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    Seeking Spines Advice

    in Scrapper

    Posted

    1.  Not stellar.  I would not consider spines as an AV killer, but it will certainly get you there for just about everything else.  As mentioned, having Moonbeam or Zapp will help a bunch with single target.  I'd think that targeting bosses with your ST and letting your auras take out minions/lts on their own is a sound strategy.

     

    2.  Absolutely keep Throw Spines.  I'd even keep it over Spine Burst unless you needed melee AoE specifically for set bonuses.

     

    3.  Mud pots is probably superior to Quills if you are only going to keep one, but as mentioned this is kind of the point of this combo!  Endurance is going to be a real bear.  For good times, put an Avalanche knockdown proc in one aura and Overwhelming Force knockdown proc in the other.  Knockdown is your friend when using passive damage!

     

    Would you settle for a close, but not exact name?

    in General Discussion

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    20 hours ago, Yomo Kimyata said:

    Sometimes I find an even better name.

     

    Case Study:

     

    A while back, I wanted to make a themed SG named the Defcon Five.  It was to be a quintet of female special agents whose primary purpose was to protect the U.S. and the world from nuclear disaster.  Now, there are five levels of DEFCON, and each one has a code name associated with it (From least serious to most serious they are: 5: Fade Out; 4: Double Take; 3: Round House; 2: Fast Pace; 1: Cocked Pistol).  As you can imagine, most/all of these code names had already been snatched up, and names like DEFCON Two were not available across all five members, so I kludged together names for each of them like DC5 Fade Out, and made power sets that made sense and had a pretty good backstory for both the individual members and the group as a whole.  But, the names sucked, and I was never really able to play them out so they are all languishing in their early 20s and I consider it a defunct project.  So that is a sad story.

     

    However, I also decided they needed a nemesis, and so I created a cyborg monster from a post-apocalyptic future whose sole goal is to bring nuclear holocaust to our present.  The clear name for this unstoppable beast would have been DEFCON Zero, which was taken.  However, DEFCON Zer0 added just a bit of flavor, in a post-apocalyptic/steampunky way, and I ended up creating variations of that character with that name across a few shards.  They are all awesome and terrifying and fit the name perfectly.  And that is a happy story.

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    Ice/Thorn/??

    in Dominator

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    I've had an Ice/Thorns dom for a long time, and this thread inspired me to pull it back out again.  Currently at lvl 45 and running with Ice as the epic pool.

     

    Now, you could write everything I know about dominators on the rum of a shot glass with a blunt crayon, so I've been playing this pretty organically.  Not focusing on perma- anything.

     

    Having Ice Slick, Thorntrops, and Sleet is pretty fun.  Set up a macro for casting it on a target or for casting it on your current position.  

     

    I went Sorcery for Rune, and I think I will end up with Presence in order to increase fear exposure.  Hibernation is a very fun and useful power, but make sure you activate it early enough!

    Superman Tankers are boring.... but..... intentionally handicapping yourself is hard.....

    in General Discussion

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    36 minutes ago, PancakeGnome said:

    So it's either "play something that relies on someone ELSE being the superman tank that can't die...... or be it yourself" ? 

     

    You've won the game as Superman.  The question is do you want to continue to win the game as Superman or try to win it as, say, Wendy and Marvin?

     

    Teaming is always going to be problematic, since there will generally be at least one Superman on any given team, in my experience.

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    New Hami-O: Acc/Rech

    in Suggestions & Feedback

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    On 1/1/2024 at 4:38 PM, ninja surprise said:

     

    Huh, I've never heard of these. Time to hit the AH!

     

    Still, it sure would be nice to have a Hami or IO version of this. 

     

    Be careful; they are pricy!  I could give you a few but, meh, I don't really want to.

    The Sandbox, Progression and the Homecoming Experience

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    10 hours ago, FFFF said:

    So I've taken a break from Homecoming. My last login reflects that it's been 66 days since I've logged onto a Homecoming character. Mostly, I've been spending some time on other servers and experiencing firsthand the differences in implementation of an old MMO.

     

    Thanks for doing this, and more importantly, thanks for sharing your knowledge!

     

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    The Auction House: A Basic Primer On How It's Supposed To Work

    in Guides

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    On 12/29/2023 at 7:35 AM, Andreah said:

    One caveat is you cannot buy something you have listed for sale from the same character. One can do this using two characters on the same account, but the auction won't let the same character buy something the character has listed for sale (or vice versa, you can't sell something to your own bid). 

     

    Sometimes it may look like this is happening due to pre-existing bids or offers though; but in this case you just bought someone else's item that was priced right, and sold your thing to yet another person who had a bid just right.

