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At some point last week, yellow salvage went from "normal" prices (as low as 150 inf) to a minimum price of 10,077 inf. Now, I can't query that transaction history nor the current ask/bid prices but over the past ~week the lowest price I've seen is 10,077. Put a bid for 10,076 and another bid for 10,078. The former will not fill until this current manipulation has concluded. The latter will fill soon*. *soon varying greatly by intraday fluctuations. So I'm very comfortable surmising there are thousands of bids for 10,077 inf. Is this the result of some organic supply/demand shift? Well, I'd need some convincing of that.

I hate contributing to this thread because this is all that trolls want - attention. Just put up 10,100 for yellows if you need it now, otherwise put up your normal bid which will be filled in a few days. Since HC I can only think of a couple of periods where yellows > 1k for an extended time. This too shall pass...

It's a complicated topic that seems to have exceptions to any rule. Someone has indeed delved into the special IO pieces, check out https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Set_Enhancements_with_Special_Effects

I'm market apathetic, only bothering to craft purples and pvps so I do end up using yellows occasionally. When I need something I don't have I put my standard 3 figure bid out for yellows and 99.9% of the time the order is fulfilled with the next 24-72 hours. Being apathetic I don't have any urgency to have orders filled. So, just posting to say "patience grasshopper".

My suggestions: Option to always decline teleports This was a fairly recent suggestion and I really hope it gets some consideration. Get rid of hunts To be honest I probably rage posted this after a session full of inane hunts. While I personally would like this it's not high on my priority list at all. Request for a middle tier "currency" for Empyreans This one I would really like. I groan more than a little when I "retire" a character and see something like 23 Empyreans that I'd like to move to my Emp bank. Purely QoL. A Notes field on the character selection screen I would still like this but by now I've grown accustomed to work-arounds using my spreadsheet. Change the KB proc in Stupefy to KD This got some pushback which is too bad. I really like the bonuses from Stupefy and I'd use it fairly frequently but random kb, especially for a control set's aoe stun, is unacceptable (for me). Request for targetted AOE preview Would be nice but eh, I've gotten used to a cone targetting strategy that I'd probably still adhere to even with a target preview. Some real talk about Ghost of Scrapyard I do believe I help effect some change here. Some GMs commented and shortly after Scrappy's spawn method was altered.

The quick and easy solution to aproaching the RM cap is to convert to hero merits. Or vill merits if you prefer.

6 slotted max level TOD: acc: 43.43 dmg: 96.65 end: 62.73 rch: 43.43 6 slotted max level Mako: acc: 66.25 dmg: 93.64 end: 66.25 rch: 66.25 Just for yucks here's TOD if all the pieces were lvl 50: acc: 47.7 dmg: 98.29 end: 68.9 rch: 47.7 TOD looks light for slotted accuracy. Personally I think the best change for TOD would be to change the D/E/R to a quad (A/D/E/R). TOD at lvl 40 changing D/E/R to A/D/E/R: acc: 60.31 dmg: 96.28 end: 60.31 rch: 41.01 I love TOD's bonuses but I rarely use it due to it not passing my requirement of attacks having a final 95% chance against +3s (including all to-hit and global acc bonuses) unless I make other build sacrifices for acc bonuses. If the D/E/R were changed to a quad, I'd use it frequently. For the record, I am not suggesting any changes, just sharing some results I found while putzing around.

Ginger Yates (35-40 in FF) has an arc about Mr. (Dr.?) Pasalima.

VEAT Soldier Venom Grenade is worth mentioning. Add Shatter Armor from Mace Mastery and they enfluffify a hard target. A very nice, surprising source of -res is Bio's Evolving Armor. Obviously it doesn't compare to a debuff set but the -7.5 debuff is quite noticable. Blaster Sonic Manipulation.Disruption Aura is even better. Any change to HT came before I joined in I7. The DM defender I made back then did not have -res in HT.

I used to view it as merely a prereq for Fold Space but I've grown to find it arguably even more valuable. I pretty much take it on all meleers now, great way to chase runners.

Unless I'm light on global accuracy, I tend to go 3 boosted Shield Walls + 1 attuned LotG 7.5. If I happen to need to global acc (rare but it's happened) then it's 4 LotGs.

Fold Space, Benumb, Siphon Power, Fulcrum Shift and Heat Exhaustion are the powers that have me thinking unslot/slot (or even respec) to use Provocation. Benumb especially since it has a high base recharge:uptime ratio. I've never been a "value consumer". I just acquire what I want to use and not worry about marginal gains. This particular D-Sync though makes me at least do a thorough analysis of "is it worth it?". I think for Benumb it is. At this point I use 2 for Benumb, though I haven't combined to 53 yet. I'll use them as I happen to get them from the Aeons I run, which isn't terribly frequent. The end/slow/rch is another high value D-Sync. So far I've only used it for Tar Patch. From what I understand the PVPers loved the microfilaments and they were the drivers of the high price. That's fine with me, I wouldn't use it if it had Dmg/Mez bargain basement prices so I sell those ASAP.

MMs are my favorite, by far. Out of the 116 characters I track, 20 are MMs, twice as many as the next highest total for any other AT. Well, I have the same number of Stalkers but most of those are "administrative", doesn't really matter. My point here is I'm answering from the perspective of a MM aficionado. All that said there are many major annoyances - uninterested minions for several seconds after exiting an elevator, for example. The OP though is asking for one thing. I think it's going to be something a power leveler (or heavy teamer) wouldn't even notice - the late teens, early 20s struggle. Enemies seem to ramp up and if you're actually playing in the Rogue Isles there are a number of enemies that are really MM unfriendly, with lots of aoes. This is my perceived power chart for MMs. Data was meticulously gathered, don't even ask. There's just a period where you lose ground while everyone else is getting stronger. So that's my #1 complaint, I'd like to see a smoother ride. I could fill out a top 10 complaints very easily as well. Again though, my favorite AT by a long shot.

