Coyotedancer

*bites Troo* *because that's just what nerfed coyotes DO*

Real cannoli... GOOD cannoli... are excellent things. Both crispy and creamy, and sweet but not *too* sweet, they're absolutely delicious. But, as Grouchybeast said, not all so-called "cannoli" are equal, and the things that tend to show up pre-packaged at the grocer's aren't the good kind. They're usually made with a waxy, greasy filling that tastes nothing like the filling of a proper cannoli, and often the shell is both bland and not as crispy as it ought to be. They may look like proper cannoli, but eating one of those is a disappointment.

DarkityDarkDarks are all about the debuffing, even when they're being blasty. They don't HAVE to use their heal when none of the goons can hit anybody....

Unless you get lucky with recipe drops and choose to sell them, you're not going to get 50m in half an hour with one farmer and one lowbie, even if the farmer is built for clearing speed. AE's been nerfed too much for that at this point. As an example... Harry, my speed-farmer, can clear the big cave map in about 45 minutes if I'm being casual about it. (I'm using that one as an average, because it tends to be the half-way point between the fast-but-less-INF asteroid farms and something like Cult's takes-forever-but-nets-a-lot Freak World map) If I dual-box with two level 50 characters... Harry and one of my magi, for instance... and I vendor all enhancement drops and all the common recipes, and I toss all of the non-purple and non-PvP recipes to the auction house, I tend to average about 52-55m between the pair, depending on what the recipes sell for. Running with a lowbie as a tag-along, even without an XP booster, is going to take a sizable bite out of that since they'll earn a lot less raw INF. If they *are* running an XP booster... Which they have to be to get into the 30s on one run through that cave (There really isn't any such thing as "50 in an hour", all hyperbole aside. XP rates in AE were halved early on. It takes several runs through the cave to hit 50 on a lowbie these days-) ... the INF total will be even less. Of course, the totals DO go up if you get amazing drops (multiple purples, say-) and choose to sell them, but that's relying purely on luck and honestly? You're as likely NOT to get anything super-valuable from a farm run as you are to get something super shiny. The RNG can be fickle.

Those aren't really cannoli. Those are some terrible, terrible atrocity PRETENDING to be cannoli, but in truth made only of sorrow and sadness.

@Diantane, I bounce between Everlasting and Excelsior... Pop me a /tell some time and I'll grab one of my 50s, a few crazy friends and host a Peregrine smash-fest for your favorite character. If you're running without XP boosts, that should not only get your character a few levels closer to 50, it'll generate a nice little nest egg of INF and saleable drops to get them closer to their enhancement goals. Plus it's good fun. Most of the nutballs I run with could solo those missions on their own at x8, so it's no drag having lower level characters along for the ride. Just dive right in there and do your best and you'll be fine. If you can handle the bad puns and tentacle jokes that pass for team chat. XD

I'm no good at putting together power sets myself.... But SOMEBODY seriously needs to make an Earth epic for Sentinels. It completely irked me that my Water/Fire Elementalist had to take Ice and color it green to fake crystal since there was no proper Earth pool for the AT. <_<

Some people love the Fighting pool, and as Bill mentioned it definitely has its uses... But I typically *don't* use it with my support types. I just don't find it necessary and there are typically other power picks I'd rather have.

When I built the first version of Shonokin, I ended up doing a fair bit of world-building for the area he's from... the Appalachian mountains of Eastern Tennessee. I'll have to see if I can find the writing I did for that. In essence, the area is a fair bit wilder and somewhat less developed in the City world than it is in ours... It's more like the region was before the TVA, and before a lot of the efforts that were put into infrastructure development and modernization around the middle of the last century. Like Croatoa, the lines between the physical world and the spirit world are very, very thin in places and all of that old mountain folklore about monsters, and witches and weird beasts is real. Shonokin himself being an excellent example of that. (His species are a human-like but inhuman group created in the 1940's by pulp fantasy writer Manly Wade Wellman, who's best known for writing about a wandering Appalachian singer and storyteller named John. XD)

There's no sin in eating cannoli.

Oh, at least that many... I doubt both of you working in concert could raise the prices for very long, practically speaking. Common salvage is just too... well... COMMON for that. XD Honestly, it's mostly just that I find attempts at price manipulation like that a dick move on pure principle. I knew people back in the Live days who delighted in "market PvP" with things like Luck Charms, and I gave them grief about it at the time. It's exactly the kind of thing that gives marketeering types a reputation for being predatory asshats, which I really don't think is a Good Thing when you get down to it.

And you're doing this... why? Just to try to push up prices, or what?

They're running on NOs.

Uhm... You do know that quite a lot of us take flight as our travel power, right? There's nothing at all unusual in that. Likewise, the Concealment pool powers are pretty common picks, both as Gambler mules and as situationally-useful powers on their own.

That monkey was the pits. Judson Scott was pretty darn foxy though, in an 80's surfer-boy kind of way. XD

That's why you keep them inside. Well, that and protecting them from coyotes, dogs, cars, ticks, fleas, assholes and a host of diseases. Indoor cats tend to have longer, healthier lives for a reason.

I wouldn't use it myself... I'm one of those dual-boxing farmer-types, and I like getting the "seed money" that a romp through a farm map earns. (It's usually enough to finance the newbie's lvl 30-something common IOs-)... But as an option for other people that would open up after their first 50, and act as a potential influence sink? Sure. I'd support that addition to the P2W.

To Scir's credit, after the whole Malleus incident he actually admits that, in retrospect, it really was a bad idea... I remember when I read that bit while I was running the arcs with Grey Kestrel I could just imagine her shaking her head and saying, "I *tried* to tell you that, Im. That kind of thing just never ends well." But then, my head-canon for her is that she DIDN'T actually stop that ritual because Daos told her to. She can't stand the guy. No. Kes stepped in and put an end to it because friends don't let friends essentially commit karmic suicide. Even if that makes said-friends mope and grump about it afterwards. XD

They're most excellent cats... Or dogs wearing cat costumes... I swear Mei thinks she's a dog. Anyway, said-cat in somewhat-less-fluffy "summer skinny-mode". (She adds about 30% MOAR HAIR every winter. XD)

'Not gonna be all spoilery... BUT... After you've run through Laura's arc once? Go to Ouro and run it again. And keep an eye out for something you didn't come across the first time around. ^_^

Ah, bashing good old "Maggot the Buttless" and his friends.... XD

As it happens... she is. More fluff than an alpaca ranch. Tail the size of the Titanic. All RIGHT THERE. XD

Yep. My red-siders (Who are all rogues-) tend to go with Scir as a patron. As for others... That list of VT's is good. I'd also add Hardcase, though. Everyone likes beating up freaky little Wailers.

Duos and small teams are great fun. 8-member smash-fest can be, too... But sometimes I find myself just wanting to run on my own, without any pressure to "keep up" and the freedom to AFK when-ever I like. (Or when Mei insists it's "play with cat"-time. <_<) One of the things that I love the most about the City is that solo play is possible for almost everything in the game.

I'm in the "only 50, but feels older" camp... especially at the moment, while I'm moving around like a geriatric ground sloth. ('Slipped backwards going down the stairs while carrying a pile of flattened boxes to the recycling bin. 'Slammed into the stairway handrail hard enough to crack a rib. OOOOWWWWWWW. 'Supposed to be careful how I move now, and not allowed to pick up anything heavier than my cat. Which is a pain in the rear. And my side. *shakes tiny fist* >_<)