Bionic_Flea

Oh look! A tiny, tasty dog. Must be an appetizer. *Jumps on to the fur and begins the non-nomming*

I also agree that it is a much better soloist than a team player because both Storm Cell and Cat5 take a while to ramp up. But soloing anything at +4/x8 without incarnates is a far cry from @DangerKitty's barely being able to complete +0/x1 at level 40. Your experience matches with mine, EXCEPT that I still feel I am contributing in fast moving teams with Freezing Rain debuffing and Direct Strike + Cloudburst adding some decent single target damage. Occasionally, I will skip ahead to start a group with the full set up and then the team mops up. Storm Blast is a bit like Traps and Gadgets -- great solo if you don't mind the set up but not great on a fast-moving steamroller team. I think it could use a little tweak up. My personal favorite idea is to give Intensify a bit more +damage and a bit longer duration. Other ideas could also be an improvement. But I don't think it's as bad or unplayable as some say. Maybe it is for other ATs -- I haven't tried so I can't say -- but it's fine on a corrupter.

I have a storm/storm corrupter that I find very capable. I'd be interested in showing you, or anyone, how it functions in game for me and I'd like to see how yours performs in the same content. Maybe there's a tactic or slotting option difference or maybe it's different expectations.

Alpha Incarnate powers like Agility do not effect inherent domination directly. It adds the equivalent of slotted recharge in all powers that could slot recharge and since you can't slot domination at all . . . you get nothing. However, it does add recharge to Hasten (and some other +recharge powers) , which can make that power recharge faster, which might make your domination recharge faster.

*Waits for the buffet*

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I slotted 3 Superior Frozen Blast and 3 damage procs.

Top right . . . three little dots like these ... click on that and then "hide". POOF! Problem solved.

A leader of foul-mouthed mercenaries who love penguins and can't stop talking about religion and politics?

Wait . . . there was drama and nobody thought to invite me? Unacceptable! But seriously, if you are feeling burnt out for any reason, then taking a break is a wise and healthy thing to do. We'll take care of the City while you take a break. Do you need anyone to house-sit your SG base? Water the plants, walk the dog, that sort of stuff.

Server Status says all are up: https://forums.homecomingservers.com/server-status/ And I just logged in a character using HC Launcher.

What I said in another thread on this issue: To be fair, several other players agreed with you (OP) in that thread.

It should be fixed. What launcher are you using and have you updated and/or re-verified?

Thanks for monitoring and letting us know, Six.

There are already about 2 dozen farming global channels. The most popular one is "Got Farms?" with 475 total members and the next is "Farming Excelsior" with 52. You can find these and other channels in game by right clicking in the chat box, choosing "channel search," and then use the pop up UI to search for "farm" or whatever. Now, some channels many be public, and can be joined by highlighting a channel name and then clicking the "Join Channel" button, and some may be private and require invitation by one of the channel moderators.

To the OP: No, thank you. Your proposal is to limit supply and the result will be higher prices across the board. There is no sustained market manipulation. There can't be for several reasons: 1) Everyone gets drops just from playing the game. While someone may be able to buy all the LoTGs +recharge and relist them for 10 million every other player will post their LoTGs for less to undercut the price and get the sale. So the alleged manipulator would be sitting on his stack of 10 Mill LoTGs because they aren't selling. 2) If you are unlucky enough to reach the market when only the 10 mill LoTG +recharge are for sale just bid on one of the other pieces in the set, or one of the other defense IOs and use converters until you get what you want. 3) Alternatively, you could choose to pay the stable and unchanging merit price of 50 merits for the recipe. As srmalloy suggests, you can value a merit by catalysts, converters, or boosters. One merit gets you 3 catalysts, which currently sell for about 70K, or 210K/merit; Five merits gets one booster, which sells for a million, or 200k/merit; Twenty merits gets you one Catalyst, which someone is buying at 562K, or the bargain basement price of 28K. Because of this, there is no IO that goes for much more than 20 million. The reason it goes above at all is convenience -- someone would rather pay 25 mill now than fuss with exchanging merits and selling whatever. Oh, and I almost forgot to add the crafting cost and cost of salvage of about 2.5 - 3 mill. Accordingly, merits set an upper limit on the price of items on the market. And that's why everything usually sells for much less than the equivalent in merit conversions and rarely, if ever, more. It's also why the Panacea, Shield Wall, and Gladiator's Armor procs sell for 4 -5 million and not the 2 billion + price they had on live. 4) ??? 5) Profit! Your other suggestion to have an average price per day/week/month/whatever would be nice. But my understanding is that the market is an especially fragile piece of spaghetti code.

Hey @Cipher, if you aren't too busy and don't mind sharing, why do you think it took longer to hit the donation target this time? From my earlier post, it seemed that you started it at an odd time (4am on Saturday!) and someone else reported that it was not advertised on Discord as usual. Where those intentional moves to try and get different folks to contribute? Can you tell if it's the same 200 or so players that fund it every month?

It's not terribly difficult to make a perma-Light Form Kheldian. Although you do get the crash, you have 2 heals to rely on. I don't remember Unicron, but all human PB can certainly be 85% damage resistance to all, has an eye beam, other blasts, some melee attacks, and can fly from level 1 on.

I play mainly on Excelsior as well. I am self employed so I may be on at any time of the day but then have to leave suddenly and for varying lengths of time. Because of that, I tend to solo a lot and join the occasional quick TF. All that said, if you see anyone named "_ _ _ _ _ ic Flea" it is most likely to be me. Hit me up and add me as a global friend. I'd be happy to hang out for a bit.

Forgive me if this sounds condescending; it's not meant to, but you should put the Looking For Group channel (LFG) on it's own tab and keep an eye on it. That's where most of the team ups occur, unless you have a private channel of friends. Welcome back!

The problem with most mez in this game is that it is binary; the critter is either a mezzed piñata or it completely ignored the mez due to resistance. What if mezzes did something else to critters that weren't fully mezzed? Something like slow and -recharge or removing the critter's abilities to use attacks until all it had left is brawl before being fully mezzed.

You can still import to Mids by clicking the link under the box that the new export function creates as a paste. This is the same build as the one in the hidden contents I posted above: View This Build In MRB ^^^Click on this thing here!^^^

I read that as "looking at a nun with ice/cold" Thus was born Nun Colder! Costume shamelessly stolen from @ChanelNo2. Also: Feel free to steal the name. Not enough Flea for me.

Yeah, that's great for coders who can look at that and see it as if it was a screen shot of a Mids Build. But to me that looks like gibberish. Honestly, the PDF versions aren't too bad. They could be even better with some additional formatting and colorizing. Please don't take me the wrong way. I REALLY appreciate what everyone and anyone who has worked on the various hero builders have done. I do. But as a long time user, being able to look at and share builds on the forums was one of the joys. This new version sucked a little bit of the joy out of it.