Andreah

Well, we could go off into another direction to talk about increasing the general level of challenge in the game. But you knowhow that will go.

Can get nice opening combos. E.g., Kin/Sonic Defender -- Repel Toggle up, do Fold Space, Fulcrum Shift, Dreadful Wail, Judgment ... and then spam Transfusion and hope a tank picks up the aggro. This is a good reason to only do this when you're next to the main tank, tbh.

I agree, but I managed to get used to it on my Kin/ defender. I like repel in knockdown mode that much.

I use it in MSR's to rain rikti down into the Murder Bowl. Sometimes the pullers can get them almost into the bowl, but quite not the rest of the way. Rikti can be shy! They like to stand on the edge and use ranged attacks against us. No more! I hover my tanker over the center of the bowl, pop an Ultimate Inspiration (which allows FS to teleport 54 bosses), say something in league like "Dropping Rikti in the center of the bowl" to give squishies in there a heads up, and then pop Fold Space. If I'm on my kin with Fold Space in the same situation, it's also a great time to pop Fulcrum Shift and make sure everyone in the bowl is at damage cap.

I will check this out as soon as I can! 🙂 Confirmed; putting in the Sudden Acceleration KB to KD enhancement makes Singularity's Repel not knock-back, but knock-down instead. #Bestpetevah

I'm pretty sure they can always see you if you are in the same zone. What I do when I'm going to join a TF that is either neutral or in the other side I'm currently in, is use the LFG teleport to go to the contact. Bring up the LFG tab, click the button for the TF, lock myself to (my solo) group, click the button to queue and then accept it. It will teleport me to the TF contact, and then I ask to join the advertiser if they have room. It takes maybe thirty seconds, at most, and I'm usually there in time to get a spot. Edit: I see the OP is already using the LFG port. If it leaves you as invisible in the shared zone, that sounds like a bug, or maybe it needs a minute to update.

I can confirm this. Before I got my KB protection IO's, my DA tanker got bounced around constantly.

I disagree. Fold Space synergizes with many group powers, keeps mobs on the tanker, undoes knockback scattering of mobs, and keeps the density of mobs high on stacked Aoe-dots. Like any power, it can be used poorly. In my experience using it liberally on pugs with both my tanker and defender who have it, it's both very effective and appreciated. Not universally, but I've had very good feedback about using it, and some have said they were so impressed by it they were going to respec for it.

The KB->KD IO's don't work in it. I've had it explained to me by others that it was because the power looks like Repel, but isn't, or is a special pet-only version of it.

Apparently it has a special "repel" mechanical which can't be converted to knockdown, unlike the "Repel" power itself, which looks like a singularity vfx. Singularity is one of the best pets. One downside is that repel can be annoying to your teammates or leaguemates in certain situations.

There's a certain point where we have to play cooperatively, or not. Calling any power usage "trolling" is implying the user's intent isn't just to play the game, but deliberately to annoy you. If we could read that into anything anyone else would do, we would be here all day listing out our peeves. If you're setting a carefully chosen power combo on a mob, and someone comes over and one-shots it, is that trolling? Or were you trolling by playing with that mob instead of killing it so the group can move to the next spawn? Do we get upset at the blaster or kheld for scattering all the mobs around the room? Are they KB-trolling us or just playing their powers? What about dimension shift? League teleports via incand? People who spam buffs? People who make us invisible? People with garish costumes or borderline names? Maybe some of them are trolling. But I'd have to care if they are or not to really be affected by it. Enjoy the game. Play cooperatively. Don't expect too much from pick-up-groups. Give people a break when you can. Ask politely if it's something that really gets your goat. Move on to the next team if they still don't want to play to your liking.

My squishy defender does die from using Fold Space and all that now and then. But living on the edge of disaster is fun; and it gets healing badges for our healers. 😄

As an aside, I recommend you look into the one button option for wormhole using "/bind <key of your choice> powexec_location camera:max Wornhole". Whatever mob you have targeted, and the group around that mob, even if selected ten seconds ago, a hundred feet away, and behind a wall, will but shot through spacetime to whatever spot on the ground, walls, or air that's in the exact center of your screen. Slot a KB to KD IO to Wormhole to make sure they stay in that spot afterwards.

