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There is zero data behind the assertion that my personal experience is not broadly shared with others. The only way the economy is now better for farmers is if the cost decrease is so dramatic that it matches the income nerf, logically speaking. My experience and that of most I talk to (excluding billionaire marketeers and “I have an economics degree” forumbros) is that we are not there yet.

Prices are not down enough yet to match the nerf, so yes, there is absolutely pain. In before some economist drops in to tell me my personal experience is guided by plain stupidity and I’m actually wealthier than before in spite of having to gut toons left and right to keep the IO’s flowing at a pre-nerf pace.

That’s what I thought. I just think ability to solo AV’s with or without temporary powers is an important distinction. Thanks for the clarification.

When you guys talk about solo’ing AV’s, just how safe is it to assume temp powers are being used? I have zero interest in solo’ing something my build alone can’t handle, so just curious how pervasive a part of the TF/AV solo’ing culture envenomed daggers and so on are.

Anyone that doesn’t have that fear is a dangerous and unstable nut job that should be captured and studied in the lab, if you ask me.

This is an important point to elaborate on. Every other MMO I’ve played doesn’t have a 10th of the character diversity CoH has. Take guild wars 2 for instance. The ability to swap skill lines and weapons within a class at will means there was hardly any good reason to make more than 9 characters (9 classes) total. In CoH, I think we discussed that the total number of unique powerset combinations was pretty obscene by comparison. And going back and making things harder for characters when so many of us have dozens can be pretty cruel (the no xp / double inf nerf resulted in me gutting half my characters to keep the IO’s coming at a reasonable rate for newer ones), so we should at least be careful about such things.

You should have way more than 6 T2’s by vet level 20. At least 6 T3’s or a mix of T4’s and T2’s... strictly from AE farming or any other character that does zero incarnate content, you should have enough for all T4’s somewhere in the 40’s. Are you not using anything but threads yet, perhaps? No merits?? This reminds me of something that’s not exactly a pet peeve but that just blows my mind: ever seen a vet level 10+ that isn’t level shifted? Mind-boggling.

It’s turned towards courtesy now. It was definitely partially about harassment and bans earlier, hence why I pushed back against the statement that no one expects to be left alone (some people earlier in the thread clearly do believe they have that right). We’re probably on the same page now.

Not disagreeing with any specific proposal for field medic, but no pool power should ever be as strong as a comparable primary, secondary, or epic power. By design.

I snagged Thundersteel for my new Elec/Shield scrapper about a week ago. Good Riot album. Felt like a generic enough name though I was a little surprised it was open on both torch and indom.

Dude, people are literally asking why continuing to attack them is not banworthy harassment. Of course that’s what they’re suggesting. the confused emoji is cute, but if you would just read the thread...

And IO’s.. and villains... the game wasn’t designed for much of the current meta at all, was it...

The common/uncommon salvage problem reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where Jerry started to get carpal tunnel for trying to sign too many $0.12 checks. The loss is so microscopic that it’s simply preferable for many of us to just trash them right away.

Serious question: can you name for me an MMO where you *would* expect to be left alone without fail the second you asked for it in a zone primarily intended for PvP? It just seems to me like you’re raging at the state of MMO PvP as it has always been and always will be, but you’re trying to make some small handful of CoH players out to be problems. Do you acknowledge that some of this is a how-online-gaming-fundamentally-works issue and not a toxic-CoH-players-are-evil issue?

Also, the only way, logically, that afk farming is an “exploit” is if one of the three following things are an exploit (and I don’t believe any of the below has been confirmed as an exploit by the GM’s): 1) passive damage auras 2) defenses adequate enough that a player’s regen rate is adequate for survival 3) roaming mobs EDIT: I suppose you could also include auto-attacking and the power Burn amongst these. Either way, Lockpick, can you please identify the exploit you would like nerfed from these items?

This was my thought when reading the OP, a new IO proc

Since when are final powers in other pools considered all that good across the board though? Origin pools aside.

These phrasings were not quite what I had in mind, but I do react differently to different badger attitudes as well. It tends to go one of two ways. If I do decide to hunt down a badger, it’d likely be because they made their case in a snarky, passive aggressive, condescending way. Or I didn’t see their request in the first place because what kind of masochist wants to be a part of RV broadcast chat.

These measures punish far more than AFK farmers. Again, why? Personally, not only do I actively farm the content you are promoting nerfs for, but I even have a tendency to load up these types of missions up on non-farm characters for casual xp.

Anyway, my only comment here is a +1 to please give us something not entirely useless after 99. Anything.

Why?

Necessitating god knows how many additional hours of farming to achieve the exact same effect =/= making the game harder. At least not in a good or fun way. If incarnates are a problem, the problem is with the stats being too good, not the work being too easy.

Zac, this thread is about what is allowable without being banned for harassment, not what is ideal behavior. You seem to be missing that.

Jesus christ that is not what I meant. Now that you know better, please do not mischaracterize me again. What I meant is that any team of GM's worth anything would want to avoid subjecting their player base to excessive and frivolous banning. A player's ability to play the game should not be taken away lightly if the GM group in question is competent.

In case you haven't realized yet, I have never /e slapped someone in my entire life. I'm not asking because I'm dying to harass people; I'm asking because I believe in allowing people some level of fundamental rights.