MunkiLord

%#^%%*&%^!!!! How did I not know this?!?!?!?!?! I enjoy Striga, I do, and Hess is one of my favorite TFs. But I've skipped him on the last few characters because I didn't feel like dealing with every arc.

1. Story arcs and badge missions can be done later via Ouroborous Flashbacks, so you're good there. You'll miss out on some random missions, but off the top of my head I can't think of anything that is a big deal in that regard. 2. As you do missions for a contact they will eventually introduce you to another one, so you'll meet a good chunk of them that way if you don't outlevel that specific contact. For arcs related to zones, you can usually just go to the first contact in the string without being introduced. For example, once you hit level 20(I think) you can go to Stephanie Pebbles in Striga Isle and start her missions. After you do all four arcs in that zone you will be introduced to Ernesto Hess who is a Task Force contact. In order to start that specific Task Force you do have to be introduced to him. There may be a list of such things somewhere, but I'm not sure. 3. I don't think there are any game spanning arcs like that, but I'm not sure. 4. If you both have the same mission, non leaders will have the opportunity to complete theirs when your mission is completed.

Yes, they absolutely could do that if they wanted to, there is no doubt about that. But that would also likely create extra overhead to manage so it's cheaper to just tell them to stop. Plus it's also worth considering that such a scenario possibly wouldn't pass the "moron in a hurry" test, but trademark lawsuits are expensive, so it's in the daycare's best interest to just do as Disney orders.

It's true for trademarks. But protection could very well be something as simple as giving a day care a free license.

This isn't correct. People/Organizations do not need to defend copyrights in order to keep them.

If I was in charge of NCSoft, this is exactly how I would handle it. It's free market research with the potential of large profit.

So I bought 20 Winter Packs: Team Inspirations 18 Brain Storm 520 Candy Cane 55 Boosters 1 Winter IO 26 Snow Beast 7 Experienced 4 Unslotter 28 Free Tailor 2 Reward Merits 200 Converters 7 Respec 1 Winter Ward 1 Windfall 2 Frost Bite 1 Bought 25 each of the other two packs, didn't record everything I got from them. But the 25 Hero/Villain packs got me 27 ATOs and 125 Merits and the Rogue/Vigilante packs got me 26 ATOs and 275 Merits. Spent a billion total on this and while I haven't done the math, if I were to sell all the IOs and use the merits for converters I think I came ahead. But this was tedious and now I have a tone of team inspirations dirtying up my character items.

I like this idea. I think I'm going to buy twenty of them when I get home just for shits and giggles. I will share my results. I'll also buy 20 each of the two cheaper packs to see how they compare. I realize with such a small sample size it won't be definitive. But I'm curious, bored, and need an excuse to blow some influence.

I think you may be using an outdated version of Pine's. There are several power pool sets listed in an old version that never actually made it in the game. Pretty sure something like Utility Belt is one as well. Bummer too, some of them look super cool.

I agree a straight port would be too much. I think the best solution would be to tweak Rage to put it more in line with other sets with it likely being in the upper end. If this were up for a vote, mine would be to stick it on test with modified Rage numbers and tweak from there. There are enough people, especially Scrappers, testing builds on the Test server that we could have real reliable data in a short amount of time. I agree a constant 200% damage buff is a lot, it's why DM/SD is so good. Now that I've put some thought into it, SS/SD sounds amazing and I want one. Before today I didn't really care about SS specifically.

I agree. I've found the other two packs to be much more consistently worth the influence.

But this is a ship that has long since sailed. The likely outcome of SS being ported is the powerset someone chooses would be different. So instead of Elec/SD or TW/Bio, maybe they'll be making SS/Shield(or Bio). All three would have the same impact on minions and LTs since those melt as is. I could be wrong on this, but I don't see SS surpassing TW in single target damage. So really it's just changing the flavor. Plus Rage numbers can be modified to reign in it some.

I'm sure it happens in some games, but with the content in CoH being trivial for most teams, I just don't see it happening here on any real scale. Even with the huge numbers of Spines/Fire Brutes, there are still a significant amount of other Brute combos being played. So unless something is magnitudes more powerful than anything else we have now, it's a concern that I haven't seen backed up by any real evidence. Now if the people in charge don't have the time to make such a port, or even if they just don't feel like dealing with it, so be it. That wouldn't bother me one bit. But the reasons I keep hearing over and over and over and over just don't hold up. People want to play it, so I think it's a good idea to let them. Those that don't want to play it, don't have to. It's a win-win.

Tweak the Rage numbers. This game has LONG since gone past the point of any real balance. So holding back a port like this for that reason just doesn't hold up. Tweak the numbers until they are in line with what other sets do give or take. Titan Weapons has by far the most damage potential for Scrappers and other sets are still used and it hasn't broken the game.

I'm actually the opposite, I really want Stone Melee and I'm indifferent about Super Strength. But a lot of people want it, and I agree variety is good.

Super Strength should be ported to Scrappers, there isn't a good game related reason for it not to be. edit: Stone Melee too

In general I agree with this. But I do make an exception for ATOs(and Winter IOs if I buy them) as you cannot attune them until level 50 and they are a different category in the market. edit: which you addressed as I was typing this reply lol You can attune any set IO

Question, what do yall think would be considered an average time for a DM/SR Scrapper, and what do you consider good to top end?

I couldn't possibly agree with you more here. With my setup at home I can watch TV while I play, so that helps prevent me from going crazy when I'm converting anywhere from 30-100 enhancements in a single sitting. If I didn't have something to distract me this wouldn't be something I'd do.

This is fair! When I used to wait tables on more than one occasion I'd have to go back to one because I either didn't understand what I wrote or couldn't read it.

I understood you, I was replying to ZemyaSoldat when your post came in right before I posted mine. Just weird timing. edit: I'm still bad at these new forums lol

4-5 million is about what Miracle proc tends to go for regardless of what the last 5 window shows. I know this because this is what I list them for, so someone wanting to jump in and start posting them for close to the display price is likely to have them sell really slow, if it all.

Making content harder probably isn't overly difficult, I'm going to assume(I know, I know) that it may be as simple and changing some values. But simply adding more HP and higher resists to existing content probably isn't a compelling solution for most people.

Miracle was lower for a while too, but not by much. I think there is a display bug now going on with Miracle, because 15-20 million is 3-4 times what it was selling for a month ago.

I sent my check six weeks ago, I'm ready for my payout.