Herotu

THIS IS AWESOME. I concur with this because I love watching enemies fly. This would give incentive to slot KB enhancements and say a big, "Go Home", to those stupid KB to KD enhancements!

This sounds like valuable advice, and I appreciate it. I heard that endurance should be less of an issue when you get an expensive fully setted out character. So my question is: Is a full, expensive, set build; enough to remove the problems such that you can pick Earth mastery AND the Resilient alpha slot, or is the 45% end reduction alpha required? I'm just curious.

I just wanted to do a mini hijack here with a note regarding patience. If you are buying something like white salvage and expect the sale to complete quickly and it DOESN'T, click find - you might note that someone outbid you by a LOT - don't panic, the AH is just filling their order before you. It doesn't mean you need to start bidding much higher. I've seen prices of orange salvage go shooting up from 500k to 700k just because the orders aren't filling instantly. If you are patient, it will probably come down again, unless everybody is trying to outbid one another (we can call it a bubble, if you like). On the other hand, it's a phenomenon you might want to try to exploit and I wish you well with that endeavour. Have some patience and save some inf.

I CAN'T GAME THE MARKET TO MAKE BILLIONS OFF OF COMMON SALVAGE! The market is RUINED! *flails and cries* >.> Whatever you like, darling. I'm using Shinobu's guide to make my millions of the AH for my main.

Firstly, thank you very much for being the ONLY WP/SS tanker to post anything useful. Wow! You're hardcapping Smashing & Lethal - I like it a lot. Anyway, it's a lot better than anything I could come up with, so thanks for posting this :) I will try to change my own WP/SS into this!

I wonder if it might be possible to add a half-and-half horizontal colour pattern to enable some awesome MODERN asymmetrical costumes! I would also advocate the creation of a half-and-half vertical pattern that works like the Blend pattern but with a hard line.

It's a little odd because the older costume parts tended to have the matte finish because the tech didn't exist or was expensive for shiny things, whereas while lots of newer parts - such as vanguard gloves etc - were shiny, not all of them were, or had that option. Which I found curious.

Over what period?

It's a compounded effect. As I stated before, Archetype homogenisation is a similar effect to power creep. Remember, set bonuses happened many Issues (content patches) before incarnate powers.

Take a look at the recipes on the market. You will note that there are a considerable number are for sale in great quantities (i.e. there are 790 Call to Arms: Acc/Dam/Rech recipes) but with a combination of the nigh-ubiquitous expensive component (500k orange salvage) and expensive crafting fee, they are simply not worth even crafting to convert. I thought the crafting fee may be the way to go to improve this market, but now I note that the expensive component is even more of a factor.

I am NOT making a demand here, but ... I always wondered why so many costume parts didn't have shiny versions, where some parts did. Would it be difficult to make a shiny (reflective-looking) versions of existing armour pieces?

I don't know how to do this, but I can work it out given time. It looks like you've copied a command off a guide, is that right? It looks like you need to remove the quotation marks, first, then you should maybe put something proper where it says tooltip (it's the ability name you will see on hover-over), then where it says command you put the command, which you want to be MindControl or whatever it's supposed to be - you may have to look this up somewhere, you may also need to put a target after that similar to the one below. Zolgar wrote this for me in another thread; /macroimage Jump_SpringAttack SpringAttack powexeclocation target Spring Attack It makes a Spring Attack macro that uses the powerexeclocation of the target. From Shenanigunner's GABB... http://www.shenanigunner.com/ So something like... (this may be wrong)... /macro_image MentalControl_MindControl MindControl target Mind Control $$ local “$target you are under my control now!” I know it looks like it just says mindcontrol 3 times in a row but one is the icon, one is the tooltip for the icon, and the next one is the actual cast.

See, I couldn't disagree more. I think it's good to have that choice of character actually matter and the role I decided upon be an actual role. I think that's a cool thing. I think this is something that I've noticed more and more because some blasters(!) are able to tank with the help of set enhancements and Accolade abilities. Archetype homogenisation is something akin to power creep, we haven't noticed because the whole game has arrived on our doorstep as-is.

If the reward for the packs goes under 10m, people will stop buying them. Right? Right?

After Honoree is defeated in LGTF, would it be possible to put a semi-official storyline together for the cure? I mean... Montague has you cure the lost, so... [trying not to give too many spoilers here] (I presume that Paragon didn't sneak in this story before the game shut down, and I just haven't come across it).

It appears that the playerbase is getting wise to the notion of selling everything in order to fund Attuned enhancements. Would it free up the market to replace the fixed fee for crafting enhancements? Perhaps if the market fee were higher to make up for the loss of this inf sink, this would encourage much more crafting of enhancements. What do you think of these ideas?

