Eva Destruction

I still run into this occasionally, and it is a problem inherent in more "challenging" content. Namely, that people don't want to think, they'd rather lean on their Granite/Empathy/Rad Emission/whatever crutches. There are enough people who don't think that way that Scrappers and even *gasp* Stalkers can find a team if they're in a position to be in contact with people who don't mind using their brain for two minutes when faced with the "how is my Fire tank going to survive Recluse?" problem, but for people who rely on PuGs it can be problematic.

I'm not sure how to fix it honestly, aside from a serverwide system message every time a far-from-optimal team successfully completes a difficult piece of content.

I concede your point. Perhaps it should have said:

No, no they don't. Like, I hate being "a tiny, unnecessary cog in a huge machine."

I'd give you the requisite "you can join my team any time" spiel but since we're probably not on the same server and I don't plan these things in advance it won't really help. I can't guarantee a successful run either, since the "I'll take anyone who isn't a jerk or total idiot" approach doesn't always work on the RSF.

Having a weekly raid target that the hardcore need to do over and over just for the end reward also encourages speed running, which helps newer players about as much as PLing them does. It'll only get worse next week as some people start running with level shifts and those who need to "catch up" are left even further behind, to be killed by ambushes and all that stuff the Tank aggroed and ignored in the mad bull rush to the next objective.

You want their help on the hard part, keep them alive through the "easy" part. This message brought to you by the Conscientious Melee Campaign.

I have a full set of Obliteration in mine. Too many Chief Soldiers tend to, you know, kill me, especially if they're 54, I have to grab 52 and 53 Chief Soldiers and first I have to find them, kill the Mentalists and guardians and keep them from deaggroing and despawning. Gathering everything up takes longer than killing the pylon itself.

On a happier note, I too have the power. At least, assuming there isn't a rollback (which would make me ), we finished five minutes before the announcement popped up. Then I immediately changed my difficulty to +2. I hereby propose we start a "Turn Up Your Damn Difficulty" campaign. Even-cons are chumps. They were chumps even before we got to be +1, and bringing a full team to fight them is much like asking the Freedom Phalanx to help you beat up those Hellions over there.

I'm agreeing with you. I'll take your +3 and raise you a +4.

Or, you know, to get the rare on more than one character.

They need to improve any door like this, period.

Those people choose to run the same task over and over. Those are not the only tasks that grant the rewards people want, they're just the fastest. People who want their rare boost have no choice but to run the same task over and over. This is the difference.

Yes, please. I never saw the point of bringing a full team to beat up even-cons in the first place.

My money's on the latter. Exhibit A: Canada's since-renamed Conservative-Reform Alliance Party.

It's not a new flavor though. We already had the flavor. It's more like the store owners just introduced hot fudge sauce, but you're only allowed to have it on chocolate ice cream. People aren't going for the chocolate because they necessarily like it best, but because they want hot fudge sauce.

Let's for a minutes ignore the fact that on a lot of commonly traded items, you can put in a fairly low bid, go play for an hour, and come back to find it filled. And that even if you're only using IOs at their max level, you can start buying and slotting 50s at level 47. You can actually start buying them before that, if you don't mind using some of your market slots for storage. And let's not forget those sets that max out below level 50.

So I guess the only conclusion I can draw here is that if you ignore the market and IOs until you're 50, you're stuck with a choice between paying buy it nao prices and waiting "forever" to finish your build. I agree with that conclusion, however I fail to see how it has anything to do with player greed or indicates any kind of problem with the market.

It isn't new. This has been happening since i16.

On a more on-topic note, last night my whole team except the guy who had gone AFK in the mission crashed exiting the second-last mission of the Silver Mantis SF. Then we all crashed again exiting the last mission. I still have my badge though. Nobody had a rare slotted since we were all level 20-something.

That one at least comes at the end of the mission, where nothing is trying to kill me and nobody is waiting for me, so I can just duck out for a smoke while it plays. Or go make a sandwich. Or tab out to the forums. Aeon's is long enough to be annoying, but not quite long enough to do anything else during.

