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Burn's an impressive PBAoE attack, frankly. For a power that's marketed as something to get you out of immobilization, it does a hefty chunk of damage. Things die more often from that than Spine Burst on my Scrapper.

I recommend Burn. It's good damage and there isn't anything else quite like it. <3


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Part of me wonders if they'd have thought of this on their own had we not brought it up... Either way, they've definitely got the idea now.

Dinosaurs have feathers now? I always thought they were furry.

Hey, does the Leprechaun actually die? Has anyone actually bought it to confirm whether it does? It looks like it's supposed to be un-killable.

Apparently, the first thing Mu'Vorkan did in Dark Astoria was fill out the paperwork for a change of name.

<Insert remark about something working the way Castle intended means it's working incorrectly>

Holy crap, I just realized... The leprechaun isn't supposed to be making US money... !

Staff Fighting is not until April. We will continue to reiterate this until it penetrates all the way to the grey matter.

I asked Codewalker to look into it yesterday. According to his records, the proc was restricted to friendly targets with the release of Strike Pack, aka Issue 19.5. This means that it's been that way since February 1 of last year, significantly earlier than even that thread.

That was my intention, yes. I had to do the misleading build-up for the dramatic change in direction!

But nobody thought it was clever. )-:

Seeing as how I don't care about Very Rares, my personal schedule would look like this... Assuming the worst of luck just running 3 arcs a day for the various bonuses, this is what you can expect:

Option 1: At least a Common component or, if you choose, 4 Incarnate Threads (by breakdown)
Option 2: At least 2 Astral Merits, which become 8 Incarnate Threads (by conversion)
Option 3: Always 10 Incarnate Threads

Daily income: your choice of 18 Threads and a Common, or 22 Threads

Let's see, in order to get a Rare Ability, you need...

* A total of 7 Common Components (no Threads are needed for this)
* A total of 5 Uncommon Components (you'd need 60 Threads each)
* A total of 1 Rare Component (which itself takes 4 of those Uncommons + 100 Threads)
* A total of 340 Threads, including those needed for the Uncommons and Rare

So after 7 days, you'll have all the Common Components, plus 126 Threads. This means another 10 days at 22 Threads each to push you over that 340 boundary.

This means that, if you are as unlucky as I am, it will still not take you more than 17 days to make a Rare Ability from scratch. And in all likelihood, the following will happen:

* You will get many Threads from enemy drops by the time you save 'em all up
* The Component reward may not be Common. I wound up with a Very Rare yesterday and had to take a screenshot for forensic investigation.
* The Merit reward may be an Empyrean, and 8 of those will net you a Rare by itself.

First of all, the Incarnate Thread rate-of-income in Dark Astoria is garbage. It really is; takes forever.

And we've got these Incarnate Abilities that take three Components to craft. Three Commons for a Common, two Commons and an Uncommon for an Uncommon, and two Commons and a Rare for a Rare.

The Rares, as you know, are chiefly useful for level shifts in Lore and Destiny. But what does it take to get them?

Well, Common Components are 20 Threads. Not too bad, you're guaranteed at least that in the daily arc bonus and it's quick enough to get that many through the repeatable missions.

Uncommons are 60. Eh, it's a bit more, but not too out there. I mean, it's like three Commons all on its own, plus the two more you need to actually craft an Ability, but it's still something you can knock out in a day with a mix of the arc bonus and some repeatable. It's just 100 Threads total if you do it all from scratch.

Remember, the drop rate for Threads is laughably low, and you can only get one per repeatable mission after the first one each day (which awards a grand total of two).

And then there's the Rare Components, which in addition to costing 100 Threads, also cost 25,000,000 Inf and--get this--four Uncommon Components. This is 380 Threads from scratch. Doing the math, this makes a single Rare Ability equivalent to 3.8 Uncommon Abilities, in addition to the Uncommon you need to craft it!



But wait!

That's not the joke!

As you can see in the picture, I have everything I need for my last Level Shift, and I didn't get it in Incarnate Trials. It was easy sailing to just wait it out and grind the Threads and Components I needed in Dark Astoria.

The joke, which you're probably curious about by now, is that the progression in Dark Astoria was made as pitifully slow as it is for the very purpose of pushing players to run Incarnate Trials. Ha! As if!

Sorry, devs, but it didn't work. Solo progression may be absolute rubbish, but it's a long shot from convincing me I have to run Incarnate Trials. Nice try, though!

Now we're just getting surreal. I really don't know what to say at this point... It's just pathetic.

Just wanted to say that the Leprechaun Pet is the latest recipient of the Official Guy Perfect Seal of Lolno

Found a couple more in the letter writer's arcs. There were no spelling errors that I noticed, but some tricky grammar mistakes:



"Wipeout" should be two words here. It's not "everyday" you encounter this kind of error, but people do seem to use it in "anyway" they can.

"Myself" can be a substitute for "me," but in this sentence it's trying to replace "I" and is therefore incorrect. This actually happened in an earlier bit of dialog, but I let it slide until I saw it again.



Conversely, this one's just the opposite and is using "I" where there should be a "me."

GM Grackle might give you another one. \o/