Ironblade

Confused, are you?

Tell me about it. This is the ONLY badge I'm still missing for Master. Every time: "Huh, it LOOKED like he was in the patch."

Actually, some of the 45s sell fine. After finishing all the crafting badges, I was still approximately 5,000 sales short of the final Consignment badge. So I crafted level 45 end reduction and end mod. I would craft 3 dozen or so each day and they would always sell overnight. I priced them just a few thousand over what it cost me to craft so I wasn't losing money after accounting for buying the salvage and the consignment house's cut.

So, really, the best course is to just ignore people asking for the inf cap to be raised. (To be fair, the person who mentioned it said they were half joking.) Once you have a few billion, there's not much point in having more. As far as I can tell, it's just for the challenge of seeing how much you can accumulate. Back on live, I had gotten to 56 billion by the time the game shut down. Nowadays, I don't bother with most of the things I did to get inf. It no longer seems entertaining (to me).

I would say population is the most important factor, but it needs to be a population with a significant percentage of experienced players. If the game just keeps bringing in new players who lose interest quickly all you have is a bunch of newbs trying to figure the game out. So the key to population is retention. This can come from a large amount of content, enjoyable end-game activity - anything that keeps people around.

That's like saying that you're losing money when you go to the grocery store. Technically you are, but you are receiving something you perceive as valuable in exchange for your cash. Everyone who buys something on the market does so voluntarily. Well, I would say you're not really farming yet. You're still leveling. You have to make the investment in time and money to get a character ready for real farming. Having said that, you can put together a farming build really cheap. No one has to farm at +4/x8. I put together a cheap second build for my fire/fire brute and I run at +0/x8.

Sure. Base regeneration in this game will take you from 1 HP to your maximum in 4 minutes. That's without counting the Health power at all, since Health was originally not an inherent power. So you're getting the benefit of Health, plus the enhancement in it.

Create your own. I took 37 characters to level 50 back on live and 16 (so far) on Homecoming. Not once did I use someone else's build.

The wrench definitely works. What might be causing a problem is that it requires a 'to hit' check. I run Tactics and Focused Accuracy and also hit Build Up before throwing it. Also, I was told (and can not verify personally), that you have to hit with the wrench AFTER the countdown starts but if you're using the grounding ray, you have to hit BEFORE the countdown starts. The only thing I can personally verify is that hitting with the wrench after the countdown starts is effective.

Overall, I agree with your point. My girlfriend and I were able to duo MoITF with less than optimal characters. No longer possible. A sad day. Actually, that would be hard. That's a math/coding limit. A long integer value can only go up to 2,147,483,647. Now, Reward and Vanguard Merits are a different story. They cut off at 10,000. That means the display can handle 5 digits and it must be stored AT LEAST as an integer value, which can go up to 32,767. So there's no good reason for it to stop at 10,000.

My first thought when I saw it was Minion, from the animated film Megamind.

On the other hand, no other secondary effect is as entertaining as watching an enemy get blasted across the room or, even better, off a bridge or rooftop. The only thing I can think of that might compare is if we got to see the enemies explode - which isn't going to happen in a game with this ESRB rating.

Fact or fiction: Only 10% of the player base reads and posts on the forums. Fact, although the exact number is debatable. For many games it's less than 10%. For this one, I think it has always been higher, ESPECIALLY now that you are required to visit the forums to create your game account. Fact or fiction: The game is too easy. For everybody. At all levels. Only at incarnate levels. Fiction. There is so much variation in player skill and ability that no game is too easy for everyone. Fact or fiction: The new Master of TF/SF settings are good for the game. umm.... wrong question? I don't see that they're either good or bad - they just are. With the advantage of 20/20 hindsight, the Master badges should never have allowed incarnate powers. But, since we can't go back and change the past, this seems like the next-best option. P.S. For the people mentioning the Zookeeper badge, HAH! Yeah, I got it before it was reduced. I also got the final healing badge before it was reduced TWICE by a factor of TEN EACH TIME.

To be fair, Chris Roberts has been behind some great games - created when someone other than him was responsible for running the project/company.

Firstly, let me say welcome. Secondly, if you enjoy playing the Devices set, then it was an excellent choice. Having said that, I have a dual pistols/devices which I have taken all the way to 50 and beyond, getting tier 4 in most of the incarnate powers. So it is absolutely a useful set, especially after getting some buffs. For example, 'Web Grenade' is now 'Toxic Web Grenade' and does significant damage. And, finally, no you can't change your primary or secondary power sets (or your origin). You can use a respec to change what powers you have within the set.

For the extra crafts, I did level 45 Endurance Reduction and Endurance Modification. And then I continued with those, doing a few dozen every day, in order to get the badge for selling 7,000 items on the consignment house.

I've been told that you need to use the wrench AFTER his countdown starts but the grounding ray BEFORE the countdown starts. Is this correct? (I have this badge but want to understand how the mechanics work.)

Oy. It used to be that you and/or your team must do at least 10% of the total damage to get the badge. It might still be working that way. This is why Jack In Irons and Eochai were often problematic. If they had spawned together and were fighting for a while, they would have inflicted (and healed) enough damage on each other that no one could get the badges for defeating them. Some giant monsters use a different system. Lusca awards the badge to anyone within a certain distance when he dies.

I would agree with that choice, also. It was either that one or the one with the 2060 video card but I don't see what the second offers that makes it worth $150 more. On a side note, definitely install CoH on the SSD. My CoH directory is only 4.6 GB so you definitely have room for it. A 480GB SSD is *BIG* (until you start talking about MODERN games). I have a 480GB SSD for everything but my games and I'm only using 172GB. For my games, I have a 2TB SSD which is 2/3 full. On another side note, I was going to scream about financing through a vendor until I checked and saw that, if you qualify, the financing is interest-free for up to 18 months. I had a friend show off his fancy stereo once and told me it was financed through the store at only 1.4%. I looked at the fine print and saw it was 1.4% *PER MONTH*. That's the kind of BS some places do.

Three or four, probably. The Secret World has some great voice acting. There's one mission where you come across two agents arguing and I recognized the voices of Tara Strong and Tim Russ. And there's one super-creepy character who was voiced by, and actually looked like, Jeffrey Combs.

I guess he would be the sidekick of Pizza Delivery Man?

1. There are no bad AT's (although I think you meant powersets). 2. 'Fixing' problems with a powerset is EXACTLY what many people use IO sets for. Is that their only use? Of course not. Is it a popular use? Hell yes. On a side note, I have a WP tank currently working on her incarnate powers. Not sure how you screwed up your build so that it couldn't take alphas past level 30.

I have seen a lot of people saying the final badge is still bugged, even after the patch to the SF. By bugged, I mean that the blue beams do not behave like they are supposed to and also can still inflict damage after they have disappeared from the screen. That aspect reminds me of Tyrant's lightning in the Magisterium - you can take damage when there's no lightning visible at your position.

Nope. I run one big monitor so have never dealt with multiple monitors.

Are you a big fan of Tactics? I am and, as a result, hardly ever get confused since Tactics gives both Confuse Resistance (reduced duration) and Confuse Protection (enemies must exceed the magnitude of your protection to have an effect). I was looking at it yesterday during the Underground iTrial. If I recall correctly, it's around 75% resistance and mag 6 protection.