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With regards to the new PvP sniper set - it's my fault for not getting to test server, but given that the enhancement in the AH is purple, the recipe in the merit vendor is purple, but the recipe in the ah is orange..I'm a bit confused as to whether or not a pvp io, say a panacea would convert into one of the new sniper enhancements.

There's no way that I know of to abandon an arc. Nor should you. There are merit rewards at the completion of the arc. If the content is now too low, the best option is to make a note of the date and time - auto-complete the task, and three days later, auto-complete the next mission, until the arc is complete.

There are a few more things to know, in particular, about shards vs. threads. Always check your shard inventory before you craft anything. Sometimes, these drop and you didn't realize it. So many people just ignore shards, considering them to drop too rarely to be of any use. I looked at my tank parked in the hive and found 37 shards had collected in the course of 2 weeks. (about 30 hami killings). There's a lot of good reasons to use threads for the alpha, of course. It's faster. By all means, use threads to go from an empty alpha to t-3. That gives you a level shift. In incarnate trials, you'll want that shift! But then...stop using threads for alpha. Focus on playing, and craft nothing until you're vet level 3, at least. Yes, you could craft and maybe go t-3 on judgement or even lore or destiny - but is that the right move? Suppose you did, and then you finish heather townsend's arc and get a rare reward table? Or an uncommon. Then you'll have used various threads to make the uncommon, and once you've crafted an enhancement, there's no breaking it down. Be patient. Let your threads accumulate a bit. At vet level 3, you'd have at least 240 threads and 20 emp merits, not including what dropped and various reward tables. With more ingredients on hand, the better choices you can make. You played for 50 levels without that judgement nuke. A vet level or two without it isn't going to kill you. Obviously, you do what's right for you, but I suggest you forgo judgement and interface until you have Lore and Destiny to tier 3 for those level shifts. While you have that first t-3 alpha crafted, you will get shards. If you do MSR's or a lot of rikti content, use those vg merits to get the Gr`ai Matter component. If not used in a recipe, they can be broken down into a shard. They add up! Why spend 100's of threads when you may already have the shards? And try to avoid breaking down emp merits for threads. Emp merits should really only be used for very rares, and maybe rares. Depends on how many reward tables you see. If you're doing multiple iTrials a day, you'll get your rares through those tables. The very rares are hard to come by, but if you do UGT - you'll get one or the other every time.

I think that's fantastic! When I started playing this game way back when, movement for me had basically stopped. When the game shut down, I started walking and moving around and the weight came off. Now, I refuse to sit on my keester for hours on end, having learned the body was designed for movement. For every hour I play, there's 1k of rowing to look forward to the next day, above my standard 8k. I just wonder ...during the more intense parts of the game...do you find yourself walking faster?

I have a rad/stone tanker myself. Understand, I'm not a true tanker. I tend to play blasters and brutes, because, well, damage. Now, this is just my opinion, based solely on my own experiences. You can go at +2/8 solo, but it will take you seemingly forever to kill the bosses. The only reason my tank doesn't go +4 is because of the time it takes to whittle down the health of lt's, let alone bosses. I can't show you my build, because then I would have to find a way to upload my build from the game, magically, into Mids Reborn. Since I can't do that, I can simply share this - the key is in Particle Shielding. Get your recharge on that as fast as you can reasonably make it. You should be at s/l resist cap before you hit 50, easily. You should find a way to fit the ATO sets in your build. The bonuses are fairly good. I do like Unbreakable Guard, four slotted for the defense bonuses. There's so little Psi damage in game, I know if I'm facing it, I'll be in an iTrial or a team situation and will rely on buffs to get me through it. The other 90% I can handle with my build just fine. I would take hasten much earlier - like level 8 or so. I'd also take Combat Jump a lot earlier, too. The proc's you're using, Steadfast Protection - it's great - but why not take it in the teens? This way, when you exemp, you'll have that. If you did a low level tf, and exemp below 23, you lose that bonus. Maybe swap out the Def proc with the psi resist proc? There's a lot of other things I could say, but it's just opinion.

