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Well, while I think my idea is super silly, the market just isn't ready for it yet. There simply aren't enough of a certain HO available on the market to build this character as planned. So, my choices are to bid and wait..or to scrap the project.
Hopefully, just my posting will encourage our dev team to at least take a look at the drop rates of certain HO/D-syncs. -
Well, the way things are now; nothing is broken. Sometimes it is indeed best to leave well-enough alone. But, I do think it would be much simpler to allow certain HO/D-Syncs to drop a smidge more often.
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31 minutes ago, SeraphimKensai said:
I've said for a long time the best solution to HO/sHO/Dsync/Titan is to allow them to be convertible via converters.
This will help equalize the value of them over time and help available stock of all of them. And then there is something to do with bad HOs aside of deleting them.
My understanding is there's some "code limitations" preventing this from happening. I've no idea what that specifically means, though. Maybe it's just we don't have a volunteer programmer willing or able to code it. Maybe there's some other issue preventing it from being a thing. No idea.
But, if that is the case, they could easily re-visit the drop rate, and where/how these enhancements drop.As of now, what I imagine a low demand enhancement - the stereocilia/Deceleration (bucketed as the same thing) there are only 14 of these for sale. 8 of them being level 50.
Now, there's 361 people bidding on these at a price, presumably lower than 16M. No way to know other than sell a bunch for cheap.
The Cyto, one of the more popular ones
Only 37 total Cyto for sale, with over 1/3 of them being lower than level 50. There are 2400 bids for all of them, collectively.
The Acc/threat/Rec
Only 23 of them in total - and I'd bet more folks would bid on them, but they're the most expensive. 850 bids for them, collectively.
Conversely, 1306 Centrioles are available. (across all levels) Looking at the price...amazing there are any outstanding bids at all.
From a marketing perspective, someone might be buying them, combining to make 53's and relisting. Never know when someone who doesn't know any better is going to come along and pad your pockets.
I could go on, but the point is pretty clear. There are players that would use these if they were more readily available. I'm not saying make the Acc/threat/Rec as easy to get as a dam/mez. I'm just saying look at the drop rates for all of them. Even some of them out.
Amlyoplast, Stereocilia, the cytoskeleton - all three could use a little glance and see if their drop rate odds could be improved. -
I posted this in the controller forum. I was having a chat with some folks in The Abyss about how the rng is just a very fickle beast sometimes. I've gotten my share of acc/dams, sure. But I do feel at a loss when I get something like a Golgi or a ribosome. Someone in the league mentioned Golgis are great for spirit ward.
Like when would I ever use spirit ward? You'd have to take the sorcery pool for that. Eww! I've hated that pool ever since theynerfedadjusted the recharge on Rune of Protection. So, maybe it's time to just put the sour grapes on that aside and try to make lemonade out of the many lemons. (peroxisomes and endoplasms)
This is what I've got so far. Probably not the finished product. And the scary part is - with IO set bonuses, I could probably make fade permanent, making this controller very interesting to play.
I've no idea if there are enough stereocilla's to actually do this build. Maybe one day, the powers that be will revisit the HO drop table. Because Lady Grey TF is just too long with some pugs, and on speed teams, I can barely keep up. So, I'll spend the inf - but hard to do when they're not available on the AH.
For now, it's a decent joke for me to grin at.-
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On 7/16/2025 at 9:45 PM, MTeague said:
I would pick eight people who enjoy mild banter and chatting during missions.
I gotta say it. This is probably the most important part. But not the only part.
If you can get those 8 folks to play these:
2 rad defenders
1 ice/natty corr
1 fire/natty corr1 fire/cold tank
1 cold/ice def
1 ice/mc blast
1 fire/mc blast
I use this specific collection only because I've played them and know what they're capable of. The buffs from the defs and corrs collectively will almost make the tank useless...but burn is and always will be amazing. You add in 2 overgrowths with 2 sets of rad debuffs...I dunno.
The secondary of the blasters certainly has perception bias on my part. I really like Burst of Speed now, as when you do all three bursts, it's every bit as good as a nuke. So, with practice, and maybe discord - that's a boat load of dps. Not to mention two blizzards, two infernos, and 2 fire balls.-
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For the curious and bored - here's the build. Even using trash HOs, this is going to be expensive, requiring a lot of micros and some HO that's never dropped in any hami raid I've been a part of. I can only assume they're Lady Grey specific. Not many of them on the AH, either. Stereocilla is the name of them.
