srmalloy

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)

It's mildly amusing to see the 'fountain' of BP Lore pets appear over the league and then slide to the edges of the group when the Incan goes off after Con calls for Lore summons; I watched it happen again in today's Hami run in the Abyss.

Don't forget I have a Panda Fetish , and Want Everyone Else to Know About It Player ....

I can say with authority that it affects BP, Longbow, and Polar Lights Lore pets, as well as the indeterminate variety of Lore pets getting teleported back up to the monsters after clearing the buds (almost entirely BP and Longbow, so that may not be adding additional data).

It affects Lore pets, too; in the Hami raids that Confusion? runs on Excelsior in the afternoon, I've taken to waiting until after the Incan that comes right after Con calls for Lore summons to summon my Lore pets, just because I don't like them getting ported randomly across the league group.

Not just common (white) salvage, but yellow (uncommon) as well for some buffs. For example, the lowest-tier Grant Invisibility buff requires a Simple Chemical (white), an Ancient Artifact (white), and a Heavy Water (yellow). I keep a salvage rack stocked to craft that buff to speed up Mender Ramiel's arc — stealth to Trapdoor and defeat him, get the mission from Lady Grey, go back to Mender Ramiel and autocomplete, then stealth the final mission to the minotaur.

The problem that I have with Incandescence is that, because of a design flaw, its use is inherently griefing unless you are set to 'accept'. Why? It's simple — all your pets automatically accept the teleport, regardless of the character's setting. One Incandescence in the middle of combat, and your character is standing there facing opponents without their pets, at best with a confirmation prompt they may be able to click on fast enough not to die.

Doesn't stop customization; it just makes the default power appearance linked thematically.

Snarky badge text about Adamastor for getting defeat credit for him 100, 1000, and 10000 times.

As I read it, your intention is to take a game where, since launch, it has been possible to make a team out of whatever ATs show up and, aside from the artifically-cranked high-difficulty content, play through the content successfully, and rip that out to force the game into the same role-based team makeup that characterizes MMOs mindlessly aping WoW's fixation on the 'holy trinity'? If I'm reading this correctly, then I have to set a solid /jranger as my reaction; I have no interest in seeing CoH converted into an MMO where variations on "r u healzorz" are part of forming a team; there's already enough of that with the four-star Aeon SF's "essential: must have T4 Barrier" because people found 'this way works', and decided that it was the only way to do it, and don't seem interested in trying to find other ways.

It will never compare to the glory that was Power Thrust six-slotted for KB and augmented by Power Boost, back before ED when Power Boost still boosted KB... Going to AP and punting Hellions across the zone was endlessly entertaining.