SerialBeggar

Don't be afraid to take powers that don't do damage. Using them could give you that extra couple of seconds of breathing room to finish the fight or to safely escape.

Look at me! I need to be adored!



Or at least considered a curiousity.

I don't role play my characters. None of them have backgrounds. I just play them. As such, I will start with picking powerset I haven't played yet. Then I will try to pick a powerset to pair it with that can compensate for any weaknesses it might have that I'm aware of. My goal is survivability with decent damage.

I recall one of my elementary school teachers once give me a talk. She had heard one of my friends inviting me to something (I forget what) and the first thing I did was ask "who else will be there?" My teacher pointed out that I wasn't making the decision based on whether I wanted to join my friend to enjoy the time with him, but rather who else I subconsciously considered more worthy to be with would also be there. It was as a profound and enlightening concept for me at that age. Since then, I have tried to make immediate decisions with regards to requests from friends. I don't want them to beg and I won't beg them.

Therefore, I say: screw him. You gave him the pitch and more than once it seems. It's up to him to make a decision. So far, all indications is that his decision is still no. While I'd like there to be more new players, I don't feel that we need to coerce them to join. They either want to or they don't. Leave at that and let him go.

There's also Super Sidekicking, no more having to find a mentor on the team. Team members automatically adjusts (sk up or exemplar down) to the team leader or whoever has the active mission. In addition, XP all the time, even when exemplared. There was a post of someone wanting to try to level a new character to 50 only by joining lowbie Sewer teams in Atlas. The world has gone crazy!

Doesn't the ITF scale like Trials? I recall that a lot of low-40s ITFs were being run for while. Although, I got the impression that it was mostly due to the shunned lowbies that couldn't get on the level 50 ITFs. Like the 50s were thinking the lowbies just wanted to get powerleveled.

Edit, this was prior to supersidekicking.

See that's the thing. You're comparing your self made, ultra-rich self to his working class being. I'm assuming that since the OP is asking, he's either not yet in the position to casually toss Inf around or just has a frugal personality.

As for me, I store Rares, of course. Not the low level Rares, though. Sometimes, I'll even put out fishing bids to see if I can snag more on the cheap. I'm a hoarder.

As for the Common and Uncommon salvages, you need to be aware of which are used by the Common IO crafters. Typically the 30-40 range stuff. There are times when their supply will dip. For example: a couple of competitive field crafters working the same IO, or a bunch of people making inventory in preparation for a double XP weekend, etc.

For myself, I keep a few of these around:
- Alchemical Silver
- Ancient Bones
- Demonic Blood Samples
- Inert Gas
- Mastwork Weapons
- Rune
- Scientific Theory
- Spell Ink
- Stabilized Mutant Genome
I may go for a while not needing to use them, but inevitiably, when I do need one, they'll have been run up in the Market. And I'm cheapskate. So to avoid the hassle, I like to have 1-5 of each on hand.

I don't store Luck Charms past 25+. I haven't encountered any of the higher level Set IOs I use require them.

Of course, you should keep an eye out for some of the other stuff that have occasional activity. For example: Chaos Theroems and Thorn Tree Vines ranged in the 60-150K range for half a year (I think), but have come back down. Lately, I've noticed Tremporal Tracers holding steady at 50K+, so I if pick one up from a drop, I'll toss it into the storage bin just in case.

Paragonwiki has the answers: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Screenshots

http://feature.atlrec.com/contests/tso/believe/

From their Facebook post:

Wow. That is strange.

You may want to post have this post moved to the Technical Issues & Bugs board, and perhaps send an PM to Arbitor Kim to check it out. I don't suppose you can submit a trouble ticket too just so they have a paper trail.

If you can open the Options-->Video & Audio tab, there's a (slider) setting for window scale size.

Edit:
If you can't get to Options, you can try the TweakCOH app:
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=118470
Ack, link there is broken. Anyone have a better link?

Low level, you're pretty much only interested in Accuracy, Damage, Recharge, Endurance Reduction and maybe Run. And depending if your powersets, Resistance, Defense and Heal. Salvage-wise, I think the only thing really expensive (for a low level currently) are the Luck Charms which you'll need for Accuracy and Defense.

As for the expense, there are means to generate a million Inf starting from nothing fairly quickly working the Market. If you craft enough to slot yourself, you can pretty much memorize the low level recipes as a side effect. So then, after you've memorized a few recipes, you can craft more to sell to generate more income. It's expensive up front, but can pay for itself later.

I start crafting for the level 15 common IOs. I don't bother with the level 10s unless I'm bored.


Edit:
In terms of cost effectiveness, I'd say it depends on whether you team or solo.

If you solo, you have time to putz around the Market to make enough Inf to buy what you need to make the IOs, even if you have to buy the recipes straight off the Invention Crafting table. Plus personal performance is probably of more concern than cost (again, assuming you have cost covered).

However, if you are on a team and can rack up the XP fast, buying DOs and SOs and just making do for the duration is probably better. Any lack in performance can be covered by your team mates (hopefully).

Everytime I use a Respec, there is always one temp power that won't go away with the right click. Most of the time it's the Rock. I just move it to another power tray that I don't use.

I remember coming across a thread in the Base Construction boards where someone was pondering a Base Raid scenario where one SG was going to be purposely malicious to the other SG's Base. From what I can remember, while capturing the Items of Power is the main objective in a Base Raid, during the Raid, you can also damage and destroy Base equipment. This is so you can neutralize the automated Base defenses.

The "what if" scenario is: what if the malicious SG's only goal was to enter an SG base to destroy its Tier2 or Tier3 power supply? I forget how Prestige is handled with restoring a destroyed Base object after the Raid is finished, so I don't know if you have to pay extra to recraft it. However, cost isn't much of a concern to an SG who is big enough to have afford one of these already. The problem is: how would the SG go about recrafting it?

Unlike the Tier1 power supply (Basic Generator/Power Crystal) which is purchaseable, the Tier2 (Turbine Generator/Ley Tap) and Tier3 (Fusion Generator/Dimensional Vortex) need to be crafted with an Advanced or Expert work table respectively. And for a work table to "work", it needs power -- but the Base has no power (because it was destroyed during the Raid).

The fact that the Base is using one of these high end power supply implies that the Base is huge to massive. The current way Bases are set up for power, it is all or nothing. You need enough power for everything before anything that needs power to work. Just buying a Tier1 power supply won't be enough to power up the Base and you can't buy more than one.

So now the victim SG is screwed. The only way to create a new Tier2 or Tier3 power supply is to sell off a major quantity of their Base's powered items to get their overall power requirement low enough for the dinky Tier1 power supply to kick in so the work table can be used. This can effectively cause the SG to strip out hours, days or weeks worth of design efforts and lock them out of future Base Raids until their gutted Base is rebuilt.

I always take the Blue Wisp. It's especially nice on new characters. Any additional +recov is great before Stamina.

Late Edit: wow. I didn't even notice this double post from my earlier edit.

I always take the Blue Wisp. It's especially nice on new characters. Any additional +recov is great.