It's also a useful power on a stone tank/brute. It's teleport.. WITH DAMAGE! :) Can confirm, Spring Attack is a fun AoE that does good knockdown. Great for tanks, it compliments Foot Stomp when it's on cooldown. The only thing I don't like about it is that often I end up miles away by accident because it's not PBAoE. :D This should be the right set up for that: /macroimage Jump_SpringAttack powexeclocation target Spring Attack If I have that right, it will create a macro with the Spring Attack icon, that when clicked will activate on your current target. It works if you change it to this: /macroimage Jump_SpringAttack SpringAttack powexeclocation target Spring Attack The button needs a name. But also it doesn't get a timer on it or a small icon to indicate it's on cooldown.

True. However, one of CoH's strengths is the ability to have basically unlimited alts. Once a character is leveled to 50 and gets fully slotted, that character doesn't need further enhancements. However, when the player starts leveling a different character, they are back on the market purchasing enhancements (funded with earnings from their previous character). That helps keep demand up, which keeps prices from falling too far. As more and more wealth is created, especially by players using this guide, prices will start to fall, because the demand will drop (people using this guide know how to get rare's for cheap, and won't pay inflated prices for them) and supply for the rares will increase. There won't be a steady supply of new players to fuel the market... I'm not being negative about this guide (which is awesome), or players who engage in "flipping" (because who could say anything negative about Shinobu), just realistic that it's an economy subject to the same forces of supply and demand as any other... Whilst I agree that this *should* be the case, ultimately it comes down to this question; -Will farmers get bored and quit the game faster than people who want to level/gear up new alts?

It's also a useful power on a stone tank/brute. It's teleport.. WITH DAMAGE! :) Can confirm, Spring Attack is a fun AoE that does good knockdown. Great for tanks, it compliments Foot Stomp when it's on cooldown. The only thing I don't like about it is that often I end up miles away by accident because it's not PBAoE. :D This should be the right set up for that: /macroimage Jump_SpringAttack powexeclocation target Spring Attack If I have that right, it will create a macro with the Spring Attack icon, that when clicked will activate on your current target. Holy smokes! THanks a lot. I look forward to trying it.

I think it would be sad to pressure players into skipping the only remaining story content that they have to "endure"... Why not just make the entire game into a single AE farm map?

Great stuff, thanks. I got rid of leadership and stealth and rebuilt the whole thing from scratch. Does it look ok now? The numbers look a bit unimpressive tbh. :( I'm just bad at this. :(

Focused Accuracy is insanely expensive in Endurance terms, but it would possibly (only POSSIBLY!) be worthwhile at HALF that cost.

Did this turn into one of those crazy half-billion inf builds? Is it bad?

@Profit I forgot to thank you for posting your build so: Thank you :D

Make everyone deal with the Kheldian problem of randomly adding massively-overtuned enemies to otherwise-normal missions, even when there's no valid reason for said enemies to be there? Hell NO. Thanks for stating what you DON'T want to see. It does seem as though you're making a pretty big leap from my suggestion to your idea of how it might be implemented, however. "Big leap"? More like "logical first step". The ONLY time you see a superhero's weakness mentioned in a comic book is when he's about to be screwed over by said weakness. And as mentioned upthread, the only functional way to implement this mechanically is the Kheldian approach of arbitrarily granting enemies a "screw you" power - be it an attack that slices through your defenses (hello invuln psi hole), or being all-but-immune to your offense (stupidly-high smashing, lethal, or psi resist in lategame enemies). Works great for a comic book where the writers can BS their way past the problem somehow, but player characters in a video game don't have plot armor to deal with this RNG-you-lose system. You want to see PC weaknesses implemented beyond what's already enforced by the game? Come up with something that doesn't hose the players and we'll talk. Oh wait, that eliminates EVERY possible implementation of a weakness system. You make an awful lot of assumptions here. I agree that there is a difference between comic books and video games, but I believe it's important to get as close as possible to comic books in order to be authentic in the superhero genre. That includes weaknesses. It's important to note that heroes DO sometimes lose. It's vital to put them into dangerous situations where any amount of planning still sees them lose. "Hosing the player" is something that SHOULD happen. I don't share your perspective of making an invincible character that never loses. That would be a boring comic book. Now, I'm not going to say that you should auto-lose in fights necessarily. There are ways and means. Look at the way villains get captured in CoV - they are put in police cells that they instantly break out of - that could be ONE way of doing things... alternative ways are clichéd villain death contraptions. So there are lots of ways to play with the idea and YES, some DO HOSE THE PLAYER and I'm not ashamed of that. Don't you conjure new rules for me!