Sardan

I can vouch for this. I once complimented JLove's hat, and he awarded me Bug Hunter. True story*.













* and by "True story," I mean, "completely fabricated".

This. I had a fairly wheezy old machine that could play CoH but it drove me crazy how long it took me to zone. I upgraded it to 4GB and zoning went from a couple of minutes to about 30 seconds.

I'll second that. I duo'd my kin with a friend's spines/dark several times and it's a sick combo. The stun aura in DA also helps make things quite a bit safer for the kin.

I never would have thought of this myself, but I've seen in it in action, it's incredibly effective. Stacked Freezing Rain is devastating.

Yup, I have to agree with you there. I ran into that exact situation last night. Did not like.

I wouldn't go so far as to say stats are worthless. It's good to know where you stand so debates about powers don't just become shout-fests.

That said, I agree it shouldn't all be about min-maxing. It's a game, and having fun is the goal. For example, I have several blasters and I know that my AR blaster isn't as effective a killing machine as my Fire blaster. But AR was and is incredibly fun to play for me. The ride all the way to 50 was great.

For some people, min-maxing IS what fun is all about, and for them the game becomes all about the numbers. That's cool. But I think for most of us the numbers are only one aspect, taken in concert with aesthetics of a powerset, concept, etc. If you want to be a camo-wearing leader of a squad of fearless soldiers, Demon Summoning just ain't gonna do it for you.

No reason to take Medicine. With Twilight Grasp you already have a powerful heal that you can use on yourself or others. And if you want a rez you can use on teammates, just carry or make wakies when you need 'em. Or get the Professor and Caregiver day job badges to get a handy rez power.

A case could be made for Leadership; the +Def from Maneuvers would stack nicely with the ToHit debuffs in your Dark powers. But it's not a huge amount of defense (somewhere around 4% slotted) so unless you've got a build that has a lot of +Def to stack with it, it won't be that hugely helpful. And there's the End draining aspect of having another toggle; I skipped it.

!!!!! That was excellent.

Of course scarcity is what is responsible for prices of 500M or more. The point I was trying to make was that the quote was trying to set up a tautology, i.e. price of more than 500M is an automatic signal that something is too rare and should be made more plentiful. What I was pointing out was that while it is a signal of rarity it is not necessarily more rare than the devs intended and because of the ever increasing amount of currency in the game economy, it's not surprising to see ever higher prices on rare goods.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not against bumping up drop rates (especially on PvP IOs), but your statement is incorrect. The other factor in the escalating prices of IOs is the amount of currency in the system. There aren't many inf sinks in this game but there's a torrent of new inf being created every day. As ever more currency chases a small pool of goods, you get inflation.

Yes it is a longstanding problem. But until now it hadn't been the topmost problem.

As to folks saying that this solution is inelegant and the devs should've waited, see Arcanaville's comments up top.

Quit pussyfooting around. You're like a female character in Pride and Prejudice, all mannerly and talking obliquely around the subject. Just tell us how you really feel already.

Most. Pointless. Thread. Ever.

Yes. While Fire might not, I certainly will. STOP PLAYING BURGERTIME.

Look, the fact is you suck at Burgertime. This is upsetting to serious Burgertime players like me. My Burgertime guild and I were chatting over Vent last night and we all agreed that your continuing participation in our beloved sport is an affront to our collective honor.

I've trained for years on this game. It cost me my marriage, my job, and the respect of my children. I don't care. It's all been worth it. I have been petitioning the IOC to make Burgertime an official Olympic sport. It sickens me to see dilettantes like you trivializing this sport of kings.

Burgertime is serious business, bub.

In some limited situations, yes. Where I typically will use an HO is when I'm a little tight on slots on a power. An Acc/Dam HO gives a bigger enhancement than a comparable IO. There are also a couple of powers that aren't meant to be enhanced in a particular way but you can use HOs to work around that limitation. But since I generally am looking to get IO set bonuses, most of my builds have no HOs at all.

General tip: if you're frankenslotting (going for max power stats, ignoring potential set bonuses) pay special attention to IOs that enhance 3 or 4 aspects. By stacking a few of those in a power you get amazing results.

I agree that if someone didn't know you they'd think you were just blowing smoke. A lot of players would be surprised that someone could accumulate that level of in-game wealth. But a bit of searching of your post history in the Market forum should allay fears there, I'd think.

My only suggestion to you is to make sure your deadline extends beyond i17 going live. They've announced improvements to Mission Architect, although we have no details yet. It'd be good for the arc(s) you're commissioning to be able to take advantage of the latest/greatest.

That's a very nice idea.

Nah, as soon as BaBs gets done tweaking Ultra Mode, he'll have tons of time to do that.