GavinRuneblade

One of my characters runs borea's endlessly repeating missions in the warzone and various repeating shadow shard missions, both on 0x8 no bosses. That character has 50+ shards saved up. they drop slow solo, but not terribly so, and you get lots of other stuff.

The truth is once you unlock the alpha you can get shards from any enemy you defeat that is worth drops. So just unlock the alpha, play however you used to and be patient. If you want to farm them, then kill lots of things as fast as possible just like any other form of farming.

Redside only Cap and Grandville have a broadcast that's viable for forming groups, and even then only occasionally. On some servers sharkhead works too.

Pretty much everywhere else you need to use global chat channels to get teams going.

Also, if you're asking to join a team, that rarely works on any server. Forming them though, that's easy. This is doubly true on redside.

Last, as mentioned, you don't need full teams and you don't necessarily benefit from them significantly. Most villains can handle their own aggro and do substantial damage. Thus you can run against larger groups of enemies than just the number of people on your team. a team of 5 fighting at +0x8 will earn substantially more experience and drops than a team of 8 running at 0x8.

So I was in the store and tried to renew my subscription but was told that this would exceed my 30-day spending limit.

What the heck is this and how do I change it?

I haven't felt this much like a kid in over 20 years. Hehe, NCSoft has me on an allowance. =)

I use Safari 5.1, FireFox 6.02, and some relatively new version of IE that I can't check right now because I don't feel like rebooting into bootcamp. It hits all three with what feels like the same frequency.

I don't track so I can't say 100% certainty it is the same frequency, but it feels like it.

My experience is that it has hit both old and new characters. If I use reveal, that map is 100% guaranteed to get re-fogged. If I don't, it may or may not get refogged.

I can say that I don't think this round is due to a limit on how much can be revealed because my level 2 characters who have never been anywhere but nova praetoria (not even to the underground) are affected by it. If the limit is less than 1% of one of the smallest city zones, then that doesn't make sense because until now I've had many veteran characters with massive amounts of all zones uncovered.

I talk in character often, and will support anyone in RP anytime. With the caveat, I'm here to play, not Instant Message. Standing around doing nothing but chatting RP, is not my game. I'm here to kick *** and take names, so lets do the RP while on a mission.

Obviously some events have to be staged and so on, so there are exceptions and always will be.

And I'm hoping there's some PvP. Need to get into that but pretty much, not interested in Freedom.

The only bit I haven't figured out is how far is the range on those regenerating lichens. The lichen infested warwalker is extremely hard to defeat for many teams because some try to hunt every lichen spawn out there and others let the spawns sit around. And no one seems to have good data on the actual range.

All my characters are still in Praetoria =)

but I play both sides equally.

the one advantage plant's pet has it that it accepts the Achilles hell proc for two of it's three attacks, including the throw spines cone. In all other ways the earth pet is better.

@GavinRuneblade

I do damage. I have support characters, but if you expect them to actually support you you'll be disappointed. But I'm pretty decent at damage.

My other specialty is forming teams. I can get things going and get teams put together for almost anything at almost any time. I always need someone else to lead though once the group is gathered. And if you see me recruiting, I'm one of those "any AT any time I'd rather play than stand around asking for someone specific" types.

I'm in hawaii and I'm online Saturdays.

Mayhem missions are some of my favorites. at levels 5 and 10 they need 3 paper missions then you get one, and at 11+ it takes 5.

You can see your progress on the contacts tab because the contact relationship will fill with red as you do more and more.

don't forget you can autocomplete one mission per 3 days to get credit and move closer to the mayhem faster that way too =)

Some advice:
Don't rush to the bank, take your time and break as much stuff as you can on the way. You get bonus time for almost anything you smash and for each spawn of PPD. Plus a bunch of longbow will ambush you based on invisible traps scattered around the map so if you run straight to the bank you'll have a huge swarm of ambushes that can be very deadly.