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On 4/23/2024 at 2:16 PM, srmalloy said:
and can either run back down the gnomon or jump down the back in stages so you don't take damage.
Or just take the big dive off the building and get teleported into the pool.
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3 hours ago, Xaddy said:
So...you reach level 50. You do some incarnate stuff..grab some badges along the way. And yet, there's soo much left to do! But noone seems interested in grinding out ouro badges because..well, doing content without enhancements is just plain masochistic, and ultimately silly and pretty much stupid. Just for a badge or three? It's nuts.
Personally, I think it's nuts to do it more than once. I have every Ouroboros badge on ONE character.
Of course, some people are nuts. There's one forum-goer who has every badge on over a dozen characters - I think one of each AT.
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I want the name purge because 5p4rk was taken! No, I wasn't trying to get the name Spark, I actually wanted 5p4rk because I had it on live.
I ended up going with 594rk.
FYI, all of the above is true except where I say I want the name purge. I don't actually care. 594rk is already level 50 and fully tier 4 incarnate and specifically built for tanking the Avatar of Hamidon in the Underground trial.
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On 4/19/2024 at 1:04 PM, Erratic1 said:
Not a complaint, but why on Earth would you want/need the same name across every server?
Why not? I have a few dozen 50's, so why not have multiple copies of my favorite? I have Ironblade on every shard and every one of them is level 50. Two of them are fully tier 4 incarnate.
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On 4/16/2024 at 6:20 PM, Sanguinesun said:
Vinegar, ketchup, gravy or curry gravy with your chips?
Don't get me started. My girlfriend keeps finding the weirdest potato chips. The most recent find was 'Basil Pesto Potato Chips'. I can't even.
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12 hours ago, Snarky said:
Evidently, the leader was not happy with my performance either, they picked me and another soul out of the team lineup after completion to inform us we have been "Blacklisted" They did not say why. Not sure why they mentioned it. Just do it, leave me the F alone.
Oh no! Stupid and incompetent team leader has blacklisted me! How can I go on?!?!?!
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22 hours ago, Yomo Kimyata said:
Duly noted. I refuse to give up "fungible", however; it's the right word!
19 hours ago, Monty Haull said:Fungible:
being something (such as money or a commodity) of such a nature that one part or quantity may be replaced by another equal part or quantity in paying a debt or settling an account.
Yeah, that comes up occasionally in economic news.
"We're going to boycott Russian oil!"
"That never works, because crude oil is fungible."
"What?"
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After loading into the Magisterium trial.
"Badges. Do it!"
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On 4/15/2024 at 11:54 AM, Xaddy said:
So, maybe I said something I was supposed to. Not real sure. Someone said something to me, irritated me, so I let 'em have it.
Now, they say I'm "reported".Well, let's establish some context here. Anyone who actually tells you, "Reported" is, at the very minimum, a drama queen.
At worst, they're a total a-hole but we don't have enough evidence to establish that.
On the few occasions that I've reported people (either for racial slurs or truly vulgar profanity), I say nothing to them and file the report.
Then I block them, since it's clear they are of such a small-minded nature that they could never utter any words I would find of value.
Edit: On a side note, I've had people tell me "Reported" after I either criticized their inappropriate behavior (but not bad enough for me to report them) or kicked them from a task force for the same type of behavior. I don't know if they actually did report me and don't care. At any rate, nothing ever came of it.
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I don't think it would take much of a team. I went in on a scrapper, was also cocky, and killed only one before I died.
After that, I fought smart and took out all of the remaining.
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On 4/3/2024 at 8:20 PM, Snarky said:
I have rarely seen this thing fail. I cannot remember the last time.
I can. Because I saw it only ONCE. Back in the early days of live, with a team full of thoroughly gimped characters who NEEDED the respec.
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LOL, okay. You needed five paragraphs to tell us that *YOU* don't like a particular effect. Understood.
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On 3/16/2024 at 12:26 PM, Etched said:
One of these could help. Should make her a Yellow EB for 60 Seconds.
Good news: they actually last three minutes.
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20 hours ago, Glacier Peak said:
What did you think of it?
It fell 'flat'. (wink, wink, nudge, nudge)
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10 minutes ago, Andreah said:
The OP seems to want to do it this way because he's poor.
I see it the other way around -- He's poor because he does stuff this way.
Oooo, that's a line worthy of The Sphinx in 'Mystery Men'.
"If you fail to plan, you plan to fail."
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13 hours ago, DoctorDitko said:
Torchbearer. Skyway City. On a debugging league.
Suddenly a pigeon swoops down, grabs my character, flies him up to the top of the map, and drops him.
Oh, it's a pigeon? To me, it looked like a little hat with a propeller on it. I guess I should have zoomed in for a closer look.
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21 hours ago, Andreah said:
Tartar doesn't have to be a horrendous mess like the example here to cause it either -- even small amounts of it provide places for bad things to happen.
And this is all 99.9% avoidable in a minute a day.
To be fair, it takes a little longer than one minute. An electric toothbrush is far more effective than a manual one and the built-in timer say 30 seconds per quadrant so two full minutes of actual brushing.