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Well, the task I've set for myself is pretty silly. Even the name is silly, and potentially offensive. "Bad HOs", an ice/dark controller.
It's really strange slotting, because I've never played Ice control before. I keep having to go into enhancement management to see what they'll take, so I can determine the appropriate number of slots.
I've a feeling, using HOs only, this may be the first character where I feel I have too many slots to fill. Maybe I should have made it a HEAT. -
On retail, there I was in Croatoa, I think. I was on a blaster, my friend was on a scrapper. I found an ice controller to help us out. This was way back, maybe 2004? 03? I remember seeing ice slick. It saved my from my ineptitude back then fairly often.
So, in the Abyss, after getting a ribosome and a teammate getting a golgi, I joked that I was going to make a character using nothing but HO/d-syncs for enhancements.
At the time, I thought "Ice/Dark". Two pets, should be fine. Now, I know I'm going to PL this character, and then play it. I probably won't even worry about accolades.
Just for fun. So, I open up mids.
Seriously? How does a controller play this game and get levels? This thing has almost no attacks. A lot of mitigation, but even with procs - which I'm not going to use for the reason mentioned above, well, I guess that explains why I don't see ice controllers around that often.
Something should be done, though. This just doesn't seem equitable compared to the offensive juggernaut of illusion and other sets.
And yes, I know on a team, the buff/debuffs are pretty nice, but I don't feel like this character is going to be a great teammate with the lack of offensive power. -
I think the OP raises a point. I could be nicer about some of the things I don't like. And some folks - it's probably just things missing from the voice to text translation, but they just come off really abrasive. And really, there are some folks that will vote down on everything, no matter what it is. But that's just perception bias on my part, I'm sure.
But to the OP's point - yes, feedback to an idea can take many forms, but do we need to state the obvious about dev time and their volunteer status?
Now, in some cases, yeah, I think it's a valid thing to mention, because the ideas some of us have - we have no idea what it would take to implement them.
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So, your goals - the mini-pets and such, I'm on board with you there. I kind of like the look of the icons as much as the pets.
Here's the fire/mc build I used with the labyrinth in mind. On Excelsior, Elysian Guardians and Goddess run this every day; so, I'm on a league, so I'm not worried about defenses that much. -
There was a time on retail when purples sold for close to 300M in some cases. The PvP IO uniques would literally sell for 2B, and a lot of trust was extended in trading the inf for the IO.
Now, on HC we don't have these problems, thankfully. That is, in part, due to the inexpensive way of acquiring enhancement converters.
Right now, D-Syncs, HOs, Titan-Os, Hydra-Os - those are all pooled in the same category, and are not an option for using converters.
Right now, I'll tip my hand and say I'd like to get my hands on about 20 Acc/Dam HO/D-sync (whatever form they come in, all in the same pool, doesn't matter) and another 20 acc/threat/rec.
There's not even 20 of those on the AH, even if I were okay with spending the inf cap on each one - which I'm not. I've got my lowball bids in, and if they go through, great. If not, I'll wait.
The bad news is, I've got maybe 100 of these not-so-good HO/D-syncs in my base. I'm just waiting to find a reason to use them, where the reason for their use is greater than the set bonus it'll cost me to use them. I've even thought about making "Hami-Man" who's level 50 build consists entirely of HOs. Try it on mids. A great way to spend an hour with nothing spectacular, numbers wise. And even then, you're still gonna want some Cytos or d-sync equivalent thrown in.
The folks that like to run the advanced mode stuff - they're smart. When they get those drops, I suspect they're keeping the good ones for their alts. Or, selling them at a point where even an inf-rich player like myself says, "Um...no. It's not THAT important to me".
When supply is low, demand results in higher prices. I get it. We all get it. So, what happens if we were able to use converters on HO/D-Sync, etc. ?
That acc/mez isn't so terrible. It might cost you 100 converters, but you might very well get that HO you want.
Now - if this change were to be made - would advanced mode play decrease? Maybe. Not by a lot, I don't think. Still plenty of other rewards in play there, and I think most of those players are in it for the fun more than the rewards. I could certainly be wrong about that.