I have Fold Space on a tanker, and I use it often to pull mobs to me. While I'm the main tank, I'll use the power almost every time it's up. I'll also use Ultimate inspirations to pull +4 bosses and EB's to me. I also have it on a kinetic defender, and I use it there to gather mobs on the main tank, or wherever the "murder-pile" seems to be. I will then cast Fulcrum shift, Judgment, my AoE nuke, and Repel(KD) on this pile, followed by my normal buff/debuff chain. When the team is working together, this results in amazing clear speeds and good times. Like any power that moves mobs, it takes a bit of forethought to use, and sometimes it doesn't work out. I also have been asked not to use it, and have also offered not to use it when I join a team. It's like speed boost in caves -- most people like it, but the ones who don't really hate it. I don't want any one to "really hate" playing with me, so let's communicate and work together.

It's interesting. Maybe one of the more technically knowledgeable people will confirm or not, but I think mezz magnitudes of some different kinds stack. E.g., someone hits an immob on a boss/eb/av, and it's not quite enough to affect them. Then, another person puts a KD on them, that ordinarily wouldn't affect them either, but then it seems to do so.

I have a kinetic defender with Repel. I have it slotted for KB->KD, and a resulting 110% chance for knock magnitude -22. It works wonderfully, even at the highest difficulties. You won't bounce AV's or EB's with it, but just about everything else. Bouncing them costs endurance, so some end reduction and yourself slotted for end recovery are important. It seems to generate a lot of aggro, and if you're stunned, held, slept, etc., it will drop and need to be restarted.

I tried a variety of control options for Combat Teleport, and settled on Ctrl-Lclick as the best option for me. I use shift-click for normal Teleport, so moving to ctrl for the combat variant feels fairly natural. I also used powexec_location target to set Combat Teleport to take me to my selected target whenever I press both Lshift and Lctrl together. It would be neat to have a single button teleport to cursor without needing a click, but there are still pretty good options if one doesn't mind a click.

The current "Sell Now" price is currently as I type this 1.6M -- that's the price flippers are paying to impatient people. They relist them at ten percent (or more) higher, and then within a few hours or a day, they resell at 2M or as high as 5M, which I saw yesterday afternoon at peak for a while. Impatient people buy too, and pay a premium. For anything you intend to sell instantly, you're not going to get a very good deal. Being patient and pricing a little bit above the flipper's price and letting them sit overnight usually pays off well.

Short answer, go to a merits kiosk, convert them into Boosters, Converters, or Unslotters; whichever strikes your fancy. List them for 1 inf on the auction, and they'll sell instantly, and won't be too bad a deal. Don't convert them to catalysts -- those don't pay well enough. Don't convert them to recipes -- that's too much work.

Converters are 3/merit, and sell for about 70,000 each on the /ah currently. That's 210K per merit, before auction fees. Catalysts are 1/20-merits, and sell for about 2,000,000 each on the /ah. That's 100K per merit, also before fees. Unslotters are 2/merit, and sell for about 120,000 each on the /ah. That's 240K per merit. Boosters are 1/5-merits, and sell for about 1,200,000 each. That's also 240K per merit. Prices change a lot, so look and see where they are before committing a lot of merits. Selling at a good price also depends on your ability to effectively set your asking price smartly, and how patient you are. Your mileage will vary on using merits to buy enhancement recipes, but the rule of thumb is not the value of the final thing you make, but what the substitution cost would have been if you bought the recipe using inf off the auction instead.

I think most players can tell, situationally, whether things happening are IC or OOC. When not, it's easy to ask: "((Hey, are you all in character?))". And if someone coomes up to a group I'm in when we're messing around OOC'ly, I might drop a "We're OOC here : )" with the smiley into local chat. If after that they insist on being in-character, okaay, whatever floats, but it does seem to be pointless to RP into OOC stuff.

If a person chooses to play a thoroughly unpleasant character, one should not be surprised if others don't want to interact. No matter how technically correct, true to the characterization, or cleverly played, that kind of character is going to have limited appeal, especially to those who don't know the player OOC'ly very well, or at all. And I could see and understand if some of those people who don't want to interact just go straight for the global ignore, to cut their losses, so to speak.

I'm a tactical pricer, and yet I have to admit, sometimes I want to list for 1 just to skip the trouble.

I logged in to check and saw that. LOL, 50k? O.o 22.5k should be the break-even with rare salvage currently going at 500k. It's moments like this when I wonder if someone is messing around and having a good time at a loss, or if they know something we don't. 😮

... I may have been market-PvP'ing with you over those 😃 But I quit too, it was fun, but not a lot of profit/effort. In another game, I recall doing that kind of dance with the intent of driving my competitor up to bidding high enough to beat me, that I could suddenly dump my inventory into their lap at a profit.