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If you're not zone locked, there's always Striga Isle ...

Love that, thank you. I think that putting time into the character is key here.

Ah OK, thank you. I was confused by the OP - seemed to be talking about reducing drops and increasing costs as two separate issues. If they are one and the same, then absolutely not. Decreasing drops would simply further concentrate wealth to the "haves", the farmers, the efficiency experts. Part of what I really enjoy about the current economy is that every player has a good chance to get a really valuable drop once in a while. As a more casual hero, those occasional big ticket drops help keep me interested in participating. Dampen my economic leverage and my interest in building sets will decline proportionally.

I'm confused. How would costs be increased? Everything I buy, I buy from the market with prices set by player vendors. Increase the listing fee?

It literally will take a single bind, typed once, to fix this problem for your character forever. Just type this in your chat bar: /bind w +forward$$petcom_all aggressive and press Enter. You're done.

I mean, kind of who cares if you can just make your character again with everything you could ever want, probably in less time than it would take you to get to level 20 on live ...

I don't think the "reasonable baseline" is anyone with over a dozen 50s (and regularly (and joylessly) churning out more), a player who's sunk so many hours that the entire game is a blur to them now, something they are so sick to death of as is that they need to throw out systems that aren't broken for the sake of wringing out a tiny drop of sensation from an ocean of flavorless grey mush. Demolishing a major - and fun! - progress system in the game because some people have reached the end of it - taking it away entirely from everyone else who likes it fine - is not the move here. Not speaking to anyone in particular, but it's not cool to wreck any part of COH for everyone just because you're bored with the game as a whole.

My move is to look for bridges/overpasses in Kings Row. There are several that the Lost like to hang out under. Also, on the subject of zone hunts, I honestly feel like a lot of spawns have been moved around since the retail days. There are plenty of contacts who say stuff like "the B-Furies hang around in North Park, go hunt them there", and then you go to North Park and there are absolutely no B-Furies within a mile, ever. I spent literal hours* last year combing the neighborhoods I was told to check, with a success rate lower than I would have got from sheer random chance. Not sure if spawns were redistributed at some point back in the day, or the Homecoming reformat messed things up somehow, but if your contacts tell you where to look within a zone for your targets, you should completely ignore what they say. *Not like all at once 🙂

Probably they're simply mistaken in thinking they're set to Passive. Pets now default to Defensive instead of the Aggressive the OP is used to.

Oh good! I assumed that wouldn't work for both effects so I didn't even try it. Thanks so much 🙂

I would venture that new players who don't want to learn pesky economic systems don't have to and have never had to. All you have to do is not turn up your difficulty to continue enjoying the game for a long time without ever touching the AH. These new players who supposedly don't want to learn don't want to stay with the game anyway - they want to hit 50 ASAP, 'win' the game and move on. Kids these days! Slashing away optional systems that many players already enjoy is no way to build a community.

It's no secret. This was changed recently as part of the Issue 28, Page 2 update. Search for the string "trollers in" to jump to the relevant patch note. So now Controller pets behave just like Mastermind pets, defaulting to Defensive/Follow instead of the usual Aggressive behavior we've been used to for so long. (They were never 'Passive'.)

Hi, the multiple group idea for BB is cool, but I'm lazy. I just want to tap the power and have both effects center on my target. Sadly I fear there isn't a single keybind or macro that will do both at once. Am I wrong? How would you do it?

I like /bind w +forward$$petcom_all aggressive Don't even need to worry about the thing changing attitude between zones which seems to happen sometimes. Any time you move, your pet becomes aggressive again 🙂

Don't be scared off by all this trillionaire talk. Since you already know about attuned enhancements, you already know everything you need to about the economy. If you want to go deeper, read guides, work 40 hours a week flipping converters, and try to get the biggest bank account of all time, go for it ... but there are players out there who still play simply for fun and do just fine - *gasp* even at level 50.