Fulmens

I went for Massive Greed and it didn't work out. Much.

I _did_ sell a few [at least 20] common salvage for a million each and a few [at least 10] common IO's for over a million each.

And I crafted and flipped a regenerative tissue for a 25 million profit.

But other than that it seemed... less ridiculous than other 2XP weekend. It's like the AE frenzies took the edge off.

Edit: My numbers might go up as I find little caches scattered around the place. Also, the "norm" has gone up so a 500,000 inf level 35 common IO doesn't stand out as much as it used to.

I got a bunch of friends together and played a bunch of hours. Some in the AE, some not. 2XP for the XP is sort of like... gaming conventions for the stores? Not a great metaphor. Anyway, it's a time that people make an effort to be on the game, so you get to see people you barely ever see. It's a chance to try new projects. To finish off old projects that are stuck at inconvenient levels. I have a fresh shiny L31 INV tank, I got three levels on a 37-ish character and four on a 43-ish character. I did some lousy arcs, some agricultural and some not, but on the other hand... I found out the secret of the Spiderling Cookies . Arc 288916 , by Mindshadow.

If you don't make any plans for 2XP, you're going to get in PUG's doing what PUG's do. I don't know if you can say anything but "Working as intended" about that.

qr:It does seem like the problem is on your end.

What does /netgraph 1 give you ? You should get a nice low green lawn. If you're getting lots of tall green spikes, or little bits of red, you can figure out your problem from there.

(/netgraph 0 turns off the netgraphery.)

Mu would help. I don't really think of it as a fix, and this is why:

I played a Force Field/Elec defender once and it didn't really feel good until level 41. That was a very long time to play on hope.

I played an Elec/Inv brute that didn't take off until I got slots in Lightning Rod, and even 33 levels is a very long time to wait by my personal watch.

So a build that doesn't work until 41 is, for me, a build that doesn't work.

edited to clarify what an FF/elec is, in case it's not obvious. Frostfire? Founders Falls? Force Feedback? Flaming Feet?

Oh dear. There's a gauntlet on the ground...

I don't have any Elec Armor experience, but I can't resist poking at builds.

Hmm.

TL;DR version - I can maybe make it twice as tough. Leave ten bids up at the Black Market for either medium/large Lucks or things that you can combine to make medium/large Lucks. You're a villain; you're expected to have addictions. This is very, very challenging to play.

WHAT YOU HAVE IN THE SET: capped Energy, 42% res to everything else, and no heals, no defense, no regen. Is that true? It's like Fiery Aura without Healing Flames. Low resistance and no layers. Ow.

POWER STUFF: You need Aid Self almost more than Tough and Weave, I suspect. You need BOTH sets. I don't think you need Grounded, just a couple KB IO's. I've been wrong before.

IO STUFF: I'd put five sets of Aegis in there. Steadfast Res/Def. That will get you to like 32% Def [assuming Weave] against Fire/Cold/AOE . That's not very good coverage and not very good Defense, but a small Luck will cap it. You can try to get some Zephyrs in your travel powers for maybe an extra 6% Ranged, but that's really living on hope for THAT to make a difference.

If you could slot three 4-sets of Kin Combat that would be nice. I'm not holding my breath, though. You might even get good use out of the proc... knockdown is knockdown, I'm not proud.

Pick up 50-100% Regen- again, it's not much on survivability, but it's nearly free. Two Devastation, two Entropic Chaos [in Focus], two Numina and the Regen Tissue unique in Health. 100% Regen is like a free Respite once a minute, or 1/4 of what Healing Flames would get you.

PLAYSTYLE: Every seven seconds, use Shockwave to throw people into the nearest wall. It takes them about two and a half seconds to stand up from that. If they're KB resistant you're screwed. I wanted to say "Use Power Sink and Lightning Field to drain their endurance" but that only works, maybe eventually, on even-cons. If you were elec/elec you could do it. And for tough fights, take either a large Res or a medium/large Def inspiration. Carry fifteen of them.

So there you go. You've got Energy covered, Fire and Cold sorta covered, and AOE. All the big hitters [which tend to be Smash, Lethal, Melee] are going to land, and land hard.

Good luck.

Also I will point out that you can usually, with patience, get crafted level 40 generic IO's (slightly better than a +3 SO) for 55 thousand each. Sometimes much less- I've seen them going for 5 or 10K. Just leave the bids up for a week.

I know, the market is my answer to EVERYTHING. "Nasty rash? Head to Wentworth's, it'll clear right up!"

Think of two characters, A and B.

A has Build Up Headsplitter, and Disembowel, and can do 1600 points of damage in two shots, in 5... every 45 seconds. (all specific numbers blatantly invented.) Over that 45 seconds they do 9000 points of damage, meaning 200 DPS.

B is a Claws scrapper, so after they doublestack Follow Up (a damage buff they can "perma") they can do 300 DPS, but it takes ten seconds to get Follow Up going, so in the first 5 seconds of the fight they only do 1000 points of damage. In 45 seconds the Claws scrapper will do [say] 13000 points of damage.

The Broadsword scrapper will do a lot more burst damage. In old PVP (issue 4-12 I think) where everyone was running around at 45 miles an hour, you could start one melee attack and maybe queue up another one during the half-second you were in melee range of the other guy, and then they would take off like the Road Runner and never come back. Broadsword/Regen did a LOT better than Claws in PVP.

They've changed everything in PVP now; it's a different game.

There are other times burst damage is a Good Thing. Sappers, Tsoo Sorcerors, anything else where you want to kill them very very fast... yeah, you could hold them but if you drop their HP to zero it's a very effective mez.

