Nethergoat

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Reading comprehension ftw.

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Irony, thy name is MINOTAUR.

Did they ever announce a release date for the booster?

I don't recall one.

If they didn't, I'm not sure that correcting some people's mistaken assumptions needs to be at the top of their 'to do' list.

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You think I'm ignorant of my debuffs? I use them frequently. It still doesn't work 100% of the time. 95% yeah, but not always.

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I leveled a fire/dark to 50 and never encountered an enemy I couldn't melt.

Dark does less damage than fire, but that's why God invented reds.

Your powers aren't too weak. The enemies aren't too strong.
Your problem lies in another area entirely.

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You can farm the Fab with an AFK mastermind, and anywhere in game where baddies tend to come out of doors. Just sayin...

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there's a couple of great choke-points in the forests of Croatoa where giant spawns regularly charge through.

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I'm not so sure. I think alot of people are bothered that they have to spend an xtra $10 to get very minor things like a costume piece. If we were actually offered something cool like a power set or new AT for $10....I don't think that many people would complain.

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If you believe that, I've got an apartment building in Dark Astoria to sell you.

The devs could give away free gold and people would whine that it was too heavy.

I'd say the PvE is more satisfying because as you note, the rewards are much more diverse.

Even though both activities are the "same", there's a greater sense of accomplishment in PvE.

I've often wondered why I still make DA runs. Why do I have a character built for that level range and Oro-parked in Moth Cemetary? I've long since passed the point where the inf is a draw. Recipe & salvage farming can be done much more efficiently in MA. I'm not levelling or working on badges (well, the inf badge I guess...but it's not a motivating factor).

There's just something I really like about cruising through the fog in an empty (99% of the time) zone blowing up big spawns of zombies. I can't define the reasons, but it calls to me.

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Nothing is dropping in BB, or RV no inf, prestige, inspirations. not even for the first kill

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smells like a bug then.

I can't imagine they'd be stupid enough to just TURN OFF REWARDS for PvP after all the hits the community has taken lately.

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Couldn't say, I haven't been playing long enough to have much of an opinion on it.

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It's the exact same activity- standing around letting your character kill things for drops while you do the dishes, or whatever.

Either your attitude is consistent between pvp & the 'real' game, or it isn't.
Game experience doesn't figure in.

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wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwaaaaassswwwwwwwwwww wwwwwa11231122321wwwwwwMore annoying than the chat bug?

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the chat bug only annoys me when it hits while I'm trying to log in.

As someone who derives quite a bit of pleasure from in-game biographies, my own and others, the line break bug drove me absolutely crazy.

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So yeah, let's be clear and honest here. 1 - I did it too. 2 - I'm not calling anyone a 'dirty exploiter'. 3 - We're all (well most of us) intelligent people and knew EXACTLY what we were doing.

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I've never gotten a pvp IO drop.
I'm talking about the 'rest' of the game.
Do you feel they need to "fix" those rewards as well as the arena?

Ignore Mac, he's a doomcrier!

Sell it to me!


In related news, I may have a Gladiators Armor Teleport Res/+3% Defense to all available for 500 million in short while.

=D

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I'm almost wishing I'd held onto all the PvP IOs I sold, because I know I could probably get double what I sold them for now.

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if prices do what I expect them to, I will DEFINITELY be re-spec'ing the Goat and selling the PvP sets I kitted him out with.

That should finance the rest of his purples with a fortune to spare....

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Going afk for 30 mins and coming back with a drop worth 600m inf is pretty obviously an exploit imo.

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I go AFK and come back to drops all the time.

Am I in the clear if they're NOT worth 600 million, or am I also a dirty exploiter?

Excellent.

By far the most annoying minor bug I've ever dealt with.

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Of course, as usual, it's too much of a chore for a Dev to confirm whether or not it might be today.

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or maybe they're all running around with their hair on fire because they just sent a new issue out the door?

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The claim that it's being done to curb online gambling is high-moraled, but given the size of the industry in China, I suspect that it was more a case of government officials not getting paid off to ignore it, and it will be determined that gold farming is not "gambling" for the purposes of enforcement of the new regulations once the appropriate baksheesh has changed hands.

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Much more elegantly put than my post- I agree entirely.

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Can't say we didn't see it coming after it got blabbed and then some on the market boards. I was actually VERY surprised to see so many people boasting about how much money they were making from a pretty obvious...not working as intended situation.

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what's obvious about it?
they're PvP IO's, people were getting them in a PvP environment.

Farmers commonly pad their missions to increase the quantity of drops they get, either with multiple accounts or recruiting others.

And I've said this before but apparently it needs repeating- a few posts in a backwater sub-forum aren't ringing any alarm bells at Dev Central. Those are generated by the immense flood of numbers they sift 24/7.

cynic that I am, I look at that and see it as an excuse for them to 'crack down' on companies that don't have cozy governmental connections, reducing competition for those that DO.

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I am a man with a large, quixotic bladder.

... There's some need for me to recast that sentence.

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well, certainly if you combine the streams of many you can have an effect...

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Wonder if they'll ban a bunch of "exploiters" for farming the arena.

Since, ya know, we should have JUST KNOWN it was wrong.

I hate respec'ing characters and will only do it under EXTREME duress.

My fire/rad controller has several Purple sets collecting dust in base storage because I'm too lazy to respec him and don't want to over-write the prime sets he has slotted now.

All my characters are drowning in respec's anyway, with all the vet specs I've accumulated. And I usually have a couple of respec recipes lying around on this or that alt- they're a very profitable flipping opportunity.

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My overall opinion is that the game has lost alot of the lustre and promise of the early days.

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That's crazy talk.

I'm no blinder-wearing dev enthusiast, but overall the game has been evolving in a positive direction for a while now and there is a lot of exciting stuff in the pipeline.

This or that specific change or policy deserve criticism, certainly.
But taking the long view, we've seen vast improvements in nearly every aspect of the game.

weak.

I move Part_Troll change his name to All_Troll.

indeed....considering the froth some people work up over costume bits and minor powers.

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