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2 minutes ago, tidge said:
A note of caution, regarding 'unslotting' at low levels (below 20). The non-set (i.e. inherent) bonuses from enhancements at low levels are not particularly strong, and can be somewhat obscured by Beginner's Luck and/or any bonuses from early mission arcs like Death from Below. I usually only use unslotters on characters below level 25 when:
- The Enhancement is 'valuable' (a very subjective adjective) and I want to keep it (that is, not clobber it with a new slotting choice)
- It is a piece that provides some sort of global (e.g. Kismet +ToHit) that is simply in a 'wrong power' (e.g. moving it from a Click/Toggle to an Auto power)
- It is some sort of %proc that isn't 'paying off' in the power (many %proc don't offer as much 'bang-for-the-slot' at lower levels, many powers are simply bad choices for %procs)
Often I'll find it is useful to do a respec in the mid-20s, just to move slots around in powers. All the enhancements become unslotted during the respec.
Thanks Tidge! That was pretty much my recollection of Respecing. I got the "wrong" P2W Enhancement "stuck" in a power. Srmalloy just posted how I can drag the ENH to the garbage (I couldn't seem to drag it back to the "tray") Since it is a FREE P2W I will just destroy it, then get another and put that one into the power I want it in.
Cheers!
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On 4/17/2023 at 9:06 AM, nihilii said:
I started a new character last week. I decided to start with 0 inf and no help whatsoever, as I do every once in a while. Although I should know a lot about the market, I'm not as skilled as many nor do I have the patience to do things right or even remember how things work. So I figure it out as I go, and it always seems to work out.
Which is to say anyone should be able to replicate my results easily, by following the same patterns. Here's what I did last week:1) get the 3 inspirations P2W power.
This will be your seed money, medium insps always sell for a little bit on the auction house. You defeat a couple lvl 1 mobs to have more than 0 inf, so you can put the insps for sale.
2) select recipes, filter by "rare" and lvl "50-50" (min and max, just lvl 50 recipes)Look for recipes where there's many for sale and hardly any bidder. Last sale price must be under 10k, ideally around 5k. Put bids on these.
When the bids fill, you turn around and sell these to NPC vendors. Doubling your money.
3) once you have at least 50k, change your filters to: "uncommon" and lvl "10-20"
Hunt for typically undesirable recipes. Confuse, sleep, and so on. Once again, your ideal scenario is many for sale and few buyers. An OK buy price is about 10k inf.
Make sure the crafting ingredients do NOT require Rare salvage. Some yellow recipes lie to you that way.
Get the recipes. Craft them.
Your total cost should be about 50k per recipe.
List them back for 101k (= worst case scenario, you double your money). They will typically sell instantly for 350k. I assume professional converters buy them at that price.
4) once you have 5M to 10M, get pvp recipes
Again, lower level is good because it costs less to craft.
A good buy price is 2M6 or so. Throw in the cost of salvage (mainly the Rare piece at 450k-500k) and the listing price, you should plan to spend about 3M5 per IO.
List them back for 4M1. They will typically sell within a day, for 5M to 7M.
This method got me to 0 to 100M in 4-5 play sessions this week, for about 2h of total market work, and no brainpower required.There are better paths as others suggested. It would make sense to go the merit exploration route rather than bother with 1) and 2). Seems much more efficient!
So, do whatever you want. As long as you sell things for a higher price than you get them. There's limitless ways to make inf in this game.
I just (Re)Started CoX, Homecoming, Easter Weekend. I am a Proud Alt-a-Holic, and so I started 13 Toons on my first day (back). Before creating my Toons, I read a bit in the Forums, Wiki, etc. I stumbled upon a similar solution. I went to the P2W Vendor, equipped each Toon with various ENH, "Prestige" Powers for more attacks, faster travel, and the Inspiration Chest (3 every 30 minutes). I have a lot of $hit going on in the real world; still I try to log on several toons a day; most parked at WW to be able to sell Inspirations.
I log in each of my Toons, receive the Gift of 3 INSP, put most of them on the market at WW's, and then run one of my Toons for a bit to do missions, and (Re)Learn the game. In a week several of my Toons have earned over a Million Influence; most of the rest have earned at least Half a Million. I have bought some SO's and traded amongst my Toons various DO or Common Enhancement drops, using a SG Base.
