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[CoX] Issue 20: Incarnates is live!

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  • ScooterScooter Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Cause of timing some people got 2 notices last week

    Scooter on
  • RobzielRobziel Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Narbus wrote: »
    Oh my very rare is so nice, such a nice Spiritual Core Paragon, so very nice indeed, such a boost, such a nice boost.

    Hate you so much

    Robziel on
    Do I look like the sort of man who'd go and find unsuspecting Japanese schoolgirls in short skirts and white panties and ask them if they want to see my "Cthulu Special"?
  • Modern ManModern Man Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Robziel wrote: »
    Narbus wrote: »
    Oh my very rare is so nice, such a nice Spiritual Core Paragon, so very nice indeed, such a boost, such a nice boost.

    Hate you so much
    I got my rare last night, but I think that'll be it for me, probably. The Musculature very rares are okay, but maybe not worth the effort.

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  • A duck!A duck! Moderator, ClubPA mod
    edited February 2011
    WRONG

    A duck! on
  • Modern ManModern Man Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I'll probably end up getting one through pure inertia. Over time, you can't help but get enough components to end up with a very rare, I guess. I just don't feel a pressing need to get one, though.

    Modern Man on
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  • Eat it You Nasty Pig.Eat it You Nasty Pig. tell homeland security 'we are the bomb'Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Assuming you're playing the character somewhat regularly, it seems pretty likely you'll have the stuff for the very rare upgrade by the time you have enough notices to actually build it.

    Eat it You Nasty Pig. on
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  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    edited February 2011
    How have these shitrat bastards gotten two notices I hate you

    Tube on
  • NarbusNarbus Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    There's some bug where if you re-run the strike target there's a chance you'll get a second notice and bonus merits instead of credit towards the "helped run strike targets" badges. I tried to earn credit for the badge last week, instead got a second notice.

    I did not complain.

    Narbus on
  • RobzielRobziel Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I hate that I can't replicate the bug :(

    Robziel on
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  • kafzielkafziel Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I like getting paid but I hate that with work I have almost no time/energy to play during the week. No TF yesterday, probably no TF tonight, and Catface remainds pathetically unbuilt.

    kafziel on
  • ScooterScooter Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Robziel wrote: »
    I hate that I can't replicate the bug :(

    Everyone who got it said they did their first run early on Tuesday. The most likely explanation is that someone reset the clock on it sometime Tuesday afternoon and who knows if that'll ever happen again. Was their first switch and all.

    Scooter on
  • grouch993grouch993 Both a man and a numberRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    anyone on blue side on virtue now? Looking to beat up on babbage in boomtown and need bodies.

    On EpitaphZero.

    Or not, three of us took him down. Wasn't as ugly a fight as I remembered.

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  • lostprophetlostprophet Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Ok so I've my little William Sherman to level 24 and am about to do the respec trial. Before I use the respec I'd really appreciate any input on this build I have for him.


    Villain Plan by Mids' Villain Designer 1.92
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    William Sherman: Level 50 Magic Mastermind
    Primary Power Set: Thugs
    Secondary Power Set: Poison
    Power Pool: Flight
    Power Pool: Leadership
    Power Pool: Speed
    Power Pool: Concealment
    Ancillary Pool: Chill Mastery

    Villain Profile:
    Level 1: Call Thugs -- Acc(A), Acc(3)
    Level 1: Alkaloid -- Heal(A), Heal(3), EndRdx(7), EndRdx(7), RechRdx(9), RechRdx(9)
    Level 2: Envenom -- Acc(A), Acc(5), EndRdx(19), EndRdx(19), RechRdx(21), RechRdx(21)
    Level 4: Weaken -- Acc(A), Acc(5), EndRdx(33), EndRdx(33), RechRdx(34), RechRdx(34)
    Level 6: Equip Thugs -- EndRdx-I(A), EndRdx-I(11)
    Level 8: Hover -- DefBuff(A), DefBuff(46)
    Level 10: Assault -- EndRdx-I(A), EndRdx-I(11)
    Level 12: Call Enforcer -- Acc(A), Acc(13), Dmg(13), Dmg(15), DefBuff(15), DefBuff(17)
    Level 14: Fly -- Flight(A), Flight(43)
    Level 16: Tactics -- EndRdx(A), EndRdx(17), ToHit(40), ToHit(40)
    Level 18: Gang War -- Acc(A), Acc(23), Dmg(37), Dmg(40), RechRdx(42), RechRdx(42)
    Level 20: Elixir of Life -- EndRdx-I(A), EndRdx-I(25)
    Level 22: Hasten -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(23)
    Level 24: Grant Invisibility -- EndRdx(A), EndRdx(25)
    Level 26: Call Bruiser -- Acc(A), Acc(27), Dmg(27), Dmg(29), Hold(31), Hold(31)
    Level 28: Paralytic Poison -- Acc(A), Acc(29), Hold(36), Hold(36), RechRdx(37), RechRdx(37)
    Level 30: Invisibility -- EndRdx(A), EndRdx(31)
    Level 32: Upgrade Equipment -- EndRdx-I(A), EndRdx-I(33)
    Level 35: Phase Shift -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(36)
    Level 38: Noxious Gas -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(39), EndRdx-I(39), EndRdx-I(39)
    Level 41: Flash Freeze -- Acc(A), Acc(42), RechRdx(43), RechRdx(43)
    Level 44: Hoarfrost -- Heal(A), Heal(45), ResDam(45), ResDam(45), RechRdx(46), RechRdx(46)
    Level 47: Hibernate -- EndMod(A), EndMod(48), Heal(48), Heal(48), RechRdx(50), RechRdx(50)
    Level 49: Frozen Armor -- EndRdx(A), EndRdx(50)
    Level 50: Nerve Radial Boost


