Roderick

I've noticed that many people have different expectations of what their SG provides, and of what they can provide their SGs. Some people don't care what their base has, some just want the porters. Others want everything they can cram into it, and some want millions of prestige so that they can build anything and everything they want.

SG mode doesn't really reflect this, but with a (hopefully) not too major change, it could.

First, the "Enter/Exit SG mode" button would be changed so that it has no effect on your prestige earning. All will do is determine if you use your normal costume, or your SG colors.

Second, add a slider with 5 positions on it under the button.

Under the current rules, a character earns full Inf and Prestige up to level 25, then the Inf earning scales down until level 34, at which the character earns half Inf while in SG mode. The slider would alter how Inf/Prestige earning works.

Up until level 25, the slider would be greyed out. During this range, the character is forced into a prestige-earning mode identical to the current sub-25 SG Mode - ie, they earn their full amount of Inf, while contributing Prestige to the SG as well.

After level 25, the slider can be set to one of 5 choices, labeled 0%, 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100%.

At 0%, the character is equivalent to the current "Out of SG mode" setting: 0% of their Inf is converted to Prestige.

At 50%, the character is equivalent to "In SG mode": They lose half of their earned Inf, and generate prestige at the current rate.

At 100%, the character earns no Inf at all, but generates Prestige at twice the current SG Mode rate.

25% and 75% would be midway points between the above settings.

An info box (similar to those that were added to the Options menu) would be added beside the slider, explaining how it works.

Alternately, the slider could be set at any level, but the "Low-Level Mode" would override it, causing the character to earn full Inf and Prestige at the current rate regardless of setting. Again, this would be explained in the Info Box.

Tired Angel's list, with a bit of extra information, can be found here:

http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Leveling_Chart

I've been unable to connect on my computer or on my phone.

I feel dirty, I used the old wikia site when I needed some badge info a few minutes ago.

Some people have theorized that if anyone on the team is an Incarnate, then the system checks for each person on the team, even if they're not valid, and if one drops for an invalid target, it gets shifted to a valid person.

If this is what's happening, it's not how it SHOULD work. If it's not what's happening, I have no idea what's causing it.

Perhaps a better conclusion to your original post would have been "Sellers and buyers both affect the prices on the market, neither sets it on their own."

It's really easy to spot the difference. The "functions like a set bonus" ones just say that they grant you a buff. The "functions like a proc" ones always either say "Has a chance to" or "(does whatever) for 120 seconds".

Since when does the demon farm have a timer? Pretty sure I've done it not that long ago without one.

I remember when there were no trains! We had to run from one zone to the next! But they hadn't put in the tunnels in the War Walls yet, so we had to get out our spoons and dig tunnels through, uphill both ways! During the First Rikti War! And there was no ferry from Talos to Peregrine Island! If you wanted to get to Peregrine Island, you had to swim there, and then wait for the devs to implement it!

Damn kids, get offa my lawn!

/em falls asleep in his rocking chair on the front porch.

To expand on what Claws said:

Not only will the machine guns eat up the Melee defense that's working against the other guys (but not the gunners), it's an all-round defense debuff, meaning that your Ranged and Lethal defenses (which are likely 0-15%) are going to drop to 0% and then negative values really quickly. Negative defense DOES increase an enemy's chance to hit you.

I'd say about 75% of the attacks that debuff defense are Lethal (Swords, guns, some other weapons), and about 20% are Energy based (Mostly radiation). The remainder are psi and oddball attacks like that one Bane mace attack (which would be stopped by S/L def).

S/L defense is going to provide "Fake Defense Debuff Resistance" the same way it gets "Fake Mez Protect" for squishies: It stops a lot of the attacks that carry the debuff from hitting. Yes, you'll be more vulnerable to Cascading Defense Failure than a character with DDR, but you'll have Damage Resistance to fall back on, and in larger amounts than any defense based character can get.

If you're never leaving AE and just farming fire enemies, as others have said, the defense is superfluous. But if you actually use the character outside AE, S/L if FAR superior to just Melee.

The LotG +Rech functions like a set bonus. That means that if you get a level 25 one, it remains in effect even when you exemplar all the way down to 22 (But no lower; it stops working if you are more than 3 levels below the level of the IO). It even works if you lose access to the power it's slotted in, as long as you're not too low for the IO to function!

Absolutely. I only skip it on my flying characters. But my point is that it's not needed for any form of mez protect on a Dark Armor build, except maybe as a -KB IO mule, and Dark has plenty of other places for one of those.

From: RNG
To: Yomo_Kimyata

Subject: Re: Drops

Gift of the Ancients: 7.5%.... Oh, you wanted me to stop there?

Did you check the recipe listings? I just bought one at level 30 for 2 million (I think, it was pretty cheap), plus less 3 million buy it now for salvage.

There aren't a lot of them, but there are a few out there, last I checked.

And no, you can't have mine. I've already slotted it, and can't slot the one that you're offering.

Try common IOs, level 50. Finding high and low volume items will be easy, middle, maybe less so.