PumBumbler

If your Mom and your sister are the same person...

So if you were to use the UI to find salvage (common/uncommon/rare) to craft an IO it's a random pattern?

Loading items in a price range is laughable to the extreme, since you are also expecting people to know how much each item is going to cost, and even then incrementing the price is still not compatible with the auto-fill implementation. Even if you decided to sort on rarity your concept is horribly broken.

Trying to justify a usage for the current auto-fill implementation just highlights how outstanding in the field you are with this. You are trying to explain how an edge case is so much better for every other situation is the tail wagging the dog.

Someone should save this post and put it with the 8 tanks collection.

This is patently ridiculous. Not even specious.

If they wanted to *autofill* the value for me, they should allow me the choice of using the last transacted value for the item instead of the last filled in value.

Just because I want to buy a Miracle proc at 300M does not mean I want to buy a kinetic weapon at 300M.

If by fantastic you mean naive, then I wholeheartedly agree.

Without knowing what hardware they've thrown at each server, and without knowing what hardware was used for each server before the upgrades, the green/yellow/red/grey dots don't tell you much with regards to the server populations.

Do a search on heroside and one on villainside in order to find the non-hidden population at any given point. Until you get hard numbers everything is anecdotal.

The only real conclusion that anyone can draw by looking at the server list alone is that Virtue is seeing a population increase and likely will be targeted first for any hardware upgrades.

Anything desirable will bring out the best and the worst in people. This includes contests, loot and "Master of " badges.

Heh, that is entirely the point of speed running a Mo. Once you learn how to zerg the TF it actually makes more sense to keep in the rhythm of your natural pace rather than slowing down. Even if you jump in for the alpha or try to leeroy it, your teammates should never be that far behind you, since coordination is part of good teamwork. A steamrolling speed TF team shouldn't have teammates falling behind; they need to keep the fast pace going.

For the STF, we always aggro all 4 sig AVs to drop them. Of course, on a Mo run you can't use shivans but a well organized team doesn't need them. I rarely use shivans on a normal speed STF nowadays anyhow. Just try to make sure you are def capped before engaging the final AVs and everything will start making sense.

You can def cap by popping insps, using IO builds, emp/FF/cold buffs, intermish/zone stacking, base buffs, even using someone outside the team to buff. The point is that once you get your def high enough you're only worried about the off chance hit. This helps build confidence and ensures the team is well prepared for the end game. Also don't forget to use your accolades.

The point being is that once you stay on your rhythm, it doesn't matter if you pass or fail because you'll get the merit rewards in your speed time anyhow. That way no one really feels that badly that a Mo run had failed. If you go slow you are raising the stakes enormously because people have more time invested in the run.

Most potential failure points are at the end anyhow, so why go slow getting there?

*PLORP*

*Runs off to haunt a vagina*

This player would agree I think.

Sorry, at work so I can't look in game. You can try using /logchat to toggle the chat logging I think.

Heh, I was saying those are the easiest to start with. Once you get your speed running legs you can pretty much bring anything. The biggest thing to speed running is gaining confidence in your team's ability to finish the task quickly, so making the task as easy as possible to start is a good idea. Hence the core build, which isn't a hard recommendation but still strongly recommended to get started.

The only thing I've noticed is that 1 rad and 1 kin usually make things go alot smoother during the AV fights but they aren't *required*. Skipping the rad and kin usually adds some time to the final battles but it's not a deal breaker.

Once you trust the team can do the task you can get more creative with the individual elements of each TF and the toons you bring. There's never a hard rule for speed running so you should try new things in order to see what kind of effect it has on the team/TF.

Trying new things can wind up in team wiping or slower times but that's how new discoveries are made. As long as your team retains confidence that they can still speed run it no one will be concerned that the task is insurmountable.

AFAIR, my 3rd MoSTF was done with 2 tanks, 3 emps, my ice/storm, a blaster and a scrapper. With the emp buffs I wound up stealing aggro from the tanks and taking a spin cycle from Ghost Widow, yet the emps were sharp enough to keep me alive. No kin/rad/cold/FF on that team

The durty sekrit to smooth speed runs is to bring a cold def or bubbler. You don't even need IO builds to get it done. As you get better at running speed TFs, vengeance, shivans, nukes aren't really needed. Consider them training wheels.

