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Breaking the law? Not for me to decide. I don’t have relevant legal expertise there. “Wrong” or “ripping off” intellectual property? I hadn’t thought about it enough to have a strong opinion. Relevant to my gameplay of CoX or HC’s wish to mitigate risk? Not in the slightest. It’s no skin off my nose to see a character named “Steeve Roggers” dressed in red, white, and blue. But if HC feels that poses a risk to the long term viability of this server, then I encourage their picking up the ban hammer faster than Captain America picked up Mjolnir. Oops, spoiler alert. Cmon people, we saw that coming! Im not sure what your objective here is but I suspect you are trying to set me up with a “LMAO, HYPOCRITE!!!1!” Have at it. I’ve repeatedly avowed that my opinion is irrelevant. If your end game is to get me to say my opinion is wrong, then you’ve got a long tough slog ahead of you.

I’m long overdue for this, but thank you. I am grateful for being able to play this game again, especially with a critical mass of other players.

I’ll tell you what. If you can adequately explain what my answer to that question has to do with the price of tea in China, I may even proffer my irrelevant opinion. P.S. The price of tea in China is TOO LOW!

I think Sting of the Manticore is added at 35, but your thesis is strong. Offhand, I'm not sure what the crafting cost at 31 is v. 41. Is it worth an enhancement converter and an extra rare roll?

Sure, I'll bite. I think that if a con wanted to ban costumes for whatever reason, and you showed up at the door in costume, you should expect to be turned away. Unless the costume ban in and of itself were deemed illegal. I'm no constitutional lawyer, but you might have a hard time claiming that not being able to dress up like Deadpool is restricting your freedom of religion or free speech. But this has nothing to do with the fact that HC has the right to enforce violations of copyright infringement, and again, my opinion is irrelevant, since I'm not the one making decisions here.

Seems pretty dark charcoal to me, but what I think, and what you think, is irrelevant. Personally, if people want to harass other people because they think the other person is breaking the law, that's kind of jerky. But reporting them to the authorities? Totally legit. I also think that if you choose to rip off an existing character because it's not technically illegal, then you probably know that what you are doing is wrong. But again, my thoughts are irrelevant other than establishing my position on things. HC can do whatever they want for whatever motive they want. I believe that they want to keep things squeaky clean because they don't want to run any risk. I'd do the same thing if I were the one assuming risk. But maybe they're just lawful good (boring!) Or maybe they get a kick out of cheesing people off. Whatever, it's their ball. And wow, dog fighting is ok but murder is disgusting? Whatever!

The point is, copyright infringement is illegal. It was illegal last week, and it is illegal today. Maybe you don't think that is right or fair, but like dog fighting and murder, it is still illegal. If you don't like it, get elected to a legislative position and change the laws if you can. HC didn't use to try to combat this illegal behavior. Understandable, it's a big time and effort suck, and it obviously cheeses a lot of people off. Today, they are trying to combat this illegal behavior, for their own reasons. Also understandable, since they are the first ones in line for legal action. My view on this is if you intentionally committed copyright infringement, and I am going to presume that if you did so you did it knowing that it was illegal but not being enforced, prepare to lose your name or appearance. If you don't like it, feel free to start your own server and shoulder the risk yourself. But don't whine, "But, but, but I WANT IT!!!" If you are legitimately concerned that your name or character MAY be in violation, I probably wouldn't worry about it. If there is a risk of legal action, it would be over low hanging fruit rather than something esoteric. But that is not legal advice; consult your lawyer. I don't think HC owes me anything. Even if I am able to contribute in the very brief windows that contributions are open. We are here playing, and posting on the forums, at their pleasure. And if it all goes away tomorrow, I'll shrug and make my peace with it. It's their ball, and they can take it and go home if they want. Every single one of us has the ability to bring our own ball and start a new game if we want.

I’ve toyed with running +4/x8 right out of Outbreak. (One could do it at level 1, but not having Rest is a little too masochistic for me.) Solo missions only. No street sweeping unless that’s your mission. Run it to 50. Actually, it’s just that first mission that’s a killer. About once a week I try this on an illusion/poison controller and invariably give up after 15 minutes. But I think that once I get that first level under my belt, I’ll roll.

Nonono, I don’t want to share HP! I want to throw orcs into the maws of my enemies. I don’t care if they live. I figure it should be a recharge/defense secondary, maybe nature? I don’t suppose any of the primaries summon faster than the others.

I'm considering making a mastermind (I know, right, I HATE masterminds!) as a pure tank. Followers exist in order to be summoned into aggro, then resummoned to maintain aggro. I'm not sure how to go about this, since it just feels dirty to me in so many ways.

Intuitively, you would think that prices on Unbreakable Guard dropped because someone chose to offer a lot in the market, and people reacted by cutting their bids. But I think that prices dropped because someone chose to offer a lot in the market at a really low price. If that person had crafted a few hundred and offered them at a "historic demand" level, they probably would have sold them all, just maybe not in a day. Demand seems pretty consistent for a lot of standards. I feel like the variability is mainly coming from where people are willing to sell. Of course, people can dump in the market as much as they want. Have at it! I craft a lot less than I used to and buy up the crafted IOs that people dump a lot more.

I agree that this is an issue that personally affects me.

Not to be pedantic, but this is patently untrue (see what I did? use "patently" in a thread about copyright infringement! I slay me). People and corporations settle all the time, not because they think they cannot win, or even if their risk profile is unfavorable. They settle when they determine that the cost of the lawsuit in terms of money, time, or intangibles is more than the cost of settlement. There are entire professions that are dedicated to exacerbating this. What this has to do with your argument, I don't know. I was just skimming this thread and wanted to point out that lawsuit settlement is rarely a binary we win/we lose issue. In a more perfect world, I'd argue it should be. But it ain't.