3 hours ago, Ukase said:I recall the topic of dental care coming up in grad school. A friend of mine was dating a nurse, and apparently her schooling involved reading about the various efficacy and impacts of certain toothpastes. She suggested we avoid Close-up.
Consumer Reports did a review of dozens of brands of toothpaste and concluded that Colgate's regular formula was the best you could buy, primarily because it has crushed seashells in it for a bit of abrasiveness. It was "measurably" better, but not a lot better. After that, it was something like a 20-way tie for second place among all the toothpastes that use the maximum amount of fluoride allowed by law.
So, they said if you want the absolute best, use Colgate. If cost is at all a concern, use Costco's Kirkland brand since it was in that 20-way tie for second place and is far cheaper than any other toothpaste of similar quality.
My dentist recommends brushing twice a day with a different toothpaste for each: Colgate because it's the best, and also Arm & Hammer because it's one of the second-best and one of the least abrasive toothpastes on the market.
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30 minutes ago, PeregrineFalcon said:
Don't let yourself be baited by this person.
Troll or not, the point I made in my post is valid. I was posting to make it clear it was bad advice so that new players aren't led astray.
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On 3/29/2024 at 7:24 PM, Glacier Peak said:
Go to the Vanguard base. Look for the tunnel to the motorpool. Go down the tunnel and look for stacks of containers and cobwebs on the ceiling. Look behind that.
Seriously, how the hell does the first person even find something like that?
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On 3/31/2024 at 4:05 PM, temnix said:
For a long time, playing, I have run into a problem that my characters never have money to fill their slots with Single-Origin Enhancements.
Your forum account was created on February 14th and you must have a forum account to make a game account. This means that, at the time of this post, you have been playing for a maximum of 44 days. You have NOT been playing for a long time.
Most of your post is objectively bad advice. Please understand that my goal with this statement is to inform other new players reading this thread so that they will know not to do these things. At the very minimum, a better strategy is to take the reward merits, buy converters and sell them on the auction house. One reward merit buys 3 converters, which sell for around 70,000 inf. There are *FAR* better strategies to make money, but they require more time and knowledge.
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On 3/30/2024 at 3:47 PM, Techwright said:
Master of Lord Recluse Strike Force. It's a badge and bragging rights for doing it the hard way: uphill both ways, in a snow storm, with players quitting and noobs clueless.
Actually, the one for doing it uphill both ways in the snow is the 'Worthy Opponent' badge.
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On 3/29/2024 at 1:48 PM, Oklahoman said:
I stopped leading THE REALLY HARD WAY run a while back after numerous (and expensive) failures. I've seen it done elsewhere relatively easily, but since I tend to lead PUGs maybe that's the reason.
On 3/29/2024 at 2:03 PM, lemming said:Unless you've taken a hard hit recently to the head, your leadership is fine. I've been hanging out on Everlasting for the last year and while I think they are more consistent in getting "The Really Hard Way", I think there's a larger core of beefed out characters that are paying attention.
I think this is a significant factor. I can tell you that I attend every single RHW run, on a character that I created ONLY for the RHW badge attempts. He's a beam rifle/kinetics corr with every single power and slotting decision made with the RHW badge in mind. By my count, I've taken him on RHW runs 85 times so I kind of know the drill.
And the Everlasting TF's channel has an entire cadre of hardcore players and there's usually several of them on every RHW run. Frequently, we have Veracor tanking (you know, the guy with something like 20,000 vet levels).
Back in the early days of the badge, we used to do RHW with something like 20 corrs *REQUIRED* or we wouldn't even attempt it and just a couple of 'carry' slots to get people the badge. Nowadays, if we have half a dozen or so hardcore players, at least 5 corrs, at least 3 people with kinetics, the rest of the league isn't that big of a deal. But yeah, like lemming suggests, having a handful of SERIOUS players on the league makes a huge difference.
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On 3/29/2024 at 6:40 PM, Ukase said:
Have you guys ever actually spent the prismatics to make a mini-version of your character?
Yes. Ironblade has the mini character, enough costumes to get the badges plus 5-6 more. Currently, he has about 700 prismatic aether that I'm not sure what to do with. I have not purchased any.
On 3/29/2024 at 6:40 PM, Ukase said:Looking at their current price, 3M each seems like chump change. A mini-me requires 250 prismatics. So, 750M if you don't have any. Again, chump change for most of us.
When you say "most of us", I'm guessing you mean the players who frequent the Market forum. Because that sure as hell ain't chump change for the average player.
On 3/29/2024 at 6:40 PM, Ukase said:I don't know the drop rate, but I thought it was around .02%, not to be confused with 2 percent.
Are you talking about the Monstrous Aether? As I recall, there is no 'drop rate', per se. Giant monsters each drop a fixed number of MA (different for different monsters) and there is no percentage chance involved and no other way to get them. Prismatics have a 2% chance to drop upon completing a mission.
I do recall ONE drop rate that is a fraction of 1% and that would be the odds of getting the Hamidon Bud vanity pet from killing a bud.
Tarnished Star Badge Requirements
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Just look in the cells in the mission. Of course, you would need a list of everyone who should be in there, plus you need to be able to recognize all of those enemies on sight.
Alternatively, check the list before doing the mission and go through your badges/souvenirs to confirm you have done all the required content.