Dechs Kaison

I have to single this post out, and I mean nothing personal about it, but let's go ahead and change it a few times to show how much sense it really makes.

See how ridiculous all of those sound? As a tanker, your job is aggro control. Why you would not take the single most powerful tool to accomplish this goal is beyond me.

Some tankers may be able to get away without taunt. Such a broad statement that none of your tanks take it, though, is foolish at best. Any tank without taunt will almost always lose his aggro to a shield scrapper.

Pretty sure Finduilias has the record breaking build. A fire/fire or mind/fire dom that can sustain something like 450 DPS. No incarnate stuffs needed.

This slotting, while not what I personally use, certainly gets the Dechs Seal of MFing Approval.

Link's in my sig.

Solo only players don't.

I do plenty of teamwork, where by I intend to earn my incarnate powers.

If I were to choose to exclude myself from the new raids, I would not mind the repercussions of such a decision, including the lack of a timely method to obtain said incarnate powers.

I appreciate your concern, though, and thank you for the opportunity to explain my point further.

No one can't be involved in the trials. They all choose not to be.

I'm going to continue comparing to the PvP IOs because they are a comparable analog.

So how about "the devs made it this way for all other content, yet I don't see you complaining about that" as a rebuttal.

Again, it'll take me comparatively as long to obtain my PvP IOs outside of PvP.

Takes me about an hour and a half to run my five tips, considering the time it takes to find the tips in the first place. Two hours for the days I need to run a morality mission. That's more than enough time to earn 10 shards.

Again, it's not reasonable to have the top end stuff if you're not going to do the content to get it. Stop throwing around the 2.7 years. It's unreasonably long because it's an unreasonable goal.

It's unreasonable for me to take years to obtain all my PvP IOs through unreasonable means. I'm ok with that.

I'm all about sharing my ball. I run TFs and let my tank lead and make the game easier for every other player that doesn't have such a good build.

But to hell with anyone who feels they should have a ball handed to them because I can buy one.

Yes, I am. And I earned my rewards to do those things in team content.

Your point?

Yes, because I don't believe having all four Very Rares is a reasonable expectation of a solo player.

PvP IOs work in PvE content. Are they not PvP IOs anymore?

Yes it would, but you're still asking for the additional time it would take to earn 50 merits and twenty million influence every day. The tips were comparable to farming 10 shards per day. Adding the extra merits and influence is skewing the comparison.

Again, how long will it take for me to get full sets of PvP IOs into my character via tips?

Fine. Show me the alternate path to earning patron pool powers if I don't want to be a villain. How much longer does that take than the method where I become a villain?

And those other reasons are unfortunate, but they do not require people to be catered to. Ultra mode doesn't work on low end computers, these players opt out of the entire system. There's nothing that can be done for them because they choose not to save up for a better system.

Whatever your reasons, if you choose not to be part of the content that gives you these rewards, then you shouldn't get them.

I don't want to prevent others from obtaining the goods in a reasonable amount of time. I think they can obtain these things in a reasonable amount of time. I'm not petitioning for or against any change; I see no reason for any change at all.

They were designed for the content, rewarded by the content, and provide bonuses only available for that content. What more ties do you want?

The market throws a lot of variables into the discussion that we have to ignore because the incarnate components cannot be bought on the market. (I don't begrudge the devs making these rewards non-tradeable. They're powers. I can't buy my Patron pools.)

The 2.7 year figure is considering 10 shards to threads per day. I am limiting to the five tips per day. Adding in the 50 merit conversion adds much more playtime to the equation, because you have to earn 50 merits per day. Through Ouro (the solo option), this is going to take forever, and thus I ignored it.

I'd argue that these rewards would be a lot easier to come by if there were simply enough opponents in the zones.

It's just not going to convince me because I don't see any reason the solo player should get these rewards at all.

They are rewards for specific content. If you choose not to play that content, you should not get that reward.

The Devs gave you an alternate path to achieve these rewards, much like I have an alternate path to obtain PvP IOs. For one PvP set, I will have to spend one year doing tips. Just one set. When I compare that to one very rare incarnate ability, I see that they can do it quicker.

The alternate path may be absurdly longer than the intended, but to me, it appears to be in line with other alternatives the game has. I feel your pain, but I don't see any reason it should be changed.

No it doesn't. But I don't have the time or money to get into competitive car racing. Does that mean someone should reward me with a sponsorship to try?

Look, I don't have all the time in the world to grind this stuff either. I have a full time job, a mortgage, a house to keep up with, and a family. I still don't feel like I should get handed the rewards any easier because I simply don't have the time to earn them.

I'll agree with that. We shouldn't be able to unlock all of our slots and have very rares in every slot by the end of a week.

Better rewards require more time/effort to earn, as they should. It's that simple.