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If you get that many shards you will probably generate more than 100 mil getting them.
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Quote:I did not say they didn't involve tank and spank. I said they didn't involve an artificially inflated sack of HP. This is my problem with these Task Forces: the giant sack of HP, which in the case of Barracuda may not be defeatable by an otherwise well-balanced team because of arbitrary AT requirements.Weakened Hamidon ends in a tank n' spank.
Mr. I Am Nictus ends in a tank n' spank (although a quick one).
Recluse ends in a tank and spank (with adds) and it often takes longer than Reischman because he's locked at 54 which lowers damage to about half.
Recluse being level 54 affects more than the time it takes to defeat him. It also makes him significantly more dangerous. Reichsman frankly isn't. The massive 5th Column ambushes would still be dangerous if Reichsman had normal HP. The added AVs would be MORE dangerous if he had normal HP, as it would then be possible, even likely, to get more than one at a time. -
Quote:Running the same thing over and over for the rewards = farming. How fast or "correctly" you do it is irrelevant.Correct farming is an art you can't just stumble across. I thought i was farming 2 years ago with a fire/ss tank, and now tanks can't even preform -real- farming because the lack of damage.
Unless you guys want to just talk about the farming anyone can do, you know, SS/fire brutes with SOs "farming". Then i can't really add anything, and i misunderstood.
Someone who finishes an ITF in half an hour by skipping over as much as possible is speed-running just as much as someone who finishes in 20 minutes. Someone who lets their friend's lowbie door-sit in +2 tip missions is PLing the friend just as much as the guy using a +4 Battle Maiden.
So you can run through the same thing over and over faster than everyone else. Congratulations, I hope you derive much enjoyment from being a better farmer than everybody else. Everybody else who is doing what you're doing slower or "not correctly" is still farming. For real, even. -
Tactics also provides a perception bonus. Focused Accuracy does provide to-hit debuff resistance though, which is helpful against stuff like CoT Death Mages, Carnie Master Illusionist pets, and Black Swan's stupid blue monkeys.
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Ugh, AoE immob spam. How I despise it.
My one and only Tanker was an Invul/Fire that I ran on a static team. This team included a Fire/Rad Controller who would open every fight with her AoE immob, the second I aggrod the mob, thereby immobilizing everything all over the place where not only was it much harder for me to grab and hold aggro, but everything was out of range of my Invincibility and not helping me survive. Sometimes I would tell her to please hold off for a few seconds and let everything bunch up a bit....and she would hold off for two spawns or so. Then, BAM, Fire Cages again.
Then she rolled up a Tanker of her own. Around the time she hit the mid-20s, running on a lot of PuGs, I got a tell from her apologizing profusely for her immob spam and swearing she would never EVER do it again.
The immob spam also made my husband swear off PuGs with his Ice/Fire Dom, since after everything that was fire caged on his Ice Slick killed the immob-spammer it would immediately turn around and kill him. -
Quote:As a bartender, I don't like where this is going....Hmmmm.... a /shield tank, a /shield brute, and a /shield scrap walk into a bar...
As a /Shield Scrapper, I love where this is going.
Quote:I see the point of Tanks necessarily drawing more argo via auras, but mechanically I would fear it would detract from using taunt and active argo management even more. That would just inflame the "do I need taunt" question even more. There's nothing I detest more on the tanker forums than the drawn-out theads on this subject (Needed? No. Does it *really* help? Heck yes!)
Quote:I'm also concerned if Dev's look at this too closely, and toned down AAO argo, (in ref. to Eva D) the buff would be changed, too. That would be bad.
Quote:It's kind of a nitpick, but Blazing Aura, Death Shroud, and Lightning Field aren't Taunt auras when used by scrappers, only the tank and brute versions have a taunt component. They just deal damage, if someone comes up next to you with an actual taunt aura running they are going to get the agro. -
On my DM/SD: MG > Smite> SL > Smite. Because it kills stuff fastest.
On my DB/SR: Sweep Combo when I'm surrounded, BF > AS > SS > AS when I'm not. It's not quite gapless but when I had the Attack Vitals combo I never got to finish it half the time, so it lets me save on a power pick, and I loves me my Sweep Combo so that's not going anywhere.
On my MA/Regen: Eagles Claw > Dragon's Tail > Cobra Strike > Storm Kick when I'm surrounded, Eagles Claw > Cobra Strike > CAK > Storm Kick on single bosses because it stuns and looks awesome (even though the increased crit chance would benefit CAK more. Looking awesome trumps that chance for a bit more DPS.) On unstunnable hard targets I use the standard Cobra Strike > Storm Kick > CAK > Storm Kick.
