo with my own IOed Empath. All those purple recipes you named off will help keep RAs running more often, but there are so many other factors to tanking an AV, I am gonna just have to see it to believe it.

Perhaps you or one of your friends can record a video of one of these "emp-tank" sessions for us. That way I can learn from your experience.

In the words of Tony Stark ; "Is it too much to ask for both ?"

Why not Franken-slot this power - Def/Rech, Def/Rech, Def/Rech

Then slot LoTG down the road as influence permits

And the following is my solo build;

These are not cheap to set-up, but from these you can get ideas on how each power can be slotted. Please come back to the forums if you have any questions. There are many folks here that will gladly help you out with specifics of building your character.

Actually, common salvage is possible using the random common salvage (8 tickets).
I use this all the time, but its best to know whether the salvage you need is tech or magic.

Need a luck charm, choose common magic salvage and pay 8 tickets till you get one.
Need a Clockwork winder, choose common tech salvage, etc

The last character that I outfitted with level 25 generic IOs needed maybe 1000 tickets to get everything IOed out. To make it even better, I used Biospark to craft them since he has most of the generic recipes memorized. Took maybe 2 million and some AE tickets.

AE tickets basically let me avoid the market for salvage if I so desire. But I usually only do so if the prices are unusually high. Like 100K for Brass (example).

This ! 100% true.

Having finally tried Shields on a Tanker after only playing it on several scrapper combinations over the last year or so, I now know what it feels like to have Super Reflexes on a Tanker. Its the toughest Defense-Based character I have ever played pre-SOs and after I get him IOed out, I will be a monster. Dont even have Shield Charge yet, so whatever it gets changed to is still just icing on the cake to me. I am glad that I did not spend alot of time enjoying its current "state" because it would kinda suck, but that ONE power does not "define" the set. Now, if they touch AAO, THEN I will be pretty unhappy.

For the OP, my best Farmer to date is a WP/Fire Tanker. Simple, easy to level, easy to play and gets the job done. There are very few villains out there that are actually a problem, but anything that kills your regen is not fun.

This pretty much nails it. For that combination, I would get either a Blaster or Scrapper to pair with. Since Earth/FF offers no healing, a scrapper with healing and resistance would "layer" very nicely, so New_Dawn's suggestion of */Dark scrapper is a very good one.

You could also consider */Regen, */Fire, */Elec, or even */Willpower

Blasters work very well with controllers since you can "hold" a spawn and "nuke" it with AoEs, but takes a little more practice on timing controls with AoEs.

Hehe, Ok

That makes much more sense then. Was trying to wrap my head around 9K+ tickets in 30 min. My bad !

Still not convinced on the 100million part, unless he meant 100 million each play session.

That is something I have done in normal missions with lucky purple drops or hard-to-buy IOs, but NOT on any kind of regularity.

If you can make 100million every 2-3 hours with regularity off tickets, then that is saying something. But this has not been my experience with buying random rolls. The vast majority of "Bronze" rolls are crap and dont sell for much, if anything. Silver Rolls seem more impressive to me, but even so, the last 10 silver recipes that I sold didnt even net 10million and took 3 days to sell. Thats not very good IMO.

This doesnt sound like "normal" gameplay. Nor does it sound like something most players are capable of doing, but I will take for granted your voracity and see whether I can come close to the numbers you have indicated.

Ticket-capping in 30 mins is not something I have ever seen done. I would be hard pressed to do so in 3 hours, but gonna take one of my better farmers out for a spin soon.

Fair Enough.

I can see that perspective

This is true. When you run Radio missions, TF, Story Arcs you also get recipes and salvage dropping all throughout your playtime and its also Random and FREE. The rate of accrual for these random drops are probably just as profitable as AE missions.

Not sure why I am taking the troll bait here, but let me give an example of my "reward" process. The last LoTG +rech that I got my hands on was purchased with 200 merits. It took between 18-20 in-game hours to earn those merits (solo). It would have taken even less time if my SG friends and I had run a couple TF, but whatever. 18-20 in-game hours is one week for me. Thats 1 week of work for 1 IO recipe. During those 18-20 hours I also recieved dozens of recipes and salvage that I didnt need and sold them to the auction.
I did NOT make enough influence during that time at wents to purchase a LoTG +rech, so if I had been trying to farm for the cash, I may have needed even more in-game time to get it. Unless I got a lucky purple drop, which can randomly happen, but is not predictable in any way. So the question I ask you is how many tickets do I need to get a LoTG +rech?
12K, 24K, 124K ? How many hours would it take to get that many tickets ? 18-20 hours ?
The answer is; that I will spend the next several months in AE "hoping" for one to drop, OR buying and selling garbage until I get the influence to outright purchase one. I would rather go with a predictable method like merits.

But what if your main goal is not to find stuff to sell, but get "specific" recipes for your character? My only choices are; Get Merits to purchase it, Farm up the influence to pay the ridiculous WW prices, or Pray for a lucky drop sometime in the next decade.
My only "Real" choice is Merits.

Yet you feel offended that some of us think there could be improvements to this "made-up" fun game that we all play and that we must be "out-of-touch" with reality for even suggesting an improvement. The people that you describe are ones that use "real" money to purchase "pretend" money in these type of games.

The bottom line is that the ticket reward system is not "broken" really. Perhaps the real underlying concern is that there are enough people in the game that "play the market" who dont want anyone touching their precious "money-maker". While casual players like myself that are struggling to "outfit" a few toons and could care not a wit for how much influence we have are slowly being moved into the "farming" herd with everyone else. More availablility for recipes will lower prices and that is a "good" thing to me. I am sure there those that would be on the other side of that fence.

How green is your grass ?