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On last mission of the ITF, Dark Extraction succeeds creating a pet when used on Romulus, but, the pet is destroyed when Romulus rezzes.

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I priced out it merits the current build of my DA/EM tank, it does not have everything I want, still totaled over 7200 merits. How many TFs and story arc is that? As I see the current reward system is broken.

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And this is pure hyperbole. How many of those 7200 merits are TF/Trial pool recipes? The majority of them are all going to be standard Pool A & B drops, which have excellent availability on the market. Merits are not supposed to replace the other existing methods of obtaining items.

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In fact that is exactly the point, they are not readily available. I am not getting the drops when doing TFs, not getting drops from stary arc completions, not getting drops during missions. Example, just a couple of days ago did the Cimroran TF, got exactly 3 pieces of common salvage and the merits, nothing else. So what pool A and B drops are you talking about? Obviously you have not gone shopping at the market lately.

What game are you talking about? I routinely have contact quit giving me missions even though I am still in to correct range for them. Have never received anything other than the 2 merits, and, an SO for a story arc completion, the SOs have even been minus 1 to my current trained level. Go to the market, availability has gone down and prices have gone up. The cost in merits needs to be reduced my %50 across the board. I priced out it merits the current build of my DA/EM tank, it does not have everything I want, still totaled over 7200 merits. How many TFs and story arc is that? As I see the current reward system is broken.

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This has been a very informative thread and a lot of good points have been raised here. I play City of Heroes too and I see a lot of room for growth and improvement in the Merit system. I wanted to let you all know that we are listening even if we're not always posting. I plan on making some tweaks to the system to make Merits, as a whole, more approachable and enjoyable for everyone, though changes take time. Keep the feedback coming; the more constructive, the better. I'd appreciate feedback using the Objective/Subjective format detailed in Ex Libris' original post. We're listening and will take it into consideration in future updates.

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It is not just the Merit System, all drops have been decreased by a factor of 10. Did the Augustine TF last night, got 4 basic recipes, a stupify, and a few pieces of common salvage. That's how its gone since I13 went live. At this moment, I think the merit/reward system is broken, and, would like to go back to the I12 system.

Finally finished the Midnight Club Arc.

Magic Man was a lot fun.

The Warrior Crown arc last mission, spawned 4 bosses simultaneously after defeating Hector, glad I was solo. The Atta map is to large, or, they could move the mission objectives closer to the entrance, and, you could do as much as you want for the extra xp. Fun arc though.

Daedalus - agreed, I do not see the point in this, there must be some other information that I'm missing.

-Evil Music arc: this might have been fun, but, I did this solo with my lowbie spines scrapper, 21 at start, if for some reason my accuracy had not been capped at less that %25, and, there was a minimum of %90. The last mission was the worst, in a running fight with the ambushes, was chased all the to the mission door, then had to go back finish last Spectral demon, then fight my way to the exit again.

Magic Man arc: still have the last mission to do, but, this one has been fun.

Warrior Crown arc: have not done this yet. Looking forward to it, nice to see the Warriors getting some love.

I'm not sure if the merit reward system was supposed to replace all recipe drops, for other than basic I/Os. For the set recipes is seems as thou the old reward system is being used. The few that have dropped have all be unslot-able by the receiving character. Of course, the purples, have not seen one since April/May timeframe.

There is absolutely nothing of benefit for me in this. My now rent free base is going to have to pay rent. Granted the amount for my solo base is trivial, in fact is so trivial, its clear that it is meant to be an irritant. That certainly increases the fun factor. But, I still cannot invite my own characters, to my own SG. I still cannot give something to any of my own characters. Did they make a teleporter that can go to more than 2 locations?

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Poster: Paradox1
Q: The Story Arc merit system seems to encourage us to solo non-TF missions, as running other people's story arcs earns 0 merits (unless we happen to have the same arc open). Is this really the way you want to encourage us to play the game?

A: While only offering Merits upon story arc completion to the owner of the story arc is consistent with our original reward system (only the mission owner earns the bonus story arc XP and gets to choose the SO enhancement) we understand that there is certainly room for improvement upon this. We will evaluate our options on how we can improve the rewards for party members along for the ride on a story arc.
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This one really bothers me. Character ATs that have problems soloing, will be completely dependent on others. I'm trying to imagine my Emp/Dark def running the Striga story arc with Dark Blast and Gloom.

