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Lol, nope, not you Bill. I'm looking forward to it as well. It is crazy to me that my third most incarnated toon has done it using just shard conversions and has never stepped into a trial. All slots are unlocked, and have all the first tier's slotted, but it has been just about a year now.
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Quote:Relevent.Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
Then again, I've been asking for solo and small team Incarnate missions since the system was announced. And we've been told... what... they'll consider having a discussion about possibly thinking about maybe talking over the water cooler about scheduling a meeting to discuss considering maybe having a focus group debate a possible option sometime in the hazy future. -
Quote:The only thing I have officially seen as to what mobs should face as a challenge was way back when the 1 hero equals 3 mobs. I assume none of your toons are able to handle more than three even conned mobs correct? Otherwise, by your definition, officially speaking, you are an exploiter as well.Originally Posted by Megajoule
The overall pattern of enforcement - nerfs, bans, etc - is fairly clear, at least to me. The fact that this enforcement is not total or instant does not, IMO, make the behavior permissible or officially condoned. It just means they haven't gotten around to smacking you yet, or don't have the manpower to arrest everyone who speeds.
Have you run the same content twice on the same toon ever? Or do you run it just once and say that that is it. Probably never ran the itf more than once per toon for example, wouldn't want people to think you are farming it and all.
Dont worry it is not so bad. It is fairly clear, at least to me judging by how many times one needs to run the itrials to get all kitted out that the devs are actually fine with and promote farming. -
Quote:I wish. Traps are popular here on the boards. In game, they are anything but.Originally Posted by Berzerker_NA
My problem with /traps is it's too vanilla. Half the MM's out there are /traps it seems. Also it's a lot of work. I find that, even with Hasten, I'm always trying calculate out the timing on my Acid Mortar to make it coincide with the next spawn. It's kind of a pain. However, I must admit I love it when enemies aggro the to Mortar, lol. At least it's not damage I'll have to waste any trouble healing later.
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Quote:Exploit, by definition, is not the bad word you make it out to be.Originally Posted by Evangel_NA
I did use sarcastic orange...
Hate to tell you, PL'ing via farming, is - by its very definition - an exploit. Earning any form of reward at a rate higher than intended by the designer of a system is an exploit. I can provide dictionary definitions for you to solidfy that point but that would rude, don't you think? -
Quote:Around 2bill last I checked. You may be able to pick one up in wents for 1.9 if you get lucky and wait a bit.Originally Posted by Xanatos
Not sure how much this is worth. I want to buy one. How much should I be looking to pay?
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Quote:Applogies then. I do recall that said you felt no animosity to being rating bombed because you were guilty of it yourself. If that is incorrect, I applogize again, It just struck me as a very adult thing to say, and I respected it.Originally Posted by PoliceWoman
Just to be clear, I don't 1 star farms out of spite. I 1 star them because they are bad. I have given higher ratings to farms that I felt had some merit.
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Quote:Nope. I thought I very clearly said it isnt right.Originally Posted by Wrong_Number
So, because one person who is a story arc writer said they have one starred farms that lack story, it's OK to ruin the ratings of all authors of story arcs because "You are all the same "type" and deserve it"? To top it off. I personally could care less about farms, I just think story arcs and farms should be separated with a tab/tag.
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Yep, third sentence.Quote:I am not saying it is right that you folks were targeted like that. It isnt, it is wrong.
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Quote:Yep, but like Police Woman said, she has one stared how many farms out of spite. It isnt one sided. I am not saying it is right that you folks were targeted like that. It isnt, it is wrong. I gotta say though, as a farmer, I feel like you folks target my general playstyle ALL THE TIME. I don't see how my prefered playstyle is any different than someone who RP's, or collects badges, or what not. I don't exploit anything beyond leveraging my strengths vrs the mobs weaknesses. That is not hacking the game any more than following a vidiotmap to get all the badges in a zone yet I am treated as a pariah by a signifigant part of the playerbase. **** that.Originally Posted by Wrong_Number
I've kinda sat out of this discussion because I honestly feel that the devs have made no effort to really make clear what their short or long term intentions are concerning MA or if they even have any and until that happens it's all just us speculating on what they feel MA should or should not be. That said, for reasons I still don't know, I personally received 6 one star ratings to all 8 of my arcs in one 24 hour period when these discussions on farming broke out about six weeks ago. That's 48 one stars. Several of my arcs had not even been played in many months having already been sitting at four stars for a long time. In the same 24 hour period many other authors also received several one star ratings to each of their arcs (FredrikSvanberg, PW, Gypsy Rose and a couple others). This was not a "myth" and it was not "players genuinely disliking our arcs", it was clearly an attempt to harass story arc authors. I'm not saying my work is all "solid gold", but I feel it's clear that the ratings given to myself and other authors, at least that time, were nothing more than griefing.
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Purchase an AE license on the free account. Would grab an invention one as well so you can actually make use of tickets.
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Quote:Kinda makes you wonder how many winter lord babies are still around. Newbies can be retrained.Originally Posted by NuclearToast
I guess my problem with it, personally, is how it trains newbies.