Is it worth lobbying for this change? Some of you don't even play to 50, so you don't care. But for those that do, how would it feel to finally get the Acc/threat/rec and suddenly see it's only worth 100M instead of 500M-1B? Or folks like me that have already spent over 2B in those enhancements?
The "game/HC" likes it because it removes 10% of the inf from the economy right away. Not to mention what gets removed by the seller when they use that inf to buy something they want. I don't really know how deep that initial sink goes, but it's just a drop in the bucket when you think of how much inf comes into the economy every day.
So, is this worth asking for? Will it ruin someone's life or experience by taking the one part of the game that's not fungible in the way that other enhancements are, and making them convertible via enhancement converters?
How many converters should it cost? 5? 10? 30? 100?
I don't think it will ever happen. But I wish it would. I've a use for them, but the A/T/Rs are just not on the market. -
14 hours ago, battlewraith said:
I take it to mean that they are signaling that you're opinion is bizarre, not that it's actually confusing.
Then why not just say it, with actual words? As evidenced by a number of posts here, these "reactions" are not clear indicators of anything.
The irony of confusing people with a confused reaction is almost funny.-
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It'll be awhile. I know this is probably supposed to be an inf sink, but having consolidated all my prismatics to one character, it's not really an issue. But the opportunity cost, it's like 2B inf, give or take. That amount shouldn't bother me, but if it didn't bother me, then I probably would have a lot less than I do now.
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Probably been reported already. Spirit Drain, a power from Dark mastery for a corruptor - I think it should read "Ranged AoE".
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17 hours ago, Intermipants said:
can’t believe that I’ve been playing for this long and I’ve only discovered in the last month the add note feature
Just so you don't feel too badly...Okie was giving instructions last night for MoBAF. Preceding the prisoner phase, he types out "set to aggressive - stay".
Now, the aggressive part..been doing that since day one.
The "stay"...I swear, I'd never used that before and although I'm sure I "saw" it, it never registered. I've never used it until last night.-
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I've only ever given two 5* ratings. One to @Tort - as he's the guy that led the first RHW on Torchbearer, I want to say that was before Excelsior existed. The other was @ST1TcH.
I do put a lot of notes on people.
Things like: "This player went afk during the beatdown on Hami" or, "This player was afk during the Labyrinth"
Mind you, if you're afk long enough for me to see the AFK bubble over your head...that's more than just a minute to get a drink or something. And yeah, things come up. But it's just a note. Now, if I see it again...then it's a bit of a pattern, and then I rate you 2 stars. Then, if I see you on a TF team - I make an excuse and leave the team before it starts.
I'll make other notes, like: recruits, but doesn't reply one way or the other. Rude. And give 2 stars.
And sometimes, I'll give 4 stars like "was on successful master run of XXXXX TF/SF."
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4 hours ago, momentarygrace said:
I want to apologize, I almost never do this (I think) but rather than address the actual intent of the post Ukase, I'm taking one tiny part of what you said and responding to that. I'm ashamed of myself but not enough to stop apparently.
Just tell me that the word was "Die!" and make me happy, please? #^_^#
Ha! I wish it were. It was something in Hebrew, I think. Something to do with faith.
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Well, the OP's not wrong. When someone reacts with a pizza...I really don't have a clue what that means. Fortunately, I don't really care. The only ones that kind of bug me are the confused ones, because I feel like I'm way too wordy to be confusing. I go to great lengths to over-explain my thinking, because there's a lot missed in the written word. Intonation, pitch, etc.
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On 7/12/2025 at 3:01 PM, Scarlet Shocker said:
Who would you play more of? Or am I unique in this?
You are not unique in this.
I have 4 accounts. The primary account @ukase had almost 300 characters, which I've whittled down to a mere 137. Of the 137, only 4 are not level 50. Now, on my other 3 accounts, I have one character at level 10 sitting next to the candy keeper to get the Winter recipes at level 10.
I've got a fire/regen sentinel that's just ...well, it's not fun. So, it sits there until I decide to somehow make it fun, or delete it. I've got at least a dozen, maybe 2 dozen characters that are like that.