I am taking it slow, as I really enjoy the game, and the environment. I also have a LOT to (re)Learn before I join a TF or even a PUG, without causing too much of a mess. I am having Fun, Learning, and earning adequate Influence to prepare my Toons for adventuring from Levels 11-20.
I will consider what you are doing, and perhaps imitate your scheme to earn Influence, if I need to. Still, you validate what I have learned from experience 2004-2012, and from browsing the Forums. Fun can be had in many ways in this Game. I hope everyone finds some ideas on how they can get sufficient Influence to improve their Toons, without anything becomeing a grind.
Cheers!
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On 4/18/2023 at 8:14 AM, srmalloy said:
I've accumulated a random mix from unslotting commons when I replace them with sets; normally, the only commons I buy any more are for the corner cases — slow, confuse, to-hit debuff — the power aspects I don't have enough characters using to have built up a reserve.
I have searched the Forums for "Unslotting/Unslot" and although I have found several threads discuss Why to Unslot. I haven't found HOW to Unslot.
I don't want to Respec my Toon (only level 11. However, I put one of the P2P Enhancements into the wrong Power. I messed around trying to figure out how to remove or move the Enhancement. Nor could I delete it while it is slotted. If I could delete it, I can just get another from the P2P Vendor in AP.
I have only been on Homecoming for about a week (although I played CoH/CoX from 2004 to 2012). I have a LOT of things to Learn/(Re)Learn. I am fiddling around at lower levels (below 20) to get a feel of the game (again) and the changes. So, I would prefer to figure out how to Unslot, if that is possible without wasting a Respec.
Any advice would be appreciated!
BTW: I have spent nearly as much time in the Forums (and a bit on the Wiki) to refresh my memories, and to (Re)Learn as much as possible. However, I also Need to Play the game to get (back) in the Swing of Things. I have been looking over suggested builds, and tinkering with my own. I am an Alt-a-Holic, and made 13 Toons on my first day back. SO, if I can Unslot, it will help me experiment with a variety of Toons, and share various DO/SO, and eventually IOs between them. (I know the P2P Enhancements cannot be shared; I just want to change what Power currently has a P2P ENH.) Thanks!
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3 hours ago, Hyperstrike said:
Yeah. The military is notoriously...LAX about sourcing their water.
Not a ding on you.
But you'd think that if the brass was going to pay $400 for a hammer, they could afford to spend a little bit more on sourcing safer water.
Hell, look at the Camp Lejeune debacle.Amen! Brother.
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3 hours ago, Hyperstrike said:
There's actually a qualitative and quantitative difference between "Drunk" and "Alcohol Poisoned".Or, as we Infantry NCOs used to say, "There is a Fine Line between Hard and Stupid... And You (or That) is Far Across It!"
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9 hours ago, SeraphimKensai said:
Sorry for the Necro, but I can concur. Over in Iraq, the water contractor gave us pallets of old expired water that caused the water to taste awful (likely floating microscopic pieces of sunbaked plastic in the water), so grabbing an IV of Saline was the creme de la creme, or god forbid we got a care package of Gatorade.
We had one guy get a couple of cases of Gatorade shipped in that was mixed with vodka. They bust him back to E1 and put him on shit burning detail for the length of his Article 15. Man that just had me thinking of 2-3 month old care packages of homemade cookies that were all congealed and melted today and moldy.
During my first deployment to the "Sandbox/Litterbox" (Dec 2004 - March 2006) we lived on an Austere base: FOB Chosin (5 days on FOB, then 5 on a FIRM Base "Platoon" 60 Men; USMC but we were part of a composite US Army Brigade attached to the Marines); food was prepared on an MKT (Mobile Kitchen Trailer, canvas sides, AC units banded to the framework to make it barely survivable for the 7 cooks for 1,000+ Men {No women}). We would Volunteer for Mail Runs to FOB Kalsu just to grab a meal in a KBR DFAC!
