Shinobu

It's very frustrating. I don't think you'll find anyone who's done any amount of marketing who'd disagree with that.

People posting builds does not always mean people playing said builds. ^_^ I would say that the vast majority of players -- certainly the vast majority of non-melee players -- are not actually softcapped, or if they are it's just to smashing/lethal defense only. In most situations, additional defense is very helpful (and remember, incarnate trials have a higher softcap, 59% I think). That said, Force Field is kind of the least of the sets that provide extra defense. Cold and Time do this and have some other nice utility powers. Perhaps the best place where a FF defender/corr still really shines is on a mothership raid -- but yeah, if you're on a high-powered team with a lot of well-built level 50's, what you bring to the table is of limited use as compared to other sets. Force Field is still a good set, but with some caveats I think.

They do.

Issue 25 covered six years of slow development. Saying "Issue 26 only contains X" doesn't mean much, because Issue 26 probably contains a lot of stuff that will be released in the next year, if not more time than that. I'd expect Issue 26 to ultimately contain a lot more than Issue 25 did, because there are a lot more people developing things now. In any case, these titles are set by Leandro and / or others working with him, and he's the head developer for new releases that Homecoming (and a few other) servers will run on, so you can call it whatever you like but it's Issue 26 per Leo.

That's called playing the market. It doesn't really get a lot more complex than that. Anyway get back to me about this idea after I've reached 100 billion influence and over 100 fully IO'd level 50s. ^_^ Then maybe I'll be bored.

Blaster's Wrath is a damage set, it can be slotted into any power that does damage, which as a blaster he should have in spades. :D

Each AT IO (ATO) can be slotted once, and only at level 10 or higher. Those are my guesses too.

I usually slot attuned IOs, because my friends like to run lower-level TFs a lot. I also did this on my first farmer because I was slotting at level 32 with the idea of self-PLing the rest of the way. But for my second farmer, I don't expect to run the character on TFs often (or at all) so the cheapest route was just to hit at least 47 first, then slot level 50 IOs that I got from crafting (although I did have to buy a few from the market). I may or may not boost some of them later -- there are a bunch of sets that I'll probably unslot and replace in the future once I can afford to do so. In the past I played more often with people that would run level 50 content nonstop -- ITF, STF, LRSF, etc., and we would also trade PLs for new characters, so it was very easy to IO at level 50 with non-attuned IOs. But yes, I've mostly been taking advantage of attuned IOs for my other characters. ^_^

