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Blueside: I find myself missing (because of outlevelling) certain zones. The 'central' candidates are Skyway and Founders Falls. I will go out of my way to get the Store missions from both Brickstown and FF before I outlevel them. The next generation zones like the Hollows, Faultine, Striga, Croatia are all fun, but easy to miss. I will admit that I don't like the Talos Island map: I hate having to zoom in to see the center, and I hate when missions end up in the far flung corners. The only Hazard zone I avoid is Boomtown. The inherent mess of the zone just isn't for me. The only reason I go there willingly without a mission is by wandering either one of the Sewer Networks. I like Bloody Bay the most of the PVPzones. Each has a different flavor but that's the one I like best. Redside: I prefer the designs here, although I try to get out of Mercy ASAP. I seem to outlevel Nerva without trying. Gold-side: I love seeing stars at night! If not for Gold arcs I would never have visited the underground outside of instanced missions. The Wards are best experienced by doing all the arcs, but it isn't for every toon. The Shadow Shard is a place where I have played a bit...but it is dull.

Until a toon gets ToHit/ACC buffs, the Circle of Thorns are very frustrating. After that (and Knockdown) is overcome, they are mostly chumps... Except when hiding their 8 objectives. I don't mind the villains that phase/MoG/shield nearly as much as I do those that simply flee for the hills at Mach 6: Slag Golems, WarWolves, and CoT Spectres. With enough Perception you can at least track down the Spectres... But those others don't suffer speed suppression like PCs. The only villain group I actively avoid are Nemesis, because of the Snipers/Comets. For me it is the combination of spotting/sniping from across the map with the AoE damage. In concept I like the challenge (especially for squishies and MMs) but in practice it makes me run through missions faster than I like. I suppose we never got long range spotters that charge in for Melee because it would make farming too easy (a la old school DE swarms). I enjoy Carnie missions a lot. I like that their different classes have both different looks and different powersets.

I'm happy for those who find a use for the crafting discount coupons. I actually stoped using them because the most I could save (lvl 50 Purples) is only about 200k. This is a lot of Inf for a toon that is starting out, but it is negligible for anyone selling IOs on the market. I suppose I could consider that Inf to spend on Envenomed Daggers... My experience has been that the more I craft, the less I need the discount. These specific rewards are among the ones I thought would be the most valuable but in the Homecoming economy are among the least valuable.

I didn't think Scirocco was particularly easy, and I was surprised by the exterior parts of the ship mission. I didn't try to enter the ship until I had cleared the outdoors, and my first pass was scary (for a defense-oriented toon) as I was being attacked by all sorts of flying heroes as well as multiple gun turrets.

Amen. I had some rubber-banding in a mission where I could not get the hostage to go through the elevators (this was the 'rescue the Protector' hero mission). I felt like I needed the equivalent of a /stuck command for the NPC... as a Mastermind, I certainly would appreciate such a command for my pets! Even Gravity's Singularity finds a way to get stuck in the darndest places! I'd also appreciate if the hostages were slightly quicker. It doesn't matter if I have an IO for speed in the Fitness pool, or a global boost to movement rate from IO sets, the inability for civilians to keep up (or for the player to decrease speed, without resorting to Walk) is PAINFUL.

I want to see the story arc that reveals Stephanie Peebles has been handing out wedding rings to so many players because she is building an army of spouses to do her bidding...

I will echo the use of empowerment devices: I will regularly use them to consume salvage that would otherwise be wasted. Aside from P2W and Ouroboros, the Brickstown ZigBreak also grants Temp Ranged attacks good for 18 hours as a reward. The two Temp powers I rely on are the Envenomed Dagger and the Shivan. Both help with AV/EB HP stacks and having a bulky pet at low/mid levels helps with soloing things like TFs.

You get the contact after training to level 35, and you earn a respec along with the badge (at least the first Patron). I tried Sirocco's arc solo, that felt harder than GW and BS.

It isn't as if there are that many Hybrid choices *anyway*. My MM just go with Core Embodiment Support and wade into the mobs!

/agree The lonely non-farmer playing as "team=1" may not be seeing many purple drops, but I don't think the Purple/PvP drop rate is extra-ordinary. I have a couple of non-farmer (Tank, MM) lvl 50s who will revisit the first Dark Astoria arc at 0x8 (which I suppose is a sort of farming) and will get a Purple/PvP drop approximately every other run. I can take these same toons into a comic-con farm and average 1 Purple/PvP per run. RNGesus has blessed one run with 3, but I've also had runs with 0. This doesn't seem to high OR too low to me. I default to 'neutral greedy' about my Purple/PvP drops, but many of them are not ones that I'd normally seek out so they find their way to the market to help out other players who want to kit them. ...And as a player that will occasionally seek out Purple/PvPs, I appreciate that others are doing the same.