This is your experiment, but I don't think you can accurately judge a primary until the second upgrade is included., robots especially so. They're painful without the second upgrade. I'm thinking of doing something similar for Cold. I've already got 50s of all but Beasts, Mercs and Ninjas so might as well finish the set.

I'm going to generally say all buff/debuff sets are dandy. Some are dandier, some could use a little updating to meet the current standards for dandy (looking at Emp) but there are no turds.

Here's the downside to Penny's bad-assery: if Malaise or MM (or any mob) defeats you and your corpse is still on the ground when Penny defeats either of the 2 Dimensional Warder targets, you don't get defeat credit. I had this happen with Malaise, he put me down, I stayed on the floor and she finished him off. When I had finished what I thought would get me the Dim Warder badge I checked Null to see who I was missing - it was Malaise. But yeah, if I'm soloing that arc with one of my characters that's normally not someone I'd want to solo Prae AVs with, I still crank it up to AVs when she tags along.

I have a dark/ta and I agree with every point you made. Leet damage dealer? Nah, not in Blaster world but it's a hoot to play. I went with Flame Mastery. Here's how I rolled:

Level 31 is hardly the time to throw in the towel. The 2nd upgrade is transformative for all the primaries, certainly for Thugs. I play a lot of MMs and frankly, Thugs/Time is easy mode, one of my best MMs, one of my most powerful characters period. Like anything it takes a build to ratchet up the difficulty. With MM def and res uniques, Enforcer Maneuvers and Farsight and the so called "weak heal" I don't do a lot of resummoning.

The proc chances for a 3.5 ppm proc are .9 even when recharge is slotted to ED max with this power. Putzing around in Mids this looks not too shabby: The HO is a Lysosome, found in the bargain basement bin of the AH but it boosts everything this power can use: acc, -tohit, -def. Historically I've taken this about 3 different times, each on a buff heavy set where I was looking to throw in a -res debuff. For example, MMs with FF and Kin, plus a Nature Def, I think that's it. Despite taking it less than 3% of the time, my official take on it is - "not too bad". If you've got better things to do (like spam procced Infigidate) then do those things. If you're a FF MM otherwise waiting for the 3:59 mark to start reapplying shields, it's useful.

Yes indeed. You can monitor pet combat to see their to-hit chances.

I've seen this a few times. It does seem to boil down to the timing of the death of the last fluff + Rommy's death. Like, for an instant all were dead and objectives met but Rom was able to rez off the corpse which hadn't despawned. Maybe? Whenever it's happened I can't say I paid mega close attention to the state of the AVs, I just noticed when the objective changed and he was still around.

If you do missions cooperatively you won't get credit for either the Hopp or Belarosa rescues if the mission selected is a teammate's and completing them cooperatively in tandem. That's what I've found to be the cause of why I wouldn't get Buddy Cop and/or Incarnate Rival. Ever since I figured out I needed to rescue them only one time each before the Dream Doctor's penultimate mission, I've never had a problem with those badges awarding. So even if I had done the DA arc cooperatively, I'd make sure to get a solo Heather done where I completed both of those objectives.

If I could make something moderately close to an Archon I would and go for this badge asap: https://hcwiki.cityofheroes.dev/wiki/Power_Overwhelming_badge

These are mobs with 10x scale xp, which let's assume means 10x the normal xp. That's not bonus xp like experienced or the 2x booster, that's the mobs xp, so 2x that is, well 2x that mobs xp. No need to be theoretical about it. I took a lowbie, level 33, all by himself and defeated a minion. There were no other players around to affect the enemy's hp. I earned 2500 xp. I then deleted the 2xp booster, another minion appeared and I defeated it - 1250 xp. Therefore, 2xp booster double the xp. If the booster were additive, making it 10X + X then the xp after deleting the booster would have been 2272 (or 2273 depending on how rounding is done).

I'm in the triple digit 50 club so getting better at character inventory management has been a priority for me lately. I can't even imagine not using a spreadsheet (Google sheets for me, it's free!). Make a field for whatever is important to you. For example, has the character done Market Crash? What was the date of the last WST? Has it defeated Eochai and Jack? Does it have Elusive Mind? The last one, for example, helps me when I see a Rikti invasion - I can query to see who needs Elusive Mind and log them in. Not only can you have a personal SG, you can have many of them. As an owner of a lot of stuff, I have multiple bases focused on particular stuff. For example there's a base for defense and resist ios. Despite that, I'm starting to simplify more. Not to pick on the screenshot but there's just no need to store an Efficacy Adaptor. There may be good reasons, like it's short-term storage while you wait for a character to hit a certain level but storing something like that because you might need it later is just too much headache. At this point I just buy anything that's not a purple, PVP, ATO, WO, Def or Res. It was getting too onerous to look through my storage for a Dark Watchers Despair recharge/endo when, with some patience (at least a 24 hour window) I can buy it for a price I like. I find it very important to have a "big daddy" or "big momma" for an account. After a character has hit 50 and done all the boosting needed, I just "color up" my merits whenever I get more than 50 and e-mail the hero merit to the "big momma". Likewise for Transcendent Merits once T4s are all done. I don't convert merits to inf, they're all just an asset class to me. As for influence, I don't any marketeering so I don't have wild fluctuations for any characters so a very approximate inf amount is one of the data fields on the spreadsheet.