Miladys_Knight

PB increases the to hit buff from Aim and Build up. Very handy against accuracy debuffers and things like MoG'd PP's.

You nailed it right out of the box. Welcome to the "ebil" side.

Why do either? There will be fallen empaths on Red Side now. On a good server raiding Hami will be faster than either for a much larger portion of the player base. Which really is the way it should be, but I do see why the devs wanted an alternate way to get Hami-Os to the player base.

OMG a real red name actually posting in the Market Forum in a Market thread and not an invention thread.

/e heart attack

All that aside. What about insp passing between the various classes while in what was "co-op" content or between Heroes and Rogues or Villians and Vigilantes?

That also aside why not just merge the market? You are going to have items passing back and forth anyway with this. People all ready profiteer (especially red side) this will just create yet another opportunity for mass profiteering (not that I mind that's what at least some of this forum section is about after all) but it will also cause the opportunity for mass whining from the "casual" player who is unable to "purple out their Warshades".

If this was in response to "you lost 2 sales" ok as long as I can pass insps back and forth between the various classes you got the sales back

Yep, I don't think the devs would give it terrorize as that would be much too powerful but a grenade with fear and caltrops would be a nice combination.

Yes it would, but I doubt that is a dev intention, and I doubt they would wish to do it going both directions. (I would be happy to be surprised though.)

The suggestion was simply meant as a way to solve one potential wrinkle in the mechanical problems of merging the market.

I use Frozen Aura on my blasters all the time. It's a great tool for soloing with a blaster that is primarily single target or when combined with Sirens from the Sonic primary. Frozen Aura has no damage component and that allows it to stack and sleep even bosses.

You have your finger in the sore. PB no longer affecting KB is probably one of the worst things they could have done to the Energy/Energy Blaster. It was one of the few primary/secondary synergies that combination had.

I realize they did it because in PvP KB was an I win button but once they separated power effects between PvP and PvE with I13's PvP "revamp" they could have put it back in for PvE.

Aside from that, healing after a fight isn't the reason that some blasters take Aid Self. Aid Self has a very nice 48.4% resistance to stun that can be used prior to entering a fight.

That's what AE tickets do all ready. If Rare salvage approaches the 4 mil inf per piece range then farming tickets for it becomes a viable strategy again. It is a safety valve of sorts.

I realize that it can be a hardware limitation but there are ways around it. The market itself is all ready being used as a way around that. Here's a simple solution. When they go through the data base of bids they can "convert" those bids into a non-transferable "salvage". Make each salvage worth say..... 500,000,000 influence (to save potential bit overflow problems when cashing in or, first creating, the tokens). When the markets are merged those salvage tokens are placed in that character's inventory. Even with the hardware limitations you could still store 2 billion "500,000,000 influence tokens" on a character so again no problem.

When the player wants to convert a token into influence. Double click on it and get a confirmation message that proceeding will convert 1 token into 500,000,000 inf "are you sure you want to do this?".

Making it a one way conversion process makes it a temporary way (which was the requirement) to store the excess inf that is all ready being stored in a similar manner by using the market in a manner "not intended".

How about inspirations? Can those be traded freely to any player on the team now? One of the WORST mechanical problems I experience on mixed teams is trying to pass wakies (or enough insps to make a wakie) among members of the team.

A thrown hand grenade with a 10 second timer would be better for a defender. Clicking the power starts the timer. Clicking the ground where you want it throws the grenade. Giving it a 10-15 foot radius fear effect from the time it lands until the time it explodes would also be a nice thematic addition.

Traps is a primary..... the toggles you are mentioning are also primary powers that don't exist in the traps set.

My wife and my intentions were to transfer our existing villians to Paragon City as heros, put them in our blueside SG, and shut the redside one down. I bought CoV when it came out and played it for about 1 full issue with only occasional returns since I6. Most of my villians were deleted to make room for more heros. I have 1 Dom, 1 Brute, and one MM left from that time and I have a fire/fire Dom I started on live during the revamp for testing purposes. My wife has a Brute and a Widow that she wants to transfer in the same way.

If our option with GR is to play on blue side but still have to shop red side and are unable to pass insps, enhancements, recipes, and salvage back and forth between red and blue then it isn't worth the money to buy GR. We have all ready mostly abandoned red side, our only real interest is preserving the characters.

If we can transfer them completely and they become blue side characters in every meaning of the word then we would do that and buy more character slots for our new alts. If the bottom line is that this isn't possible to transfer them completely and permanently then we won't buy GR and we won't need to buy more character slots since deleteing our red side toons will open those old slots back up.

There were many times that I teamed with her in RWZ, me on a controller and her on her brute or her on a scrapper and me on my Dom and we were constantly annoyed by being unable to pass a wakie back and forth or if I got a melee recipe and she got a hold recipe that we weren't able to swap them. If GR doesn't solve those issues we have no real desire to get it and will solve our teaming issues ourselves by deleteing the redside toons.

This whole post is wrong on so many levels it isn't even funny.

The data base "issue" you are refering to is the one that they set up in I9 specifically to keep the markets apart. They could have (and should have) saved themselves quite a bit of work by starting with a single market.

The only consequence of merging the markets now would be that it would be a one way trip. They wouldn't be able to separate them again (easily if at all).

No those things were added later to close "exploits" that allowed items to be passed from one side to the other. We've been told before that there is a single field with a single number that determines if a character is a villian or a hero. Every thing else is identical. That's why they've been claiming that it's all one game.

