Smurphy

Roughly 175 levels across about 10 toons.

Five of the toons were played at the same time. I ran all Dev Choice and all Hall of Fame arcs for them. Some of the other toons did less than reputable things including going from 1-35 in an hour or so. So it's not actually all that impressive. Should really be considered about 30 to 40 levels but 175 sounds way cooler.

Still lots of sales to go in the "2xp weekend" market event. Usually the week or two after is people spending Inf on all their new fancy high level toons. Respec recipes are at an all time high. I guess it's time for me to unload my boatload of them

What about Tactical: Assault and Assault? Perhaps taking the aoe provoke on one instead of immob for bosses? I've found Heavy burst to be useful. After lots of practice I've found that I can use 4 AoEs on multiple crabs

Wouldn't Turbo Ski have kicked the Defender simply for being Force Fields?

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What about the Blasters who died?
The Tank who aggro'd over the aggro cap and let aggro run away and who only had one aoe and no taunt?
The controller who apparently had no control?

Would there have been anyone not kicked?

I hit control-f and didn't see the word "over" in that original post that Con Flict quoted. Was it edited out?

You mean the one where you confuse the words "intend" and "intent" for "exploit" ?

One can only disable signatures and not merely disable images in signatures. Please tell me I am wrong and show me how I can correct that if I am mistaken. I want to see images in posts, text in signatures, and no images in signatures.

I hit control-f on this page. I didn't get any hits on the word "mole" or "machine". I'm astonished. Mole machines, or anything like mole machines, are my worst nightmare. Auto-fire, Masterminds and dropping missions are the only ways I'd ever be able to do them. The last mission on the Khan TF was similar. Fighting him was like fighting a mole machine. It was easy and terribly boring. Please don't make me ever do that again. They embody everything I hate. There's no action. It's just tedium. I feel like I should get one of those dipping birds.

Mole machines may make me cry and want to gauge my eyes out due to boredom but there are some enemies who frighten me. Longbow Nullifiers and Zenflower scare me. They are the only things in this game that I truly fear to fight against. I've done hundreds of wild and crazy things. I've tanked all 8 of the Freedom Phalanx at the same time on an /Electric Brute, I've done wild and crazy task forces on the highest difficulty with enemies buffed, I've solo'd whatever. Only Nullifiers and Zenflower scare me. Sonic Grenades are brutal. I run around randomly trying to stay out of them when they are lobbed in my direction. Zenflower I just don't understand. I just get mauled when I see her. Other AVs and Heroes who do psychic damage are no problem. She's just a beast.

Paragonwiki answers most of your questions:
http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Level_pact
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Additionally, a leveling pact will be broken automatically if one or both members move to another server, or if one of the accounts becomes inactive.

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All of the redside SFs contain an Archvillain/Hero. I believe they all have been solo'd.

Binder of Beast may be the easiest to solo but at level 20 many builds lack a lot of powers. The AV/Heroes are very weak and 1 dimensional though.

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Can you get purps with merits? If so, then yes.

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If you could get purps with merits the prices on everything else would go even further out of control.

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Not necessarily. It could be something like 500 Merits a random Purple roll and 1000 merits a specific purple.

Isn't the answer Ticket and Merits?

#13809065 - 07/27/09 04:36 AM
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(*sigh* All this thread needs is for someone to mention merging the markets and then it will be the THREAD OF PAIN! )

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#13805361 - 07/26/09 03:23 AM
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Unfortunatly, playing the market is part of the game, and the Dev's do it as well. I believe it was Ex Libris who said that playing the market adds dynamics into the game. It was the reason she gave as to why not to merge markets, and it fits quite nicely into why not to add a price cap into the market. That and supply on many items would be zero, and I would start selling my purple recipes for 400mil via posts on the market forums

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#13805607 - 07/26/09 06:38 AM
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4) Unmerged markets. More transactions available to more players make a less dynamic, more stable market, that has lower prices for the same amount of goods. If the devs wanted lower prices, especially red side, they would have merged the markets long ago.

