Yomo Kimyata

Well, that is between the player and the game. I'm sure you have many things in real life you want but cannot afford. I know I do. I seriously hope you aren't thinking of quitting that game.

What? No, no scrubs allowed! 100bn +!

Surely, at this point you have realized that inflation isn't the problem? The traditional argument against farming is that it adds too much currency to the system, which causes inflation, which penalizes new players at the sake of old players. The problem you have is that the rate of new "stuff" coming into the system, that can be immediately resold or repackaged into something attractive, is growing at a rate faster than the increase in monetary base. That's fine, except then you lose the people changing one into the other because why in the world do they need another billion inf? And others who bitch about how pricy things are say in the same breath I don't *WANT* to have to *EARN* inf or grind anything for the things I want. So you get really wide bid offer spreads. My suggestion would be to: Cut the merit to converter rate from 1:3 to 10:1. Just like live. Give people some real incentive to give back to the market. If a player wants something and it's too expensive? Do without it or craft a plan to get it.

Scrapper. Even if you are teaming with 7x rikti monkeys you will do more damage and survive the same.

They are Roman all over the cavern.

I'd like to remind everyone of two things: 1. If there is a 2% drop rate, you have a 50-50 chance of having had [EDIT: at least] one drop after completing 34 missions. I don't know if you think that is a lot of missions or not, and it certainly isn't a guarantee that one will drop. Or maybe 34 will drop! But I wouldn't count on it. 2. As far as I recall, every method listed in this Guide of Guides still works. You may choose to not use marketing techniques to accumulate inf, as is your right. But it's a heckuva lot faster than farming, taskforces, or even complaining to the devs! Happy hunting!

Hmm, I did not mean to associate "creepy" with that movie, which I think was an important movie. I'm rebranding my request to fighting creepy Uncle Chad Hamidon. I apologize to all the Chads out there.

Only if you also have to fight creepy Uncle Frank Hamidon.

In addition to my previous comments, my first stab at a very expensive build: EDIT: The two DSOs in Consume should be one Accuracy/End Mod and one Recharge/End Mod. For some reason I can't access all the DSO choices.

Attaboy/girl/huge! Play what you want! I'm proud of you. This combo will do well with lots of knockdown, since the damage set is a little light on damage, and the defense set is also a little light on defense. On knockback/down, you are probably not doing what you want it to do. Knockback (which most people dislike since it takes the enemy out of melee range) and knockdown (where they fall straight down and stay in melee range) are the same thing and differ only in magnitude. Generally you want to keep your magnitude under ~0.75. So by slotting knockback enhancer, you are increasing the "natural" knockdown to a point where it turns into knockback. If that's your aim, groovy, but I suspect it is not. Also, definitely slot Force Feedback proc as much as you like! Powers (Primary/Secondary): I'd probably take Precise Strike over Mercurial Blow. The former can't slot an Achilles Heel, but the latter will proc so infrequently that you will be better off damage wise with the former. For Guarded Spin I'd de-emphasize the efforts you put on defense and put more on offense. The Karma can go in combat jumping, and you should be fine with only one LotG. Absolutely yess to the Superior Avalanche proc, but I'd probably find a different power for it. Like Burn. I like to split the Superior Scrappers Strike into 3 and 3 for the added defense bonus. Eye of the Storm with a Force Feedback +recharge is spectacular, but can't fit it in with 6x Obliteration. I'd like at least 5 slots for Healing Flames (5x panacea) if not 6 (6x Prev Med) since that is your most powerful mitigation power. I cannot imagine skipping Consume but if you are not having endurance issues, have at it! Fiery Embrace is also a great damage multiplier for the cost of a single slot.