At least we had decent bottled water from Kuwait, lots of mineral content, had to drink a bottle of cranberry juice at least a couple of times a week (mixing it with water); but ever Infantry or Cavalry Platoon got a HEMET 10 Ton Truck full of Gatorade EVERY WEEK! Plenty of powdered Gatorade too! We usually drank 2 or 3 bottles of water per Gatorade (premixed) or added powder equal to 1/3rd strength both for taste, and for the electrolytes, etc. We joked that we Should have bought Stock in Coca-Cola Bottling Corp.! (owners of Gatorade tm) Marines may be "Hard As Woodpecker Lips" but at least they Take Care of their personnel; well at least better than the US Army (or most other armies) do!
I was a Beta Tester, and then played CoH on Live before deploying. I was wounded, and required extensive physical therapy after my return to The World. The Bachelor NCO Quarters, and much else of Fort Campbell was under reconstruction, so the "Warrior Transition Unit" was quartered in a Motel miles from the Main Gate, on Stateline Road, (As I recall). I PLAYED A LOT of CITY OF HEROES with my foot/leg in a cast. I had an hour or two of PT (Physical Therapy) 5 days a week, and minimal collateral duties; so a LOT of time with nothing to do. (I was the Only soldier from my Brigade at Fort Campbell; once a week I reported to my First Sergeant or Sergeant Major, by phone or email.) I met several of my fellow WIA in COH, we would hobble across the street to Hooters. I am still friends with some of those guys. We recruited others to play CoH (no CoV etc. back then).
Good Times!
Some years later I developed kidney issues from that water...
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On 3/25/2023 at 11:34 AM, Snarky said:
Love it. But no airport. Who in their right mind will fly in and out of the madhouse of Paragon? We teleport into the air and shoot at each other and blow sky vehicles out of the air for badges. Great thought….but what airline? Even Allegiant and Spirit would avoid the place…probably
Aeroflot, that Indonesian Airline, and several airlines that fly into, and out of many African nations/warzones come to mind.
In most of North America, Western Europe, and parts of Asia, airlines tend to be risk adverse. Other parts of our Earth they have airlines that people bring goats into the passenger compartment, and incoming fire from small arms, or PANPADS/SAMs is probable (though likely poorly aimed).
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On 7/28/2022 at 6:28 PM, Bill Z Bubba said:
Confirmed. I was called a dumb-ass both times I got a bag of saline force fed into me before PT.
Only Twice?
I served for 28 Years. Deserts, Jungles, and Sh!tholes like Fort Bragg, Fort Benning, Hunter Army Airfield, MacDill AFB, the JRTC, NTC, and "Jurassic Park" among many others...
Sometimes I got 2 IV's in less than 24 Hours! Of course when it is 125F+ and we had to keep on keeping on...
As much as possible we (NCOs) tried to reason with the chain of command that similar to Machines, HUMAN BEINGS just won't function unless treated properly. Unfortunately, that too often meant we had to suffer heat casualties (or other casualties) until they realized that Facts Are Stubborn Things!
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1 minute ago, Scarlet Shocker said:
Yep, almost certainly a typo. Thus my comment(s) about being "Snarky too/Two"
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2 hours ago, Snarky said:
Damned, any Garlic or Cherokee would be insanely hard. Good luck with that
Funny enough in watching a LOT of German YouTube I learned the “Ich bin ein Berliner.” Is an acceptable and understandable way of saying you are from Berlin. Yes, it is a donut. Also a city.
The accent is tough. About half of it (including the throat Rrrrrrr!) is pretty easy for me. The other half is all tongue twisting madness. I will keep at it. Concentrating on umlaut right now. I can say them, in an exaggerated fashion. But hearing them, especially when they are short (which is a common natural thing) or the speaker is just going fast as a new york minute is a true bitch. Well, it would not be a brain exercise if it were easy
Speaking "Garlic?" is that a slight against Italians? (I can be "snarky" too! Or, should that be "Snarky Two"?
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On 4/9/2020 at 1:27 AM, Peacemoon said:
I think I’ve seen some contaminated spawn in Atlas Park near the southern wall by Back Alley Brawler, but now I can’t be too sure they weren’t infected now that you mention it?
As I recall, there used to be an occasional single Contaminated that spawned in the vicinity of the Kings Row tram station.