    Level 1: Brawl -- Empty(A)
    Level 1: Sprint -- Empty(A)
    Level 1: Supremacy
    Level 2: Rest -- Empty(A)
    Level 2: Swift -- Empty(A)
    Level 2: Health -- Heal-I(A)
    Level 2: Hurdle -- Empty(A)
    Level 2: Stamina -- EndMod-I(A), EndMod-I(34)
    Level 4: Ninja Run

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  • GhostalkerGhostalker Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I want it noted that duck is bad luck to bring on any Lady Gray.

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  • A duck!A duck! Moderator, ClubPA mod
    edited February 2011
    NOT MY FAULT.

    A duck! on
  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    edited February 2011
    Yeah that sounds like Duck alright. Dammit I still have 2 lgtfs to do. anyone want to speed one?

    Tube on
  • NarbusNarbus Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    You do not speed the Lady Grey you goddamn heathen. You crank it up to +2, murder damn near everything you see, and still finish up in an hour 15 like i did last night LIKE A MAN.

    Narbus on
  • ScooterScooter Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Yea, LGTF can be done quick, but it's not one to 'speed'. You can really only cut short two missions, and that's by going out of your way to fail them, after they're half done anyways, and that just rubs me the wrong way. I guess you could port to the end of the last mish, but that one's the most entertaining kill-fest in the game.

    Scooter on
  • Eat it You Nasty Pig.Eat it You Nasty Pig. tell homeland security 'we are the bomb'Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    You can speed all of them but hami, really. And I guess the rider mission doesn't matter too much whether you run it fast.

    Eat it You Nasty Pig. on
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    hold your head high soldier, it ain't over yet
    that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    edited February 2011
    dang I guess now that I'm level 50 I should start doing this stuff

    also I should log in

    also I should figure out what the DEAL is with all this stuff

    DJ Eebs on
  • Eat it You Nasty Pig.Eat it You Nasty Pig. tell homeland security 'we are the bomb'Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    do people still do the AE leveling thing

    my dominator's going to get out of praetoria before too long, and thinking about going from 20-40 conventionally is giving me the fear

    Eat it You Nasty Pig. on
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    hold your head high soldier, it ain't over yet
    that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
  • WeX MajorsWeX Majors 8th Floor, MegashipRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I would imagine people would, but everyone that could help is busy getting incarnate shit, which has nothing to do with AE.
    If someone DOES wind up doing it, I have many characters I don't want to bother leveling solo.

    WeX Majors on
  • ScooterScooter Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Man, you guys

    I remember when we used to do fun stuff when we had 8-man teams

    Now it's all "hey let's spend 30 levels doing the same mission in AE woo"

    Scooter on
  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    edited February 2011
    Yeah, anyone who doesn't play the way scooter plays is an idiot. I particularly hate anyone who uses their buffs.

    Tube on
  • Modern ManModern Man Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    do people still do the AE leveling thing
    God, I hate that. AE is great in theory, but so much of it seems geared towards levelling farms.

    I don't like how they implemented AE. It really doesn't integrate with the game at all. It's just this weird little world that has nothing to do with the game world itself.

    Modern Man on
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  • grouch993grouch993 Both a man and a numberRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I used to suffer through the contact leveling just so I could have someone to buy and sell inspirations in the various zones.

    Guess it is easy enough to pop out to ouroboros and fill up these days.

    Was trying to use AE to find marcone boss, whatchamahoolie spirit masks, and carnie pets to finish badges there instead of having to scour zones for hours. Was farming or badge hunting considered "abuse of AE"?

    Plus, we ran LGTF on virtue last night, didn't cheese any of the missions, completed around an hour and was very smooth running. Had a couple blasters, two controllers, brute, dominator and two scrappers. Lost one of the scrappers halfway through. My illusion/kinetics controller performed pretty well, even with all the low level IOs and empty slots.

    The extra fun part to that was hopping on the mastermind and catching a rikti invasion right afterwards and managing to collect all the badges and accolade in one go.