On the other hand, I soloed my first AV last month [go me!] and there was no burst damage about it. I was hitting 123242123242123242 for about ten minutes. I figure that a Stalker should be able to solo an AV, because nobody remembers Lee Harvey Oswald for shooting the governor of Texas.

Warmhearted, obviously.

... but you can't do it with a Scrapper running SO's with no inspirations.

I believe that is not true of Defenders or Controllers.

You only think you don't need the table. My crafter with the table is so blessed lazy that, if the table explodes and she has empty market slots, she just buys more salvage.

There are people out there going "240 merits for a LoTG! That's outrageous! And I bought five!"

So 1000 merits for a purple would be the same, but destroying four times as many recipes.

Spankenmonkey: Different people have different levels of tolerance for illiteracy.

We're not your English teachers. Nobody's paying us to read your crap.

If you WANT people to read your crap, try and make it easy on them. If not, then why are you posting?

Oh, please, you have not yet begun to flail.

Look, I'm from New Jersey, you don't see me getting pushy, loud, or...

umm...

LOOK! AN OBVIOUS DISTRACTION!

*flees*

I've soloed one AV in my life, on a level 43 Ninja/ninja stalker with about a 300 million inf build.

Scrappers [and stalkers and brutes] solo AV's because for them, it's JUST BARELY doable. I get the impression that Controllers solo AV's because it's easier than going and changing their difficulty down to Unyielding and changing it back afterwards.

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uccessfully completing your first lv5-9 Mayhem will get you a Temp Travel Power good for 2 hrs of Flight time (Once it's gone though, it can't be reaquired).

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Villainside, this isn't QUITE true. There's someone in Grandville right in front of Lord Recluse's statue selling flightpacks for 10K apiece.

Yeah, you have to get to Grandville, which is a little tricky, but you should be pretty safe on the way from the boat to the vendor.

I'm not quite sure what you're suggesting there with the Super strength classes. If you clarify, maybe I can answer that.

As far as "Are sets better than just regular inventions?" The answer is "Yes."

Consider, at level 35, having two slots in a Ranged Attack.

You have a generic Accuracy and a generic Damage in there at the moment.

That's 36.7% Accuracy, and 36.7% Damage.

You replace those with a level 35 Thunderstrike Acc/Dam/Rech and a level 35 Ruin Acc/Dam/Rech.

You now have 36.7% Accuracy, 36.7% Damage, and 36.7% Recharge. (Maybe 36.8%, depending on roundoff.)

Without even using any Set Bonuses, you've added essentially an extra Recharge enhancement.

You can put five slots into a power and get better than seven "slots" of effect.

You're still limited to the Enhancement Diversification softcap (95%-ish) but you can put a lot more different things into a power.

If you pick the correct IO's, you don't even have to spend very much more money.

Lacrymosa: I've only encountered you in this thread.

You've made offers to physically meet and intimidate people.

You've decided that people who disagree with you are living in their parents basement.

You've decided that defending an imaginary market is less valuable than attacking it.

You've accused people of being childish.

You've blamed the school system for... something.

In fact, you've done just about everything except discuss the substance of any of the counterarguments people have offered.

I wasn't actually going to put you on /ignore ... and then I specifically read every post you made in this thread, one after the other.

If I'm talking about economics, and you're talking about my living arrangements, my flawed character, and my various sins ... that's not actually a dialogue.

Why should I listen to you if you're not listening to me?

I don't really think of purples as "inf inflation" so much as "shiny inflation."

The purple glare is much brighter than the old, orange, glare.

Or I could cash those in for ya. See my new sig.

Coulda been Lohenien.

Coulda been people getting out there and playing "Down with AE!" I dunno.

I'm going to give you some bad advice, then explain why I gave it to you, then explain why it's bad.

THE BAD ADVICE:
Take every piece of salvage to Wentworth's and list it for 1 inf. Take every "set recipe" (it'll have a name, like Air Burst or Numina's Convalescence) to Wentworth's and list it for 1 inf. If it doesn't sell in a week, take it down and sell it to a store. Take every generic recipe to a store and sell it.

WHY I GAVE YOU THIS ADVICE: Your first time through, you probably have lots to get your brain around. "Store bought" enhancements (the TO's, DO's, and SO's people mentioned) work fine. If you do this, you will give people a lot of bargains, but you will still have plenty of inf for "store boughts" and you will probably get at least half of what the stuff is worth.

WHY IT IS BAD ADVICE: If you feel like you want to get into the Invention System, the amount of inf you have becomes meaningful. What I mean is, the most you can spend on storebought SO's at one time, at level 50, is about 5 million inf. Any number over that is meaningless UNTIL you want to buy invention stuff.

If you list for 1, you will get the highest current bid. Usually, for something valuable, that's going to be within a factor of 2 of "what it's really worth". Often, people put in a lot of lowball bids hoping for a huge bargain. So the last 5 may have sold for 20 million inf, and you might put it up for 1 inf and sell it for 1.5 million inf.

1.5 million inf will buy you all your storeboughts through level 22. So you're getting ripped off, but you still have all the money you need for the basics. You can do a little research and make a whole lot of money, in this game. But, as they little loading screen tells us, the game was not made harder when inventions were added. It's still balanced around storeboughts.

Tonality: I'm considering a personal shopper service. I throw up five or ten bids across a variety of levels for around the going price, and charge somewhat more. My customers give me something [say, 50% more than I paid for it] and they don't need to have ten free market slots, and they don't need to have the inf for ten bids.

The last time I needed something specific I got it by paying so much that it was worth it for people to use merits to buy it. It seemed inefficient.