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Thanks for your sharing. I am building a Brute Psionic/Willpower, and I found this guide to be very useful.
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Thanks for a Guide extolling all the Wonderful CONTENT too many miss in their rush to Level.
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Invulnerability for Brutes vs Tanker
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Dang!
I know what you mean about what Captain America would call "Language."
I had some similar experiences during my military career from 1983-2000, then 2002-2014. In one of my units we had a Specialist (aka SP4; Pay Grade E4) (age 19 or 20) powerfully built, real nice guy, and the son of a LTC in Special Forces, I mention that because the "Kid" had a "Certain Sub-Set of Skills" before he ever joined the Army. He was at an on post Oktoberfest when some runt in USMC PT uniform was making a drunken @ss of himself, long story short, our young SP4 was asked by an MP (Military Policeman) to assist him in detaining the @sshat. Things went "Pear Shaped" (as they do)...
The Marine laid out the MP, and our young hero got the Marine by his hair, trying to detain him with the minimum use of force... Scuffle ensued, and they both fell to the ground, during which the punk tried some "ninjitsu" maneuver, resulting in his face sliding down a chain-link fence, our SP4 was trying to prevent that and the knuckles of one hand got badly scraped trying to pull his face back.
Another NCO and I got called into the Provost Marshal's Office (military equivalent to a police station) to retrieve our soldier. He had a hangdog look; the Marine had received first aid from the MPs, but had refused to be taken to Womac Army Medical Center. The MPs were explaining what happened, and that our soldier was not in trouble, but he had to make a Sworn Statement (written). We had been called in to take him back to our barracks, and to let our chain of command know our soldier had been assisting an MP when the incident occurred.
About this time a fierce USMC Major stormed in the Provost Marshal's Office, though standing less than 5'6" he looked like no one to mess with. His companion is Proof of the "Missing Link" standing at least 6'4" I think his knuckles were dragging on the floor, Arms larger than my Thighs! Broad Chest, think the Biggest possible in the CoX creator. No neck, his massive head seemed embedded upon his massive shoulders and barrel-chest. Glacis forehead that would deflect a 120mm APDSFSDU projectile, such as could kill an M1A2(HA) Abrams Tank!
As the Major took charge, the Missing Link glared at everyone. That Marine Major was spitting out words like a machinegun laying down a FPF (Final Protective Fire); then he suddenly stopped, and stated, "Did THAT Occur during the Incident!?!"
He was swiveling his head between the damaged face of his Marine, and the skinned knuckles of our SP4.
Our hero tried to conceal his injured hand behind his back as he stammered out, "Uh... Y-yes, um, Yes Sir."
The Marine Major pivoted towards the US Army MP Desk Sergeant, and then the Major said, "Right. It Will Be a Courts Martial, then!"
The MP Desk Sergeant, myself, and the SSG (Staff Sergeant) with me, all started trying to explain that the SP4 was just performing his duty, under the orders of an MP (a PFC if I recall correctly).
The face of the enraged Marine Major suddenly changed. Smiling (simultaneously cheerful and intimidating), the Marine Major sated, "I only require a sworn statement from your soldier, and the military police. I meant this Disgrace to My BELOVED CORPS has squandered hi Last Chance! He will be Courts Martialed! GUNNY take the Prisoner to the vehicle. If he causes any inconvenience, or opens his mouth, ERRADICATE him!"
The perma-scowl on the visage of the US Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant (aka The Missing Link) was enlivened with a difficult to describe look of Satisfaction/Anticipation...
The Gunnery Sergeant led away the Condemned.
The Major was careful to not use "undue command influence" (at least not any more than he already had, his spine-tingling presence not withstanding) but he "suggested" that our SP4 "needn't write a book" just the unvarnished facts. Date, time, location, name(s), and the bare circumstances, in particular that our soldier's hand had been injured while apprehending the (soon to be Former) Marine; under orders from a US Army MP. He also got the MP Report Number; I don't think the Major was yet aware that an MP had been assaulted too.
I have witnessed Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines that were more spectacularly drunk. More egregious acts, and situations that came to the attention of more senior officers, including Generals and/or Admirals. I have never witnessed an Indvidual who was more DOOMED!