Frogfather

From my perspective, the other 11 months of the year....and Im a white male. I dont mind the various history months. Lets take the time to celebrate and highlight other cultures, it doesnt cost me anything to do so.


--Frog

The three UA classes you mention were published in various issues of Dragon Magazine back in '83. The television series came out that same year, I dont know anything about production lead times but Im guessing Gygax was working for both sources at the same time. It may be a chicken and egg sort of thing (I have a new idea for a character for the show, lets put something on paper...or I have a new class, lets add it to the cartoon)

Just FYI, Im not trying to correct anyone, youre still factually correct about playable classes

--Frog

1. Dominate and Subdue are attacks, not Single Target Hold and Immob, they are slotted like attacks.
2. Recharge is paramount, but its also one of the most expensive things to build for. So in with Decimations, Positrons Blast and Lotgs....
3. Youre a few seconds off of perma for ML and Hasten. Thats okay. Its something you can build towards if you want.
4. Youre also a few steps shy of being at the positional defensive soft cap for all three (any defense you get from Mask Presence is halved when not hidden)
5. Endurance should not be an issue...2.2EPS delta between Use and Recovery.
6. I dont know what to do with Whirlwind. Do you want an attack or do you want an "Oh Crap" power. Your call, slot accordingly.
7. Ive rebuilt my Fort/Widow combo many times, but never with these powers or budget so please just use my slottings as a starting point and come up with your own.

Enjoy

--Frog

1. What is the budget for this? Are we sticking to common IOs?
2. Theres a lot of issues, none of which that are insurmountable, but you probably should respec as opposed to just slotting new IOs
3. You should pull out and sell those purples, they arent doing you any good and could make a fair bit of moola from them.
4. You can slot for end reduction better if you went with set ios (even cheap ones), with the multi aspect nature of them you get better bang for your slots and can hit your targets of acc, end redux and damage all at the same time
5. You want recharge and some defense bonuses with you Fort. You want recharge and some defense bonuses with your widow.


--Frog

I agree. Its not that NCSoft isnt treating the customer base fairly, its not as if Im losing anything....I just dont like the policy shift. NCSoft has a right to make money, but this is out of left field for the player base and is a stark reminder that its a buisness. Im going to wait and see and make my own private decision of whether or not I remain. If it revitalizes the game like Lotro and apparently CO then Im all for it....if micro-transactions crop up even for subscribers Ill be out the door quickly.

As for "moral" grounds. What? You only like "fair trade" MMOs or something....Im confused

You can make hundreds of influence. Lets assume you can make 5 million an hour on your tank. 1 million is the lowest that a FF defender (in SG mode no less) posted during that "One Hour Challenge" we had a year ago or so (anyone feel free to link it). Your circuit board at the top end costs you half a million...thats the buy it now price, then thats 6 min of game time...youre complaining about 6 mins of grinding to get the flat inf that you need to buy the item outright during the peak pricing time?

What youre missing is that everyone makes 5 million or more an hour or more. Theres only so many of the mid market salvage available. Youre not competing with the seller to find the right price, you're competing with all the level 50s out there who make 5M an hour. Im suprised common salvage isnt higher because theres a certain subsect of players out there to whom half a million is meaningless.


Again see above. But now lets take it a step further. You are buying something you are not supplying, you are contributing to the rising cost of the item. You are the cause of your own crisis. Isnt that funny?
Now you see...this is where youre doing it wrong. I dont play that much, and I dont farm and I assure Ive never complained about the purchase price of an item. Every time something is above my purchase price I become a seller until I can afford the next item comfortably. Theres two sides of the equation, for every time you think something is too pricey, theres a seller out there thinking "Wait, they paid how much for that?!!?"

You see other people as playing more than you and pushing prices. Ill bet you its not that at all...its the people that dont play that much driving prices, hence the spikes on the weekend and lulls on Tuesday.

In fact due to your lack of play time youre in an ideal spot to have patience and get everything much cheaper.

To sum it up...

Become a seller if you dont like the purchase price
Patience wins everytime (eventually)
Theres two sides to every transaction

--Frog

Ful,

Ill be sending a donation later tonight to your Freedom project. Earmark it for this if you would

--Frog

Ive actually been playing my Virtue 88er. Ill get on tonight and close the gap if I can afford it.....ie, its less than a couple of billion inf to take back our spot

--Frog

Its more than just the Targaryen angle. Theres 7 houses in Westeros, 2 of which (at least) would definitely side with Dany if she comes back. That means the Horsemen would have a place to land and stage from. Without infrastructure they are not a worrisome force on the same level they were before.