     

    This is very important to remember.  You can trade with a different character on a different account, and you can trade with a different character on the *same* account.  But one of the first things the algorithm checks is if there is a high enough bid or a low enough offer *and not on the same character*.  There are lots of times that people accidentally mess themselves up by locking or inverting a market.  In general, it's a good idea to not have bids and offers for the same item on the same character unless you really know what you are doing.

     

    On 12/29/2023 at 7:46 AM, Andreah said:

    The reason I do this is so that I free up market slots more quickly doing bulk buys or sells. If I have thousands of something to sell (e.g., salvage or converters), and only 200 market slots, and I price at the same exact value, then they tend to sell out sort of randomly (as Yomo noted, not purely randomly) and leave a mess of partial stacks occupying my market slots. However, if they're posted in increments, then the lower offers always sell out first (and higher bids always buy out first), and this frees up market slots more efficiently so I can post even more for sale (or bid).

     

    When you are buying or selling large amounts of the same item, I have noticed that it tends more towards LIFO (last in, first out) rather than FIFO (first in, first out) and I'll change that in the initial post.  According to Uberguy (all hail), each time a new bid/offer comes in at the same price, the ranking of the lists reset in a way that I think is inherent to the underlying computer language rather than being specifically programmed for the /AH.  I think that my LIFO observation (and this is mainly noticeable if you are using different characters) is based at least in part of the increased size of the pool.  Example:  If you have bids for 100 widgets at 100 inf on Character A, and that's the highest bid, the next widget put up for sale at or under 100 will trade to Character A (but it's difficult to tell which slot it will be allocated to).  But if Character B puts in bids to 200 widgets at 100 inf, even if the allocation is completely random, it will trade to Character B 2/3 of the time.  That said, it isn't quite random and it isn't quite orderly and I'm frankly not going to worry about it one way or another.

     

     

     

    Early Blooming Primary/Secondary?

    in Brute

    Posted · Edited by Yomo Kimyata

    Battleaxe gets pendulum at level 8 now.  A former T9 at level 8!  (Admittedly, they tuned back the damage a bit).  

     

    Axe Cyclone with a few slots in it (let's say by level 25) would have you dominating in your mid-20s.

     

    [EDIT: as @kelika2 notes, a tanker gets burn at 18 and pendulum at 20, which will be very very powerful in your early 20s.]

     

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    The Officially Unofficial Weekly Discussion #60: When do you abandon a character/concept?

    in General Discussion

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    23 hours ago, DougGraves said:

    In character creation do you abandon if you cannot come up with a costume or name you like?

     

    It depends on how the inspiration came about.  If the name is the inspiration, and if it is already taken, then I move on and don't even start.  If the powers are the inspiration then I work until I find something I like.  I frequently end up changing costumes and names.

     

    23 hours ago, DougGraves said:

    How many levels do you go before you decide a character isn't for you?

     

    I like to get to 7 or 8 right away.  It doesn't take very long, especially with double xp, and I've got a pretty good system for those early levels.  Even though they have not instituted any name givebacks yet, I like to get them above the short level break (5, I think?).  

     

    23 hours ago, DougGraves said:

    When you abandon a character do you delete it, or just leave it now that we have 1,000 slots?

     

    I've got a short attention span, so when I stop spending time on a project it's usually because something else more pressing has come along.  Sometimes it's even outside of this game!  Recently, I've started pruning characters, but those are mainly theme or challenge characters that stopped being interesting.  I only delete it if I can honestly say to myself, well, never gonna play THAT one again.  

     

    On 12/28/2023 at 1:20 PM, DougGraves said:

    Do you expect to go back to old characters or once you move on are the old ones dead to you?

     

    Never say die!  Sometimes I come back to old concepts that have new life due to changes either in the Homecoming rules or in my increased understanding of the mechanics.

    What to do with all these merits?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    You will probably get lots of people who will tell you to convert them to xxxx and sell them and to do it in the most efficient manner so as to maximize your inf.  And there are several ways that can net you about 20mm inf for 100 merits.

     

    You can also use them to get items that you want to use for yourself.  100 merits for a Winter-O is totally reasonable.  100 merits for a purple is fine, but you could probably net out a little better by selling items and buying the purple directly and have a few mm inf left over.  100 merits for an ATO is also fine if you really want that ATO, but again you could almost certainly net out better by selling items and buying the ATO directly.  That said, there is no problem with using them to buy an item you want, even if in theory you could get it cheaper some other way.  It's not like you are starving your children.

     

    Saving them for badges is also reasonable, but since I am well versed in the conversion process, I spend all mine on converters and use them to convert.

     

     

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