On my Claws/WP: Follow Up > Focus > whatever's up while I wait for Follow Up and Focus to recharge. Throw in Spin and sometimes Shockwave for big mobs. Because Focus is awesome and I haven't gotten around to looking up the optimum single target Claws attack chain.
On my Katana/DA: Divine Avalanche when I need it, whatever's recharged when I don't. Again, haven't gotten around to looking up optimum attack chains, and I don't have really high recharge on her anyway.
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Quote:I run my Storm Corruptor on +0/x7, and enough inspirations drop on that setting that I can have a breakfree ready to go for every spawn, with enough left over to have a red or two going as well.most of my corrs and toons which are squishy type, usually run on -1x1 and usually can avoid most of it, but if its more than that, its nearly impossible to solo due to the amount of mez and not enough inspirations dropping to keep constantly combining
and how exactly would turning the diff up help if im having issues on minimal spawn sizes?
Of course it depends on your secondary and slotting. My AR/Dark doesn't have much defense, so I'm limited to x4 or I can't survive the incoming damage. If your secondary is team-support oriented rather than debuff-oriented....I really don't know what to tell you, since I don't play those. -
What do you mean "other MMOs?" This one has done it. Weakened Hamidon, Battle Maiden, the battle at the Kings Row stairs, Mr. I Am NICTUS, Recluse in the STF...they are all scripted encounters and none of them require the AV to have a million billion HP to make them "interesting."
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That's a good question. How are team leaders chosen in turnstile-formed raids? Sometimes it doesn't matter who has the star, someone steps up and starts acting like a leader and others follow, but sometimes it does, and in a League setting it will matter.
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Quote:Pretty much this.I agree with this concept completely. Starting a Task Force, Trial, Ouro arc, or an AE arc should boot you from a queue. Joining a team or running an instanced regular mission (normal contacts, newsies/scanners, or tips) should not boot you from the queue.
Once the queue is full and the system determines you can start, you should also not be INSTANTLY TPd to the location and teamed. Instead a pop-up with a countdown should come up. The countdown should likely be somewhere from 30 and 180 seconds.
You can join the queue teamed, apparently. So it's only a semi-PUG. Really, what other solution is there for people without a lot of in-game friends or on small servers, if they really want massive multi-team content? Aside from the obvious "don't make Incarnate trials massive multi-team raids," which would be fine by me, but apparently because the CoP is so popular they decided to make more like it.
Quote:Where did they say that? In any team there are opportunities to be the hero to be special. Look at real wars. While armies fight together as "cogs in the machine" its not at all uncommon for individual troops to do things that are enormously heroic.
Quote:Nah, like typical people on the forums (some but not all) she's gotten something she wants and is now moving onto the next "big" thing, which is that crap on the markets cost too much, and we need more Inf sinks, dontcha know..?
I swear, some people can't take a victory and move on.
To be fair, in order to figure out you were getting what you wanted you had to read two separate posts and translate from marketingspeak into English, and even then I'm not entirely 100% sure. -
Quote:That's why you need to set your difficulty higher (as in, more "teammates") and make a bind to combine insps into breakfrees.and as to what brandx was saying about corrs being mezzed and all that, i agree 1000%, i dont mind playing ranged and such because it is high dmg and such, but i absolutely cannot fight certain enemy groups due mez (rikti im looking at you with all your damn sleep, hold, stun, and kb), the first thing i usually get as a squishy is -kb IOs, which eliminate the kb problems for the most part, but got do i hate fighting rikti on toons without mez protect, i normally have to take about a whole tray of breakfrees into the mish and i use up 3/4 of the tray by the time i finish, even on the lower diff settings
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Quote:The letter pretty heavily implied that there would be a means to get them with shards and inf.More specifically I am thrilled at a Battlegroup/Raid/League UI and the new features that go with it plus the cross server queue. That'll help the low pop servers immensely. I'm hoping that the Notice of the Wells gets a solo option with some sort of (slightly) higher cost Shard conversion rate. I plan to do the TFs for them but I know the soloers out there need options.
Quote:ETA: Regarding being yanked out of the mission, a confirmation box asking if you're ready to go or if you want to be put back in the queue works beautifully.