From time to time, I'll have a character with the Unlucky artifact mission and just keep them in stasis for the next account to get it before level 30.
I've got a scrapper with the Sister Solaris finale specifically for the minos and cyclops, as an example of why some characters don't really do much but log in, invite an alt, and log out. I've got probably a dozen characters across each account that have the mayhems, safeguards, AM, Siege, Multidimensional, Shrouded so characters can get accoladed more quickly.
I certainly have no intentions of ever playing any of them through content again - they've got their purpose. One such character that holds AM/Siege has no enhancements. And literally auto-completed over a series of a few months. I don't think that character has ever fought anything, lol. but it serves a purpose.
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3 hours ago, MTeague said:
Just /jranger, which had become forum shorthand for "This is a terrible idea, under no circumstances do we ever want to see anything like this, and the poster's intellect is highly suspect for that matter."
I'm glad you stated this, because until you did, I had no idea what that meant. So, a retroactive raspberry to whomever replied to any of my suggestions in that fashion.
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So, right now, if you look at the SG registrar, unless you're looking for a specific group, or something similar to a name you type in and search for - you pretty much just get an alphabetical list.
Now, I get that we have the forums, and the HC Discord, and even occasionally some recruitment through LFG, and even a persistent kneeling character in Ouroboros (on Excelsior, anyway) to recruit for SG membership.
I used to get most of my harder to earn badges with Cosmic. For now, they're dormant. So, I'm looking for another one. Cosmic was great, because once I joined the discord, I didn't need to park any alts in the SG proper. Which was good, because their base was too large, and caused lag upon entry. (a nifty looking base, mind you)
So, I thought - what SG is there that focuses on badges, primarily? Well...a lot of them do - but I'm not a role player, and while I enjoy reading some RP, (I'm thinking of you, DMK, and alleged imposter DMKs) some of it is quite painful to read, (referring primarily to this one guy who spammed the same word three times every time he killed an npc) because the characters are just not enjoyable to me. I'm sure the players are fine people - just don't care for the RP of some characters.
I know I'm barking up what's likely the wrong tree. But rather than make a suggestion that's wholly generic "Make the SG register mean something", I need to narrow it down. I need a metric for the top 100 list to actually track. Can it track number of characters to last be online? Or even accounts? I've no idea.
Since prestige is no longer earned, let alone meaningful, is it even worth the hassle of having a counter track the number of characters that log in within an SG?
So many of the SGs are likely solo SGs, as there's no description. And I get it. I love having a place to stash my stuff. Makes getting stuff for alts so much easier.
I could certainly be wrong. But if I'm looking at the SG registrar for this purpose..I'm probably not the only one. Am I?
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9 hours ago, Crysis said:
the Labyrinth of Fog is already all but abandoned.
Not a dev, and I have the joy and ..I'll even call it a privilege to join @Laucianna on her daily labyrinth runs. While it is true it's not run as often as something like ITF, it is run daily, sometimes twice a day, or more.
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What gets under my skin on a given day varies with the amount of sleep and coffee I've recently had. Some days, I want to reach through my monitor and smack people. There have been a couple of times, if I'd been able to do so, (once in retail, once since HC opened) I'd probably have been arrested for assault. I can't even articulate what they did that made me so mad, but I remember the rage. They just pushed the right buttons to get me pissed.
Now, annoyed - that's happens a lot. But it happens so often, I don't really even notice it anymore. I've typed out so many "Are you serious?" And "Who cares about this?" posts, and deleted them, or worse, posted them, then hid them a minute later, realizing what a jerk I was. I'd like to think I've improved. I haven't had a GM tell me to chill for over a year.-
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Ty kindly!
Ice control
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So, they are expensive for the average player. But, it's not impossible to get them. 100 RMs each?
Consider an hour in the abyss. 5 runs, if you grab the merits each time, that's 240 reward merits. And..well, if you do it every other day, you could leave the reward unclaimed and get 280 merits for 5 runs.
What I've done is create characters specifically to buff the league, and they rotate duties. If there's low attendance, sometimes I can swap and snag an extra 40.
I suppose it depends on your definition of insufferable. As for me, my characters can snag those out of email because I've been around since before they put those winter packs on sale for 10M and bought a bunch. Still have some I haven't opened.