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If its not interesting why play it.

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Because some builds start off rather meh and bloom later on.

Warshades especially take this to ridiculous heights (going past "bloom" somewhere in the 20s and ending up at "dear-sweet-baby-jebus-this-is-fun" in the 30s).


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And don't forget the VEATS there like jekyll and hide and can play completely different depending on what powers you have I don't know about any one else but i know i found it disconcerting i was just getting into the toon as a soldier and then i hit 24 and respect to crab it was like a completely different toon and left me lost

I've been quite on this for a while so i recon its time i stuck my opinion in and added a few observations.

I note that the US has a official farming thread, can we have 1 as well or can at the very least 1 farming thread be picked as "the farming thread" and the rest locked?

one reason farming on the MA is disliked seems to be because of the number of missions that are just a single map filled the Comm officers and yes this as a pain. However i don't know about any one else (well except khork) but i find the number of uber AV arcs a right pain i had a hour to play last night so logged in and headed to the MA for some quick mission action, the first few missions i looked at all had AVs so i picking the smallest looking arc and got started and gave up 10 mins later a stone armour/kinetics AV backed up by a load of energy melee/super reflexes Boss i didn't have a hope in hell so i quit the arc and go find another oh joy of joys its a AV love fest second room in i discover 3 spawns each with a AV again whats the point of me even trying. So with little over half a hour left i take a look at broadcast spot a farm team looking for members and i send a tell what followed was a very pleasant 30 mins yes it would be nice for some mob variety but ill take good banter and boring mobs over solo AV hell any day.
I think its also worth saying that if it was possible to categorize MA arcs there's a good chance there would be fewer farm maps and even if there wasn't at least they would all be in one place.

Another problem people seem to have with farming or more specifically MA farming is the effect that its having on the market well sorry I'm not seeing that terrible effect of course it could be that all the problems are blue side. But it would seem strange that the MA would have a detrimental effect on the market blue side but a good effect red side. Over the last week I've been using the tickets i gather to get a combination of common salvage and bronze recipes I've then been sticking these on the black market as 5 inf on average I'm getting about 2000inf for common salvage now of course that's a average within that average there are pieces that are luck if they get me 100inf and then there are the luck charms that net me a fair bit more. but the range of prices doesnt seem that much different than before the MA launched they maybe up slightly but as any one can get there hands on common salvage easily i fail to see how thats a bad thing. As to the bronze class recipes there prices are all over the place (just as they were before MA arrived) and the same recipe can sell for maybe 5000inf one day and 1 mil the next for no apparent good reason.

Finally there's the people are getting to 50 to quick argument i believe this is the only argument with any kind of merit while I'm not convinced that its a problem i do see that it could potentially be a problem if new subs are only staying as long as it takes to get to 50 and then leaving but again I'm not see huge number of new subs from those farm teams I've been in most have been 6+ month veats and the only non vet a spotted turned out to actually be a 24 month veats second account. I wonder how many people are seeing power lvling in atals and instantly assumeing that its a new sub and not just a some ones new alt.

Now on to my personal reasons for farming. Im a altaholic there's nothing more i like than rolling a new alt however i have a problem my play time, is pretty limited and those long play sessions i get are few and far between. So many of my alts get stuck in the low lvls the only ones that make any true progression being my brutes. Which i love above all other ATs and i have several at 50 (all archived pre MA) but as good as brutes are there have been times on high end TFs and missions that i've wanted to bring something else to the team these thoughts have normally resulted in a the rolling of a non brute alt but the low lvls are a drag I've done the content already i cant take on the AVs and EBs that infest many Architect arcs so i loose interest in the alt. Farming has saved these alts from the fiery pits of deleted alt hell and has boosted them up to the point where i find them playable and i get enjoyment from them which i would recon is a good thing.

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Shame the cost of common high level salvage has gone through the roof. Get back to the deamons you lot....

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play random ma mish
mash roll salvage button
put it on the market
make millions
repeat

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This is what I'm doing but I've noticed something when i do a random roll and i have recipes in my inventory i very often get the salvage i need to make those recipes now maybe its just a flook but it struck me a s a bit weird.

going by the dates Manticore would have been 14 maybe the Regulators were like the paragon teen titans or something

Happy Birthday

that could work provided that it took into account LKs

Well having nothing better to do i decided to go look at the paragon studios web site (yes really im that board) and theres a few more intresting jobs up

yet another character artist

could this be the type-r man (take special note of the resposibilites)

Another powers person more powers persons cant be bad

There definitely up to something it may not be CoH but going by many of the preferred requirements its definitely Super hero related

Yea i think they realised a 'choice' would be a step to far random rolls are fine.

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And more content coming

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Not enough GG, I'm afraid.