One thing I realized this weekend was that, if you farm for tickets, you don't get IXP -- incarnate experience. This is something I probably should have known, but I think in the past I've either farmed on characters who were high veterans and I didn't notice or care about IXP, or I wasn't 50 yet so it didn't matter, or it was back in the old days when you couldn't earn IXP from anything outside of incarnate trials and anyway you didn't have a choice between tickets or regular rewards on farms. You got AE tickets and you liked them! I got my farmer to 50 and then Saturday night I decided to PL a second farmer on my main account because of reasons. Late Saturday night and early Sunday morning I got my 2nd farmer to 50 (much easier now that I have an alt account farmer to do it with), and after getting IO'd out (I went for a "cheap build", no Winter O's, no purples, since I haven't even finished my expensive build for my main farmer yet) I took the new farmer out for a spin. I wanted to earn money quickly so I set for AE rewards, and part way through the run I was like, huh, I'm not getting any incarnate experience. I still finished up the run because I wanted those tickets. I've decided that AE ticket farming is one of the best ways to make money. I mean, I could be wrong -- I'm probably wrong -- it takes time to run the farms, you aren't getting any purple recipe drops or pvp drops, and you can just buy uncommon recipes by the fistful from the market anyway. But there's something about getting 70 random recipes that I like. It takes longer to craft them, but you get an amazing variety of things, some of which you only need to craft and list on the market, no conversions required. The upside to this kind of marketing is that, if you want to keep that IO, it's at max level. I mean, assuming you're level 50 when you claim everything. I claimed a lot of recipes on the one farmer when I was still 49, which... was okay if I'm just selling them, but I was still working on my build and was half a level from 50 so that was kind of a mistake. But normally I'm buying recipes from the market at some odd level like 31 (cheaper to craft), and if a cool IO comes up that I might want, I just sell it anyway because I don't want a junky level 31 IO in my build. :P (I usually consider this a feature, because I'm crafting to sell, not crafting to stock my base with things I might use one day.) Anyway by Sunday night I'd made something like 700 million on my "sort of new" farmer (the one I started on Monday), mostly through sales from AE ticket recipes. It's hard to say for sure how much I made, because once I got over 400 million I started buying Winter Packs to help finish my build. I think I've bought 8 to 10 Winter Packs, and I'm still over 400 million influence, so that would be 600 to 650 million, maybe a bit more. On my "even newer" farmer on my main account, I'm up to about 120 million now from two rounds of AE ticket purchases. The plan is to earn a lot of money on that one, and then maybe down the road I can upgrade that build, but first I want to get my incarnate powers unlocked and set up so no more ticket runs for a while. I mostly farmed and marketed over the weekend, especially Saturday night and Sunday, which got a little boring. I could have done even more marketing but at some point I'm just like, you know what, I'm going to join this MSR right now instead! I did do quite a bit of buying hero & villain packs / selling ATOs from them over the weekend too. I got the distinct impression that a lot of people are doing this now -- most of the ATOs were selling for considerably less than 10 million, many of them for 5-7 million. I don't really see how that can be profitable at those prices, you barely average more than 1 ATO per pack. But the Brute ATOs still sell very well. It's also hard to judge prices from the last 5. If I see that the last five of something are selling for, say, 5 million, and I place my IO for sale for maybe 4.7 million and it sells for 5 million instantly -- well, 5 million is the buy-it-nao price, not the high end of the market. On the other hand, I decided that the high end of the market for Luck of the Gambler +7.5% IO was slightly over 7 million. I sold a bunch of these for 7 million this weekend, usually listing them for maybe 6.9 million, and they sold quickly. Then I listed some for 7,000,001 influence, and while I saw sales for as much as 7.5 million, none of my 7,000,001 inf IOs sold. So I pretty much have the high end of that market pegged at the moment, and hopefully it doesn't slip even further and force me to relist all of those ones I priced at least 100,001 influence too high. :P

They seeded salvage, and the super packs. They did not seed anything else, so far as I know.

Blessing of the Zephyr 4 points knockback protection is a good one, unless you don't need knockback protection. There's a fly stealth IO, but the IO by itself does not produce invisibility and trying to fly by enemies in a mission is not as easy as superspeeding past them. But if you have another power that provides partial invisibility, like Shadow Fall if you're a Dark Miasma Defender/Corruptor, or Steamy Mist for a Stormy, then that plus the stealth IO should add up to full invisibility. Otherwise, I guess I'd slot a generic Fly IO and pretend it's doing something?

I usually 2-slot Stamina with Performance Shifter Endurance Mod and Performance Shifter +Endurance. But I run into people who think I'm wasting a slot. :P I like to 2-slot Health with Panacea proc and either Miracle or Numina proc. 3-slot for all of them sometimes, if I can. I think it depends on the AT though, and the build -- my widow that I've been working on is an endurance hog, so I have extra slots for Stamina.

I was doing that last night and a teammate "helpfully" teleported me to the mission door. >:( Let me roof hop in peace!