At 50, I have my stable of: Ditch Digger (Battle Axe/Shield) Maytag Repairman (Battle Axe/Electric Armor) Kimyata (Broadsword/Bio Armor) Jingo Updog Esquire (Broadsword/Regeneration) Ms. Spaceman (Ice Melee/Dark Armor) Gideon the Ninth (Katana/Dark Armor) Defcon Zer0 (Radiation Melee/Bio Armor) Granny Weatherwax (Staff/Bio Armor) Hellion Keller (Staff/Fiery Aura) Staff Sergeant (Staff/Regeration) Minion Zero (War Mace/Willpower) They are all overpowered, but Defcon Zer0 is ridiculously so. I tend not to play brutes so much anymore since they are so much easier than scrappers in my opinion. Don't get me started on tankers. My favorite to play is probably Jingo Updog Esquire, because he is constantly franticly running around mashing buttons and he's got a fun costume and backstory.

Ok, here's the first round of my feedback on the play of the also-rans, level 1-34. I've soloed pretty much the same content at double xp except for a few times I turned off xp to keep from outleveling something. Started at +1/x1 and moved up to +2/x3. So far every build is aiming for a Fighting (Kick, Tough, maybe Weave) , Leaping (Combat Jumping), Speed (Hasten), for pool powers. Check out my navel gazing -- IF YOU DARE!

No. Because then Corruptor fans would be all NO FARE WE SHOULD HAVE RAIN POWAH!

Would neutering the ATO procs of the other melee classes help? I don't know about you all, but I'd use Brute ATOs even if the proc was "chance for light rain." But if attitudes would turn around, I'd be happy to support cutting the values of other ATO procs, especially tankers. I have no idea why anyone thought buffing tankers was the right thing to do, but clearly someone on the HC development team is married to a PvP tanker. Or is it a "lol unplayable" situation much like squishies get max resist with two or three powers and it is terribly unfair that every melee class has to use five or six powers?

They repackaged Targeted AoE and Cones as Ranged AoE Damage, so that's just a continuity typo that was missed. Why is it a ranged AoE instead of a melee AoE? No idea. But it just means I put in the Annihilation -res proc instead of the Fury of the Gladiator -res proc.

I want to come back to something that keeps coming up: brute ATOs being the worst invention set known to humankind. I find that opinion interesting, since they do sell very well. Is this hatred based on the set bonuses, or the procs? Because the set bonuses look like the best in melee class. If it's the procs, well, it's hard to compete with the massively powerful trio that are tanker, stalker, and scrapper ATO procs. Great stats and unneeded procs v. good stats and critically necessary procs? Sounds like a trade-off.

I jut googled and found it on reddit within three seconds. It will probably take longer than that to download. EDIT: also plenty of stuff on youtube

I think that, like anything, where we are depends on how we got where we are. Today, there are different parties with different motives and agendas that there was a decade ago. And that's cool. Since the code is now available, if not strictly legally available, there is nothing to stop anyone with the desire and the knowledge of the code to reprogram and launch a version of CoX that meets their specific requirements. Personally, I'm happy enough to let other people manage this version, since it is in no way in my best interests in terms of time or effort or whatever for me to launch my own server.

Well, why do you play, for example, Scrabble(tm)? I think some reasons could be: 1. You enjoy playing the game. 2. You like getting better at it as you play. 3. You want to win. 4. You want your opponent to lose. 5. You want your ranking to increase. 6. You make a good living off the professional Scrabble(tm) circuit. 7. You enjoy solving the problem of coming up with the best play off any given rack. 8. It's an enjoyable pastime to share with other people. 9 to a much higher number than 9: other EDIT: I'm mostly 1,2,7,8. But I'm not going to begrudge anyone profiting off the professional circuit!

Intuition is, well I can't call it sneaky good because it's listed there in the description exactly what it does, but just plain good. And not just for ranged. Broadsword/katana, dark melee, ice melee, radiation melee, spines, and that's just the attacks.

This is exactly why I issued my scrapper contest this thing here I really enjoy getting progression on my characters, but when they hit end game I usually start anew. So I'm trying to rethink that.

You mean *more* robot upskirt shots, right?

Brutal, Juice.