If you're looking to form a speed run group, I'd recommend a fair number of trollers to start with. Generally they're the easiest to play since they are jack of all trades. A tank/brute in a pinch to manage aggro, and the rest can be anything.

The easiest teams will be made of a brute/tank, scrapper, kinetic, rad, cold or FF. Sub in an ill troller or two if you don't have/want a tank. The rest of the team contributes in whatever build they decide to bring, but the core of the team is in the shields, buff and debuff. Bringing a cold and FF are easy street.

If your core aggro group is a bit unsteady bring an emp if you'd like, but generally 2-3 great players can carry an entire speed TF. For a speed mo run you probably want 4-6 experienced speed runners, so getting your core group of friends/teammates a lot of hands on is best. A lot of people use vent or teamspeak but it's not necessary if you have good teammates/leadership.

If you ever want to try it out and need any specific tips for any TF you can just pm me here or in-game (same handle).

Try turning off any logging of chats and chat channels?

There's more than one way to one way to crack a nut:
50 min MoSTF
Most people seem to look at MO TFs as a big chore or walk on pins and needles. That amps the stress levels up and makes it harder to complete the TF let alone enjoy.

There's a different way to approach Master of _ and it's relatively easy. Just speed run the normal TFs enough and you will know exactly where the hard points are of each TF.

In addition, you will pick up team mates and friends who will become experts along with you. You'll also quickly realize that the team make up is of lesser importance than the team players, so it really doesn't matter what is standing beside you, rather who is standing beside you.

By the time you feel comfortable doing a MO run it will simply be a modified version of a speed run. Almost all of the trepidation is gone because the stakes are very low.

Usually you know that you'll be done in a short time so the time commitment is low, and if you are speed running it with friends they'll feel the same way too. If you fail it you've only lost a few minutes on top of a normal speed run, so people won't be mad and are much more willing to try it another day. Your teammates might roll their eyes at failing but it won't be a full fledged revolt by having someone die during a Mo run.

The TF final AVs/Heroes are hard coded at their respective levels for STF/LRSF (54/53) so +4 isn't that much of a challenge.

The buff/debuff challenge is a nice concept but since there is no bonus for hardship it isn't really worth doing. Did the LGtf speedrun with enemies buffed/players debuffed/no enhancements but it was for a contest. Otherwise there's no reward for it.

Contrary to what people say about the MO badges foisting division amongst us, it's pretty much a non-event and the speed runs are a good way to make friends, bond and make a ton of merits too. Of all the TFs out there only the RSF would I say needs to have any concern about team builds for a speed MoLRSF.

You'll have to use some merits at some point unless you like throwing them away. The cap is only 9999 per toon.

I've been trying to corner the market on catgurls. I guess I'm not truly wealthy. Yet.

Forum buffs wear off too quickly and need to be individually applied.

Did a Justin Augustine TF the other night and it was the same deal. One of our teammates was quite vocal about the lack of mission rewards since the changeover.

The problem with 'consistency' is that the LGSF would be run differently.

There is no motivation to save Penny Yin on a villain's part. Just taking her out is far more efficient. Unless she was to reward you handsomely on exit, it would be more rational (safer) for someone just to remove her from the equation to keep Penny from being used by the other side.

The mission to save the psychics and the two NPC heroes. Nothing is mentioned regarding the need to save the original Omega team members. The psychics need to be taken out of Rikti hands, but Infernia and Glacia mean nothing to a villain. They wouldn't even bother to save them, let alone get them killed.

If the Omega team members had sent a coded message saying they had valuable information that was required to get to the next mission, then I could see the requirement to see them safely to the door, but currently nothing addresses the need to save them.

The whole war zone suffers from sufficient motivation from a villain perspective, other than the appeal to 'save the world'. We've already seen villains negotiate with the Rikti so villain motives are a lot harder to align with hero motivations in the RWZ.