Roderick

You got scooped 3 days ago, NightErrant.

And so will tanker's Bruising, which is also the same effect.

Not that in all three cases, rather than applying a debuff to the target, it grants a temporary power that gives a -20% resist(all) debuff to self (the critter), and is flagged "Does not stack from same caster".

That means that if a team of 8 tanks were all pounding on a single target with their T1 attack, an attack slotted with the Achilles' Heel proc, and an attack slotted with the Fury of the Gladiator proc, the target would AT MOST have a 60% resist debuff (one of each of the three kinds), even though he might end up with dozens of procs on him between all the attacks.

Also, because of how the proc works, it has to wear off before you can apply a new one; you can't extend it by applying a new proc before the old one wears off. There will always be gaps.

With the "VIP Beta", everyone with an active subscription has access to the Beta Server, but non-subscribers don't. So I'm not really sure if the NDA applies here. If it does, please move this thread to the Beta Forums rather than deleting it, mods. Thanks!

With that out of the way: I was among the many that crashed the gates of VIP/Open Beta today. Unlike many others who headed straight for the new shinies like powersets, I headed for the not-so-shiny, but very desireable leak from Comic-Con: The purchasable Enhancement Trays. I wasn't very surprised, but was pleased to find out that there's other storage available too.

Aside: I was concerned, based on the Devs' previous stance concerning unslotting Enhancements via respec, that we'd only have access to one tray during a respec. This is not the case; we can use all the trays we have unlocked, and potentially pull up to 30 enhancements off a character per respec.

The various items are of varying cost, capacity, and maximum number purchasable. I can't log in from work, so this is from memory:

Enhancement Trays (10 extra) - 1600 points/$20, Max 2
Salvage (10 extra) - 800 points/$10, Max 10
Recipes (5 extra) - 800 points/$10, Max 10
Vault (5 extra) - 400 points/$5, Max 6
Auction House (5 extra) - 800 points/$10, Max 6
All purchases are account-wide.

So, I was looking it over, and trying to determine the value of each to me.

Enhancements: I always slot IOs, even before I use sets. Enhancement drops are essentially vendor bait, and I really don't notice or care if my enhancement tray fills while playing. It will be nice to be able to craft multiple full sets without stopping to slot them in between, but the real value will be in respecs. As stated above, these will allow me to pull three respecs of IOs off a character for each respec used.
Value: I feel that this one is close to the right mark. After all, there may be less respecs purchased as a result of this. I will eventually pick up both of these, though I might save up points rather than paying cash.

Recipes: Recipes are the opposite of enhancenments when it comes to drops. When I get the "Recipes Full!" pop up, I stop what I'm doing and delete crap, mail stuff to myself, or whatever else I need to do to free space. I've even stopped mid-fight ("Hey guys? I'm gonna stop killing you for a minute. No, go ahead, keep doing your thing, I'm not going anywhere" *starts rummaging through backpack*) to make sure that I don't miss out on any potential purples.
Value: I'm uncertain about this one. I want all the slots, but at $2/recipe, it seems a bit steep. Drop it to 400 points, and I'll be all over this. At the current price, I'll get them eventually - possibly via free points.

Salvage: Salvage, I treat much like SOs - when I fill up, I eventually get to the market and dump it. If I look in my salvage window and see that I have 21 Kinetic Weapons, I'll probably delete the stack, but I won't put more effort into saving room for "the good stuff" than that - the best salvage drops are easily obtained cheaply through the market and AE vendor.
Value: Low, to me. I do go out of my way to unlock all the Salvage space I can in-game, even spending Vanguard Merits on the Salvage Sack. But that gets me to 80 slots. I'd likely only buy them at 200 points/10 slots, and then, only if I had nothing else I wanted.

Vault space: Salvage space that can only be accessed when at a special building or in your base. Essentially becomes additional bag space if you have /vault, but that's a T8 reward. It also costs the same amount, for half the slots.
Value: None whatsoever. No matter what the price, I would not purchase these slots. However, if the Vault were changed so that it could hold anything - Enhancements, Recipes, Salvage, Inspirations, whatever! - I'd suddenly place a lot more value on these slots and the /vault command. Still, I'd be unlikely to pay more than 400 points/5 slots if I were even willing to pay that.

Market Slots: I don't store things on the market. I have personal SGs with plenty of bins; I don't need the market for storage. I'm not particularly patient either. I pay buy it now prices, and list most things for 1. So my market slots empty as fast as they fill. I don't tend to marketeer either - I make a lot just playing the game, so when I decide to slot out a character, I usually can without having to find the money. However, it annoys the crap out of me when my salvage window isn't empty yet, but my market slots are full.
Value: I'm OK with $10/5 slots for these, but I'd buy the Enhancement trays long before these, and probably the recipe slots too. And there's no way I'd buy all the slots. I'll never need 30+ market slots on a level 1 character.

Right now, if Freedom went live with these prices and you bought all the inventory increases, you'd be looking at $300 or all your free points for 5 years. I can't say for sure if I think these prices will drop. If they were all halved, it would still be $150 (or more than a 1 year subscription, or 10 months paid a month at a time), or all the points included with your subscription for 2.5 years (2 years, 2 months for a T9 VIP). Some of you are probably looking at these numbers screaming "TAKE MY MONEY!" while trying to cram your credit card into the CD tray. Others are shaking their head thinking "No pancaking way", even to the halved prices.

What about you? What would you buy? What would you buy, if the price drops. What would you never think of buying? And why?

*If I've remembered any of the above prices or limits wrong, or erred in any of the math I did in my head, let me know, and I'll correct it ASAP. Thanks!

Do you feel that you're risking losing money by posting the screenshots showing EXACTLY what you're working on? If someone decided to be a jerk and start messing with your niches, it could hurt your experiment a lot, while if you didn't post them, someone just stumbling across them would be far less likely.

Using /hide to hide from tells doesn't really turn them off. She would still receive the message, prepended by "[YOU ARE HIDDEN]", and the sender would receive a message telling them that she was "offline or hidden" (it would not disclose which).

If she were to /ignore the person in question, she would never see anything they have to say to her, nor any invite windows. This is probably the best method for her, as it blocks the jerks, and leaves everyone else able to communicate with her normally.

Eric, with i21, there won't BE any starting point other than Galaxy. I'm not even sure if we'll have the option to skip the tutorial. And like I said before, the devs specifically made mention of starting a VEAT in Atlas (but like I said, I'm pretty sure it was during a uStream, and I don't really have the several hours to devote to re-watching them all).

Edit: Just realized that we said the same thing re: the starting point, so ignore that. The rest stands.

I know that it happens now (fortunately, not in the channels that I hang out in). Adding this option would just give the l33t pwnzorz even more reason to wave their e-peens at each other.

And in the end, it would add nothing of real value to the game.

Can't remember where I saw it, but they said that ALL 14 ATs start in the new tutorial and can go to either side. I specifically remember them saying that a VEAT can go to Atlas Park at level 1. I think it was mentioned in a uStream.