I thought that was limited to character/account. That said, I have never tried to send any other characters that weren't an alt reward merits. And I wouldn't forget about @Raveor @Foxfyre, nor for that matter some of our more unsung heroes that aid in the process on a regular basis: @master charge (no holds barred) @SimianRetro, @Tax_E and @Freakenstein and a slew of others. I just confirmed - tried to send you a hero merit, Foxfyre, but the message came back that I can only send to my alts.

Trying to move salvage from personal storage to vault reserve - despite moving the slider to as many pieces as I have, I can only move one at a time. I tried logging out, back in, same issue. I tried to move two - only one moved. Tried to move three, only one moved, etc. Same problem with all types of salvage and with multiple characters. Filed a petition and was asked to report it here. So, I am. As things go - given all the zeroes and ones that work together to make up this game - if this is the biggest problem I have, I'll call myself blessed.

Lag. That seems to be the big factor in all this. What if we just changed our perspective? Perhaps we should just imagine the lag as one of Hami's defenses to overcome? Then what? My point is - we've been successful against Hami despite lag, more often than not. Way more often. I have no expectations of the Homecoming team to fix anything, because it's all working as expected. As intended originally? probably not. But we expect it. And most of us are still functioning just fine with it. Not great, but certainly good enough. The idea of a zone cap of 50, in my mind is too small. I think 100 would be just fine for both. That's more than enough to win against Hami in both the Abyss and The Hive. Lag has always been a part of CoH, and likely always will. Technology being what it is - there is always going to be a bottleneck somewhere. Got a new video card for $2k? Great! Guess what though - your cable company is throttling your download speeds... Switch to U-verse by AT&T? Great - while your vid card and internet are now great, your cache size is too small, and you're still using an HDD, instead of a solid state drive. When's the last time you formatted that? Your system tries, but you turn it off because you're still playing.. You get the point. Homecoming could spend billions of their own money to magically smooth the code so it has no lag, and someone would still have lag because they're playing on a system that simply isn't that good. As for the lack of rewards, if there were a way for me to personally give 80 reward merits to @prophet, I would. The man is generous with his time and knowledge and should get a badge for it. But that's just my two inf.

Yes, there is a list. It's under Guides. Here's a convenient click.

Guess I'll start bidding 11 inf, then.

Now that some time has passed, I think it's safe to say that 10 billion would be considered a lot. Less than that - well, you probably have a life outside the game and aren't concerned with the game within the game - making inf. The market didn't exist when I started playing. I enjoyed the dopamine from the sounds and visuals from leveling up. That was really enough for me. But now - with the market...noticing that I can plunk down 60 million for a hami-o to give away...that's pretty nice. What boggles my mind is that there are people who would rather play the game than the market. I just don't get people. Kidding!

Well now I'm a bit ...disappointed. I just got my second defender I've ever made up to level 29; Atlas Medallion already, and have already done the explorations and plaques and defeats for FPR, aside from the fakes. And now I read that I should have made a corruptor instead? Well...I made this toon to learn more, and I guess that objective has been met. Guess it's easy enough to respec the goodies out of the character and PL a corruptor..but I'm going to hate having to redo synapse.

Thing is - nobody quit the tf. There was some speculation about using ouro to exit to go to IP for the next mission, but I dunno. I'd really love to see the code and see what kind of logic error would allow for a mission to repeat. One of the folks on the tf said "My code works and I don't know why" vs "My code doesn't work and I don't know why". There have been so many people working on the code that internal documentation was bound to get sloppy and short-handed eventually. I'm amazed it works at all.

yeah, it's fixed now, we logged off, then back on. Still...we were doing so well on time. Thought I'd lucked out getting two missions at the same door twice.

So...why is Citadel giving us the same mission over and over?

I had planned to just make a comment - next thing I knew I had about 60 lines of text! Half of it irrelevant. So - I'll say this: I'm not a fan of NCSoft, but there are details about how things went down that we just don't know and won't ever know. We have the game we can play with an active community. Savor it, even the parts that drive you a bit nuts.