What is the point of storing recipes if you don't like crafting? This would be some Horder mentality that is not worth encouraging. Every player can store recipes in the auction house or email. Every player can access email anywhere in the game.

Dyslexia is a Creole mister.

I haven taken Unstoppable, but only as an IO Resist Damage mule. The power never stays in the tray.

Get this man another Tier, because it appears that he may have neglected to fully kit out his alternate build slots! I'm a slow leveler who is lazy about looking at IO set bonuses. It's sometime after lvl 20 that I start thinking about things other than KB protection, +End, travel Stealth. By the mid 30s I will have several sets. By the time I get a character to 50 it's a toss-up how deep I go into the build, but I love having the option.

I used to worry about the storage of recipes (I used the auction house, and email) but after six months of Homecoming play I find I don't really need it. The market place basically takes care of everything you need, and converters allow players to (eventually) get to any pieces that are not on the market. Initially, I thought I'd want certain IO sets for certain builds. However, it turns out that buying (attuned) is much better for almost every build, excepting the lvl 50 pieces that you want to boost. Initially, I also considered 'donating' certain recipes to alts to be able to make items to sell on the market. However, sending INF between toons is trivial. Initially, I considered transferring 'standard' IO recipes to make it cheaper to get crafting badges. INF is so easy to make that it is more trouble than it is worth to avoid just buying the IO recipes at the workbench. Initially, I thought 'hording' low level recipes was going to save crafting INF (compared to lvl 50 recipes, where the crafting prices take a jump) but practically at level 50 I find I get enough INF from just selling standard IO recipes that it doesn't matter. I'm sympathetic to the original request, but I have found that lack of recipe storage (other than the Auction House or email) is only an issue if a player has a small number of toons and completely lacks the INF to leverage the market.

I was hoping the formal request was going to be for more descriptive thread titles.

Did the non-tipped character start a career as gold-side? I recall that there are a limited number of things gold characters cannot do.

My lvl 50s have only gotten tips in Peregrine Island and the RWZ. Is it possible you have been ToTing in PVP zone where you cannot be in costume? I've done some ToT in Siren's Call, but I didn't find a working door in Bloody Bay. edit: Have you ever done a tip mission? Are you pure villain/hero?

Lady Grey taught me everything I ever needed to know about starting from the end of a mission and working backwards.

I was under the impression that the market fills bids by matching the highest bid against the lowest price that is below the highest bid. If so, it is possible that you placed your sell price higher than other players. If multiple players have placed the same sell price I don't know if the bids are matched by FIFO, LIFO, or WTFO.

Here is a conflicting anecdote: last night I logged in to a lvl 50 and immediately ran a new instance of an Ouro mission (Heather Townsend, DA1) to get a couple of incarnate components. It was somewhat early in the arc that a catalyst dropped. However, after the flashback, I then went to another mission I had previously queued (in Cimerora) and got an early Catalyst drop in that mission as well. I didn't have much more time to play, so that is the extent of this anecdote.

Are there still changes planned to encourage Tanks to run with Leadership Pool toggles? If so, that may be a consideration before removing the +End boost completely.

Sigh, thanks.

I'm pretty sure this is still in the mix: Tanks are supposed to get an 'inflated' amount of Endurance as well. This (along with higher damage) ought to make soloing at lower levels a lot more tolerable. I subscribe to the classic 3-slot Stamina (Perf Shift proc+End, IO End) on my characters so I'm somewhat curious if any players have experimented with cutting down to just 2 slots in Stamina.

Here are the things that I think are keeping inflation down: Market seeding (not just salvage, but also Super/Winter packs) Current conversion rules Merit Vending (converters, catalysts, unslotters, recipes) Farming (AE, as well as Aspect/Ouro farming) Nothing 'new' to spend INF/Merits on I can't imagine that the Homecoming Devs making radical changes to any of the above. If there is anything that might threaten trying to store more than 2 billion Inf, it may be placing bids on 'impossible' IOs...just in case the Devs suddenly make them possible, a player may find some crazy bids suddenly filled! If anyone is really worried about not being able to buy future stuff with stored inf, follow the earlier advice in this thread and buy the items you are nearly sure a future alt will want.