Hyperstrike

#2 Is simply something of a cumulative effect. You have people who no longer need pads farming their brains out, but hiding so they don't get pestered.

Prices go up: Prices go down:
And that's about the extent of the difference.

Your RL job has exactly squat to do with how you play a game.

Join the club. You're a unique little snowflake. Now get in the bin with the umpty-bajillion other unique little snowflakes.

Again, this is all nice. But it has jack to do with how you play the game.

And some kind of appeal to authority, based on your purported IQ gets you exactly nowhere (other than into a room full of people rolling their eyes at you in collective disgust).

The thing is, you can both decrease the defense of a critter by 50% AND deal out some damage yourself to HELP KILL HIM FASTER. Instead of just increasing JUST your teammates DPS, try increasing the WHOLE TEAM'S DPS.

It's a sorry defender who can't buff/debuff/heal AND attack at the same time.

This explains your superficial grasp of the game.

Once your ideas qualify as Good, then maybe you'll have a legit gripe.

23? Egads! You're still barely a sperm (a step up from "a gleam").

But happy birthday anyways ya anklebiter.

A lot of this is the first "GOTSTA HAZ DEM NAO!!!" rush. Hopefully this'll peter out in a day or two when the impatient gits have gotten their fill and move on to something else.

I think that's going a bit overboard.

Just because they take our suggestions and don't use all of them doesn't mean they don't think about them. It simply may be that there are other considerations that we aren't aware of or haven't thought of that would monkey-wrench our suggestion from something straightforward and simple into something ugly, hackish, and possibly unfun in corner cases.

Fixed that for ya.

No, it means EXACTLY what he thinks it means.

Your statement in no way detracts from the fact that "random" means "random".

Or are you one of those poor, misguided souls who thinks that games of chance are essentially "fair" and that it'll eventually "balance itself out".

Also, you do not account for differences in play style or duration.

Example:

You play for an hour or two every day, and alt regularly. You get a random purple every now and again.

Someone else plays for 4-5 hours a day, solely on their 50's, going after mobs that are able to drop purples and actively farms them. They get them more often because they generate more chances.


And, even if both of you were playing in an identical manner, there's still always the probability that one person will see more drops than others. Again, luck of the draw (random means random).

You're on the right track. Break up your gaming schedule with CoX for a while. Do the "read a book" thing. Go out and see a movie instead. Watch some boob-tube/DVDs, grab the wife (assuming you're married) and...well you get the idea.



If you can't COMPLETELY divorce yourself from the game, try this:

Log in with a specific objective (complete one mission, just follow up on your market transactions, sit and gab for a bit), then log off and do something else for a while.

I have days that I'm sitting there playing and not really having a lot of fun. Mostly it's just short-term burnout. So I gab with a few friends, finish up what I'm doing and log. I come back a day or so later and it's better.

If you have severe burnout, just take the short-term burnout suggestion and do it for a longer period of time.

All we need is a Rikti Invasion at the same time to drive people bat-*BLEEP!* crazy!

You must absolutely LOATHE Microsoft software then...

About the only consolation this year is that the GMs are dropping merits now.

This is the Zombie Apocalypse. It's a new (as of last year) zone invasion based on the Rikti Invasion engine.


And this is the brand new Deadly Apocalypse. It's a separate type of zone invasion that requires multiple teams. Essentially, 4 ghostly banners appear at certain points around a zone. You have a couple minutes to assemble teams at one. You then beat on the guardian monsters until you accrue enough downed monsters to make the banners vulnerable. You then beat down the banners themselves. Once they're all down, it spawns a GM that you have to go beat down. Once that's done, you're awarded a choice of temp powers.

There are also giant monster spawns around the various zones too.

ToT is GREAT XP. I leveled the *BLEEP!* out of about 4 toons last year.
The Zombie Apocalpse is primarily a badger thing, BUT, it's great for accumulating prestige for an SG too. Same thing goes for the Deadly Apocalypse.

The GM spawns are lousy XP, but, this year, now that we have merits spawning from GMs, is a PRIMO way to build up tons and tons of merits for recipie rolls and specific purchases.

Even though the Wiki has been flaky for the last day or so, here's the central page for the 2009 Halloween Event. If the page doesn't come up, give the guys at Titan a little while to beat it into submission.

I'd recommend holding onto them. They're cheap right now because the event is going on and ANYONE can assemble the parts with a little effort.

With Event items like the Halloween salvage, you can store up to 999 of them on your person. You can hold onto them for your alts, and/or sell a bunch of them later, once the prices have risen again.

The problem is, the mission statement is misleading. It's really a "defeat all" mission with a twist.

One other one is the "Catch the Spy...or not" mission from The Radio. Where as soon as you're within a certain distance from the spy he tries to escape. Whether you've seen him or not.

Sorry, but you're wrong. Inf is money, however much the devs or anyone else tries to foo-foo it.

You can use it to pay your rent. You use it to buy pretty much ANYTHING in the game. It can be traded, given away, etc. Heck, check the market thread. You can even invest it now.

Dude! I'd rather fight Rularuu, Reichsman, and Hamidon solo, during a simultaneous Rikti Raid and Zombie Apocalypse, them buffed, me debuffed, mezzed and exemped to level ZERO than have to put up with my mother.

Hell no! You use that jello mold before it melts!

You're trying to sneak into work late, your boss is standing near the entrance, and you think "Damn. Hot door!"

Aw come on! Live a little!

[quote[I just read on ParagonWiki that the Halloween Salvage will drop from the "Trick" spawns this year, rather than as Treats. My question is, is it likely that a solo player will be able to handle those Trick critters? In other words, will the spawns be too many or too high level for a single (reasonably competent, I hope) level 20-30 solo newbie blaster or scrapper(aka Me) to defeat?[/quote]

If you're in a zone that's in-level for you, you're fine. Mobs will pop up based on your difficulty settings. If you can handle the mobs in a mission, you'll handle the ToT mobs just fine (though their combination of powers might throw you a nasty curve-ball, depending on how you're built).

As noted, the best way to maximize your gains in ToT are to find an area with a lot of doors (the motels are very popular farming spots) and runs run the gauntlet knocking, and wipe mobs as fast as possible.

I didn't say your foot had to be in the boot. Fill it with concrete and then perform an orbital bombardment on them.

True. They're somewhat useful when assembling a recharge intensive build. HOWEVER, they're uselesss for builds that are looking to max Defense/Resist/End management. Worse, they can actually exacerbate problems (like End management) on some builds.