    TL;DR had fun last night

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  • RobzielRobziel Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I use AE for rare salvage so I don't have to buy it for whatever insane price it's going for, 4mill+ at the moment

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    Do I look like the sort of man who'd go and find unsuspecting Japanese schoolgirls in short skirts and white panties and ask them if they want to see my "Cthulu Special"?
  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    edited February 2011
    You're better off using the tickets on rolls. You'll make more than enough to buy the salvage.

    Tube on
  • RobzielRobziel Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Not when my rolls are Crap of the Hunter, Crap of the Hunter, Passing of the turtle and every other single worthless recipe out there. The City of RNG actively hates me and as such I don't use anything that's a random roll (except Hami-O's from raids and sometimes not even them.)

    Robziel on
    Do I look like the sort of man who'd go and find unsuspecting Japanese schoolgirls in short skirts and white panties and ask them if they want to see my "Cthulu Special"?
  • NarbusNarbus Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    do people still do the AE leveling thing

    my dominator's going to get out of praetoria before too long, and thinking about going from 20-40 conventionally is giving me the fear

    The last few issues have put in 4-5 different, largely very very good, arcs in the 20-30 range, and now with tips there's good reason to run normal missions for xp.
    grouch993 wrote: »
    I used to suffer through the contact leveling just so I could have someone to buy and sell inspirations in the various zones.

    Guess it is easy enough to pop out to ouroboros and fill up these days.

    Was trying to use AE to find marcone boss, whatchamahoolie spirit masks, and carnie pets to finish badges there instead of having to scour zones for hours. Was farming or badge hunting considered "abuse of AE"?
    AE is set up that you don't get credit for any badges other than the Architect specific badges. Paying off debt, taking damage, making inf, killing things, none of these count towards their badges if you are in AE.

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  • NocrenNocren Lt Futz, Back in Action North CarolinaRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Plus they added a Nurse at every hospital that sells Inspirations now.

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  • WeX MajorsWeX Majors 8th Floor, MegashipRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Scooter wrote: »
    Man, you guys

    I remember when we used to do fun stuff when we had 8-man teams

    Now it's all "hey let's spend 30 levels doing the same mission in AE woo"

    Scoot, I don't think we were asking for that. Tbh, everytime I've gone on recently, there weren't even 8 people logged in. Which I thought what he was askin for
    "There's three people in the channel, can AE leveling still work?"
    If I logged in now, and there were 7 people runnin real missions I could join, I wouldn't sit there and go "let's do AE farming!"

    WeX Majors on
  • Modern ManModern Man Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    My main character is relatively poor. Like, 100 million inf. I don't really have the patience to endlessly farm for drops to make bank.

    Any suggestions on a relatively painless way to make money? I'm not looking to be super-rich, just less poor.

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  • RobzielRobziel Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Honestly outside of farming the best way to make money is just to play the game. Do lvl 50 content get a minuscule chance to get a purple. Do mid level content and sell the salvage you get, do tips earn Alignment Merits buy stuff to sell. Almost all of my money comes from doing that, just playing.

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  • WeX MajorsWeX Majors 8th Floor, MegashipRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Team with these bastards when they're runnin 50 content.
    Almost every time I've done this (even more so If it's with a really low level dude) I'll come out with some insane recipe. That will at least net you 2 mil.

    Also, low level magic salvage is still selling for a pretty penny. at least 100k for each thing.

    Regarding how to double/triple/whatever your initial figure, that I'm not sure of. The market's pretty much died down now and gone back to normal.
    I think Candy Canes are still selling for 100,000 each.

    WeX Majors on
  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    edited February 2011
    100 mil isn't SUPER poor. If you're not super bothered, just run tips. You'll get the occasional awesome drop and the villain merits can go to lotgs or whatever.

    Tube on
  • Forever ZefiroForever Zefiro cloaked in the midnight glory of an event horizonRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    It's pretty interesting to see the starting areas of this game so empty.

    Anyway, I've got Excellior and Zephiro on Virtue, both really low level dudes, hit me up if you wanna

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  • GhostalkerGhostalker Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    It's pretty interesting to see the starting areas of this game so empty.

    Anyway, I've got Excellior and Zephiro on Virtue, both really low level dudes, hit me up if you wanna

    Make sure you're in the PA channel and something usually comes around.

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  • A duck!A duck! Moderator, ClubPA mod
    edited February 2011
    Scooter wrote: »
    Yea, LGTF can be done quick, but it's not one to 'speed'. You can really only cut short two missions, and that's by going out of your way to fail them, after they're half done anyways, and that just rubs me the wrong way. I guess you could port to the end of the last mish, but that one's the most entertaining kill-fest in the game.

    I was on a pug that did it in under 35 minutes, and that felt pretty sweet in its own right.

    A duck! on
  • A duck!A duck! Moderator, ClubPA mod
    edited February 2011
    For lepwave:
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    EDIT - I want to redo it now that I have infamy, but that would just be to get more recharge out of things like Omega and Venom. This was a cheap build that I ended up liking.

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