Catwhoorg

Its funny we were speculating about the movement of items and the like caused by GR in my coalition channel last night.

My thoughts, GR will inevitably cause an normalisation of pricing between the markets if not an outright market merge. (yes please to the latter)

Depending upon excatly how much effort is involved in side switching, I can easily see the following occuring.

Take a character and run the GR missions until you are right on the cusp between red and blue. Say you are blue side, take something which is pretty cheap here, say pet sets. Buy a whole bunch of them, run the one mission to tip you over the edge, then sell to redside.

Then being 'just' red it should be relatively easy to run back up to the cusp. Buy something thats cheap red and more expensive blue (IM thinking luck charm would be an easy example), then run that final mission to bring you back to blue.

There are obvious ways to limit this, Say there are 10 'rogue' points to go from one side to the other (1-5 red 6-10 blue), what you do is instead of putting a new villain at 5 that last mission puts you all the way to 1. Puts a barrier there to some degree, but that just slows the process it doesn't eliminate it.

To go all chemical analogy on folks, the disparity between the markets is an enthalpy difference, it will drive a reaction (item transfer) forward. The difficulty of the side-switch is the activation energy required, make it high enough and only a small portion of players will be motivated enough to transfer items. (The reaction is energetically favorable, but kinetically slow without an external stimulus think burning/oxidation of wood)

If its low enough, there will be a flood of the items, and that will quickly work to normalise the differences, leading to a defacto merged market anyway.

Gamers being what they are, someone will quickly find a way to minimise the effort (activation energy) required, which is akin to catalysis.

As a 60 month vet, a loyalty program member and sight unseen a GR pre-orderer I know I'll be in the beta at somepoint. I'll be paying VERY close attention to the effect on GR on the markets, as well as all the other testing I would normally do.

Now THAT is a great story.

ZOMG only Freedom is Locked, and Virtue isn't, the game is DYING.

or

ZOMG only two servers are locked, merge the rest of them now. Queuing is good, when I want toplay I want a server filled to beyond capacity such that you have to wait to even have a chance of teamign with me...


Heck even if every single server was locked during the double XP weekend, I'd lay pounds to pence that within a fortnight we would have a 'game is dying' type thread.

I'd like to see the US and EU server list merged.

I'd alos like the localisation ability used for the EU to be used to create an extra Spanish language server on that merged list.

The Global issue is a big deal, just look at the _NA/_EU issue on these forums and how that upset a good number of people.

Whilst you pioint may have relevance in the real world, but it is certainly not valid here

Every single critter defeated that can drop level 50 commons, has the exact same chnace to drop a purple as any other crtitter of equal rank (minion/lt/boss).

No-one is 'born' into good drops or bad drops. Fight critters that can drop purple and drops will come on average at the same rate (drops/critterdefeated) for you as for everyone else.

Of course some people kill more critters/hour so get more drops/hour by doing that.

ack beaten to the link.

Yes it was announced.

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/The_Play..._to_the_Cities

The Player Guide to the Cities Section is meant as a replacement for the old style game manuals. Nice thick and Chuncky, but giving detailed step by steps for everything

Renault SF spawns at level 30, its falls under the signature TF/SF rules. Get four level 25s and it will still spawn 30s.


Also Agincourt does spawn longbow as low as level 31. Still above the TF Cap to be sure, but not quite as bad as 33s

*shakes Magic 8 ball*

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*shakes magic 8 ball*

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You know I think someone sold me a non-magic one.

What toons have you been playing for all this time?

A wide variety, my publicly listed stable is 59 alts. Only one of these I Class as 'retired'
http://cit.cohtitan.com/profile/780

Though one on that list is likely to be deleted and rerolled very soon. (Former Mr England, he 'went rogue' via reroll. At the very latest I'll make him anew once GR comes out)

Have you played one from when you started till now?

Catwhoorg (Claws/regen) was rolled the very first day my account was created, and was last played on a Master of Khan TF on Sunday.

Whats your favourite build?

Blueside solo - Claws/regen
Blueside teamed - damage AR/Dev blaster, Support rad/rad defender

Redside solo - SS/fire Brute
Redside teamed - Crab Soldier

The wikia site is basically not being maintained since the paragonwiki folks left.

use the wiki.cohtitan.com or paragonwiki.com addresses

Both go to the same place.

Is the form bug still prent during a respec ?

Im specifically thinking putting the level 3 and 5 slots into nova form blasts.

that would certainly help out at level 10.

My own claws/regen runs Posi pretty fast. Regen specifically for the click heals and Qucik Recovery for low downtime.

A good chunk of the time for a run is taken gettting actually between the missions and the Fedexes, so a true speed runner needs to be SS or maybe SJ.

After that the secret of a good speed run is really playstyle. Know which missions to skip to the end (literally a scrapper can just run past the mobs in the boss/guards missions), and which you need to fight in.

Historically,I mean waaay back in beta, the decision was put to the players.

Females in existing groups
or
More Variety of groups

the players chose the latter.

That is how we kinda of got into this situation. I have always thought that a nice little project for a newish hire into the art department would be to create several new skins for most groups, some of which could be female.

There was the push for COV with its new grousp, then into the Freem-15 period and a lack of resources.

Im guessing that a lot of art development time is beign tied up with Going Rogue, but maybe after that hits the shelves we could try to get a comitment to flesh out some of the thinner groups, and include some female skins.

Both regen and willpower are great secondaries for claws. will power will have the 'toggle on and forget' aspect like /SR, whereas regen will require some degree of active management of the clcik heals.

In terms of claws
Strike or swipe to taste
Slash
Follow-up
Focus

is the core of your single target chain

Evsicerate spin and shockwave give 3 nice AOEs, though be aware shockwave is knockback, and leanr how to use that to your advantage.

On just about every secondary I tend to take 7 attacks, for seperate Single target and AOE 'chains'

Skip the bolded powers (even for 2 levels) and I will personally call down a meteor shower on you, though not on those you hold dear as they should survive to learn from the error of your ways.