I want my tech wings, but I ain't paying the going prices at Wentworths. What can I pick the recipe up off of?

Since they're Tech and wings, I would wager a bet that says you might be able to find them on a really really hard Sky Raider mob or boss. I dunno if it works that way with recipes (like salvage) or if it's random what you get (I got a Positron's Blast off od a Wyvern mob).

Wow. The prices at Wentwoth's are absolutely inasane, which was something some of the testers pedicted would happen.

Well, the supply needs a little time to catch up with the demand. It's only the first day.

DP: The Tech Wings recipe can, AFAIK, drop off of any enemy (except a Giant Monster)... although if you want to play it safe you could just go after any non-magic enemy.

For some reason I thought this issue would drop with a little more fanfare. Especialy seeing as it coincided with the 3rd year anniversry. But it was just kind of ... meh.


Even the 3rd year badge was meh. For having the 1st and 2nd year badges, people got the 5th columnist gladiator badge. I kinda figured we would see something for 1,2,3rd year and maybe 2,3rd year combos.

I'm just disappointed that they rushed I9 to live just to release on the anniversary date. There are still known issues (that they even pop up for you when you log on) that need work, but they just had to rush to live only for the sake of doing so on the anniversary date.

Seriously, this is not good control. I'd rather have waited for the stealth IO issue to be fixed (handily NOT mentioned in the known issues, btw) before being released, or just remove the stealth IOs until they can be fixed.

I only got to play around on I9 for about 90 minutes last night. EVERYONE I knew was already engaged in the Statesman Task Force, so it was kinda boring hanging around by myself. I did the invention tutorial, got 3 pieces of common IS, learned that if you accept the "Create Invention Enhancement" while in SG mode, you don't get the "free" influence to create the enhancement (or you may get some, but it gets split just like normal inf/prestige split occurs). Not that my level 50 needed it, but that is a bit misleading.

Already discovered Giant Monsters don't drop anything new. Took down Jurassik with a team of 8 last night, and all I got was the usual prestige.

On the whole, I hope to get to play around a bit more with I9 tonight. I'm trying to find where I can go high-level tech hunting. Peregrine doesn't have as many level 50 Nemesis as I thought. I guess I need to hit the Shadow Shard, but then solo'ing with all those bosses....

Anyone figure out how the new invention badges work? I see I have progress towards another badge just for doing the tutorial. But, if there are 60 new badges.... They'll need a "500" badge soon.

Well, I'm feeling Nostalgic, plus NCSoft has informed me in celebration of I9 my account's been reactivated through Sunday - so I'm reinstalling City of Heroes as we speak (Can't locate CoV, and besides, my computer chugged along with CoV anyway so I'm just opting for the Hero side).

It's still got 2 hours left on the download ticker, so I likely won't get on till later this evening (10:30-11:00 p.m. at the earliest) but still...at least through Sunday, -Night Raider shall return.

EDIT: Ironically, if you go back to Page 9, I9 adds in a majority of things I WISHED the game would've added in at the time of my departure. Gah....I don't wanna feed a two MMO addiction.

Looks as if they recolored the Black Market truck that looked like Prime Blue, I guess for legal reasons. Well it's blue in the e-mail I just got I haven't seen it in the game yet.

Yeah, we discussed that previously

Previously, on Allspark City of Heroes/Villains...

Well, it wasn't meant to be.

Reinstalled CoH, got on Night Raider, the minute I moved from where I loaded, my Computer went into seizures forcing a hard reboot.

Shortest return in history.

2 attempts at the Statesforce so far, no success as of yet...

At least the 2nd one got past Aeon. Is Mako supposed to be THAT HARD TO HIT?!?!?!?


In other news, Sky, I want pics of Magmasaur with the Dragon Wings

He's supposed to be a challenge, but not impossible...him and GW are the hardest ones to deal with. Our problem the other night was the lack of buffs/debuffs, Doolittle was more of an offender and we lost our other Empath...and so I was the only one with tohit buffs from Tactics and debuffs from my rad powers. If both our Empaths were there and had Fortitude, I think it might have gone much better.

Hey Skyra Sauros, who's your daddy? No, it's not Zooty...

Side note: Draconic wings are friggin' HUGE.

I saw your <_< >_> on Allspark last night, Night Raider. But, you had left by the time I responded.

Are you still having the same problem?

Truthfully, considering how World of WarCraft runs fine on my PC but CoX gives it fits, I think what's happened is the graphical updates they gave CoX (Especially the Particle and Debris) put the game out of my Over the Counter Four Years Old PC's ability to handle.

Yay! Got thu the STF on the 2nd try

Mako is ridiculous though. Damn!

Still haven\t completed the STF...



I wonder how the new CPU I just got will handle the game. Am I gonna see an improvement? Same old same old? WIll it be "ohmahgawdmakeitstop?" I'll know when the client finishes updating...

I thought too hard about how I want to slot my characters with IOs. Thinking about how much it would take to get the recipes, the salvage needed to make it, which sets to choose from, how many to slot, which powers to slot them in, whether or not I'd need to respec to add more slots to certain powers...

Then my brain died.

._.

My approach to IOs will be pretty much the same as with regular Enhancements and slotting:


Wing it. That's how I've been doing it since day 1 and I never got dissatisfied.

But... but... shiny!

Is it just me, or are we not getting any more regular salvage? I have yet to get a single piece of standard salvage, just invention salvage. I've already filled up my personal storage space, and I've only received a small handful of recipes.

I've definitely had some base salvage since I9 went live, but base salvage was always sufficiently rare that it's hard to get a grasp on if anything has changed.

Phazer

Nah, I'm getting both too when in SG mode.

Unrelated question: Anyone running CoX on Vista? If so, is there a way to make the damn computer KNOW that CoX is ok and thus stopping that damn Cancel/Allow box from popping up whenever I start the game?