My now rent free base will not longer be rent free, this is the stupidest idea ever! I understand, it is a trivial amount of effort to farm the prestige of this amount, but, mine is a solo SG, it took a long time to build up a full base. This is just more hatred of all things solo in this game.

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Did I read this correctly. Will my currently rent free base, going to have to pay rent because I have salvage and enhancement racks? My SG is me, so any rent is a HUGE impact.

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Yes, but the absolute maximum in rent you can have is very low. We're talking maybe 2 or 3 missions played in SG mode. It's not going to be hard for ANYONE to generate enough to pay such a small amount every six weeks.

It's still a negative change if you were on the default 8x8 plot, yes, but absolutely no one will ever have problems paying rent under the new system, which you can't say for the current system.

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Thanks for the answer. But, I don't care diddly if it only takes me 15 minutes a month. This is just more of the hatred for all things solo.
Issue 13, can I give interact directly with my own characters, no.
Can I even just invite them to my own SG, no.
What can I do with my own characters that I cannot do today, nothing.
Has castle with his special kind of love screwed my characters again, yep.
Does anybody know when Diablo 3 is coming out?

Did I read this correctly. Will my currently rent free base, going to have to pay rent because I have salvage and enhancement racks? My SG is me, so any rent is a HUGE impact.

Did the the final mission with 5, and the only debuff we had was my earth/storm. Which meant really only had my storm set, since earth has almost nothing for this TF. The part I hated though was Break Frees do not work. When you defeat a nictus it has, it seems, an auto-hit stun, used break free, still stunned. The basic strategy for the end, is find and defeat the healing nictus first, then deal with the others, then Romuls. Otherwise this TF is a lot of fun, a great big slug fest.

Re Aligned, Rad/Kin hit 50 sometime in I7.

I do not believe I ever used the word 'useful', I think I said 'require'. This is from someone with level 50 defenders. What I want to do is remind the Devs of some rather lofty statements about how all archtypes will have a roll in defeating the new 'Hamidon' scenario. They clearly want an event that is more dynamic and easier to modify as player tactics evolve and stagnate as they have with the current Hamidon encounter. Implied in the original post is the incredibly low damage cap for defenders. I can see no reason why it is so low.

I've read the post on redesigning Hamidon several times, and, you still we not need a defender. As long a controller secondaries do not scale to defenders, the same way defender secondaries scale to blasters, no mission in this game will require a defender.

Has anybody else seen this? Doing a PI safeguard mission, after the bank, I was doing the jail break side mission, completed that part and was checking what else was in the jail cells. One of the cells contained a Master Illusionist, she cast the Phantasm outside the cell and while I was fighting that, she used her version of phase shift and exited the jail cell. I am not sure whats broke here, the fact that the version of phase shift will not let me exit a jail or that the MI can.

Is there a Channel for LRSF. I have a 50 Kinetics, but, I never seem to know when anybody is planning on running it.

Trying to do an Agent G mission in faultline, 'clear 2nd...' Cannot get to the mission, following the nav pointer and checking the map, it show the entrance outside of the zone. I can stand next to the wall and it still shows me 108 yards away from it. I dropped the first mission for the same problem.

I am confused about item 22, is not combustion in the fire melee set, not the fire primary set? So, does it have taunt or gauntlet attached to it?

About item 8, powers like chilling embrace have a status effect attached to them, in this case a slow. My experience has been status effects trump damage for getting aggro. I have duoed with an Ice tank and as soon as they turn on chilling empbrace I loose aggro to them. If they herd a group and I run into the mob, I will not take aggro away from him.

This is the most ill concieved, poorly thoughtout idea they have come up with yet. It will not even qualify as a minor inconvienience to power levelers. It will however punish someone trying to play the game. A specific example: doing a DE hunt miss in FF with a scrapper, death cap throws spores, slept, hit, stunned, dead, the lesser devoured runs down the street, scrapper chases and kills lesser devoured. Will I get any XP, unkown, don't know how far the Lesser Devoured was. Next group, pop an insp, death cap throws 2 spores, now how did it know to throw 2, same result. So, instead of decreasing the amount of PLing, it will increase it.