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+1,000 With wide spread use it is a difficult task to get right without over correcting or undershooting. While most folks shouldn't be worried, those taking full advantage to an extreme likely won't be surprised. Any change would be well telegraphed.

Plenty of folks are willing to agree things are a little cheap at the higher levels. (with the exception of a handful of very specific uber expensive items) At the same time, things are expensive at lower levels. 3-5M for Luck of the Gamblers is the norm but they can be had for even less. That's not much for a level 50+. That's a lot for level 32 and below. My personal opinion: 1) The cost to upgrade enhancements using Upgrade should be reduced. 2) The drop rate for rare salvage could be increased for lower level content. This might help the low end without drastic market swings. I don't have an opinion for the higher levels which effectively equates to do nothing sans a better idea.

chef's kiss! @Snarky

Choices.. ranged or melee While snarkles has been very successful with the dark/dark corruptor (an excellent choice here) I may offer an alternative: Get up close and personal, embrace the power of the undead. Brute Dark Melee (it's so on theme, Siphon Life, Smite, Touch of Fear, Soul Drain) Dark Armor (Dark Embrace, Death Shroud, Dark Regeneration, Cloak of Darkness, Cloak of Fear, Soul Transfer) a player could go with Invulnerability, Psionic Armor, Regeneration, Willpower and still be on theme

Sweet! I now have a full set of cryptic tools to respond articulately, yet with brevity, to almost any query. /jranger +1 rainbow

"Is it time to make items scarcer or cost more?" "No." that's a fair position.

guilty as charged. no shy-ing from disagreement here either. actively recruiting other perspectives (agree/disagree/outside-the-box) can be some choppy water.. still, thought exploration can distill to something more, often it doesn't. c'est la vie.

ummmm... outrage much? This is a 'general discussion' not a suggestion. lol. No one is doing anything. You're going to be okay. "what about all the new players like myself?" Folks like myself might welcome reading what quality of life suggestions you might have, what could improve the experience from a new player's perspective, and thank you for constructively participating in this discussion. "Shame on you" I gotta ask, did you even read the first post?

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Appreciated. The topic kinds chose itself after Yomo's thread. There is an element of things being expensive for new characters and cheap for level 50s. Maybe the pooling of enhancements contributes heavily but it does seem to go beyond that.

That's fair. Could we keep double infamy until a specific level like say 45 (just picking at random, no reason to say 45) It's odd how folks have trouble differentiating 'wanting something' from 'wanting to discuss'. You're at least saying 'seems to..' A variety of perspectives and/or thoughts is my only goal here.

This is a semi-serious question, curious if anyone has thoughts or maybe a quick plusses and minuses. Making things scarcer likely wouldn't work well and could just increase farming. Is there a flip-side to @Yomo Kimyata's question on making all things free? It's easy to make inf, maybe too easy.. which makes things dirt cheap for many. Is there really any point to earning more once we can buy everything we want instantly for dozens of characters? The expectation these days seems to be leveling to 50 in a handful of hours (maximizing 2xp, patrol xp, special xp tuned missions) and then getting a complete build immediately while starting to build out incarnates. If this is way off, I'd be happy to hear it. The downside where players are self limiting infamy/influence gain is simply ignored. Maybe it's easy to ignore because $$ is so easy to get. Maybe there's a different reason. Double XP Booster (1 Hour) This will immediately grant the player a 100% boost to XP gain. While this boost is active, Influence gain will be reduced by 100%. You may purchase up to 8 hours. Soo... let's see where this ends up. credit: @Yomo Kimyata for the original topic this is piggybacking

If they said dozens would that suffice? For me I'd have to wild-ass-guess it and guess dozens fully kitted and maybe 2-3x unfinished level 48-50s. Hold please.. Total: ~30 pages of characters across all servers. ~95 level 50s with about 35-40 complete T3+ builds. Note: It sure would be great to be able to sort the character lists by level, archetype, zone, etc... Nice mention! And what-a-JaCKPoT-roll right as tanks were peaking!!

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https://archive.paragonwiki.com/wiki/Bug_Hunter_Badge Maybe this or something similar that shouldn't be so hard to get..

Last usable version here: Mids' Reborn v3.1.2.5 (Homecoming Issue 27, Page 3)

It's soooo much better until it isn't

@Boas I disagree

Reasonable suggestion. @mistagoat makes a good point. I agree with @MTeague. Knockback is great. It is also fun. That said, I can understand the usefulness for someone that doesn't like it to be able to turn it off.

Reading this again.. it sounds like one of those naughty channels hotels used to have.

It's unfortunate when faith in a system is undermined. There's likely just a few bad actors out there and it's a pain-in-the-butt to show what they are doing. One isolated incident might not even look so bad. As frustrating as it is the only tool we have is report them and move on. Do some folks weaponize complaining and reporting, yes. That is up to others to recognize and deal with. This is the system we have. I support you expressing your feelings on your experience.

I've figured these are suggestions, and feedback to the Homecoming team. A response from say a Dev might be wished for, but any expectation would be misplaced and unreasonable.

Ah sarcasm.. You got me at least. I thought 'hey wait a second isn't that what.. ohhh" ------- -- ------- As to 'The Idea Police': It's often surprising (to me) when and where folks write 'don't tell me what to do' or 'don't tell me how to [ fill in the blank ]' and then do-that-exact-thing. I've likely done it more than once or twice. I'm not sure if Forager is a master baiter butt wow they know how to get a response. Is this a cultivated skill? They have used the internet before! 4,100 views 226 replies AND while I don't agree with much of what has been written they have provided an example of some 'Idea Police' at work. Thus solving the@GM_GooglyMoogly conundrum. "Maybe the "Idea Police" are more prevalent on older threads." Does this all put Moogl-ster in a bit of a pickle? Cave to one group and end the discussion there by potentially reinforcing the 'Idea Police' premise. Or, let this go on and on until it simply burns out consuming moderator time and effort along the way. Could there be a third option? Check back whenever. Same bat time, same bat channel.