I disagree with you disagreeing I guess is where we're at then

I think youre missing my point about what the wolves mean to the children, and I imagine Im explaining it really poorly as well. Suffice it to say theres obviously a mystical aspect that hasnt been touched on in the show or the novels (cmon a Stag, the symbol of Baratheon, piercing the throat out of a Direwolf, while the puppies all live through the birth in identical numbers as the Stark children) Then add the novels version of Brans recovery that he seems stronger when the wolves are howling...

Then add Sansa's wishywashyness, Arya, Jon, Robbs, and Brans exploits and its obvious (to me at least) theres something there. Heck I imagine Rickon is probably somewhere gathering a shaggy haired army at the age of 4....

Enjoying the series

--Frog

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All the Stark children except Sansa do remarkable things and show themselves to be of remarkable mettle over the course of the novels....

Sansa is the only one who lets circumstances control her. I really think losing her wolf ties to losing her exceptionalness regardless of what traits are magnified by the wolves.

I could point out examples of how the children act above what one would expect throughout the novel and how Sansa acts "below" what we would expect (especially late in the first novel) but Id rather not spoil things for people.

No, the wolf-link is what separates the children from the masses and makes them exceptional. Lady's death will be Sansas doom.

--Frog

Maybe not so much "its cooler" as I dont think I can get that kind of satisfaction out of it again. I enjoyed the Crazy 88s and contributed as much as anyone. I enjoyed the run, found it to be very carthritic in a wierd way...

Im just not going to chase that high again

--Frog

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I really hate spoiling things for people but I have a theory Ive long entertained and havent put on paper. As you watch the Arya/Sansa personalities unfold in the next couple of books Arya seems to become more feral, more A Type personality and Sansa wilts in front of the Lannisters and Kings Landing becoming more of a pawn than anything else.

I think Sansa losing her wolf took from her some innate sense of self that keeps Arya going. Arya's "Starkiness" (for want of a better word) mirrors Nymeria, she leads her pack and becomes focused on survival and revenge. Sansa just loses sight of herself and lets a successive people push her around until she finally finds an identity (maybe)

I think the Wolves are were given to the Stark children so they could do what needs to be done at a very early age. Robb and Greywind, Jon and Ghost, Bran and Summer...etc. The names chosen are prophetic and indicative of a core portion of their personality

--Frog

Not going to argue with you. But I would point out that Tolkien was writing in a different age. Just like you wouldnt put Shakespeare on the big screen without adapting it, you just cant read Tolkien like a modern fantasy writer.

That being said, I enjoyed all the books tremendously, save the Silmarillion and Children of Hurin (the later because it came out after I moved on to other things)

Yeah....I was on a run this morning, where I was a flurry of activity and I ended up with the common table.

I will admit I was on the ambush team so I didnt attack the AVs much but I most assuredly wasnt afk or d/ced or leeching

YMMV

--Frog

No...a niche or two has gone away but theres still more ways to make inf on the market than one person could possibly exploit.

Even if 98% of the playerbase catches most of the high rollers just wont care about the price disparity between crafted and uncrafted. They want what they want, and they want it NAO. You just have to be in position to give it to them.

Actually that 1M inf price tag is the most newb friendly thing in the game. For every buyer there is a seller....


For every person that says, "the price of a common salvage was too high and I was forced to pay X", theres someone else who says "wow, I cant believe I got X for my common salvage." And that seems pretty newbie friendly to me.

If I dont have an immediate use for a few billion and I dont feel like marketeering Ill put in a bid for Glad Armor +3%. If it hits Ill sell it off market, otherwise its just storage.....

Congo Rats

I wonder if this kid is thinking....."and I thought it smelled bad on the outside..."

Yeah let me jump on this bandwagon and say Ill insure Fulmens work. I can cover these kind of purchases without breaking a sweat and Fulmens has been doing something similar with his inf trading services, prestige matching offers, and merit buying with zero complaints for so long that this is easily the most lopsided wager Ive ever proposed. I wont lose a penny and am willing to bet billions on that

--Frog