Captain_Karate

Lag issues - I suppose it's possible. But I never have the problem with the /dark rez, only this one. The problem I am having, and the major source of my frustration is the bosses resist the kb(the minions and lts usually get knocked away though) and they also seem to not get stunned and just attack me as I am rising.

This is good advice. I had a level 20 toon that I was planning on deleting, but noticed she had about 5000 AE tickets. I decided to try the 10-14 bronzes. At the end of it all, I had 4 level 20 steadfast protection: - kb's, 4 steadfast protection: res/def, 1 steadfast protection: res/end, 1 karma: -kb protection. Those were the big winners. Not bad for 5000 tickets.

1) Yes...you always start by making the tier 1 boost first. These have the single 33% boosts.

2) You know your powers tray? Click "Powers" on the top of it. It will be beside the "Inspirations", "Enhancements", etc Once that opens, click the "Incarnate Abilities". That is to the right of the "Combat Attributes". This opens the Incarnate crafting area. This is where you will see which boosts are available, what they take to make, and where you convert salvage, and ultimately slot them.

3) Once you slot your alpha boost, it applies to all your powers. It's like a global bonus, only some of which ignores Enhancement Diversification penalties on diminishing returns.

4)See #3.

So say you have 12 shards, and you want to make an alpha. Click on "Powers", then "Incarnate Abilities". This opens the window. Click on the "Convert tab", and then on the left menu click on "alpha". Choose either Cardiac, Nerve, Spiritual, or Musculature. Say we are goign to make a level 1 cardiac.

By clicking the bottom one on the tree, we see it is called "cardiac boost." The pane on the right shows that we need Ancient Nictus Fragment, Hero 1 DNA sample, and a Gr'ai Matter.

Now click on the "Convert" tab, and scroll down to "Common". Tier 1s always just need common incarnate salvage. Scroll down until you see "Ancient Nictus Fragment". It requires 4 incarnate shards to make. Click "Create". Yay! You just made some common incarnate salvage of Ancient Nictus Fragment". Now do the same procedue for creating the other items - the Gr'ai matter, and the Hero 1 DNA sample.

Once you have all three pieces of required salvage, hit the "Create" tab and select "Cardiac Boost" again from the bottom of the Cardiac tree. On the pane on the right, when you click it...it will show what it requires. You have all the salvage so click "Create". You now have created an alpha slot boost.

Now go to the "Equip" tab. Click on Alpha, and then you will see which alpha's are available to slot on the right hand pane. Choose your Cardiac boost by right clicking it and choosing "Slot Power". If you get a message saying you are in combat, you may have to turn your auto powers, and toggle powers off. Also, I'm unable to slot alpha's in Oroborous, so usually leave that zone, and slot them in Atlas Park, etc.

now you've got your tier 1 alpha. It's pretty much the same for tier 2s. Just seeing what they require, converting the shards, creating them, and slotting them.

Hope this helps!

Make sure all your drivers are up to date. You could also try to click the "Safe Mode" box in the updater before you click "Next". This will reduce the settings to the lowest possible. You haven't posted any other specs etc, so it's hard to troubleshoot, but I would check the drivers first.

LOL I thought it was you. It was a few years ago(lotg 7.5s selling for 70-75 mill? lol) so I may be wrong. Way to ruin my endorsement...lol. :P

Sometimes you don't need anything else. I've had players come up to me in game and ask me to help them move inf between one toon and another, before Gleemail. I asked them directly "Why are you asking me? What makes you think I won't take your money?" and they answered "You're a 50. You've got 48 month vet badge. I know you won't cheat me out of 20 million." Well, they were right about that.

I was around a few years back when Lotg7.5s cost about 75 million. Well this one guy on the forums overbid(extra 0) and bid 750 million. Which back then was colossal. Fulmen's donated some of his money, and organized a charity drive of sorts. They raised the 750 million, and then he traded it to the guy for the Lotg7.5 that he had bought. There was a screenshot of it actually. So that guy got his 750 million back.