The only thing stopping it from interacting is the code they put in there in the first place to separate them.

Actualy its more likely to increase the number of niches available though it may have the simultaneous effect of reducing the profitability of those niches due to increased supply. Either way it's not a big deal. Selling more of something that's cheaper still has the potential to increase profits. That's how big chain stores operate.

It's not an implementation problem, we've been told that before. I believe it was Lighthouse that said that all that was required was manually running through the database. Time consuming not difficult. It's exactly what they had to do to the market a few times early on when the data bases crashed.

That's an entirely different situation. This is simply merging two identical systems that have been working properly as far as mechanics go since I10. The largest concerns would be those folks that have more than 2 billion stored in WW or the BM by bidding on items that don't exist. The devs would have to cancel all bids, cancel all posts and refund the listing fee (this would do nothing to stored/for sale items except remove the offer. Slots are finite the goods would just sit there until the next time their owner logged on to repost them.) They'd have to increase the inf cap (at least temporarily) to account for those players that have more than the current inf cap tied up in the market.

Hardly. Nothing is being changed two identical systems would simply be merged.

Let's see villians showed up in Issue 5 and inventions and the market in issue 9. Eleven issues later and we are still so far away from parity that no merger is possible? Shouldn't 5 issues to eliminate the headstart have been enough unless there is something wrong red side?

That sends a clear message to me that the steps (if any) that the devs have taken have failed or at any rate are working so poorly that parity may never be reached.

Either villian earning rates ARE too far distant from hero earning rates that heros continue to pull ahead or villian rates are the same and they will NEVER reach parity.

In either case the devs need to take some positive action if they want the 2 games to really be one game as they claim that it all ready is. They've dropped the ball on this.

Actually, I'd have to say that devices is quite a bit safer (it's possible to wipe out an entire spawn and not even be in line of sight) but the trade off to get that amount of safety is, for most players, a grossly unacceptable amount of animation/recharge/set up time.

Even from an RP stand point it's ridiculous.

Example 1: I live in Los Angeles and I do every thing required to move to New York. I move to New York, live in New York, work in New York but have to go back to LA to Shop.

Example 2: I'm a villain, I travel down the path of reform. I still have the raw power to level entire city blocks but I'm good guy now. Good enough that no one back in the Isles trusts me and I've applied for and gotten my security clearances to work in, and fight crime in, Paragon City BUT my security clearances STILL AREN'T GOOD ENOUGH to buy honestly earned and manufactured widgets from the store in the City. I still have to go back to my evil ways of stealing, fencing, buying stolen goods, selling stolen goods, trading stolen goods, etc. to build my IO enhancements?

WTH?!?!?

We've been told for how long now that it's all one game? Yet, clearly and ridiculously, it isn't.

Someone (or several someones) at Paragon Studios needs to go have their heads surgically removed from their rear ends.

Taking Fire, Electric, or Munitions for an epic gives you a second hold to stack on bosses. (Mine is Sonic/Ice/Fire). The key point is that Sonic/Ice allows you to handle multi-Boss spawns, Sonic/Energy and Sonic/MM do not. Even prior to the epic /Ice gives you slows in Chill Blain and Shiver and you can use Ice patch as well. Using those 3 tools and kiting with Freezing Touch until you have it double stacked still make handling a single boss easy mode.

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@EricHough

With enough +rech you can seemlessly chain Howl/Shockwave/Sirens/and Shiver. It's not a high damage AoE chain but it is an insanely safe one (for a blaster anyway). The electric Epic fills all the bills though, as it gives you an extra cone, an extra Hold, and the ability to stack a mag 6 AoE stun with EM Pulse and Dreadful Wail.

From having tested it myself it's the kin all the way.

The bubbler brings only defense and mag 8.63 mez protection to hold/stun/immobilize for mitigation (some of the defense and all of the mez protection requires you to stay within 25' of the bubbler) and toxic and endurance drain resistance.

The kin brings increased recovery, increased damage, increased recharge (these things synergize with each other and provide their own self multiplication) mag 13 protection to hold/stun/immob, mag 10 protection to KB (and smashing and energy resistance), and reactive mitigation in the form of a melee range AoE heal (which can be used to break sleeps).

Edit: Though my fastest time ever was with my Plant/TA controller. I have all 3, Bubble defender, Kin defender, and Plant controller on Justice or I can transfer to Test for testing purposes. I'd be happy to do so. Let me know if you are interested.

You took ONE part of my arguement and tried to make it seem as if it was the only point. I did not say that IOs were the ONLY reason that buffs are less needed or the only reasons that Defenders may be less desireable on a team than their buffing cousins but they are a part of a series of changes that has been, and is, shrinking the defender role.

Prior to IOs I had a total of 2 Blasters that "could" solo on invincible missions padded with 7 other players even with inspiration use. Now in the post I9 era, once they have their set bonuses they ALL can.

Prior to IOs I had 1 scrapper that could solo an AV even with inspiration use. Now in the post I9 era, once they have their set bonuses they ALL can.

Even taken by itself that can't be hand waved as insignificant as you have been trying to do. It's not too long of a leap of logic to see that it has an impact on the role of buffers and from there it's not too long a leap to see that it has the greatest potential to negatively impact the AT (defenders) who's primary in game role is providing buffs (or debuffs).

Either you haven't been able to do that for yourself with set bonuses (which I find difficult to believe) or you are being purposely obtuse.

The bottom line is, that in light of all the game changes. including IO use, the defender role needs to be re-examined and may need to be updated.