Fury Flechette

Yeah, that fight would've been pretty lopsided in your favor.

This is a horrible way of doing it. Head over the marketing forum and cut that time significantly and make most of your inf offline.

You have 15 level 50s and you still come off sounding like a noob?

QR is better than stamina. If I can make a decent spines/sr scrapper, which doesn't have QR, then I can make a regen scrapper without stamina. Anyone who's min-maxed builds realize that endurance drain comes mostly from how attacks are slotted. I've been able to make an endurance efficient spines/sr build since pre-inventions.

Also, I'm not sure why the dig at post count. Post count matters only in the sense that you can look up a player's history and find out whether or not they know what they're talking about. Given that the person you criticized wrote guides on how to min-max a character, I'd say his opinion is more credible than yours who makes silly claims and only justifies his opinion by saying you have 15 level 50s. Does the fact that I've probably deleted that many 50s make my opinion trump yours? (pro tip: it doesn't)

Further, if you played with regen, you'd realize that slotting a regen scrapper for regen and recovery is absolutely the worst thing from a min max point of view. Regen thrives on +recharge and then defense. It's a click set. Passive regeneration is actually *not* it's strong point.

Yup this. Rage + Sands of Mu is a rather awesome combination and I use it constantly when there's a rage crash.

Pretty much agree with this. I used to love PvP in this game. I thought it had amazing potential since it was the only fast moving PvP on the market that allowed you to fight effectively in three dimensions. Sure, it wasn't balanced, but it was still fun.

I think the time for PvP has sunsetted in this game. The dev team's emphasis is definitely the PvE side of the game, and the focus on the end game content will eat up pretty much most of the resources from here on out. That will probably stir more interest to the majority of the player base than any bone that is thrown to the PvP side of the house.

Truly a shame.

This ^^

I was very disappointed that it was single target, and kept gleefully trying to line up targets into a cone.

With that said, I see no reason why it couldn't be a temp power that drops. It does high damage, has inherent accuracy, but it's a single target power with a longish cast time and it roots. Sounds plenty balanced to me.

So /signed

I can't agree with your suggestion. The purpose of these was actually as a means for players to earn these rewards without farming or using the market. The ironic thing about your suggestion is that you want to put the farming aspect of it back in. It's the whole reason why they put the time limit in there in the first place. They don't want players hording like they are currently doing with reward merits.

Now mind you, your suggestion would only benefit me because I probably can crank out A merit missions about as fast as anyone as I have several farming capable characters already. However, the mechanisms are in place precisely to stop players like me.

Odd. I can find a team on Virtue any time I want on red side. I suggest you look into global channels and try to create teams yourself. Just toggling the LFT flag isn't sufficient.

This isn't directed at you, but I find that the people who have the most difficulty in finding teams tend to be the passive types that want teams to find them instead of being more assertive about it.

As much as I like air superiority, I wouldn't make a fire armor toon without leaping. I like having immobilize protection too much from combat jumping. It annoys me to no end to be rooted in place like some squishy.

*boggled*

There's a ton of new content in GR. Three whole new zones of contacts with lots of story arcs. You don't need Ultra Mode to enjoy that.

I have no problem with people saying that they don't like the new stuff in GR, but saying that there hasn't been stuff added is boggling.

P.S. They added 4 new power sets in the last year: dual pistols, demon summoning, kinetic melee, electric control or did you miss that too?

Your information is outdated. Small lucks only give 12.5% defense each. It was largely thought that they provided more, but subsequent testing and monitoring by combat attributes verified that 3 lucks do *not* equal 45% defense (it's 37.5% which is still very good but not soft capped).

I don't get Weave with my SRs. It's pretty easy to soft cap without it. I do get Tough / Fighting pool though. First, because you need Tough for the Steadfast Def/Res and second, having a bit of resists helps a lot - cushioning the occasional crits you get from fighting high conning bosses.

So, my advice: don't abandon the fighting pool, skip Weave.

Alkirin no longer has any problems. His problems mostly amounted to picking some bad niches and pricing things too high so the IOs would sit in his slots without selling. In his last update to me via PM, he was well on his way to making a tidy fortune.

1. You want to price low enough that your stock sells, while still making a profit and pricing above the bargain hunters. This means that even if you're selling only your listed price, you'll be making profit.

2. Pick a niche that has buyers from the last five sold within the last few days. Picking a high profit niche that only sells one of that item every couple of months is a losing proposition unless you are extremely patient.

Have you seriously been playing since 04 and think kinetics is under powered? All I can say is that your first post on these forums was not a very good one.

Sorry Geko. Completely disagree. GR was targeted for new players, and I think the risk of alienating such players due to frustration at not being able to progress through content is very real. I've run into several new players already who were shocked at how hard some of the timed, wade through a map full of Syndicate minions to kill a hard Syndicate Lt before the timer ran out, while evading ambushes style of missions. And there are a few varieties of these.

I think balancing the consistency of the difficulty is a good thing. And there's still plenty of difficulty left in GR even with this one tweak.

Aye. This definitely happens. I can point to the kill 80 Clockwork mission given by Penelope Yin as an example. You enter the mission with a team and Noble Savage will immediately aggro on any Loyalist members. Resistance members won't even be able to target Noble Savage. But here's the weird thing. If you get close to Noble Savage as your teammates use an AoE, they will damage you. Further, MM pets con orange to players of the opposing faction.

It's unintended PvP.

I agree with this. The gambler's cut spammed by the Sword Adepts and the accurate martial arts attacks used by the Brawler Adepts were pretty mean. Sure, with inspiration use they can be overcome, but in ambush waves, they're nasty.

I found out one of the reason why there's such as huge perception difference in difficulty is based on the type of AT you play. The Syndicate are easy if you're ranged - almost ridiculously so. They can be difficult to melee ATs.

I've had in game friends who simply took squishies with hover and have completely laughed at the Praetorian content whereas some of them made brutes/scrappers/tanks and had a much harder time of it.

Do people really still think this? Even if you don't marketeer/farm at all, your characters earn substantially more than what they used to make in the pre-invention era. I don't struggle to buy DOs/SOs at all.

If you do marketeer (and not farm), your earning power is almost limitless. And your marketeering effort doesn't even have to be that sophisticated. There are players who reach the influence cap only selling common IOs. I've personally went to 0 to the influence cap in days with limited farming and much marketeering.

There's wealth out there, and it's achievable with the bare minimums of effort and a little know how.