Bionic_Flea

I'm guessing that the true problem is that the market is not reliably posting the last 5 sales info. If a buyer comes into the market and doesn't see the last 5 sales but remembers that the item sold for 15 million last week they might go ahead and bid 15 million. Information is power. We need that window to reliably show the last 5 sales every. single. time.

I just don't see the existence of TOs and DOs to be a problem. They can be used or ignored as a player deems fit in any number of ways. The first 12 levels go by incredibly fast whether you run DFB, use 2XP, get farmed, or just kill Hellions solo. You don't ever have to slot TOs. You certainly don't need to buy any, but they're cheap if you want to. Getting to 22 takes a little bit longer but it's not very long either. But you can also start slotting IOs at level 7 including some great attuned sets, even more of those open up by level 20. I stopped buying TOs and DOs and even SOs back when the game was live. There's no sense having to continuously buy more as you level if you use IOs.

I'm not sure what eliminating them would do to help or what problem there is in their existence. I slot a few that drop and sell the rest. Before I know it, I am in my 20s and slotting SOs that drop and attuned IO sets. Removing them from the game as it exists now could lead to unexpected coding errors as this game's code is spaghetti on a stack of playing cards on a Jenga tower. The smallest thing can make it all go BOOM. Now, once they've tamed the beast and re-coded (if that's still a goal) then sure, eliminate them to save space in vendor and /AH user interfaces and make it easier on everyone to remember what to slot.

You have to set yourself up at a P2W to reject certain inspirations. Duals and Team inspirations are off by default. If you're an MM you may want to allow team inspires. So then choose whatever kinds of inspirations you want to reject. You can choose from the 3 sizes (small, medium, large) or by type (Accuracy, Defense, Resist, Break Free, etc.). I wouldn't recommend rejecting inspirations at a low level (25 and under, maybe). Once I get to 50, I reject small inspirations, awakens, and, if I have built in mez resistance, break frees. That set up is especially nice for farming situations where you are getting lots of inspirations and want to be able to combine them. One other tip, remember to use your inspirations to leave space! If you are always full you won't get credit for a rejection. You need to have the space available.

I see that you slot little to any Accuracy and assume that you are relying on the +tohit on Farsight. Do you find that to be enough? Do you miss more on this than other characters? I also see that Chrono-Shift is just shy of perma. I tried +5ing all of the pieces in there and it still came up short and, in fact, only provided minimum improvement. As you have about a 3 second gap does that cause Hasten to also have a gap? Chrono is needed for Hasten to be perma, but it may be up long enough that it doesn't make any practical difference. I'd like to see that character in action, if possible, and compare it to my Cold/Ice defender that is a well slotted set IO build with a few procs but not a proctologist. I play on Excelsior and am usually on from 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm Eastern US time. But I could transfer and possibly rearrange my schedule, especially on a weekend, to conform to yours.

If and when you do this, I hope you record it. It would be glorious to watch!

I thought it was good enough. You get the word "Waylay" floating when you trigger the proc and I see it a lot.

I go Core on some controllers, Fire for instance. The +1 mag on top of controllers' built in chance to proc a +1 Mag means I can frequently hold bosses in just one application. Mezzed critters get double damage due to containment and then extra psy damage on top of that. The reason I mention Fire as my example is that it has both flashfire and fire cages as AoE mezzes. Those would both set up the conditions for control core to give the extra damage. I have not yet tried control radial and cannot think of a good reason to do so, except, perhaps, to create more opportunities to achieve containment. So far though, I have preferred to take Control Core or Assault, or Support over Control Radial. For dominators I usually go for Assault or Support.

I haven't looked at the build, but I wondered if you took or considered taking burnout. I'm not sure what effect that would have on the procs, but you could do double gang war, lightning storm and other stuff.

OK. He's all yours then. I'm out. Good luck!

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Players should have the amount of money they earn through playing the game, which includes playing the market. Someone who plays 100 hours per week and uses converters and merits and the market should have more than someone who plays 10 hours a week and does none of that other stuff.

Have you run the Market Crash Trial? It's new, has a guaranteed purple drop your first time through (per character), has a couple of badges, and is fun as hell.

