macskull

I am pretty sure that the 99% of people who play this game and don't PvP don't care.

If you PvP and you want to do well, you put in the time and effort to ensure that you can do well. If you're not willing to do so, you're either lazy or ignorant. I want to IO my characters well, so I put in the time playing the market and farming so I can afford them. Just think, in the time everyone spent whining in this thread, they could've made millions on the market.

lol, no. Take the 53 merits and save them until you have what you need, or roll them (53 is almost enough for 3 rolls). I've become filthy rich off random rolls, many of which were funded by Hami raid merits. I'll sometimes take the Hami, since there are three or four types that consistently sell very, very well.

No it wouldn't. For an example, see the Gladiator's Armor +3% defense unique. That's currently the only IO that consistently sells for 2 billion (though a few others fluctuate in the 1.5-2.0 billion range) - in essence there's a price cap because that is the influence cap for a given character. You can argue til you're blue in the face, but here's the facts - not opinion, facts - price caps are bad. It's been demonstrated in the real world economy on multiple occasions, and it's evident in-game with the IO I mentioned. Sells for 2 billion, and lots of people want one because lots of people can afford one. Your options are to throw up a 2 billion inf bid and hope yours is the lucky number when one gets listed, which could take a long time, or you could find someone willing to sell it off the market... and they'll ask for more than 2 billion because you will be willing to pay it to get the IO quickly. You think the market's bad now? Price caps will destroy it and there will be a real black market. Again, not opinion - facts.

You're suggesting that the people with billions and billions of inf will suddenly find their inf devalued? Amusingly that'd affect those people less, since they'd have more inf stored up to spend. How exactly are you suggesting they "take away" that sort of "end-game play?" Add price caps? Been over that - facts say it will backfire and you will come crying saying you can't get things on the market at any price. Increase the drop rate? Good for you, you've just made everyone happy and the rich people are making even more because they're getting more drops.

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I don't recall, at any point ever, seeing a farmer walk into a team's mission, say "this mission is mine now," steal the mission out of the mission holder's contact list, and keep it as their own. That would be taking away the game from everyone else. What farmers are doing is keeping to themselves, and with the new difficulty sliders, you don't even see broadcasts and tells asking for fillers. As a drops farmer, there's been few better times, and as a non-farmer there's been few better times since they are for the most part transparent these days. Come on now, don't be jealous that there are players who are willing to put in the time and effort to make inf so they can buy things. If you're whining about it, it's because you're either lazy, entitled, or just stupid. I'd like to think you're neither, but if you're whining about something as simple as virtual money, I'm not so sure. Please explain to me how farmers are turning the end game into a "clique" - last I checked I could log on and be on a PuG mission team or TF within a few minutes, and that's not even on a highly-populated server. Get some friends, and then come back and say farmers are ruining the game.

As do the rest of us, which is why we don't get bent out of shape when we see how expensive things are. If everyone got to have the nice things, they wouldn't be ultra rare, would they? The ultra rare and expensive stuff is there to appeal to the players who like that kind of stuff. If you think you can't afford it, and choose to ignore the multitude of ways to pay for it, that is your fault and not the game's.

In short, there are the facts, which are right, and your opinions, which are wrong.

Or you could run with DR on and everything else off. That way you don't have to worry about popping a zillion reds and three-shotting things, squishies still have the resistance cap of around 45%, but you'd get mileage out of Sonic and Therm shields.

Except if that Defender was a Corruptor you'd be getting more kills faster and still be debuffing just as effectively. Plus you'd live longer because you have more HP and you wouldn't need to sacrifice a phase power to get perception and vice versa.

Yeah but Defenders are so much better...

Also, no one in the PvP forums cares that you soloed an AV. It's not hard.

EDIT: How the hell does Empress Watermelon have positive rep?

Ah, I remember the BMLS. I rolled up an Ice/Kin Corruptor just for that, which has been sitting at 22 there since I13 dropped. I have a lowbie Kin/Rad Defender on Freedom which will likely never see playtime unless something like this actually forms up.

One of the goals of the I13 changes was to make things more "balanced" in order to introduce a rewards system and hopefully attract non-PvPers into the PvP game, but as we can see that didn't exactly end well. There are less people PvPing than there were a year ago (unless you look at the Freedom numbers, and even then that may not be true). The system needs to be more similar to PvE (hint: the old system was) in order for PvEers to know what's going on before they get stomped. Some changes were good, yes, but the majority were simply bad (travel suppression, heal decay, base resistances tied in with DR). The game mechanics need to work well before a sizeable population begins to form, but at this point I doubt the devs care about population so long as PvP fits their vision of "balance." Does this PvP system have potential? Meh, not really. Only way it will have potential is if you start pulling things out of it instead of adding things to it (HD and TS, I'm looking at you), but as that's not how things around here usually work, I can't see PvP doing much more than stagnating in its current state. Minigames will likely draw few PvEers in, and those that do will leave just as they do now.

Agreed: the only reason non-coordinated damage spikes result in kills in zone PvP these days is because heal decay and travel suppression make it as simple as clicking buttons until the target dies - there's no need to lock targets and spike at the same time... this is somewhat less true in the arena, but given that most evenly-matched team events are low-scoring it's very unlikely that people will see PvP IO drops in the arena.

Only since you came around.

(Also, I think you have the CoH and CO forums confused again. )

Yes.

Plus the mez changes which make setting up a damage spike, where the target can do literally nothing, ridiculously easy; removal of unresisted damage outside of the crit portion of AS, and removal of unresisted debuffs. Even if you somehow get an option to remove base resists and run matches with no TS/no HD/no DR/no base resists you'll still end up with a half-***** version that's neither I12 nor I13 PvP. On the plus side, it'd make Sonics useful again (assuming cages get un-****** at some point)...

Or your can just shark 'em and between the crit and DoTs it's basically a guaranteed kill.

This is not the CO forums, you know.