Luminara

If they're only one level into grey, yes. If they're below that, no.

Further clarification: there are two categorizations for salvage: arcane and tech. Magic, mutation and natural origin critters drop arcane salvage. Science, technology and natural origin critters drop tech salvage. Nothing drops a specific salvage component. Nothing drops a specific rarity of salvage. The auction house is the only guaranteed method of acquiring specific salvage, due to pooling.

Teams are a social experience. I have social anxiety disorder. Oil and water.

I sincerely hope the HC team wouldn't be foolish enough to spend anything on Gremlins. They were terrible.

Menu > Options > Window (last tab) > Reticle (right under User Interface) > Player Health Bars > click until it says Show Always.

Miss streaks, endurance issues, gradually worse damage as one increases in level (powers don't deal less damage, but critter HP and mitigation increases while unslotted or poorly slotted damage remains consistent), limited access to powers due to lack of sufficient recharge buffs/enhancements, slow movement speeds, dislike of the feeling of being "weak" after having played a character at 50+, lack of interest in lowest level content, impatience (either played through the low level content hundreds of times, or new and wanting to run with the big dogs rather than be stuck at the bottom for weeks)... any or all of the above. I don't power-level my characters, I don't team, I don't farm, I usually don't twink (have on a couple of occasions) and I don't use the P2W buffs, so I'm pretty intimate with the shortcomings of the low level game. It's frustrating, it feels underwhelming and for some people, it's not enjoyable (this is a combat-oriented action MMORPG. sucking at combat shouldn't even be a possibility, much less so assured that there are mechanics in place (Beginner's Luck) and P2W buffs to fix that problem). That's why I play the market with every character, to make enough inf* to plug the holes on low level characters.

Don't tell me you lost your last pair of panties again. What, do we have to RFID tag these things for you? ❤️

Short term fluctuations are short term. If the prices remain high for a few weeks, then everyone can throw their panties in the air and run around like panicky NPCs (evidence of such behavior will be required in photographic format). Until then, go about your business as usual. 😛

So do I. I abide by a lot of restrictions I set for myself, leveling characters without hand-me-downs or inheritances, but not using merits or the AH is just out of the question. I earned the merits, I earned the inf*, I'm damn well going to put them to use making the game less frustrating by hitting the AH and fixing the problems I encounter (like missing over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over... fuck that noise, i'm not playing to test my patience, i can do that on the forums).

Which is why we all refer to you as Cuddles.

Now I can't stop imagining Shivans performing Guns In the Sky.

Gold retriever ≠ golden retriever. Man... I let that sit for FOUR PAGES, waiting for someone else to jump on it. Slackers.

That is an impressive use of the thumbtack feature. 👍

I'm just starting to work on a cup of coffee, so my brain is mush at the moment, but some form of lateral progression might address some of the issues you've raised, @Monos King. We already have lateral progression in a few ways. Badge collecting. Completing all of the story arcs, side missions (the detective and Madame Bellerose stuff) and personal stories in Dark Astoria. It's a different grind, one which players tend to be more open to accepting, and which feels rewarding when it's completed. More lateral progression of that sort might be an answer, at least for some players. An example jumping around in my addled skull (i'm really not worth a wet sock until the caffeine kicks in) is going back through old story arcs and adding... I don't know, 50, or 100 extra glowies, one per mission, something like the Letter Writer glowies in the Ouroboros arcs. Players would have to revisit these missions, or play them on new characters, in order to find them. Locating all of them unlocks... a unique souvenir (the badge list is apparently teetering under its own weight, rather not make it worse), or an otherwise inaccessible emote. Obviously, this wouldn't be feasible on that scale. They don't have the resources, that's just the way it is. But the idea of lateral progression has been working to provide a degree of satisfaction to a lot of players for as long as the game's been playable, so brainstorming something that's possible within the HC team's resource budget (meaning, something that won't make @Piecemeal or @Cobalt Arachne hate life) should be within the ken of the forum regulars. Just not me right now. Brain mush hurts, needs more caffeine.

You promised that to me... After everything we haven't shared, all we've never been through together, the good times and memories that don't exist, you betray me like this?! I feel so dirty. Do it again.

I thought it was a euphemism for cannibalism.

Ah. I typically let my AoEs handle that aspect.

/bind b "powexec_location target Oil Slick Arrow" I'd also recommend against slotting the Overwhelming Force KB>KD IO in OSA, or Bonfire. It's known to be finicky if more than one source of KB activates, and both of those powers deal KB. You'll have critters randomly bouncing out of the KB patches in various directions. Use the Sudden Acceleration KB>KD IO.

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AG! How long have you been lurking? 😄