DanZero

Fort Trident for heroes. Walk in, head left, box next to BOTLER.

Trust me. You'll never get the one you want or need until you already own it. Unless you farm for purples, which is different from farming for inf.

If you want the inf, sell the purples, if you want the purples farm the purples. There's another thread with purple farm info front page in this sub forum.

In all seriousness, if you stick to level 50s, inf comes in waves. I average 10 mil an hour not counting rare drops and purples etc. That's just standard IO recipies and trash plus mob inf.

You don't need a particular build, just a 50 and a couple hours a day.

Example, was just tooling around killing junk and a purple dropped. I checked it, hmmmm. armageddon. 600 mil inf.

Remember, the high prices on the market favor the poor. Why? We don't buy, we sell. When we get a high priced item from a drop, we get more inf that we can reasonably spend unless we're buying really really sought after junk on the market, which we can just get anyways through playing the game.

If you hit a farm for 2 hours a day, for one week, you'll realize that farming inf is silly easy.

Hence my tongue in cheek post. Point character to 50 mobs, kill as fast as you can, rake in the clams. Good weeks, I make a billion. Bad weeks, 200 mil. And that's not even trying...

Okay. That makes sense. You want the stuff but don't like the content. And there no way to get the stuff without doing the content. Valid point.

For you, I hope they reduce the number of shards to create stuff then. They probably will eventually. Or, stuff will be fore sale on the market eventually. But yeah, that sucks.

But those of us who do like the content are not elitists. I don't think you said that but others have... let's just agree that it's definitely causing a rift, but is not the end of the game by far.

I said task forces and missions.


I'm fairly certain most endgame content in most games is gated. Comes with the territory.

I said 'slotted'.



Yup. Very true


Oh well. I don't like running Positron, but I do it to get Task Force Commander.

How would 'open endgame' work then? Everyone gets to play and gain things with little effort? Skip engame raids entirely, but still get the rewards from running Maria Jenkins?

So that's what this is about...

One step further...

There IS nothing to complain about because they still CAN play the game exactly as they did before. NOTHING CHANGED except we finally got some endgame content.

Remember when Mission Architect was 'killing the game I love'???

Flavor of the month rant about nothing. I still get groups for all sorts of content and I'm a dummy. It ain't hard.

To be honest, there were about 4 red side specific no Incarnate stuff I saw go by, not counting villain tips, but I don't remember the names because.... um... I am... uh, not so clued into red side *shame*.

I did run a silver mantiss last night tho! Progress is progress.

Apex is one of two incarnate task forces. Out of how many other Task Forces and missions? Hundreds? In i20 they are releasing new, non incarnate Strike Forces. They are creating some gated endgame content, yes. Many many of us have been asking this for years.

But they will still create new non-incarnate stuff.

Let us endgame people have our bone. If anything, endgame has been neglected for 6 years. High level does not imply elitist. I play my 'broken' 50s and get by just fine and no one seems to complain. I get teams. If I want Apex, I go get the Alpha and then I can run Apex. It takes, what, an HOUR to get your Apex slotted?

If anything, it's elitist to blame those of us who like the incarnate system and the Developers who created it, for you not getting on teams.

I've been around a while and have NEVER been turned down for a team, booted off of a team or gignored for having gimped builds, SO only characters, hell even my ManToons get on team regularly. Maybe your server is filled with bullies and elitists, but mine seems to be the opposite to a fault. We'll throw out any old team.

Two Task Forces require incarnate slots. New Incarnate Trials will do the same. It ain't going to rock anyone's boat. People played the same elitist card when Purple IO sets came out. Now? Is anyone chasing the Purple Rainbow? Is anyone 'requring' 'purped out' toons?

With all there is to see and do and the vast number of people with differing playstyles... you will be able to play the way you want.

Here's an idea... why don't you guys who think the incarnate stuff is going to stratify the game get together on a server, start a supergroup, recruit like minded people, ignore the incarnate stuff if you want to and make it a fun place for you?

And you don't magically become more right by being rude.

That being said, I'm talking about the New Trials and Task Forces.

The WSF, the rewards are only marginally better and those rewards are only necessary to do the New Endgame Content.

I rolled Rad/Rad back when Rad/Rad was good. Like issue 2.

By cheap I mean quick. I don't want to waste too much time slotting. I want IO set, not SOs or generics, but I don't want to invest too much time raking in the dough even with my other 50s to twink.

This character is one of those hit 50, get alpha, slot sets and pull out when people need a debuffer.

Um... because at level 42 I don't feel like rerolling?

Seriously, anyone going to give some suggestions?

Anyone got an old build they want to share?