Yes, it is a semantic difference, because a group activity that you do not need to actually join a team for addresses none of the concerns people have with a lack of a solo path.

Let's say I have trouble organizing a team to run a TF. Would I not have even MORE trouble organizing a "team" two to three times the size? Let's say I might need to run at a moment's notice. Does this not automatically exclude me from any task that gives a reward upon completion? Let's say I don't enjoy playing with large groups of people I don't know. I'm playing with even MORE people in a multi-team event, with an even greater chance that I don't know them. Let's say I'm not a very good player and feel left behind on teams. Well then in that case I probably do need a team to get any reward at all in an event where reward is determined by participation. Let's say I avoid teaming because my computer is old and lags on teams. If I double or triple the people, my contribution is limited to random button mashing.

It all depends on how those events pan out, of course. Who knows (except of course people who aren't allowed to talk about it), maybe it'll be like the Mothership, where I can bop into a raid in progress, whack a few Rikti on the fringes, get some Vanguard merits, and leave when I feel like it. It still doesn't address the concerns of people who play at off-peak hours, but it is more accessible to some. Or maybe it WILL be like the Praetorian zone events, although I'm not holding my breath. Or it'll be like Hami which for some people is made of the distilled essence of all the bad parts of 20 ITFs. Considering the only multi-team trial currently in the game is closer to Hami than the other two, I'm not getting my hopes up.

It sounds to me that as an Incarnate you have the following options:

Choose Essence of the Incarnate component. Receive Essence of the Incarnate component, 25 merits, and Notice of the Well.

Choose merits. Receive 50 merits and Notice of the Well.

Choose SHOE. Receive SHOE, 25 merits, and Notice of the Well.

From the phrasing of the patch note, it sounds like the Notice is automatically awarded to any Incarnate character.

Stop. Just stop. This is pure semantics and you know it. Anything that requires multiple people in the same place at the same time working toward the same goal is GROUP CONTENT, whether those people need to be actually be on a team or not.

Can I join a Mothership raid, CoP, or Hami raid without joining a team? Yes. Can I do one whenever I feel like it, even if nobody else wants to do one? No. Therefore they are group content.

The existing Praetorian zone events are entirely different, in that it's possible to do them all by yourself. They are solo AND group content.

I don't think there are any pets, but what about the tentacles? Are those auto-hit or just really high to-hit?

I just ran a bunch of that Roman dude's repeatable missions and got an Absolute Amazement: Stun. Oh look, good stuff does drop after all.

I'm pretty sure he only wants them to increase the drop rate on recipes "people actually use," ie recipes he wants to use but can't afford. After all, nobody uses all those other garbage recipes.

Buying up everything is extremely difficult when people keep producing more stuff.

Yep, you're greedy. You made an analogy that didn't make any sense, so I just went with it. Why do you think people hang onto stuff instead of just selling it? To look at how shiny it is? I'm willing to bet the number of people who do that is so small it doesn't make a dent in supply. People hang onto things because THEY EXPECT TO USE THEM. It's called being prepared, as per the motto of boy scouts and paranoid conspiracy theorists. I'm sure you've heard of it. Or are you the kind of guy who goes to the grocery store and only buys tonight's dinner, because you don't want to be greedy and buy more food than you need right now?

Don't farm with a team of 8 then. Drop rates suck on teams, always have.

I did it once, and I'm not doing it again. It wasn't the cost so much as the lack of availability that prompted me to do it, but in the end it wasn't worth it. It started becoming a chore.

You can have my snow, I don't want it. It's Canadian snow, so it's way better than American snow.

Which is just another reason we need a slider that works. If 50s could generate them the only disadvantage would be tying up a market slot, and I'm willing to bet the majority of the playerbase isn't using all their slots on all their characters anyway.

I'm not running 22 repetitive missions for a piece of Positron's Blast. It's just not worth it. In fact it would be exacerbating the problem with what I want those recipes for, which is slotting characters as I level them, since by doing a straight buy I'd be unable to potentially generate 10 random mid-level recipes for the market.