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And you can argue that ATOs and WOs are like-but-distinct to purple sets, because you can get purple IOs as ordinary crafted IOs and then boost them, while applying a catalyst to an ATO or WO gives it a purple border, but they cannot be boosted. They share some characteristics but not all.

If you're not already doing this, when you join a Hami raid, keep your auction window open during the monster mash. As you get large inspirations, drag them into the AH window to stick them in storage, and Immediately pop the small and medium ones to maintain space for more drops. When you're done with the raid, strip the AH of the inspirations you stuck there, take them back to your base, and dump them in storage for your other characters before you restock your inspiration tray.

Damn... Now I need to add another digit to my counter for the number of separate times someone has asked for MM pet customization to be added to the game.

The Halloween event drops time-limited costumes; these are full-model replacement, like Granite for a Stone Tanker, or the Hellion/Girlfriend from Hell appearance you get doing Matthew Habashy's mission into the Hellion safehouse. The Prismatic costumes are likewise full-model replacements except that they're not time-limited, and there are quite a few that you can't get from the Halloween drops as temp powers. When you activate a Prismatic costume, you get the whole outfit; there's no way to get, say, just the clothing.

And make sure you have a current copy of your 27B/6 in case something goes wrong.

They did, yes. Homecoming made a change so that combining SOs increased their level, so merging two level 30 SOs got you a level 31 SO, not a level 30+ SO. As I understand it, that made it possible to implement the 'upgrade' function on the slotting screen.

The problem I have noticed seems to be tied to the pets being significantly slower than the character. As long as you move slowly enough that your pet stays in relatively close proximity to you, it follows you quite readily. However — and I have not done the experimentation to determine where the limit is — beyond a certain distance, the pathing for 'follow' degenerates into a straight line from the pet to you, resulting in the pet hanging up on obstacles and being unable to pass through doors and portals. One amusing example is to go to FBZ and summon a Singularity at the portal back to Portal Corp in PI, then quickly fly to the portal from the base to the rest of the zone and go through it, then jump off the rock and fall until you're ported back to the base. If you go over to the portal you just went through, you'll find your Singularity bumping against the portal unable to go through, and unable to recognize that you've come back, and should be following you. If you resummon your Singularity, go back to the portal, wait for it to catch up, and then go through the portal, it follows you through the portal without issue.

What makes the keyboard input capture so annoying is that what you type goes into the bid textbox without the textbox being visible, so that you have no visual feedback about the capture; all you see is that your keystrokes don't seem to do anything.

When you have the Auction House window open and drag an inspiration into the auction house, the AH window captures your keyboard input until you click outside the AH window. I noticed this happening during a Hami raid, where I was dragging the large inspirations that dropped into the AH to save for later, and then discovering that the various keyboard commands for the tray powers didn't work until I clicked outside of the auction house window. Recently, I discovered where the captures keystrokes were going -- after having keystrokes 'intercepted', when selecting a stored item in the auction house, the 'missing' keystrokes appear in the bid/minimum textfield of an item, disappearing if you close and reopen the AH window. I happened to have not closed the window before going to list extra EoEs for sale, and saw "2341136213" in the bid textfield for the inspiration, having appeared there even though I didn't have a stored item selected to enter a minimum for. I don't think that this form of 'stealth' bid entry is an intended or desired behavior, although I'm not sure how the problem would be corrected.

And sometimes you have to tweak the stock powers to make them work the way you believe they should. For me, that's all of the Radiation powersets, whose default color is fixed around the misperception that radiation glows green, when in fact that was the color of the phosphor used in radium-illuminated displays. All of my characters with Rad powers have them recolored as close to the #22BDFF color of Čerenkov radiation as possible. Sometimes, though, it's just affectation; many of my characters with Fire powers have them colored bluish-white to imply that the fire is incredibly hot, based on black-body thermal emission colors -- it doesn't change the power, or even how it works for the character concept; it's just a conceit that the character's firing hotter blasts than one shooting red/orange fire.

Pollice verso for everyone!

