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You need to re-look at those two recipes then. The below 50, especially ranges 35-42 Thunderstrikes and 32-37 Crushing Impacts, are in very high demand. I've sold a bunch of them for 3M a pop, I've sold a number for 7-8M. Considering the ease in which I got the recipes and the low cost of salvage, that's a phenomenal return on investment.

I go for a high volume selling strategy and those IOs move fast enough for me that I will make them an active part of my marketing strategy. And 3-8M is plenty of profit for a slot. I've made billions in marketing things like Triage and Serendipity, so I'm not embarrassed at all at making *merely* 8M a slot, especially if the turnover is fast (fast = must sell overnight).

I actually agree with these points. The game could be better advertised, and it does lack a lot of press. The economy has undoubtedly affected subscriptions for a lot of games.

Wow, that's an eye opener. I didn't think fire/shield would have that many results near the top. I haven't looked at that thread in quite some time.

I once posted a thread in this forum titled Fire/Shield FOTM and remember getting roundly castigated for claiming without justification that Fire/Shield, especially Fire/Shield/Blaze would become one of the most popular scrapper variants.

While I'm not sure whether or not Fire/Shield is more popular than Electric/Shield (better AoE) or Dark Melee/Shield (better AV soloer), I think a lot of players like the fact that it's a good compromise choice between for those who like AoE and single target. It is however easy to see that it has become a very popular variant of scrapper.

Do eet, Mac!

And as for TFs and things, it's a combination. The Fire/Rads have a regular teaming night and some folks are very active in teaming up with each other. I'm honestly more of a soloer, though I've teamed up with SG mates on occasion.

It would take me approximately 1 hour to 90 minutes to get to the 5.58M mark assuming I was level 1 with 0 inf. I can say that with almost absolute certainty because I've done it multiple times.

The difficult and longest part of the exercise is to get around 800k. Once you have that, it's very easy to translate that quickly to 5-6M. With 800k, you can bid for many recipes that cost 200-300k, craft it and then list it for 10 for a near immediate payoff. There are many level 40 and 50 niches that can get you this easily.

I run +2/x8/no bosses on my fire/kin, +2/x8/bosses on my fire/shield/blaze. There's no appreciable drop in speed between those settings and +0/x8, at least for my characters.

Nope, it was directed at the OP. You're misunderstanding me. I agree with your stance on the idea of making older characters more powerful as being a bad idea (I say pretty much the same thing in my first post). I also agree with Obsidius in that peppering a critique of the game with words like "dumb", "stupid", etc. won't influence the developers in changing their viewpoint.

So again, my comment was directed at the OP, not you.

Crushing Impact and Thunderstrikes *are* commons. I put them in the bins for SG use because a) I've already sold 2 or 3 complete sets of each and b) the character doesn't need the influence.

The only way I could improve my build at this point is going for a defensive build that would include 2 sets of Kinetic Combat and grabbing Weave. That would get me up to 17% melee defense which is far from shabby for a level 33 regen. However, the build I have right now is far from bad, so the difference in performance in being able to complete story arcs or participate in TFs is only marginal.

So again, take the Crushing Impacts. No one else seems to want them.

Completely agree with these last two paragraphs. Veterans should have a big picture view instead of just focusing on the details. Also, disparaging someone's work by calling it "dumb", etc. is not exactly conducive to influencing them.

It's balanced as is by it's versatility and safety. Though I would support an increase to the speed of hover.

It's balanced due to the fact that it can hit multiple targets. Compare it with shadow maul and it comes off as a very good power.

It's a fluff power given by a badge. Don't think a change is needed. Many accolades do not have any powers associated with them.

Disagree. I think it's fine considering that this power can be bought. Even with the 2 hour timer, it's pretty powerful.

Disagree. If you fall, you *should* take damage.

Personally, I think they should go further and just eliminate origin-specific drops altogether. Origin, as implemented, really doesn't do anything other than inconvenience players at lower levels.

Not a bad idea actually

Don't disagree. The zone is too big, and was obviously developed during the time when the developers thought that huge expanses were necessary. It could go for a revamp, but it's not the worst zone in the game...I'd rather see other zones revamped first.

Don't disagree. This is a commonly asked for feature.