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We have two totally different ways of building a toon. Can you be more specific when you say you want to squeeze out a bit more performance? More recharge? More defence?
Recharge is very important to a trapper. For instance, it is possible to do perma pgt's -regen. Your build has a 18 second window where the spawn is not being debuffed by it.
Your acid mortar is down for 2 seconds. You should at least have some overlap with 2 out, if not 2 out all the time.
Do you fly/hover with this toon atm? I ask because I find laying down my traps to be a pita while hovering.
For knockback protection, I recommend either 4, or 12. Just about anything that gets through mag 4 protection will go through mag 8.
I have included my build just to give you some different ideas on how to slot some things like the bots and traps.
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Run it quickly. Ambush farms are going to be much less lucrative when ish 21.5 hits.
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My caltrops are slotted for recharge bonuses(Posi's) You could proc it out if you want to, but I would rather have the global recharge. There is no wrong way.
Acid mortar, I have 2 recharge IOs, the Archiles proc, Apoc Proc, Lockdown Proc and a Shield breaker. With two mortars out permanantly, its proctacular.
As for the defence stuff, it is your call. I brought mine up to 36% and am letting the prot bubble bring me up to the cap. In case the bubbles are coming a little slow, I am a small purple away from softcap to all positions and types.
That leaves me to focus on other priorities.
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Do the aura's work for lore as well?
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Quote:I'm sorry you didn't know. Silas has a traps guide that is good(almost required) reading.Originally Posted by SinergyX_EU
You serious? I've been playing for that long so gimped while i didnt know?
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Quote:Recharge is HUGE for traps. Stacking acid mortar(it does stack) up to three times is awesome. Perma PGT is something I wouldnt want to give up, and having 2 triage beacons out can increase everyones regen by 500%(Hello McRegen!)Originally Posted by SinergyX_EU
/traps is very safe on powers, most powers already can be perma without external recharge and if you can pop 1 more (like acid mortar), it wont stack anyway. Calltrops is handy to have, but if you are ninja/ you already have your supply of them.
So with little or alot recharge, it hardly effects your damage output. Pets will do their thing, you have your debuff, only your control is somewhat lesser. -
You haven't trick or treated unless you have done it with trip mine.
As for deciding on a blaster or corr... Do you want to kill stuff really quickly or do you want mez protection, defence, -resists, -damage, -regen -recharge and kill stuff really quickly?
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Quote:wut?Originally Posted by ControlFreak_NA
I farm with my spine/fire all the time, just a tip take provoke it will keep mobs in burn and keep them from running all over the place. Slot it with one acc and one recharge and you can spam it over and over. I also find shadow meld to be helpful to stack Def. If you get a build with enough +rechage it can be perma and will keep you at the scrapper Def cap.
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Quote:I can't think of a situation where I wouldn't want detention field available every 17 seconds. Heh. You win this round.Originally Posted by Arcanaville
FF/Energy defender comes to mind. It benefits a little, like all things benefit at least a little, but not all that much really.
Lets rephrase: What build that doesn't suck won't gain much from increasing recharge and having their buff's/debuffs, heals, holds, attacks, and defensive powers up more often. I can't think of any.
(I keed. Mostly. I am sure there are a few. Don't know many I would want to play though. Subjectivity at its finest.) -
Quote:I hear you. It is very rare that I need to seeker a spawn before I jump in. It is nice to have the option, but most times it is an unnessessary extra step before I hop into the spawn.Originally Posted by elemental23
Lol never said it wasn't a good power it just whenever I make a Traps any thing seekers just doesn't fit in there >.<
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/kin or kin/
They don't need musculature either though.
They can stack enough +recharge on themselves that I would say they dont NEED it from LOTG's. However, I think an easier question may be to ask what build doesn't gain much from increasing recharge and having their buff's/debuffs, heals, holds, attacks, and defensive powers up more often. I can't think of any. -
Quote:Some carrots people like(mission complete bonus, accolades, pvp ios), some carrots people run away from(extra astral for open leagues). The devs apparently can't tell which is which.Originally Posted by hemmingway3
Sometimes you do need PvP IOs to compete effectively, but there are many cases where you do not. Many PvP IO prices are as high as they are because the devs, in all their wisdom, gave them desirable bonuses in PvE.
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Quote:Actually, the market says what the playerbase thinks they are worth. If no one was willing to purchase the IOs for these prices, they wouldnt sell at these prices.Originally Posted by Infernus_Hades
The silence from the devs is deafening on PvP however the market shows what they really think. I don't PvP now and haven't in a long time because it is a pointless exercise without some of the tools we need to make the game interesting. Having to spend 5 or 6 billion to get PvP IO's? No thanks.
Now if you are going to say that the devs are fine with them selling at these prices, the only dev I know that ever spoke on the subject thinks that those prices are ridiculous.
If you are saying that if the devs are okay with it because they haven't increased the drop rates at all, well, how do you know? Have you tested that? Personally I think they could increase the drop rate by a decent margin without it affecting the prices at the auction house. I also cant prove that you are not wrong either.
All that said, afaik, you don't need pvp io's to pvp.