Except that you a) have to get people to use it, and b) stop people from going back to LFG, General, Help, and whatever when people don't use it. I remember back on Live when the Paragon Studios staff tried to crack down on AE farming; one of their tactics was to put filters in chat to squelch messages with banned words, resulting in a cascade of euphemisms for AE farms that changed as the devs identified them and added them to the bans -- for example, the "meow missions". Attempts to force behavior on the player base have not ended well in the past.

Particularly after pouring in the carboy of Lysol®...

You have to look at the cost tradeoff. Many of the more desirable recipes/enhancements have a cost of 100 merits. 100 merits buying 300 convertors and put on the AH should get you 18 to 20 million inf if you're willing to be patient. So if the enhancement is selling for less than that, using the merits for convertors and buying it off the AH is more cost effective. And remember to include the crafting cost for recipes -- most VR recipes require two or three rare components, so that can add another million or million and a half to the cost, plus the ~600k crafting cost. If there aren't any of the specific IO you need in a set, look at the incremental cost of buying another IO in the set and converting it to get the one you want. In most cases, using merits directly won't be your most efficient route, although it is much faster.

Here you go.

If someone wants to keep an auction slot occupied with an outrageously-priced item in the hope that someone sporting the sort of scorch marks on their tights caused only by the spontaneous combustion of huge wads of inf, that's no skin off my nose, and if someone has such a 'gotta have it now' attitude that they're willing to pay it, that's their choice. Putting in a reasonably-priced bid and being willing to wait a few days is more beneficial. As I see it, the only problem that really needs to be fixed with the AH is killing the bug that keeps mixing up bid history, so what you see for an item's history may not be for that item.

Most of the non-weapon powersets can be recolored and roleplayed as a different type of attack -- I have a Dark/Plant Blaster, Toksichniy Podlesok (Токсичный Подлесок, 'Txic Undergrowth') where I took the Dark attacks and colored them a shadowed green to represent various biological toxins, with the Dark debuff being the lingering effects of the toxins. A little imagination can take you a long way, particularly with all the customization options the game gives you. And sometimes it's possible to do it with weapon sets, too; I have a Kat/Rad Brute, Hoshasen-Ken (放射線 剣, 'Radiation Blade') where I gave the character the Fire and Ice Sword colored to match the Čerenkov radiation color of her armor powers, handwaving it as a manifestation of her radiation-based abilities.

Большое спасибо. I will examine it carefully when I get home and can load it into Mids. I've got a few characters that proved intractable to End management until they got Cardiac, and I'm still working on breaking the habit of keeping two columns of blues in their inspiration trays against having to go full-out attack and burning End too fast.

It was a special case for the character; I hadn't played her for a while, and I wanted to finish off a bar of experience before I put her back down. Also, the time it takes to finish off a tentacle helped me with internalizing a change to the rotation I'd been using to put Divine Avalanche solidly in the cycle, where I'd been badly underutilizing it previously because of its low damage; I was able to see the change in incoming damage when I inserted it on recharge as often as possible.

Would you be willing to post a build link, that we may gaze upon its magnificence?

Don't worry; they'll be shipped off to the punitentiary soon enough...

I was just following the team leader (Hōshasen-ken, Kat/Rad Brute). Still, the payoff for Lusca is already fewmets compared to the other GMs -- you're essentially defeating nine GMs for one 6-point merit reward -- so getting an extra 48k XP for the last two tentacles helps. I do have to admit that it was hilarious to watch half the team dash off after the 'food truck', though...

In Matthew Habashy's "Look for evidence about the Hellions' next move" mission, where you infiltrate a Hellion safehouse, there is a known issue where a female character with a tail retains the tail when assuming the Girlfriend from Hell model. I have found that the model replacement also does not handle collars properly: The model replacement correctly removes the character's cape, but fails to remove the collar, as well.

Other than the fact that, if you see a single Outcast attempting a purse snatching, with no fellow Outcasts close by, it's always a boss?

You can start Montague's arc at 10, I believe, and without XP boosters and running straight through the arc, you can finish it before hitting 15, long before you get any of the missions that lead through the Rikti having the virus and wanting to spread it around, and before you can get the RWZ mission to rescue B'nadek (which gets you a talk with Dark Watcher)