It looks like people are being transferred to Rebirth, or there's some behind-the-scenes work being done to maybe make that happen. Just from what I've read in this thread and the Massively article, I don't really know anything. But that would make sense since if I remember right Rebirth is another go-back-to-I24 server as opposed to what Homecoming is doing. (I could be wrong on that.) Anyway I don't think the influx of new characters from Pelaidies would be great. 3,000 forum accounts does not equal 3,000 players. We've hit more than 100,000 forum accounts, and we don't have nearly that many people logging in on a given evening.

https://massivelyop.com/2019/06/08/city-of-heroes-pleiades/ You can get Double XP from Pay 2 Win for free. Stock up on 8 hours worth, and if you can find a farm or run some DFB's and TFs you should be on your feet soon.

Wow, there are people that don't like having half the map pulled to them? Who knew? I don't get tired of Council. They're boring and easy mode and from the moment I learned to build my ma/invul scrapper to take on whole swarms of them I thrilled. I love running the Council Earth map, and I really like Citadel because it's just a bunch of Council farms and I should probably run it solo a lot more, except my friend happen to like it too. We ran one yesterday, and then another friend came on and said, "Let's do a Citadel!" So we did it again.

XP boosters don't work at level 50.

It does not. I normally don't even look at DOs/SOs on the market, but I can see that each level is its own bucket.

Same way you convert anything else. All options are available: 1. By Rarity, which gives you a random other ATO. 2. By type, which gives you the other type of that ATO. Brute's Fury to Unrelenting Fury, for example. 3. Within set, to get the one you need. For Winter O's, you can't convert by type because there is only one set for each type. But you can random-convert to a different WIO, or same-set convert.

https://forums.homecomingservers.com/index.php/topic,2659.msg18665.html#msg18665

It should be safe. Possibly safer than storing influence on the market. Or you could make more toons to hold all your influence. >.> Altitis and Marketeering can go hand in hand!

Under special salvage at the bottom of the market list is where you can buy the two different super packs for 10 million a pack, and the winter packs for 25 million a pack. The hero & villain super packs contain ATOs -- AT-specific special enhancement sets, and the rogue & vigilante packs contain another set of ATOs, so that there are two sets for every AT. Winter packs contain 5 sets of winter-themed Enhancements. I guess they're like loot boxes, they were sold for cash originally and they contain random rewards -- 5 rewards hidden under cards, only the last two (the "rare" and "very rare" rewards) can be ATOs or WIOs. But they can also be other things that you probably don't want as much. I agree with Alphabet Soup II that trying to buy the Winter packs to turn a profit is problematic. A) While some of the WIO's will sell for the cost of the pack, if you hit a bad streak with few WIO's in several packs it's a big blow, and B) For as much money as you have to outlay and recover from selling the WIO's, you're not getting to keep nearly as many other rewards. I'd rather open 10 hero & villain super packs vs. 4 Winter packs. Of course, there's also C) I'm addicted to using WIO's in my builds so I don't want to sell them anyway. :P

My farm toon is largely for PLing, but since I'm self-PLing I might as well make a profit along the way. I've been doing the super pack thing too, although only maybe 200 to 250 million a day at best. I find that I don't necessarily turn a large profit on them, but I've racked up a lot of merits and other things in the process so it's worth my time even if I break even or produce only a narrow profit on the ATOs. But I haven't been patient enough to convert all of them to brute ATOs either, I've sold a mix of other things as well.

Well, scrappers have access to Battle Axe, Titan Weapons, and War Mace, just so you know. They always had access to Titan Weapons and War Mace was proliferated to scrappers at least half a year before the game shut down. Not sure about when Battle Axe got added. Stone Melee is a different thing, and Stalkers for all of these sets is a different thing. ^_^ When you say, "I'd really like to make a Mace scrapper..." there's nothing stopping you. I had one at level 50 before the game shut down.

When there are two or more eligible bids or two or more eligible offers -- that is, they are equal bids or equal offers for sale -- then logically it can go by date (who listed first) or it can be random to determine which sale occurs. What other option would there be? I think I used to know what the answer to this question was, but I've forgotten. Nor do I really think it's that important. But it is one or the other, when there are no other ways to determine which sale has precedence....