Apparition

Maybe Lorenz Ansaldo opens up a store in Sharkhead Isle that sells goods smuggled in from Paragon City, including Yin's Talisman enhancements. That seems like something The Family would do, especially since the later story arcs blue side seem to have them try to be at least somewhat "reputable." To open it up, you'd have to run Lorenz Ansaldo's mission arc.

I'd argue that there are a lot of players that, unfortunately, only care about rewards and couldn't care less about anything else.

Have you seen some of the PUG teams out there? /s That aside, outside of DFBs (which I run with XP turned off), I'm always exemplared with XP turned off when running team content below level 50. Reward wise, I'm actually now taking a hit by doing so because not only do I now get half of the INF, but I get less drops than I would by soloing. The extra INF made up for the loss of drops.

Will red side get an equivalent to Yin's Talisman enhancements, or will they remain locked to blue side?

The red side mission "The Killing Game" from Doctor Graves appears to have a new bug. Before, when you clicked the first glowie, Dillo would appear. You'd defeat him, and then Twinshot would appear, and you'd defeat her. However, I ran the mission twice today on two different characters. Both times, I'd click the glowie, Dillo would appear, and I'd defeat him. Then nothing. I waited a couple of minutes, and went back to the glowie. Then suddenly Twinshot appeared. It occurred both times. For the second glowie, it operated like normal. I clicked it, then Grym appeared. When I defeated him, Flambeaux appeared, then finally Proton after defeating Flambeaux. The last time I ran the mission before today was sometime in February, and it was normal.

Negative, Ghost Rider.

What in the blue blazes are you doing that it now takes ten to twenty hours while farming to earn 20 million INF? I get it, I do. I don't like the change. It cut my INF intake by half while both farming and while just doing regular content. But by no means did it cut it down to 1/100th.

If this could be fixed, that would be swell. I've always primarily located glowies through audio, and now that's impossible unless, as I said, I turn both my machine's volume and the game's volume all the way up. Even then, it's still a faint hum compared to before.

I have heard great things about both FFXIV and its community. Sadly, I very much dislike the fantasy genre.

Windows 8 hasn't been supported for years. You're going to have to either update to 8.1 or 10.

I think changing all PC knockback to knockdown is a great idea.

Yeah. I just put anyone that asks for that on /ignore.

Personally, this hurts my play style outside of farming. I solo level from level 1 to level 50. I have XP turned off whenever I team, and am usually malefactored. I also disable XP once at veteran level 100, which I achieved with XP turned off while malefactoring. Now my characters only get half the INF and some drops while teaming, and you get more drops while soloing.

Absolutely not, IMO. I refuse to play MMOGs that openly allow them.

Not better, but an alternate. Dual Pistols. It's not as high damage as Fire, but it has plenty of AoE goodness, and if you want, you can add on the debuff pain in the form of Chemical ammunition. Plus, it looks awesome. :D

Yep. I sometimes form up SFs and specifically mention while recruiting and just before we start that it will be a steamroll run. No stealthing. If someone does stealth, I give a warning. If it occurs again, then one star the player followed by /kick. There is no reason at all that others can't do similarly for Judgement powers or what have you.

Yeah. It is IOs and the easy access to them on Homecoming that changed the dynamic. Much more so than Incarnate powers. I am so glad that the old style of waiting for the Tank to herd or take the alpha is dead and buried, where it belongs. Talk about boring.

So avoid Homecoming on March 31st through April 2nd every year. Got it.

The Thursday night Rikti mothership raid is canceled for this Thursday. Thank you!

Personally, at first brush, I have to say that I am not pleased with the farming INF nerf. I understand it somewhat, but I am not pleased. AE Farming is/was how I made money in the game. Money I used to give out 300 million INF each week as Rikti drop ship kill prizes, which is now going to have to stop. I also have toons stopped at veteran level 100 with XP turned off to gain double INF through regular play. I have zero interest in learning nor using the market beyond straight buying and selling.

Yeah. I loathe DPS meters. The ones that let you see how others perform anyway, which is most of them. Sure, they're helpful to see how you perform... but odds are very good that someone is just going to use it to try to shame others. Not worth it, IMO.

Again, IMO, Dual Pistols doesn't need Aim. DP has extra accuracy built-in compared to other ranged sets, and if you want extra damage switch to Incendiary rounds.

Willpower was not a mistake. That is good as well, as is Invulnerability and Super Reflexes.

Energy Aura. Soft-capped defenses to everything but Psionic damage, decent resistances, and no worrying about endurance after level 30ish. Plus, using Energy Drain on Carnies and Malta feels so good.

Hopefully the impending new General chat channel (which I plan to remove from my chat tabs postehaste), will help there.