Solo_One

I spent about 90mins street sweeping in the 51+ areas on my fire/dark corr on my premium account and got no catalysts. I have not been VIP since they were introduced so I don't know their drop rates but I highly doubt that they drop for anyone but VIPs.

For perspective I have gotten two purples to drop in the month and a half of playing as a freemium and I am far enough into the awards program that I have permanent IO/market access and have ATOs on most of my characters now.

Pre-I13 pve knowledge was the same as pvp knowledge and if you knew any sort of fps tactics on top of the basics of coh pve you were golden. Dont try to make pvp out to be some secret society that only the anointed ones could understand, that only happened post-I13 and the convolution caused by TS/HD/DR. The mindset that pvp was so hard and had to be formally taught is arguably what got us I13 in the first place.

Also, if you actually knew Con you'd know he pretty much pvp'd for the lulz that could be had. He was never all that competitive but he made pvp enjoyable mostly from his personality. His test league team came after I13 because there was a vacuum and we knew pvp was beginning to circle the drain.

Wow, I'm officially 100% out of touch with the playerbase of this game. The sheer # of hours I spent in a pvp zone over the years completely goes against your statement but maybe the game has just changed too much over the years for any of my experiences to have any merit anymore.

I started with zone pvp and graduated to 1v1 arena and then team arena. Some of the most memorable moments for me in this game were duels with friends of equal level of fervor for min/maxing pve and lulzy pvp zone broadcast banter(basically videogame pillow talk, not the toxic hate speak that the forums make it out to be, in fact the game would have been boring sooner without it).

I remember spending hours just spamming /ac on justice for 1v1s and being thankful for every consenting partner. The few team arena events were always anxiously awaited, I remember a 2v2 tourney where the rules allowed tier3 inspirations and the week leading up to it I farmed RSF for a bin full of oranges so my /mace corr could stand up to the blaster/emp teams. The days where insp management mattered and the most work you had to do in a build was leveling/accolades/collecting a handful of sHO's made pvp simple yet so complex at the same time.

Now we have procs, incarnate nukes, obscene levels of power that force you into smaller molds of what is survivable, and the maligned ruleset changes that i13 brought and i14 was the last attempt of balancing with elusivity.

I am not pvping anymore because I don't know any fun pvpers anymore and the kind of pvp I was good at doesnt exist anymore. I've been back a little over a month because of a handful of old friends I can occasionally team with for freemium content. I have no problem giving ncsoft my money but they have to give me something worthwhile in exchange, I will gladly buy the powersets that look fun but they need to do more than just add incarnate content/costumes for me to resub.

I was always under the impression that mids didn't support DR calculations because specific numbers were never released on how it actually works. But, I've been gone a long time and the i13 pvp changes dulled my fervor for min/maxing.

if you had a pvp build it should be capable of 2 shotting Lt's. neither earth/ nor /energy provide aoe damage so your best bet will be to spam fireball/rain of fire. unless you were pl'd you shouldnt be so shocked that you have no aoe damage, but control is something you cant complain about since thats essentially all earth/ provides.

I normally play defenders over a mastermind anyday but this buff would help bring parity in my mind at least.

/Poison could have envenom and weaken give some splash debuff to affect 7-10 feet around the target. /Pain and /empathy's only single target buffs are too powerful to get any sort of aoe bonus.

This change will definitely trivialize buffing but I bet there will be people still not buffing my doms. Autofollow/cast on the tank without fail, but at least I can position myself to get some kind of buff.

This change is 100% good, but as long as we've had Hamidon raids it makes you wonder why it has taken this long to come up with.

that was on my dirt cheap pve build i slapped together to get incarnates. im on justice, im planning to try the same thing again after the changes to interface tues.

same error as before, i was hoping for some kind of patch but it looks like theres no option like that. i guess i'll just play until it stops working completely. thanks for the suggestions.

That phrase may be true sometimes in real life but in this game that makes no sense. The actions of one player can carry entire teams and it happens more regularly as you get closer to the endgame.

A specific example would be the sidekicking system moving away from allowing a five level spread. The devs had to design an entirely new system to even things out because its so obvious that all it takes is one overbuffed character to wipe most things the game lets them design.

If a player is underperforming I think its important that they know it and learn how to be self sufficient. I would rather buff someone who knows what they are doing and can make the most out of my investment in them.

this weekend i solo'd ghost of scrapyard and caleb on my cold/dark defender. he has all Very rare(tier 4) except for interface and judgement.

My lore is the seers all offensive t4, interface is the 75% damage proc t3, cryonic judgement t3 with the damage proc, spiritual t4, and clarion perma t4.

Im not even fully IOd on my pve build and it was pretty simple to do. with benumb basically perma and the buffs from heatloss and clarion basically perma it all comes to wether or not the gm will sit relatively still long enough for you to kill them. i think both fights took about 8 mins since i had to summon my mace mastery pet twice and it is perma.

i tried to kill a monster island gm but they run immediately, probably because of my debuffs or DoT damage. the only other gm i tried was the arachnos flier but when it flies it becomes untouchable and regens so i couldnt kill it in time(no biggie, i have duo'ed it before really easily).

domination is affected by ageless. on my not-perma-without-hasten dom sometimes i forget to click hasten when afk or scrapping away too long so i just use ageless to make up the difference.

more like solo has a ******** of useless information stored he wishes he could forget.

woah, solo just spoke in the lucas tense.