Hyperstrike

Yes! Yes I do!
Luckily I've been so emotionally crippled by religion and society that I've self-censored myself by staying away from buying guns.
Then again, I was one of those people after Columbine going "Yep. That was me, back when."

Then again, I was in the Army and got the chance to play with some of the biggest, nastiest, FUNNEST ordnance on the planet. So you could argue that I may or may not have had a moment of catharsis already...

Then again, I still occasionally do helldesk assistance for my company when we're swamped.


RRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEE!!!!!!

Exactly.

Maybe yes. Maybe no. Unlike Inf, real money isn't normally available in infinite quantities. Yeah, you can run down the street and beat up a guy for the contents of his wallet, but that's usually not THAT renumerative.

If someone with more money than time wants to goin and cash-buy everything for a toon's setup? Let him!

When he burns out in 6-12 months after having "done everything", he's gone, but Paragon still got his money!

And, to paraphrase and expand on something someone a while back said.

One of the strengths of actively developed MMOs is their iterative nature. It's ability to grow and change.

The game, as it stands now, is almost a completely different animal from what it originally launched as.

So, in effect, we already HAVE CoH2. It's CoH.

I look forward to CoH 3, CoH 4, etc, etc as the game continues to develop.

While I agree the profit potential is huge, I'm currently at the "so much Inf it's unwieldy" stage. I have more Inf than I can conveniently pack into one character, including maxed market slots and e-mail.

While yeah, I could stand to make lots more real quick, the problem of managing all that spare Inf would be the proverbial straw and I'd be vaguely camel-like.

Though they have said that if a player wants to shell out tons of development money, they're at least open to listen.

*Reaches into back pocket for a few spare million*

Pretty much all of this s correct.

If your machine can handle dual-boxing for even short periods, I'd say create a secondary account and take it Premium.

Create an alt on the account and invite it to your SG. Use that one to perform your SG invites.

Honestly, having them available on the Paragon Market should help crash the price down to more reasonable levels.

Okay, in-game I'm a multi-billionaire (see 12-digit sums). I already HAD most of really "Want NAO!" IOs and could pretty much buy anything my black little marketeering heart desired.

Additionally I have a hefty stockpile of Alignment Merits and Reward Merits.

So the ONLY thing I can't get in-game on a moment's are certain VERY rare high-level Hami-Os that happen to be out of stock in the market.

I still bought the SBIOs for KinCombat and LOTG.

Why?

Because it made things easier for me and made several of my builds MUCH more flexible with regards to exemping.

I want to make this clear. The builds I put these on were ALREADY sporting Kin Combats and LOTGs. I simply unslotted and replaced.

So this isn't about "avoiding" gameplay. Or not "earning" it through gameplay. It's about convenience. Nothing more.

Yes my child? What can your deity do for you this fine day?
Yes, I already know what it is. But spit it out. Public confession being good for the soul and all that...

Okay, I have three villains in those level ranges and went to get the Mayhems for them this morning.

Ommega: IP Mayhem (L26): Parked in Sharkhead BM
Coronal Agony: Steel Canyon Mayhem (L24): Parked in Sharkhead BM
Lady Deathscream: Talos Island Mayhem: (L32): St. Martial BM

You can hit me up at @Hyperstrike1 or via PM on the board.
I'll probably respond faster on the board until the end of the business day (Central Time, 5PM) today.
I should be on this evening after about 6PM Central.
I should be on tomorrow (Saturday) around 10 AM Central.

Salvage racks start off, by default with permissions only for Leader and Super Leader.

Even if you have base edit permissions at a rank below that, you can't change them.

I will say this again. If it's to the point that the big bad man is tasering you, he's NOT your "bro".

Nope. Because I'm swapping in the vacuum energy powerplant tomorrow.

Yep.

Yes, it holds for scrappers too. Your defense mods are a bit lower, so you can't cap quite as high as a tanker can. But you can still increase your survivability by a not-insignificant amount by bumping your defenses.

The main "gist" of the softcap is "Keep the enemy's chance to hit you floored at 5% and you've effectively kept the amount of damage most enemy groups can inflict on you "manageable".

Okay, the guide was written pre-Incarnates. So, for normal content the cap is 45%. For Incarnates, the cap is 59% due to heightened enemy accuracy/ToHit.

As for "more" over and above the cap being "superfluous". A small amount CAN be useful. Think about the monster stacking defense debuffs in Cimerora. You get hit, and your defense gets debuffed. So you get hit more, so you get debuffed more. So you get hit LOTS, and you're bug splat.

Cascading defense failure is a very real danger there. If you can take a couple hits and still stay capped, it provides you with a modicum of protection against cascading defense failure.

S/L is your most important for most of the game.
E/N is very prevalent in Incarnates content.
F/C is less prevalent.

So "going for cap" should be done roughly in those orders.
If you can get S/L to cap, and get the other two into the 32+ (1 Luck from cap) range, you're usually golden.

My main tank is capped to all simply because I'm anal about self sufficiency (which is why I overbuild for EndRedux as well).

On my build, if you're not as worried about the EndRedux in your active defenses, you can go with LOTGs in place of most of those Cytos (recommend Defense and Def/+Rech) for a big regen boost.

Also you're not really getting all that much out of Psi defense. You're actually being better protected by your ranged and AoE defense.

Your general level of defense is higher, granted. But you're using Maneuvers. While, yes, it works, it's generally considered a sign of bad build planning on an Invuln.

Sure, we could rip out Spring Attack on my build, go with Maneuvers, and realize a marginally higher level of defense, but S/L is already soft-capped, E/N would barely budge upward (because it's taking away a set bonus), and F/C is already in the "good enough" range.

But then you've just bumped endurance consumption by 28% and removed an opening attack that includes KD as a form of damage mitigation.

Lemme know how that build works out for you.
In normal combat you should be able to button-mash like a Brute and have everything dead before you worry about endurance. In protracted combat, you can go to Conserve Power.

I always love coming through a ridiculously tough fight with a full green bar, most of my blue bar, and incredulous "How the **** did you DO that?" looks from my teammates.

Uhm. I'm going to have to just disagree with this and leave it at that.

If I wasn't already going I'd be very VERY peeved with you guys about now.

Au contraire mon frer!

(Forgive the large pictures)

That's assuming the GMOTD works.

Most of the time I never see GMOTD updates. Every once in a while, a couple days late, I'll occasionally have one pop up if I'm alting. But never EVER on first logon.

Oh crap!