skoryy

Didn't want to get caught trolling on main?

You joined nine days after the patch landed, chief.

Meanwhile, prices on converters have... dropped? At least in the past day.

This kinda stuck with me while I was working from home today. Five alts a week every week already almost IO'd out. Do you actually play these alts once you're done top-tiering them out?

Oops, I forgot its also 60 pages of Oppression Olympics: Homecoming Edition.

Welcome to 60 pages of Bad Economics: Homecoming Edition.

A class that needs more powersets than it does a nerf. I'm still trying to find a dom concept that works, from my limited experience the class is fun but I need a hero/villain not just a powerset with a costume.

If they don't feel different to you that's not a game problem. I mean, I run content consistently at 50 and lower and its definitely not a City of Brutes. I consistently see a variety of archetypes when I'm puggin'. Everyone plays their own style, everyone has their own favorite ATs and powersets and characters, everyone is having fun their own way. There's close to 3000 players online right now as of Thursday dinner time EST. The game is doing something right enough that a private server for a sixteen year old game can pull in that kind of numbers. And I don't see how broad nerfs will make any of them feel more special.

When no one is special, everyone is?

My dark armor brute is already weak to energy, my rad armor stalker is weak to cold, my blaster is weak to everything. What more weaknesses do we need?

One bad economics post generates twenty responses. Why. If y'all really want to combat inflation, make it so that forum posting costs 1000 inf a word.

The horse is dead, Jim.

Dark. Form of the Soul works really nice with the end usage.

Taunt on a brute is still handy for those times you're tanking or want to pull. As for what's skippable, I never took the cone AoE on mine. Between Eye of the Storm and her damage aura, I didn't really need it. YMMV

No, I don't think I will.

Was that about my build? I'll explain for those interested: A.) It was between Bullet Rain and Empty Clips and I like the animations and recharge rate more on the latter. Bouncing in and out of the herd with FSC and EC is my go-to when I don't have HoB up. B.) Its actually two-slotted, as well as Cauterizing Aura. At level 50, she should be getting 5.28 end/sec. She's getting 4.8 end/sec right now with the build less than halfway done. C.) Not really? Endurance consumption's at 2.14 end/sec, and see above. I've never had to worry about the blue bar with her. D.) Thanks! The winter IOs are gonna be pricey, but soft-capping S/L/E/F/C should do her wonders. E.) I always aim for perma-hasten along with capping as much defense as possible. With how much more accessible purples and ATOs are here, I always aim high. Sunbow's one of my more favorite alts, I play her constantly so there's no problem with picking up merits and drops. And Assault on a non-support build never sat well with me, that's too much of the power budget for just a 10.5% damage buff. Mids' says she's getting a 48.5% buff with the assault hybrid as it is. F.) Hot Feet and Burn are great for making things in your face go away, or make them hurt a lot if they still want to stick around. I also pretty much exclusively group over solo these days, so being able to spread the damage and ride shotgun with the tankers and brutes is always a plus.

To paraphrase, "this is the sixth time we have leveled a theme park MMO character, and we have become exceedingly efficient at it." Its been sixteen years since 2004, we know all the beats, know all the kill alls and fetch quests, know the metas, and know the feeling of being incredibly underpowered compared to the alts you already have at max level. I've seen differing attempts at re-inventing leveling - I see you TSW and TESO - but in the end its still all about growing a character when you already have characters fully grown. We've been there before, frankly we're kinda bored with it, so we say "Get on with it" and hop on the powerlevel train. It is what it is.

Against the devs and most everyone else's goals. I'll go lobby the devs' to rename all your characters '2 Billion Inf PvP IOs'.

but why

I read "it'll make the early game too easy," I say "players will be running less played early missions more often now that its no longer a slog". I mean, how often are we hearing about the Rogue Isles and Praetoria being empty? I read "nobody will use the stores," I say "four DFBs and a couple TFs, I'm already level 22 without having ever had to step into a store to begin with." Now there's an incentive to visit stores early on to get your slots filled. I read "immersion", I say "unnecessary enforced downtime sucks and this isn't an unpopular opinion."

There is an issue with the loss of control utility when you can herd through taunt and AoE the herd, but that's not just a CoH issue. The bigger problem is that while one tank/brute can hold the AV's aggro, you need multiple holds to keep them in place. This is where break bars can help make control really shine. As far as support, my blaster will appreciate any she gets. And the value of support shines again when you get to incarnate content. If you're nerfing to make them 'relevant', then, yeah, you're making them mandatory. Metas are a thing.

So make support and crowd control mandatory instead? Since when in the history of CoH has that been a thing?

My usual route these days is to DFB three/four times for the bonuses, maybe run a team for Montague's arc, TF the rest of the way to 22, then finally start thinking about enhancements. This will make it less painful to solo or small team story arcs on my way up, which is going to especially helpful red and goldside. I like it!

There's a soft limit, though: ~500k to create a lvl 50 uncommon IO ~90k per converter Most rare IOs sell for roughly 1 mil. Unless you hit the converter lottery and land on a high demand IO, you're taking a loss once you use more than five converters. Up to ten (I think) if you're converting lower level IOs.

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