No opinion on this. Nice to haves, but not something I'd consider crucial.

Disagree, and it's balanced compared to other sets. In fact, you can actually argue that archery is much more powerful compared to other sets. Range is fine...there are many other sets (AR, energy blast, sonic, fire) that have key blasts and powers on far shorter ranges.

That's a good question and yes, it's a suggestion that I would agree with. Having a ranged set with range enhanced would be nice.

Strongly disagree. It's not a store but an exchange. Players feed the market. If you want more supply, the devs could potential increase the drop rate, but that wouldn't necessarily cause players to put up their recipe, salvage, etc. on the market.

Disagree. It's a *ranged* blast set. No other blast set has a melee attack. Archers already get the advantage of having brawl use a kick animation so their weapon is still out.

Agree.

Agree with the general idea. The details need to be tweaked.

You already have things in the game that are humongous (Hamidon, Rularuu, the Mother ship). I'd say this is unneeded.

Strongly disagree. And I'm fairly certain I have characters older than you have (unless your registration date doesn't match when you started; I started at retail release despite my Aug 2004 reg date).

I'm opposed to anything more that increases the power gap between veterans and new players largely because it causes many new players to turn away from the game. They figure that since they didn't get in from the beginning, there's no way they can be as powerful as people who started earlier. The recent vet rewards (travel at level 6, removal of fog of war, multiple respecs) already provide substantial advantages for a veteran player. I don't want this gap widened, because I want to see new players encouraged to join up, not give up because they see a power gap they can never attain.

Noght,

I have a bunch of Crushing Impact and some other useful stuff in the bins. Take em. They're yours if you want them. They're all level 33.

That goes for anybody else too. I have some good Thunderstrikes in there too. They're up for grabs.

BTW, my character is Furia Fist so if you see my stuff in there, take it.

Problem with TheMarket is that you don't just see Midlevel Crisis members on it. It's helpful (at least for me) to get a quick headcount on who's online as opposed to shifting through a channel.

But if no one wants to do a separate thing, I'll follow along with the herd.

That's irrelevant because it's not a good farm map. I'd much rather see metrics on inf earned per hour or time it took to max tickets. Farm maps are *supposed* to be easy.

Also, there are far easier ways to challenge yourself if you want that. Want a challenge? Go do a radio mission full of Arachnos +4/x8/bosses yes, and clear it. That's hard for just about anything.

Heh, I'm right there with you. I also got neg repped for posting this: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=203592

Fortunately, before people were openly bidding on this on the server boards, my bid filled. I have subsequently been asked by someone on Virute if I would part for it for 3B. They would even conveniently supply me with a respec recipe so I could unslot it.

That's great. Here's a bit of SG organizational advice.

1. Everyone should be able to invite, even the lowest rank. The lowest rank, however, can't kick. Likewise, all ranks should be able to pay SG rent...it's a hassle, and I always appreciate it when someone else does it.

2. Base editing rights should go to rank 4 and above. Each side should have a designated base architect and at least one assistant. The leaders should of course have full base editing priviledges.

3. We really should at this point establish a separate SG channel. I've noticed a few times where the group was split between villain and hero side, and sometimes it might be nice to have all of us on one side or the other, especially if you wanted to organize a group push to reach certain prestige goals, etc.

4. May be nice to identify who's who. I've interacted with Organica, Postagulous, Tidbit, FourSpeed, Fulmens, Hell Jumper and Panzer. I'm sure I've interacted with others, but I still don't know who's who.

My characters:
Hero side: Furia Fist, level 33 DM/Regen Scrapper - currently trying to beat off Squez for most prestige.

Villain side: Fran Frankenstein, level 23 (and climbing) Bots/Dark MM - current at around 63k prestige, which is the most after our leader who has 400k something.

(btw, if the character has two Fs in the name, it's probably me )

People I recognize:
Fulmens - E K Nachtmusik and leader toon on Midlevel Crisis (name escapes me atm)
Tidbit - Riches
FourSpeed - Needles and Pins
Organica - Tainted Candy
Postagulous - Betty Forever and I think you have another blaster in there
Panzer - Panzer (that one was easy )
Hell Jumper - Hell Pscyche

You can even drop his mission to get it without effort.