Quote:Yeah, or you have a situation where you didn't pull that person from that mission and it required the entire trial to wait until everyone completed their task. -
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So? There are tons of ways to make inf in the game, including killing stuff, which you'll need to do to get your shards anyway. It's a stupid argument and I'll be happy to point anyone who makes it in the direction of the market forum where they will be torn to shreds by people who can refute that argument in their sleep. I don't expect the inf amount to be so high that only the most dedicated marketeers will be able to afford it. I just want it to be significant. More like A-merits, less like temp powers.
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Quote:Sweet. That's all I wanted.In issue 20, you will be able to craft all abilities from the Incarnate trees that are available via Incarnate Trials using Incarnate Shards and some INF. It will take longer than it will take getting components via the trials, but you will be able collect the shards as you play everything(!) else in the game to offset that. If you mix in the occasional Incarnate Trial you will make more progress.
Now please, devs, make the inf cost more than just a token amount. We need more inf sinks in this game. 50s can earn inf hand over fist these days, and we have very little to actually spend it on. -
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Quote:On the other hand, people who are just looking to produce drops will not increase their difficulty, and will be able to produce drops faster. You mentioned TF speed-runners, but I'm willing to bet drop farmers will do likewise. The level shift might also allow some people who don't already run on x8 to increase their virtual team size, which some might choose to do rather than increase their enemy level.There's a big assumption here that's that the player would actually increase their difficulty to counteract their level shift. I'm certain not everyone would do that, but I know lots of people who have done so for their non-TF team play, so I do suspect it's common if not a majority approach. (TF speed runners look prone to leaving their settings low and burning through TFs even faster, so this will tend to mitigate inflationary effects on Reward Merit item production.) As long as a non-trivial proportion of the population ups their foe levels in step with their level shifts, it will tend towards inflationary effect. At least until we run out of level bumps to give our foes.
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Quote:Both sets debuff, which is a huge part of what people are looking for when they ask for "support." All my Corruptors are debuffers too. They are all accepted when people ask for "support".....except maybe the traps guy.As far as "support" goes, one MM is Traps, and both the Corruptor and the other Mastermind are Dark Miasma. Traps is not really a "support" support set, and Dark Miasma has no buffs that require other teammates. Big surprise from someone that mostly solos, right?
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Quote:Pretty much this. My tolerance for TFs is limited. When they were optional, I could gather shards solo on my Scrappers and join TFs with my Corruptors, because the Corruptors don't get shards as fast solo (I solo them on x7, but it's still not as efficient as a Scrapper.) Now that I HAVE to do the WST, I have to prioritize, and the Scrappers and Blasters have priority.That's not surprising to me. With the developers' continued insistence on "encouraging" people to team more, that's the team-mates you get: People who don't usually team much, don't usually like to team much and don't usually form, or want to form, their own teams. That, in a nutshell, is me. You don't get more team players, you get more soloists looking for a team they could solo on.
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Quote:Reward merits. Let's say....pulling a number out of the air....75-100 merits. And 50 million inf, just because we need more inf sinks. You can only earn one Notice, through whatever method, in each WST cycle.
I'm just tossing it out as an idea of what might work for earning the Notice while solo. The cost/effort felt about right to me. I'll be more than open to other ideas of how to do it solo, naturally.
It's soloable, it's not realy fast or "easy," the WST is still the fastest way, teaming up for non-WST TFs is second-fastest, soloing is slowest. It doesn't require adding another currency, and it can't be achieved through demon farming. Frankly, I'll take an Apex and a Tin Mage with a side of ITF over a down-powered slog through Sister Psyche's Neverending Freakshow Buffet any day. -
I love AR. I hate that Peacebringer who charges in and footstomps every mob, sending them all over. Oh look, I just used Full Auto on two guys....
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Quote:There have been several rounds of powerset proliferation, so I doubt that they're going to give up on it. It's like giving people new powersets after all, only easier.At this point, I'd just like to know that further proliferation is planned. I do have my own particular hopes for proliferation, but I'd like some sort of sign that proliferation hasn't been dropped for the next shiny as it seems so many things have been.
Quote:No. Scrappers get Ninjas. Swing a ninja around to hit people, swing a ninja around with his blade out to cut people, throw a ninja, throw a ninja throwing shurikens, do a double-ninja spin for a PBAOE...
The animation-intensive part is the ninja armor. You think DA is bad at hiding your costume? Try showing off with a bunch of ninjas clinging to you. Each armor tier just adds more ninjas. -
Quote:The only time I ran it, we didn't. I lived. Barely. That part was awesome. However....The last time I ran Barracuda, we almost didn't wipe on the ambushes.
Quote:the only AT you need to get rid of reichsmans phasing is a defender or a mm, the rest doesnt really matter
/end rant.