One of the best things you can do with a leveling character, in my opinion, is use IO sets before 50. If you are PLing, then it may be a waste of time, but never a waste of money. And this is why I market on every alt. if you buy your enhancements attuned in the AH, they will level up with you until/if you decide to replace them. And you can buy enhancement unslotters for under 100k if you want to reuse them. I buy a fresh set of kinetic combat for every melee attack on every melee alt, install them at level 17, and don’t worry about them again until I’m in my 30s.

Oh yeah, that's yer problem. You set this doll to "EVIL". Take out an acc or a damage and put an end reduction in there. Try for full IO sets, like Kinetic Combat and Obliteration. And as Hyperstrike says, get some +end proc in there as well. You'll be right as rain in no time.

As the OP, please allow me to inflict more of my opinion on you! When those who shan’t be named instituted PvP and AE respectively (was it in that order? I think so.) my reaction was that of watching a leather jacket-clad dude water-ski over a shark pen. “That’s it,” I said, “Now they are charging us to provide them with content!” Ironically, today the ideal business plan involves charging people to provide us with their data. But I digress. I don’t mind in the slightest if someone owns a farming toon. I mind in the slightest if they bring their farming toon to a TF I am forming, since they were probably optimized for a different purpose. And yes, I do inherently dislike the idea of PLing even though I now run double xp on new rolls. But really, all I care about is, if I am on a team with you, are you being a jerk? There are dozens of times as many jerks as there are “AE babies” who have no idea how to get to Striga Isle. If yes, either I will quit or I will boot you. But how you got there is up to you.

Hmm. Mine is right about 30. 1. Your attacks are much more endurance hungry than your toggles, so I’d look there first. My single target attacks at this point are 4-piece kinetic combat and a FF Proc. I usually have the rest after each fight or every other mob. 2. I feel like the damage is pretty good? It doesn’t feel as strong as war mace or as weak as staff. What annoys me is the occasional Knockback but it’s not common. 3. Hadn’t noticed accuracy problems but I’ll take him out for a spin later and look. 4. Yeah, I can see this happening. It’s a slow hitting set.

I don't know, but am not taking the chance that someone more enterprising than me finds out! In other news, I moved my bids to Winter Packs. Feel free to sell them back to me now, Nemesis!

I wanted to cap at 40, so that I have 10 on each NA server and don’t have to deal with a second page. I’m seriously considering breaking that cap.

According to ParagonWiki: 2 Offensive Sets 2.1 Melee Damage 2.2 PBAoE Damage 2.3 Pet Damage 2.4 Ranged Damage 2.5 Recharge Intensive Pets 2.6 Sniper Attacks 2.7 Targeted AoE Damage 2.8 Universal Damage 3 Archetype Sets 3.1 Blaster 3.2 Brute 3.3 Controller 3.4 Corruptor 3.5 Defender 3.6 Dominator 3.7 Kheldian 3.8 Mastermind 3.9 Scrapper 3.10 Soldiers of Arachnos 3.11 Stalker 3.12 Tanker 4 Defensive Sets 4.1 Accurate Healing 4.2 Healing 4.3 Defense 4.4 Resist Damage 5 Mez Sets 5.1 Confuse 5.2 Fear 5.3 Holds 5.4 Immobilize 5.5 Knockback 5.6 Sleep 5.7 Stuns 5.8 Taunt 6 Travel Sets 6.1 Flight 6.2 Leaping 6.3 Running 6.4 Teleport 6.5 Universal Travel 7 Other Sets 7.1 Accurate Defense Debuff 7.2 Accurate To Hit Debuff 7.3 Defense Debuff 7.4 Endurance Modification 7.5 Slow Movement 7.6 To Hit Buff 7.7 To Hit Debuff If you haven't checked them all out already, go ahead and do so and let us know if you find any surprises!

I would argue that if you are trying to identify the factor [weapon damage], and one of your variable inputs is also [player speed], you need to isolate and ideally eliminate the player speed factor. If there is a 30 second swing between player A and dual blades and player B and radiation melee, for example, you need to statistically identify what component is responsible for what. Maybe the difference between Player A and Player B maxes out at 60 seconds, assuming that both players are experienced CoHers. But your thesis statement [Dual blades is x seconds slower than radiation melee] gets destroyed in the noise. I would expect that a good player would be consistent across most if not all melee sets, though. If I were paying for this project, I'd want to isolate [player speed]. Maybe I'm wrong and player A and player B would be within a few seconds with the same set, but I doubt it. Just my opinion; you all are doing this on your own time, so you can do it however you want! I totally appreciate your dedication.

WTF, I've now bought 30 of them? Who in the world would pay 10mm for one then turn around and sell it for a 1mm loss after fees? Much less 30? Nemesis? Is that you?

Whoever wants to take aggro point.

Doc Delilah in Faultline blueside has a three? mission arc that grants this. You need to run the arc of Jim Temblor, Penelope Yin first and be level 20 or higher.

I digress, but I would absolutely dedicate a character build to minimize killing pylon time if it were a metric that mattered to me. I can't possibly be the only one. I also disagree on your assessment of skill parity across players, but that might be a bias on my part. Like Lake Wobegon children, we all like to think we are above average. Ideally, your experiment would be done by a single person, and you would run lots more than ten tests per set, but I'd be the first to agree that would be a thankless and un-fun task.