SinisterDirge

Originally Posted by Dark_Inferno

I need a little more help...

Some sets I am looking at in Mid's show a level range. Also, when I searched in-game at the trading houses looking up sets some will only show up at lower levels.

So... I can only pick from a couple of sets?

ty!

So... please, how does a level range work?

Originally Posted by GreenFIame

Farming isn't everything, it the lease thing on people minds, most of the time, not everyone is a farmer.

Farming is an Exploit and do you really want the dev to be aware of these Exploits on a daily day.

Originally Posted by Doctor_Gemini

I don't see what the devs can do about though, short of gutting the AE completely.

Originally Posted by Amy_Amp

Oh, I can think of a reason why it's not been posted, but then I'm sure the community people don't want to hear it. While the server downtime wasn't posted on Facebook, the training room stress test looks to be there and not here. Way to keep us informed guys.

Originally Posted by redtornado

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Originally Posted by Djeannie

Sure it would impact your farming. A well built farmer makes 3 mil inf a min. In order for you to match that level of income in 1 hour you would need to make 180 mil in sales per hour.

Originally Posted by Afterimage

The problem with perma Lightform is that if you use that, you really aren't a Human Peacebringer any longer. If someone played as a human form Peacebringer to avoid looking like a squid or a lobster, Lightform defeats that purpose.

Originally Posted by Djeannie

Farming is not just about leveling BionicFlea, you know that it's also about inf gain to buy stuff now that we've had an "economy" in the game since issue 9.

Originally Posted by Nihilii

I've crunched the numbers and played extensively KM multiple times on either AT to 50, including mirror combos so I can have direct comparisons, as well as detailed my reasoning regarding damage buffs working comparatively worse on brutes than scrappers due to the way the AT itself work, having lower base damage + Fury rather than higher base damage, a thought that seems shared by most if not all knowledgeable folks, but hey, mister random person, I'm glad you can put everyone's concerns about KM's performance at rest with such rock solid arguments as "it does TONS of damage and can basically do alot of things that Invul/Stone/Willpower can do" (which seems like a self-defeating argument to me, as if you're arguing it can do a lot of things, as opposed to all the things, and hasn't anything extra, then it only follows that it is not as good). I could also go on about /fire vs /mu, if going for AoE, or /soul, if going for ST + almost as good AoE + survivability, but it's late and I want to wrap up this run on rant by deploring once again the annoying trend for people to see everything in black and white and confuse relative statements with absolutes. There is a best and there is a worst, that doesn't mean the worst is unplayable ; the worst active NBA player could probably make a fool out of anyone who's reading these forums at basketball. Sure, you can dress it up by claiming everyone is a winner and is awesome, but who does that help? Maybe the feelings of people who care about the performance of their characters, but then wouldn't we be more helpful to these players by giving them the correct information rather than sugarcoated affirments, assertions that are if you ask me quite condescending as really that's the kind of stuff you feed children, and I feel it's safe to assume the vast majority of people on the boards, especially those who are likely to visit the archetype forums, are at least teens and most likely grown men or women... Then comes the second annoying trend, player compares himself with random people on PUGs, sees himself perform better, concludes powerset combo is better. Holy logical leap Batman, have you stopped and considered that this game takes a bit of skill to play? As little as it might be to some people - again, people who treat everything as an absolute, which is especially silly when discussing skill in a MMO as there are, always, a significant amount of the playerbase who plays at a level that is, let's just say, far below what would be required to have any kind of enjoyable experience in most other video games ; as little as it might seem, the point is there is still much room in this game for personal skill to supplement build differences to a point, and comparing oneself to random players just doesn't make sense. Just yesterday I've seen a blaster taking the alpha against Marauder and his cronies in a Lambda while all the brutes and tankers were sitting on their pancakes, twiddling their thumbs. All melee powersets suck! Let's all reroll blasters! Thankfully it doesn't work this way, and thankfully there is room for something beyond just picking up the power build and closing your eyes, although it can feel that way at times after hours, dozens of hours, hundreds of hours playing the game, which is the kind of time during which you could learn a whole new language or professional activity really, so it should come at no surprise that certain things that are not as obvious to more casual players become child's play for some. Bottomline, you can push absolutely every combo in this game to do pretty cool stuff, far above what is actually required for regular play, but some will have an easier time at it, some will be faster, some will be able to push it even further. Hiding that fact behind happy-go-lucky rhetoric doesn't seem to serve much purpose to me, sure there are people who consider anything but the absolute best to be broken and useless and might then try it, but most likely they'll find out at some point that particular combo isn't the thing it was hyped up to be and will end up feeling disappointed. So the lesson here is you can't change people, but you can rant at them and that makes you feel better for a little while, up until facebook and google finally manage to push for our real identity to be tied to our online personas all the time, and the angry masses come to your home and burn your house for daring to say that guys, it could be that, open parenthesis, two plus one point fifty, close parenthesis, times one point fifteen might just be bigger than, open parenthesis, two plus one point sixty plus one point twenty-five, close parenthesis, times zero point seventy-five, and no home means limited internet access, means the end of the world as we know it.

Originally Posted by DoctorWhat

Time Bomb is awesome... in Devices. Devices has Smoke Grenade and Clocking Device which lets you walk up to a mob's feet, set the Time Bomb and get away, making it a great first, opening move.

In Traps, unless you want to drop a space to pick up some Stealth, it's mostly pointless.

Originally Posted by BeyondReach

People really should read people's posts. I was saying that story arcs should not provide superior rewards to farms. They should just provide better rewards than they currently do.

Originally Posted by Crysys

If I were Hemmingway and the AE was the only outlet for publishing my works, I'd likely be pretty upset if my stuff was cluttered up with a bunch of comic books.

Originally Posted by Zamuel

Um, they already removed the badges for receiving Hall of Fame...or am I misunderstanding that part of the question?

Originally Posted by Zamuel

The question I prevent to you is, what is it that you dislike? Is it typos? While people should fix these on their own, this is where the part of being hungry for feedback comes in, plus more eyes help. Is it style choices? If most writers have a Coke style writing and you prefer Pepsi nothing can be done about individual arcs but perhaps you could be directed to arcs that better suit your tastes. Is it things like logic errors/story conflicts? This is also where feedback comes into play and is probably more useful than typo fixes since a typo is easier to fix.

Originally Posted by Amy_Amp

I actually like Praet. I just got another character through there, and have 3 more to go.

Originally Posted by MrCaptainMan

I never said I was an intellectual lol. I'm not sure what it is you think I'm ignorant of either. I think this started because you disagree with my opi ion on why some people choose to play farm arcs over and over instead of playing story-arcs.

It was probably the 'cretin' comment rather than the reading one that got your dander up, so I apologise and I'll amend my comment:

I think that a major reason why farm arcs are being played is that there are a lot of CoH players who don't like to read, and who place value not on a narrative being experienced but on numbers. Levels, inf, xp, tickets, all these things are quantitative, easy to attain, and give measureables with which they can know how much they are 'winning the game'.

That sort of playstyle's not my cup of tea, but they pay their sub, same as me, so I'm not going to demand they're stopped.

I just wish there was a good way of segregating their arcs from story-arcs in the AE interface. Everyone would win then.

Eco

Originally Posted by MrCaptainMan

I'm sure no farm arc creator or user will lose any sleep over my opinion

Eco.