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Slotting a lot of +HP and +regen has worked wonders for me. Understanding how much and which inspirations to use is also an incredibly important skill.

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I would have to vote /fire for boss spawns and focus on melée defense.

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D-D-D-Defense!?
/Fire has absolutely 0 defense why would you want to build towards Defense?

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Because it has zero defense.

I'm for sale but I'm not cheap. You can pay me to be your teammate.

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I'm going to make an assumption. Please correct me if I am wrong.

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Supply and demand, economy 101. I know people will always want to pay for something. It's the extreme's people will go to do so that makes me shake my head.

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You do realize that cannot work? There has to be some method of dividing stuff between players. There are many options: Lottery, Wait in line the longest, Someone arbitrarily deciding need, or whoever pays the most. The Black Market and Wentworth's work on the "he who pays the most" method. Purples prices simply reflect that. If you think purples are overpriced go out into the game, find them, and sell them or send the devs a PM.

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I never really posted that I wanted everyone to have EVERYTHING. I just made a comment towards JD billion in purple rant. And I agreed that it is ridiculous that something should sell for 1bil. On another note, I'm not saying we should all get this or that, but I did notice the price of Costume Wings drop dramatically when no one bought them for the laughable price of 14mil. My biggest suggestion is wait, not "we all should have everything".

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Many posters here in the market forum have no issues with the developers increasing drop rate. A drop rate increase does increase the items available for players. A price cap does not. That is where poster's here have issues.

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Your not reading my posts, I never once stated there should be a price cap, JD did.

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I have read your posts. I stated "I'm going to make an assumption. Please correct me if I am wrong" because I was making an assumption on what you thought. You corrected me. My assumption was incorrect because I have trouble understanding why you are talking and what you are trying to accomplish.

Many poster's in this thread are trying to educate others about how economics works and about Supply and Demand. You seem to at least state those words several times in your posts. Why you state those words I cannot grasp. You seem to think that because some aspects of the real world economy don't exist in CoH that we shouldn't think about economics in "CoH" because it is just a game. You also seem to think that saying "I have purples" makes someone an elitist pig who should go outside.

This is my understanding of the thread:
1) Understandable frustration at purple recipes
2) Understandable proposition of TWO solutions to the frustration
3) Explanation that one of those solutions would increase the problem
4) Denial that one solution increases the problem
5) Deluge of explanations, examples, proposals, tests that really... dude... really... it increases the problem
6) You stating "it's just a game go outside stop defending the market".

Do I get that right? Is that really how you fit into this conversation? We are attempting to educate someone how economics works and you are saying "no go outside and stop thinking". You seem to at least state the words "Supply and Demand". We are trying to hammer home that purples are incredibly rare, have become even more rare, and even more people want them.

How would "not being greedy jerks" solve the problem? Is your opinion that everyone should just let others have the purples instead of buying purples for themselves? What is your opinion?

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Funny how marketeers say "do the work" to get the stuffs. lol. The ones actually RUNNING MISSIONS and farming are the ones that want a higher drop rate. Seems to me, thats more like "work" than standing in front of a WW employee.

As ive said before, the market is and can be manipulated due to the lack of supply. That's what irritates me about the whole thing. I farm PI (peregrine island) for those AE heroes out there, and i can farm it for a week at a time with no drops. That's kinda low, imo. I AM doing "work" but i feel like we shouldn't HAVE to use WW if we don't want to just to get stuff. Why can't we just be able to "work" in the way WE like and not the way YOU like to get stuffs???

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Use merits.

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It suppose it takes a certain type of person to be drawn into the act of dressing in spandex and killing gangsters with a katana. The sad thing you can't do it in real life and have to get your kicks in a video game...then act all high and mighty like your something special and talk down to people. Way to go guys. Good job.

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Who says you can't do that in real life?

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