macskull

This is incorrect, defiance is based off animation times not recharge times. As RB said, there are only a few sets that follow the "4/8" rule. As of right now, and through all my playtesting during closed beta, Rad Blast on a Blaster doesn't feel like Rad Blast.

AKA the "MO badges that don't mean anything because a team of monkeys could get them?"

*shrug* The changes to custom mob and rank XP as well as the reduction of the ticket cap (hmm, don't think that made it into the patch notes either, did it?) ensure that most "normal" players won't bother with MA missions anymore, and the people who spent lots and lots of time making fun arcs with real storyline and custom NPCs that weren't ridiculously hard will now have even less people playing their arcs.

There are other "powers" that still give mez protection in PvP.

Yep, but it was also created with the goal of providing a roughly parallel leveling experience to doing "standard" content. Remove XP from the missions and not only will it directly go back on the design goals set for it, but it'll also turn the MA into another ignored niche.

Tried, failed. You won't be able to take out the four patrons and LR without heavy usage of Shivans and the Warburg nukes. Single-pulling the patrons might make it easier but you'd still be in for a tough time without any appreciable damage buffs or resistance debuffs.

If his "treatment of other players" is killing players in a player versus player zone I'm not seeing a problem here.

This is incorrect. The real current inf cap is something like 40 billion inf on one character - just bid 2 billion inf on a recipe or enhancement that doesn't exist (such as a level 53 LotG or a level 1 Hami) and fill 19 of your maximum of 20 market slots with such bids. I know of at least two people who have double-digit billions on multiple toons (I'm not one, unfortunately).

Additionally, lowering the inf cap will accomplish nothing, just like setting price caps will accomplish nothing. People will simply start looking at off-market sources for their IOs and using multiple characters to fund the transactions. If you think prices and supply are bad now, hooooooooo boy would you be in for a shock if we had price caps.

It's not worth it to you. The fact that some of those recipes are fetching the same prices as Numinas and LotGs means that to the people who can afford them, they're worth just as much as a Numina or LotG.

People have already explained the reasons these recipes are so expensive:

1. Low supply - they are a pool C/D drop in a lower level bracket, where most people don't spend much leveling time.

2. Swapping out random recipe rolls for merits in I13 caused supply of many pool C/D recipes to nosedive and the few tweaks that have been made to merit random rolls and boss drops in I14 and I15 have done little to ease the supply. Ironically, you can thank the MA for bringing some prices (purples and PvP IOs notwithstanding) back in line - tickets fall like rain, and the only thing you can do with them that's actually worth the time is random rolls due to roll costs versus inventory cap.

3. People are rolling in the 35-39 and 40-45 range with their merits (and to an extent tickets) because that's where most of the "good stuff" is in terms of pool C/D recipes. I've been rolling 10-14 hoping to get lucky with a few of these recipes but until then...

Point is... how badly do you want it? You could always try placing a lower bid or just blanket-bid across several levels and hope to land one, or you could just pony up the going rate. If none of those options seem attractive to you, you don't want it that much.

1. Gaussian proc will check on activation and once every 10 seconds after that. I think it's of limited usefulness but there really isn't anything good to put in the default Nova slot so that's what I've got on my Warshade (my PB has 4 Gaussians for the set bonuses).

2. Procs - just about every Warshade attack should take the Impeded Swiftness smashing damage proc. Other powers will take other damage procs based on type (melee, hold, ranged, knockback, etc.).

I view badges as an annoying hurdle to obtaining accolades, much as I view levels 1-49 an annoying hurdle to getting to 50, IOing up, and wandering off to PvP. I don't mean I want "you get all your accolades for free!" (though if they offered the four passives and the two good clicks as a microtransaction I'd snap that up) but I don't want to be spending hours killing grey-conning mobs or AFKing overnight or slogging through low-level task forces. I'm alright with badge requirements that are reasonable.