Or...if you have alts: In pursuit of those very rares to make t-4's, often I end up with achieving vet levels that continue to award emp merits. Once you get 30, you can convert to a very rare. However, often, a character may be used frequently once these t-4 goals are attained, and then you have surplus emp merits. Totally up to you, of course, but I like to send a transcendant merit to my next 50 - so that once they unlock lore and destiny, they can become +3 right away. I ignore judgement & interface. I only use shards for alpha because it just doesn't take that long to get 4 shards to slot t-1. The weekly will give the notice, and you can use threads to craft the t-2. (or break down emps if you are really desperate - not recommended) An MSR or three will go a long way to unlocking lore and destiny, and you'll often get the shards you need to make that alpha t-2. If not ,there's always the thread option. This way, you can be +3 by vet level 3. You won't have judgement or interface - but you've gotten along 50 levels without them. A little while longer to open the gate to the higher level incarnate trials is worth it to me. Not for everyone, but it's just a suggestion.

The only time this is true is when that team continues to play through that time span. Most of the time, they do not. Even in task forces, particularly on the lower levels, there are constant interruptions - training, spouse/family/pet aggro, bio, you name it. And I gotta say - it depends on what one is soloing with vs. the team composition, and of course - the foes being fought, and of course - the level of the solo player and the levels of the team of 8. Odds are, yes, the team will be better - but certainly not every team. It's going to vary.

What? No love for the hami raid? Go to your server's hami raid! 4 emp merits is pretty nice for a reward if you need emp merits. We run 3 on excelsior, and my tank will take those on one of the three runs, and when 50 are collected, I make a transcendant merit and email it to my next 50 for a boost in the goal for 50+3.

Yeah, I remember dinging 50 when ITF was the weekly. I had to wait a whole week to get my first notice of the well. Water under the bridge, but I was pretty irritated at the time. A weekly notice ...I got all my other stuff besides alpha to t-4 before that week was over. I'm glad there's an option to use threads in lieu of shards. I was able to get to t-2 on the alpha fairly soon with shards, and when I did get the first notice, I had enough shards to get to t-2 again, and could've had t-3 on the other side, if I'd had another notice. Really wish they'd stop putting a cap on rewards, but I guess I should be thrilled they have rewards in the first place.

While it's true that large teams get an xp bonus - what's not thought of is the incredible time sink most people suffer when forming that large team! Until/unless you've cultivated a list of active, competent global friends, you are without question better off soloing - from an xp over time or inf over time perspective. But - the more you solo, the less opportunity to cultivate that list of active, competent global friends. And, of course, a lot depends on your AT and your own creativity. It's clear to me that I have a much easier time soloing with my brute, scrapper, blaster and controller than I do with my tanks or defenders (because of low damage output). My Sentinels and Corruptors and Dominators are capable, but just not as fast. And Doms are always going to get the domination bar filled faster on a team. It just makes sense to team with a Dom. Others may have different experiences and abilities and find soloing to be very dull and completely defeating the purpose of the game. As for me, while one guy is taking 10 minutes to form his/her Penny Yin TF, in a solo effort, I'm halfway through the 2nd mission and will finish the tf completely in another 10-15 minutes.

You're kind to share. I feel badly that you've been missing out on this gem for at about a month. I've been using this to expedite task forces for folks on my teams that don't have an SG since a @srmalloy shared it with me on a Posi 1. I'm an SG of 1, so I have no cares about anyone using my base to craft or move about the City. My base, like my macro, isn't that special or shiny - but it functions. /macro TP enterbasefrompasscode "ROW2000k-233" for Excelsior /macro TP enterbasefrompasscode "ROW2000k-1019" for Torchbearer

I agree with Abraxus. Folks, tomorrow isn't promised to us. Not in real life, nor in this game. Anything could happen. Enjoy what you have now, and be cautiously optimistic. These are good first world problems to have.

You simply type /gignore <player name> When they are ignored, should they try to pm you, they'll get a message saying they were ignored. After a few days or weeks, you can see who you have ignored, and if you like, take them off the list. They won't know they've been taken off, unless they try to send you another message. Ignoring someone can be amusing. I was ignored once - no idea why - but when I got a tell asking for an invite to the radio mission team I was forming, the system told me I couldn't invite them because I was being ignored. This really made me laugh, especially since I had no idea why I was being ignored.

I'm a bit confused about how you auto-complete three of these 4 missions. I can only auto-complete 1 every 3 days..