The disaster that is MA is a perfect example of how to get it dead wrong - and still try and claim it as a success.

It's just wrong on so many levels, and if you drastically nerf it, or better still remove it, where do we go from there?

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I think you'll find quite a large chunk of the player base have no problem with the architect some even quite like it (yes shocking i know)

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The MA price hike seems to be affecting heroside vastly more than villainside.

Take the Decimation ranged IO set. Three out of the set are 10mil-20mil+ (whereas I distinctly remember them being a mid-price range set when I bought them a while ago, like Crushing Impact kind of pricing) while on villainside there's 51 level 40 Decimation chance for buildup procs selling and no buyers and only one of the recipes fluctates between 8-10mil all the rest are 1mil-3mil

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Personaly i tend to find its often blind luck when it comes to recipes and there price 1 month a set can be dirt cheep the next it has sky rocketed in price.

I suspect it has a lot to do with the set bonuses that the set gives if slotting for recharge is popular one month well see any set that gives recharge shoot up in price, but the next month it may be regen so the recharge recipes will begin to fall in price and the ones that give improved regen will clime.

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Mmmm... I forgot about those silly tickets...
Yet prices seems awfully high anyway since MA introduced.

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Common salvage prices are way up i paid but rair and uncommon salvage has dropped like a stone hami goo can now be had for around the 500,000 mark which is fraction of its previous price.

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Folks love to ruin it for themselves.
I joined a team a few days back (i had no idea it was an MA farm then) and when i join they're whining and [censored] about how easy it is to level in MA and so on.

And what are they doing? playing some farm mission over and over...

Fricking hypocrits, deliberatly going out to farm then start whining on how easy it is.

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I completely agree with this if you find something to easy why continue to do it. That's what i don't get about the OP he seems to go out of his way to lvl as quickly as possible and then complains that he lvled to easily

chat should stop referring to her self in the 3rd person before men in a whit van come and take her to a nice padded cell

Plus it wouldn't be a double load as the servers don't contain the same number of players.

I'm surprised the Americans missed out on a Q&A session

a pitty would have been nice to see if they managed to get any other info out of the Devs

Going by what you've posted it dose very much look like you've been hit by some kind of bug the only way i can see you having a mission that doesn't exist any more is if you have a mission set in either the old fault line or the old rikti war zone.

Petition dose seem to be your best option

tho for future reference when posting such questions give us more specific details and we may have a better chance at giving useful help

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and another proves my point, it's getting better and better.

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Your point bing what "people are board and need a change"

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Teeny tiny problem... EU servers can't handle double the load.

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Sorry chat but that's wrong the servers can handle the load what cant take the load is the network infrastructure in the EU.

The problem with the suggestion is that you can guarantee that there would be people who just wouldn't move.

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I agree, there has been rather a lot of unessassary bashing of people who have made great contributions to the comunity and are mearly posting to say goodbye because they where bored.

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Yup, and this bashing came from a very small, vindictive minority of this forum as well.

It was sad to see, but I shouldn't have expected anything less from them I suppose.

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Hope non of those bashings were my posts as that wasn't what i was intending. Was just making observations but i have a tendency to get side tracked and type massive walls of txt when a simple paragraph would do, so sorry if i came across as bashing i will miss the familiar faces i need some one to argue with after all

Yup and maybe its just a villain side thing but Ive yet to get a generic "team" tell or a blind invite from a farm team have always received something like "hi want to come farm with us" which has all the info i need to decide if i want to join them or not.

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I like those farm maps being available for when I want them. Nothing gets one of my stalled toons out of a rut better than smashing it up a level or two.

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Agreed there great for when you've hit that block where you don't seem to be getting any where.

There also great for seeing how many spawns a brute (or any other toon for that matter) can get through before his end bottoms out or he dies.

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As the subject says... yes, City of Heroes is better now than it was when it came out. It has more to do. With the addition of the mission architect, it offers opportunities that were never there before.

Sure, a lot of people are using the MA to build farm maps and other such abominations against good gameplay - but that's life.

I wrote this sig quite a while ago now; I stand by every word of it.

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welcome back dude

Tolerance?

strange those farming missions i've mentioned in other posts must have been removed for other reasons then?

and sure the've been replaced but there replacments dont offer the same amount of mob spawns per map = less XP per run sounds like a move aghenst farming to me.

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the more leaving this game, the more they prove my point.


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Which is?

Maybe from time to time he just like to go old school or maybe its a diversion while heroes scramble to take on lord Recluse in Peregrine his minions are in City hall looting the archives for some weapon or other.

Personally i would love them to create a number of Tags (including a farm tag) and allow the mission maker to stick there mission in there desired category so those who wish to farm to farm (me being one of them from time to time) but i realise no matter how sensible that would be that's not the route the Devs will take