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Not anymore, they changed how the market works. For set IOs (both recipes and enhancements) all levels use the same set of bids with the buyer receiving the item at the level they bid for. So if, for example, I list a level 32 Positron's Blast on the AH and someone wants to buy a level 50 version they can potentially buy mine and the game will convert it to a level 50 version. Just curious..how do you know this? was it in patch notes somewhere? Assuming it does work like that..what is stopping people listing stuff at low levels (like your Posi Blast) for HUGE amounts (say 50mil) then having a friend/dual boxed alt bid on the lvl 50 version, and getting it 'upgraded' for free? Obviously you would need to time it right, on an item with no other bids..but it could be done. For instance, back before we could email yourself stuff, I had a lvl 20 Miracle on freedom, that I wanted for an alt on Virtue. I gave it to a friend of Free, had him list it for loads, and timed my bid just right. Then he just gave me back the money after. Well first of all, that wouldn't be free, you'd lose the 10% listing fee. Second, a winning bid will always buy the LOWEST listed item that it could buy, so you'd just end up sending 50 mil to some stranger.

Being a defeat-all mission, and given that TC wants to get a patron pool ASAP, that mission is a good candidate for auto-completion anyway.

Since at this point the Homecoming team can apparently only put together power sets from existing animations and FX, an Arachnos primary for Masterminds would probably be pretty doable. Mace Beam, Mace Blast, and Disruptor Blast for the ranged attacks (which would work well with Mastermind's Mace Mastery already using the Arachnos mace), Wolf Spiders for the T1 pets, Night Widow/Fortunata for the T2, and Bane Spider Executioner for the T3. Then it's just a matter of finding workable FX and costume changes for the upgrades, and coming up with a thematic level 18 power.

No, because starting a TF with fewer than the minimum number of players would require a way to run TFs with zero players.

If this is true you should definitely submit a bug report.

Shock Treatment is indeed a colossal pain to fight.

I'm gonna echo the sentiment that the name policy is too short. The permanent name lock should kick in much earlier, at the very least.

I think that would need some actual design effort to make sure it isn't overpowered. Perma-Rage with Scrapper crits could be seriously unbalanced, and I don't know if anyone on the Homecoming team has the knowhow to balance the set.

Yes, they were, because AE farms were taxing the servers to a disproportionate degree and degrading the experience for everyone.

Mothership raids were common enough on live, and that was when they had NO merit conversion at all. Yes, but on Live we had to pay for Vanguard costume pieces, and our salvage storage was small enough that the salvage pack was worth buying as well. On Homecoming the costumes are free and salvage storage is huge by default.

The dialog also states that whatever song it is is "girly," so I'm not sure it could be Mike Posner or B.o.B. I was thinking it was something more along the lines of Taylor Swift.

Several times when interacting with Dean MacArthur, a villainside contact, his phone rings and plays a pop song popular with teenage girls. Dean MacArthur was added to the game in 2010. What song is he using as his ringtone? I MUST KNOW.

Well that's an incredibly heavy-handed nerf that would make mothership raids dry up immediately, so kudos for that.

There is no Global Friends channel, there is only the Friends channel, which doesn't send to global friends.

The cosmetic surgeons are fully functional and available in all tailors for any player to use.

I saw you recruiting for that, how many people actually joined you?

Um, OK, but, why? Just for people to have something to show off to the 'lessers'? I just do not understand why people have to have something 'written in code' here. If they want to add things as their character progresses, they can do that. What is the point of restricting things in code like this other than to give people access to an e-peen variable? Why do people have this need to show others they are 'better' and 'been through more' content? Because unlocking things gives you a sense of progression. When you have to earn things they're more meaningful to you once you have them.

Okay, what about this: we keep everything unlocked that's unlocked now, and we add two new costume unlocks at 20 and 30 to replace the old capes and auras. At level 20, unlock the ability to have a second chest detail. This second detail can only be an emblem, and only when the first chest detail is NOT an emblem. This would let you have a symbol on your costume below a bandolier or ring strap or what-have-you. At 30, unlock the ability to have a second aura. That seems like something that might be within the abilities of the Homecoming team.

Dominators have not been nerfed.

I actually had an Elec/Earth Dom on the Live servers and I felt the combination worked really well. Earth’s melee focus synergizes extremely well with Elec’s Conductive aura.

Definitely Thugs. Poison’s T9 puts an AoE debuff on one of your pets, and it’s stronger the higher tier the pet is. Since only Beasts and Thugs have melee-focused tier 3 pets, and Beasts has a lot of problems, that puts Thugs at the top of the list.

Probably too good. I bet there’s a reason Paragon Studios never proliferated rad to Masterminds.

Do not take Power Build Up from Energy Mastery. The recharge is too long. Instead, switch to red side and run a patron arc, then grab Soul Mastery for Power Boost. Same great effects boost as PBU, with a much shorter recharge. The only thing it lacks is the damage and tohit buff, which as an Emp defender you’re barely getting any use out of anyway.

I was up to around 160 million inf on my main character last night, but I've just checked and now I'm down to only 70 mil. I didn't buy anything expensive, so where did almost 100 million of my inf go? The only weird thing I did was use Null to switch to redside and back, which, last I heard, doesn't cost 100 million inf. Edit: Never mind, I figured it out. That goddamn Very Rare incarnate component recipe costs 100,000,000 to craft for some stupid reason.

This was changed for i25. It's not a bug.