My fear with IOs is that a character tricked out with IOs will become the "baseline" for character builds when the devs design new missions/mobs/etc. Thus, those of us that don't give a rat's butt about IOs will find ourselves at a severe disadvantage.

However, looking at some of the bonuses that IO sets give, is it REALLY worth that 2% additional damage? Or that 1.34363896% damage resist? It may not be as bad as I think if these bonuses are that trivial. Thus, I'll stick to just selling recipes at the consignment house (made 10M on 3 "normal" recipes yesterday) and getting the badges for that. If I get any costume pieces, I'm keeping them.

Heck, my Large Cave varied Kora Fruit mission I've had on the backburner for 18 months has become very handy. I've sold over 40 medium sized inspirations at Wentworth's for 150 inf each. Not a lot of inf, but that's 40 items sold. Greens and blues seem to be the most popular.

As far as salvage drops, I'm still getting base and invention salvage. You can sell salvage at stores now for 100 inf each regardless of rarity. May not want to seel invention salvage just yet, but sheesh, just too much base salvage already.

Now if they could put digit grouping on the bidding/selling amounts. I accidently put an extra '0' on one of the recipes yesterday and listed it at 30M, of which Wentworth's happily took 1.5M immediately. I only intended 3M (since it wasn't worth 30M).

Yep.



If there is, I haven't found it yet either. It's irritating, isn't it?

Phazer

They already said that the Inventions system was designed to be completely optional, so to say something like that and then make new content with IOs as baseline would be kind of a jerkhole thing to do. I'm betting they don't do it.

I just turn off User Account Control. Not sure how to do it on an per-application basis.

Yeah, I know about UAC, but thing is I *want* to keep it for those things that might slip under my personal radar. I just want to turn it off for *this* program.

I'm getting back into this game...again...anyone want to make a lowlevel supergroup?

AW YEAH!!

CONGRATS!!!

There doesn't appear to be any way to do that. I don’t want to turn UAC off either, because if you do Windows blocks access to the %temp% folder to all programs (yes, seriously, and no, there's no way to turn said access back on without UAC). Loss of said access makes rather a lot of installation programmes fall over (such as Acrobat Reader).

I'm really hoping that sort of dumb crap is sorted in SP1.

The Vista thread on the COH boards suggests that if you set up a folder on your C Drive yourself, then move the install to that rather than in programme files and reinstall the app (and download all the patches again) that gets rid of the UAC prompt, but that's an even bigger hassle than the damned prompt.

Phazer

I figured it out! If you want to run CoH without the UAC prompt, do the following:


Create a copy of the City of Heroes shortcut.

Change the Target so it looks like this: "C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\CityOfHeroes.exe" -project "coh" -compatiblecursors 1

(You can remove the '-compatiblecursors 1' if you're not having cursor issues)

Then run from this shortcut instead of the main one.

This will bypass the updater, which is what is causing the UAC prompt. It's not perfect, you'll still need the original shortcut when there are patches to update, but it gets rid of the prompt for everyday usage.

Skipping the uptdater also gets you back into the game without the dreaded "Verifying Files" message if you happened to crash out of CoH earlier. It will still verify files the next time you run updater, though.

That Arachnos Flier is a pain in the butt. We had a stone/stone tank on our STF that managed to hold its aggro, but we'd get it down to about 10%, then it would disappear and re-appear elsewhere at full health. After about 3 times, we finally managed to take it down. It still re-appeared later on while we were keeping Lord Recluse occupied.

And wow does that thing spit out the Bane Spiders!

I was just curious, how do you find out what items are going for in wentworth's?

Edit: I just figured out there is a sales history

Yep, pretty easy once you get the hang of it

Also: Double XP Weekend coming in again in a couple weeks.

Meaning: Goon Platoon will go up a couple more levels again, though I might log in a few hours with Zoot too to build up capital for those invention badges (Man, going after all the invention badges is expensive!!!)

Remember ANY inventing counts toward the 10,000 invention badge. Inventing base salvage (Prototype, Software, Hardware, Power) will help greatly. Finally, a use for all that useless Base Salvage.

Yeah I know - Zoot's already well on the way to the 3rd "Artisan"badge.

I meant the -other- badges are hella expensive to get. Just getting ALL the badges for the healing sets (Medicator all the way to Revifier) took a LOT of influence.

I'm down about 60 million influence, and I'm only a third of the way there... sigh...

Pft, slackers!

Yes, that is Field Crafter.

show off

Bah. I've got all the memorization badges now, but still don't have Master Craftsman.

Wow. I only have the 50 item and 100 item badges. None of the "craft a level 25 damage enhancement with the jade monkey under a full moon" badges or whatever criteria there is....

However, I might actually go for them. Not sure I will ever finish, but maybe. I'm getting tired of getting the same useless recipes over and over, so I have to debate if its worth just selling the recipe, crafting the thing and selling that, or actually using one of the things.

Yeah, I'm not too thrilled with the crafting thing in general. I'm still quite certain - despite what the devs say now - that tricked out IO characters will either become the baseline for game difficulty, or such characters will get nerfed. Either way, it's a feature for power gamers, which I don't fall into.

I still don't think they'll be the baseline for game difficulty, at least as far as PVE is concerned. They will of course take them into account, but they shouldn't become the baseline. Now, PVP, that's a different animal. Tricked out characters will become baseline simply because the competitive environment will dictate it to be so - kind of like an arms race.

Buh?

o_O

They finally fixed the Arachnos Flier, by the way. I just got the badge again on my other level 50 villain.

Tom DeSanto must look at us and say "Guys, you put my kids through college!"

ISSUE 10 is coming... and bringing the Rikti with it.

Phazer