Ironblade

Since the Banished Pantheon supposedly have the highest DPS, I have those on my badger (a scrapper) and my corruptor built specifically for Really Hard Way runs. Since my scrapper does more damage than any pet, he also has the Seers with the untouchable one that casts Fortitude for when he's soloing. My dual pistols/devices blaster has the Robotic Drones since they look just like his Targeting Drone. My tanks will often take the Polar Lights for the AoE since they'll typically have enemies grouped around them. Other characters will generally take whatever looks cool or fits their background.

The hint text on the badge for defeating Warhulks says: "Seek and destroy the engines of war that Nemesis uses to give second life to his fallen soldiers." So Nemesis troops who are too badly wounded apparently end up in Warhulks.

I was aware. Also, I'm not a farmer. And you are definitely playing forum police. So, what was the point of your post? 🙂

Agreed on the IO sets, but you don't need such high defense. I went cheap on my build and have 90% fire resist, only around 12% defense, but about +250% regen. I can farm at 0x8.

1) But farmers simultaneously increase the amount of goods, which leaders to LOWER prices. Which factor wins out - higher or lower prices? I don't know. HOWEVER, since we have not seen prices trending steadily higher, I would conclude that either: a) Your premise is wrong. or b) The effect is so small, or the number of farmers is so small, that any price increase is drowned out by other factors and is therefore irrelevant. 2) So what? I don't dispute that farmers gain more rewards than most other players. So do task force speed runners. Again, so what?

And my normal situation is exactly the opposite. Out of 21 characters, only 3 of them DON'T have Teleport Target. I'll occasionally take Combat Jumping on all-melee characters, but Teleport Target is pretty much required for me.

And yet, the system actually works quite well. The economy is robust and the market is active. Players can equip their characters for lower costs than back on live. The consensus in this thread seems to be that the game economy is fine. The devs have said that they are happy with the overall state of the game economy and just want to address some edge cases like AFK farming. They have also made it clear that they are fine with active farming and currently have zero plans to change the rewards. Your position is an outlying opinion.

Damn right. That trial is why I have a stalker on my second account with Karsis unlocked.

Just the opposite, recently. More purples than PvP recipes over the past few weeks. To be fair, I'm talking about a small sampling since I don't farm much and have not farmed in months.

Well, if you're not interested in farming or badging, why would you need more than one? Personally, I have three and I had three back on live. But I think the majority of players simply have no use for multiple accounts. And when I say I had three accounts on live, at one point I had (ahem) seven. 😛

This may be a dumb question, but I have seen it happen. Do you perhaps have one or more salvage racks in another part of the base that you've forgotten about?

For convenience, note that you don't actually have to go to the market. Just type /ah in the chat window and it opens the Auction House window wherever you are - EXCEPT in an instanced map (basically missions and bases). Do you enjoy running task forces? As a matter of habit, I get the Task Force Commander accolade on every character and run those task forces when they are the 'weekly target' so I get double merits. That's 424 merits right there, which are worth quite a chunk of change. You can run the first task force (Positron part 1) as low as level 8. I personally don't care for the low level content, so I run Death From Below on each character until level 10 or 11. Each run gets you (I think) five SO's of the correct origin for your character. The SO's from earlier runs will be trash by the time you're done, but the ones you get at level 9, 10, 11 will be useful for a bit of time. Don't slot any of them until you're done running Death From Below. Sell all of them except the high level ones that are actually useful to you. Once you get to level 22, as several people have mentioned, slot level 25 common IO's and use those right up until you hit 50. There will always be plenty of mid level IO's on the market because people like me are crafting them to get badges. If possible, don't switch between a bunch of alts. Pick one (or make a new one) that you like to be your 'main' and take that one to high level. That's the easy way to get money by 'playing normally' - just pick one you enjoy and get them to high level. Oh, and don't forget to pick up the five free enhancements (for every character) from the Pay 2 Win vendor. They're actually decent and useful until you're 20+ level.

Half right. The Steadfast wasn't that much, but he PvP uniques absolutely went for that kind of money. I wasn't interested in doing an off-market deal so I just put in a bid for 2 billion and it took about two weeks to fill. Your post demonstrates 100% lack of knowledge of how the market works. The market is cross-server and always has been. Liberty, Freedom, Infinity and all the other servers accessed the exact same marketplace.

There are six 'Mentoring' badges for sidekicking another hero for various amounts of time. Only the team leader gets credit toward those. The blue badges are: Advisor, Guide, Paragon, Role Model, Epitome, Paradigm. The red badges are: Comrade, Drill Instructor, Svengali, Role Model, Epitome, Paradigm.

You have it backwards. It's to the farmers' ADVANTAGE to have their own channel. Back on live there was a player-made global channel for marketeering - not because we got pushed out of the other channels, but because we WANTED our own place to discuss the subject. And it was a public channel, so anyone with an interest could join.

On most characters, I don't bother getting all tier 4 because it just doesn't seem like enough of an upgrade from tier 3. In fact, I have only two characters that are all T4. I have a beam rifle/kinetics corruptor who is vet 16 and has been all tier 4 for at least 2-3 vet levels. He was created specifically for Really Hard Way badge runs of the Magisterium. And I have Ironblade who has ten tier 4 and four tier 3 powers. I think he has had all of those since about vet level 90 or 95.

Or, if you're a lunatic, you could have an Excel spreadsheet where you track every TF that you run, list every character and what level they are, how many reward merits they have, list the powers and tiers of every incarnate, etc, etc. 🙂

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I basically do this in reverse. CoH was the first MMO I played and I played for almost 7 years before going to another MMO. Now, I remap keys and invert the mouse in every other MMO I play. Not enough bars. I also open up AT LEAST a fourth and fifth bar for toggles, incarnate powers and temporary powers. To be fair, I run a lot of toggles. The majority of my characters take the Leadership pool - even tanks and scrapper.

Only the final one is tedious like that since you have to wait for them to spawn and the timer determines how long it takes. On the one with the pumpkin guys charging the portal, you can go out and hunt them. Once you get a feel for the timing, you kill a charging group and then go out and kill stationary ones, then come back for the next group headed to the portal - assuming you don't spot them as they start running and kill them right there.

Rest allows certain types of enhancements but does not allow any enhancement SETS. So you can slot a regular heal enhancement (SO, common IO, etc) but not any piece that is part of a set. Rest gives +1900% regeneration. The cap for scrappers and stalkers is +3000%. Does this matter in normal game play? I would say no. Does it matter when you're farming damage taken for badges? Absolutely.

Sure, but how many of those are something like 'Dark Lord Darkness'? (FYI, I actually had a character with that name.)

Unless I'm mistaken, he was suggesting it work like this and not saying that it currently does. (It does not currently work like this.)

If you find it enjoyable or interesting, it doesn't feel like work. This is similar to the (illegal) stock market tactic of 'painting the tape' - colluding with others (or an alt account) to give a false impression of the status of the market. Back on live, I engaged in every method of generating inf that I could think of or heard about from others - manipulating the AH, AFK farming PvP recipes, flipping, etc. It was a hobby. Not a lot of straight-up farming, because I found that boring. Nowadays, I don't play as much so I don't bother working for inf. As long as I have a few hundred million at any given time, what's the point? Back on live, generating inf was part of the game for me. Like badging.

Sure, NOW. I remember when the requirement was 100 times what it is now. I ran overnight gladiator heal farms for more than a year to help people get the badge. I ended up getting the Longbow Warden 2 on a second character and rotating him through other people's supergroups. I got the healing badges for about 40 different SG's. But I'm only a casual player. 🙂