But anyways, that's the kinda guy Fulmens is. So personally, I wouldn't have any trouble trusting him in a large transaction. He's got little to gain from stealing a billion or two really. Heck, he's destroying billions in the Crazy 88's SG to gain prestige. So obviously he can make billions and toss it away just as easily. Would you worry about asking Bill Gates to hold onto 10 bucks for a few minutes while you went to pick up your friend? :-D

Although I didn't mention it specifically, since I was saying it was the same arc, just with a solo option, it would be under the same constraints as a normal TF. ie) you start one, you are locked into it without any changes allowed unless you quit, and restart. There would be no option for a solo player doing the same incarnate TF's, WTF's etc to call in help. Unless you count someone else emailing them awaken inspirations when they die.

When you talked to the contact, they would ask if you wanted to start a TF with a team, or by yourself. Insert dialogue here about how the team is recommended, but a solo option is present, although under the same TF constraints, and that the solo option can be very more challenging depending on your AT, etc. Blah, blah...etc.

You know what I wouldn't mind? Keep the WTF's but have a solo friendly version of them. Scale them down to 0x2 or 0x4 or something, and change all the AV's to EB's to let players have the opportunity to solo the same arcs. And as a lot of people have seen, soloing an EB is not always very easy(Trapdoor anyone?) The only other difference in the arcs between TF and solo? Instead of granting a Notice of the Well, the solo version offers something like "Glimmer of the Well" or something. These in themselves would be worth less than a Notice of the Well, but would be combineable in some multiple to form a Notice. I dunno....say 8:1 or something. Ya, an 8 man team can get a Notice of the Well in a few hours(or less if it is Khan) by teaming. But soloists can get theirs too by doing the SAME ARC, just 8 more times. This of course would require that the solo version arc be repeatable in the same week, for the same "glimmer of the well" reward. It's more of a grind for soloists, but is the same content, and everyone wins - as long as you don't mind soloing EB level content over and over again. Which could be very frustrating depending on AT and build. lol. :-s

So the solution is to punish the people who like to play, and have been playing this game solo, for years? I'm sorry, but by reading this thread, I thought that teams had "more risk" and therefore should got "more reward" and also "faster reward" because of it. Ok...I kinda see where they are coming from, even if I don't buy it personally. But whatever.

But not for nothing..."the majority" loves to team! But now they won't team if a solo option is present? Oh wait, I get it, they only like to team because they get (incarnate) stuff faster because the risk is greater? So if they made solo friendly incarnate arcs, no one would ever do TFs for similar rewards? So apparently the team/solo debate is moot. It's all about "getting stuff the fastest"?

I think it's all ridiculous. People who like to team will still team for the incarnate stuff, and people who like to solo will still solo for theirs. You might have a small proportion of min/maxer type team lovers who might go against their grain and solo content just for so called "faster reward" but I don't think it's a game breaker honestly for most people. And typically, the people who are min/maxers and do want and indeed get everything the fastest already have the characters and the influence to do it anyways. You don't develop that type of mentality in the game by having mediocre toons. But the point of the GAME is to have fun, and if they had WTFs and also soloable arcs available, it's basically win-win in my books.

I'm actually in the what I consider, small proportion group I mentioned above, but on the other side. I hate teaming, but I did go against my grain this week, and did two Khan TFs solely for the Notice of the Well. But now that I've got my level shift, I'm back to ignoring everyone else in the game basically again! That's how I like it. I do my thing, everyone else does theirs. The world makes sense for me again!

Well I was guessing 100 shards per Notice, so I for one am pleasantly surprised.

This more than anything else explains why I gave up on teaming a few years ago. I found that there was so much "afk", "brb", "bio", "door" etc that I spent more time between missions, or inside missions standing around waiting for people to get back than playing the game. Ya...I get it...ppl have lives, and the real world invades and they have to react. But hey...I'm here to fight evil NOW...not wait for your dog to take a leak! lol.

Overall, the reward/time became equal or less to what I could do on my own, so off I went. I've never really looked back either because I do have the characters now to take on practically anything the dev's can throw at me on a +0x8 up to +4x8 difficulty.

They could make the conversion rate of shards/NoTW at 100:1, and I'd have it in a few days. I could live with that. I'm farming stuff anyways - either for xp for my alts, normal shards, or purple drops.

I did do two Khan TFs the other day to get my level shift with two characters, and it wasn't a horrible experience like I remembered. Still though, I felt ridiculously out of place, since I'm used to never being on a team, and of course hadn't done that TF before. But if it was a choice between doing the TF and getting a notice in 32 mins for Khan, or farming for a few days for enough shard to convert, I would still choose farming. It's something I am good at. :P