blue4333

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The posts in beta stated that enemy groups/NPCS attacks were all shifted to one elemental type (e.g. Smashing/Negative/Fire) and a positional tag (Ranged/Melee/AOE). No justification released from the devs yet. But at this point, I think the patch is ready to go live soon anyways.

Yeah of course, but if the leader wants to run at +4, should the leader exclude non-50s and non-incarnates then?

Yeah I'm not sure the Emp Merit to Reward Merit conversion or AFK Farmers/AE Farmers cause Inflation. Rehashing my post from the AE thread: https://samhaine.wordpress.com/2010/11/29/from-radioactive-to-riches-the-jenny-gamma-story-part-3/ Look at the prices in Live Recipes Number Purchased Average Price Paid Recipe: Blessing of the Zephyr -KB L50 25 8,040,185 Recipe: Gift of the Ancients Defense L40 3 4,500,000 Recipe: Luck of the Gambler +Recharge L50 7 100,000,171 Recipe: Luck of the Gambler Def L50 3 30,000,000 Recipe: Luck of the Gambler Def/End/Rech L50 1 4,000,171 Recipe: Numina’s Convalescence +Rech/Rec, L40 1 50,000,171 Sold Item Number Sold Average Price Received Luck of the Gambler +Recharge 7 132,857,143 Numina’s Convalescence Reg/Rec 1 121,000,000 https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/coh-v-inventions-you.542035/ 2 billion Inf for Gladiator +3def omegalul. These prices were because in Live, reward merits were harder to obtain and in lesser numbers. So what happens when the Emp Merits - Reward Merits are taken away? If by inflation you mean like 1-2M more, sure I guess you could classify that as inflation???

How is it hyberbole? After the new patch: 1) You can't just build S/L Defense and ignore mixed type attacks like you can before 2) Aggro changes ensure mobs will still attack you even if you are against aggro cap. Given 16(?) mobs is the max, additional mobs would only be able to fire off ranged attacks if the 16 taunted are still collapsing on you for their melee. Hence, range defence's importance will be increased. Nice try being snarky.

It is because attacking "greedy AE Farmers" is an easier stance than justifying the removal of the conversion that came out of no-where.

It is a straw man because people upset that the Emp Merit - Reward Merit conversion is being taken away for no good reason and reducing one source of income and the strawman is accusing farmers of needing/requiring the conversion to be rich.

Not doorsit but it's more of helping the team plough through the mobs. Ever been on an ITF +4 kill all with only 1 50 and the rest lowbies? It's pretty slow and I doubt it's fun for the lowbies to keep missing their attacks too. An Incarnate or several would make it much smoother.

Yes I get that your experience and mileage from defense would differ from my perspective. but one thing that S/L did in the past was to completely negate off the attacks you listed. The value of S/L is not as good as it was now. You'd be better off investing 2 additional slots and changing that Kinetic Combat to Touch of Death or Mako's Bite for positional defense. With the aggro changes, you better start stacking Ranged/AOE defense.

It's completely understandable why people are mad that the Emp Merit to Reward Merit conversion is going away; they are losing a source of income, bottom line cut and dry. NOTE: I said a source of income not "THE" source of income.

Team context A huge group of people in the forums say Incarnates take away all the fun where in reality, lowbies would love the incarnates for carrying them in an endgame taskforce or 50 radio missions. Lore wise It's a bit icky to be roleplaying an Incarnate, it's a tag that already says your character is more powerful than their peer. Leaning a bit towards god-modding and mary-sue there.

Easy fix for this. Go to Power Customization and Select the Flex Option for Tough. It stops the noise

Assuming the changes on beta are going live (1% chance of not happening), you should probably remove the smashing defense IO sets and slots and focus on positional defense (ranged and AOE). Typed defenses will probably become useless and less desirable when mobs have full negative/fire/cold etc typed attacks. You can't cheese with just smashing/lethal after the patch drops. Defense is still OP if you go positional and basically ignore the typed hullabaloo but I guess people winning with Scorpion Shield for typed smash/lethal defense was too OP?

I don't remember asking you. Please butt out of this private conversation. 😛

Or what? You'll make a thread crying about inputs in a forum and pass it off as a joke thread when people call you out for being salty? Oh wait. That happened with the thumbs down thread and oppsies it got locked.

Bad idea as Emp Merits provide an easy way to get Rares or VRares. It would work if rares/vrares could be crafted in a cheaper way without additional components and just iThreads. Example Now - 8 Emp Merits for a Rare 100 iThreads and 4 UnCommon New 160 iThreads for a Rare Component (Following the 1 Emp merit = 20 iThreads)

Well, a middle ground would be relatively simple/straightforward. Just keep things the way they are. Dev hours would be way better spent on making content and costumes rather than trying to pinpoint and penalise farmers (AFK or Active)

Who hurt you? Did an IO'ed out blaster make you feel obsolete in game or something?

Who's "we"? As I recall, you were "having fun" watching posts that were against the initial No Vet EXP in AE stance in the beta forums as they thought the "sky is falling". How convenient you say this only after the devs changed from No Vet XP to taking away the merit conversion. Shill much?

running it just for the novelty or the kicks i guess. but it sometimes feels like fanfiction to me; rewards are meh.

And afterall, a Melee/Support AT will never be as badly designed as the Sentinel or Mastermind ATs.

+1000 to Melee/Support ATs. Think of the concepts that can be realized! Want to be a off brand Batman knockoff? Go traps/MA Want to fulfill your DnD fantasies? Go War Mace or Staff with the spell school of your choice. Swamp Thing inspo? Nature/Spines For me I’d like to play a Poison/Savage snake themed character. What’s wrong with “Defenders” being in melee. In my opinion, Defenders thrive in melee to get the most people in their aoe buffs or to even benefit from their own buffs. Heck most of the T9 nukes are PBAOE. Kinetic, Time, Nature, Poison defenders say hi 👋. lets not encourage the boring “healing” mentality please eg Empathy pure healers. People need to stop gimping their toons just to prove a point: “no IOs” “IOs bad” “i dont conform to the build meta” love this!

Let’s not make the thread locked again this time yeah? Lmao

I would personally run a blaster or a corruptor/defender with AOE abilities. With PI radios, you can't be too sure of who joins your team. You don't really want to be stuck as the only level 50 with a team of level 1s and it will be very painful to slog through even on Council only teams. So yeah, just bring damage.

This I vaguely remember. I used to cheese the Villain SSA 1 and letting Synapse die in the lava just to get the 1 Alignment Merit and converting it into a LOTG.