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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.

Oh Just thought of one thing. The courtyard in PI has noticeably more NPC civilian traffic than other areas and the footsteps do get annoying overtime.

Another source showing the crazy prices in Live. Should we perhaps drop the notion that the "crazy horde" of AE Farmers (AFK/ACtive) are driving the prices up? https://samhaine.wordpress.com/2010/11/29/from-radioactive-to-riches-the-jenny-gamma-story-part-3/ Components Number Purchased Average Price Paid Soul Trapped Gem 13 1,115,556 Spell Ink 55 25,819 Spirit Thorn 59 1,154 Synthetic Intelligence Unit 1 1,000,171 Temporal Analyzer 59 171 Temporal Tracer 21 1,266 Titanium Shard 6 726 Unquenchable Flame 9 12,838 Essence of the Furies 8 1,912,671 Recipes Number Purchased Average Price Paid Recipe: Blessing of the Zephyr -KB L50 25 8,040,185 Recipe: Decimation Acc/Dam L40 1 3,000,010 Recipe: Decimation Acc/Dam/Rech L40 1 1,000,001 Recipe: Doctored Wounds End/Heal 3 100,171 Recipe: Doctored Wounds End/Heal L50 37 308,549 Recipe: Doctored Wounds End/Rech L50 16 113,296 Recipe: Efficacy Adaptor End Mod/Acc, L50 18 50,171 Recipe: Efficacy Adaptor Rech/Acc, L50 43 135,055 Recipe: Gift of the Ancients Defense L40 3 4,500,000 Recipe: Interrupt, L20 9 100 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: Luck of the Gambler Def/Rech L50 1 400,171 Recipe: Luck of the Gambler End/Rech L50 4 78,921 Recipe: Luck of the Gambler: Def, L50 1 25,000,171 Recipe: Miracle End/Heal/Rech L40 3 100,171 Recipe: Numina’s Convalescence +Rech/Rec, L40 1 50,000,171 Recipe: Numina’s Convalescence End/Rech, L50 2 100 Recipe: Performance Shifter Chance L50 52 6,105,937 Recipe: Performance Shifter End Mod/Rech L50 3 1,500,171 Recipe: Positron’s Blast Acc/Dam L50 3 500,171 Recipe: Range, L20 30 150 Recipe: Range, L30 9 150 Recipe: Range, L35 15 150 Recipe: Red Fortune Def 3 300,171 Recipe: Red Fortune Def/End/Rech L50 12 333,504 Recipe: Red Fortune Def/Rech 3 100,000 Recipe: Sleep, L25 5 100 Recipe: Titanium Coating End 3 10,171 Recipe: Titanium Coating End/Rech 3 10,171 Recipe: Titanium Coating Rech/Res 3 50,000 Recipe: Touch of the Nictus Acc/End/Rech L50 9 10,000,171 Recipe: Touch of the Nictus Chance L50 1 100,171 Sold Item Number Sold Average Price Received Profit Blessing of the Zephyr -KB 25 26,990,667 93% Decimation 2 5,000,000 Doctored Wounds 56 3,935,708 228% Efficacy Adaptor (End Mod/Acc) 18 3,885,803 313% Efficacy Adaptor (Rech/Acc) 37 3,853,454 272% Gift of the Ancients Def 3 15,000,000 Kinetic Weapon 115 250 312% LotG (Def/End/Rech) 1 15,000,000 LotG (Def/Rech) 1 7,000,000 Luck of the Gambler +Recharge 7 132,857,143 13% Luck of the Gambler Def L50 4 42,527,778 Luck of the Gambler End/Rech 4 8,525,253 Magical Conspiracy 10 2,010,000 Miracle 3 11,000,000 Numina’s Convalescence End/Rech 2 4,950,000 Numina’s Convalescence Healing 1 30,000,000 Numina’s Convalescence Reg/Rec 1 121,000,000 Performance Shifter Chance 52 17,963,462 83% Performance Shifter End Mod 2 10,000,000 Performance Shifter End Mod 2 10,000,000 Performance Shifter End Mod/Rech 3 15,000,000 Photonic Weapon 28 2,010,714 Platinum 10 2,000,000 Positronic Matrix 98 1,998,529 67% Positron’s Blast Acc/Dam 3 8,000,000 Prophecy 10 2,000,000 Red Fortune 7 4,000,000 Red Fortune Def/End/Rech L50 10 3,060,004 Red Fortune Def/Rech 1 3,000,000 Smashing Haymaker 2 3,350,555 Titanium Coating End 3 3,666,667 Titanium Coating End/Rech 3 5,000,000 Titanium Coating Res/Rech 3 4,296,296 Titanium Coating, Res L50 8 5,387,500 Touch of the Nictus Acc/End/Rech 9 27,444,444 83% Touch of the Nictus Chance L50 1 5,000,000

To get back on track. Here's a forum thread I found with posts from 2010. It states that prices were way more expensive for AH items. Take it with a pinch of salt but compared to 1 - 2 million per Orange Salvage and now in HC it's 500k per Orange Salvage, hardly any inflation there right? 2 Billion for a Gladiator's Armour +Def Unique?? Hell no; not on my broke a$$. Grateful for the hardworking farmers keeping supply up 🙂 https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/coh-v-inventions-you.542035/ Inflation who???

Hehe attack my credibility all you want honey. If my posts make an impact in this echo chamber, I'm happy. Besides what credibility, I'm just a random poster. I don't make random quirky threads to pander to other posters nor did I participate in SCORE. But I'm just happy to help keep HC on track as a server built by volunteers for the community. 🤪 This AE thread is forcing a playstyle and I can't standby and not comment. Same shit with KB right, you don't want people to take that away from you?

Oh don't mind me, I just like to make some noise for the non-forum viewing players who find AE and the current state of the game to be okay. Who knows, it might be a big number. You'll never know until the patch drops and they are left wondering what happened.

I think it's better and far more transparent to just say you hate the AE. LOL

The anti-AE crowd just wants to bash the AE for any reason available. Ultimately at the end of the day, this game is free 2 play and you don't put in any realworld investment into it. So why does it matter that people PL from 0 to 50, why does it matter that people can get Vet Levels in AE? It all boils down to "hEy ThAt'S nOt FaIr mY eMpAtHy HeAlEr CaNnOt FiReFaRm". They just want to make people play their way in the end. There's literally nothing stopping you to putting some time and inf aside to build yourself a farmer. I don't have one, my Fire/Fire/Mu blaster can AE Farm comfortably but I don't do it. Do I try to deny other people's fun? I don't think so. The anti AE crowd flipflops on other issues anyways. They get to gatekeep on which aspects of the game are "the right way". TP base macro makes life too easy, but no complaints about /AH or how cheap Respecs are or free SG base building or free costume slots or auras/cape/costume unlocks. Not even that, they defend obvious outlier sets like Empathy, Forcefield and ATs in the name of nostalgia and "you don't know how to play". KB is always good according to them. There's no winning this fight.

There're no mentions of genitalia or explicit kinks/sexual acts.

I would call differences in superhero/fantasy genres or tropes or roleplay styles a difference. But explicitly stating lewd stuff in your bio just to get your rocks off in erotic roleplay? That's just nasty. Growing up means understanding there's a time and a place for everything - Everlasting isn't a by-default NSFW server and neither does the base COH game contain erotic content. This is City of HEROES. Go to SecondLife or something else if you wanna be kinky.

I'm glad that the Devs are looking at the Name Release Policy. I think people are running out of ideas for names, there's been an increase of characters that have adjectives and adverbs as names. Followed by a copy-paste of the dictionary description in the character bio.