Back of napkin numbers* 85 slots x 50,000 for store bought SOs = 4,250,000 You could probably get those SOs off the market at a fraction of that price, but you might have to wait. 85 slots x 800,000 = 68,000,000 for generic IOs bought off the workbench and personally crafted. You could probably get those off the market for, on average, about 300,000 (x85=25,500,000) 85 slots x 500,000 = 42,500,000 for the average price of uncommon, crafted IO piece from the market. 85 slots x 1,000,000 = 85,000,000 for the average price of the cheaper, non-uber rare set piece from the market. --12 slots of ATOs x 10,000,000 = 120,000,000 --06 slots of generic IOs x 300,000 = 1,800,000 --18 slots of Winter Os x 25,000,000 = 450,000,000 --10 slots of purples x 25,000,000 = 250,000,000 --05 slots of LoTG +7.5 x 6,000,000 = 30,000,000 --34 slots of other stuff x 3,000,000 = 102,000,000 all that equals 953,800,000, lets just call it a billion. All of the above assumes that you do not get any usable drops and that you buy everything from the vendor, worktable, or market at current buy-it-now prices or average prices. It also assumes that you do not buy anything with merits, have nothing stored, and used no converters. Some builds are more expensive then others. For example, a perma-dom Dominator might need to slot more purples for the recharge than a blaster that has plenty of attacks and isn't chasing recharge. So . . . a build costs anywhere from 4 million to a billion influence. In my personal experience, a build like the last one ends up costing me about 300,000,000 - 400,000,000 when using base storage, drops, and converters. And you could probably have a fully SO'ed build "for free" with nothing but drops in about 20 hours of running missions and killing critters.

No, it isn't. Cornering the market means you own all of an item and can demand whatever price you want and people have to pay it if they want it since you are sole source. That is impossible to do in this game. If someone bought all of the LoTG's as you claim they cannot maintain that. Someone will come along and post it at a lower price. Even if they could sustain it, people can just buy it from the merit vendor or convert it from something else.

Huh? Look, if you don't want to use converters that is entirely your choice. You can choose to pay the fixed merit vendor cost. You can choose to pay the buy-it-now price at the market. You can choose to place a lower patient bid of a price that you think is fair. You can choose to buy the recipe and craft it yourself. You can choose to only slot things that your character obtains as drops. Play however you want. All items ARE infinitely available if you are willing to wait. The market is churning just about every item every hour multiple times. If what you are looking for isn't there, come back later or leave a bid and wait for it to fill.

The "moderators" have set a soft cap on prices with the merit vendors. A reasonable person would not buy from the market at a value above what one would pay at the merit vendor. Where an item sells between 1 influence and the 2 billion /AH cap is entirely up to the buyer. A seller cannot sell what a buyer will not buy. A player cannot "corner the market" where items are continuously being generated from thin air.

This is the best market I have ever seen in a game. It doesn't need additional caps. All caps do is force people to sell the most valuable items off market. Remember live when certain PvPIOs went for 2 billion on the market and folks started selling them off market? I do. As GM Capocollo correctly stated, the merit cost of items acts as a cap on prices already. Why would I pay more than 100 million in the market since I can straight up buy 100 merits at 1mill a piece and use those merits to buy it myself without market fees or giving a too greedy seller the satisfaction. In fact, chances are that I could spend much less than 100 million by buying something in the same set or type and then use converters. The fact that the price of LoTGs +7.5 went up to 12 million momentarily is meaningless. It's back to 6 million at the time I typed this response. PS - One does not make wealth by hoarding, In this game, you become wealthy by killing many critters or selling many items or both. I'm sorry, but market price is what a buyer is willing to pay a seller for a given item. If people start buying LOTGs for 12 million then that, by definition, IS the market price

I like Clarion Radial. In addition to it's use as a break-free or preemptive mez protection you get AT LEAST a 10% boost for 90 seconds to defense, defense debuff, tohit, range, heal, endurance, and all your mezzes. If you are already soft-capped at 45% defense it will kick your defense and all that other stuff into astronomical levels for 22 seconds -- long enough to run into a large mob and launch an AoE hold or Nuke. When used in combination or alternating between Power Build Up, Power Boost, Domination, Hybrid Support or Control Core you can do some crazy stuff.

Suggestion: Don't fight in DA.

Check on this consolidated I25 patch notes from OuroDev: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11cLJiSYlfueJheOumRywG8Evip2Mjmu_30Y6ePaetqY/edit

Agree with the general consensus: Better damage on Bio, Better recharge and, IMO, easier survival, on Rad.

It's Twinshot's other arcs in the next higher level brackets.

When talking about damage in CoH, the answer is almost always Fire.