Necrotech_Master

against big names like recluse, states, they have a fair amount of resist to every dmg type

other enemies which have tons of resist are reichs and lord winter (both of which have 90% to all), akarist who is an AV with 75% resist to all, all war walkers have about 60-70% def on almost everything except toxic and psi which is at like 30%

those are the only ones i would think are significant, most others dont have anywhere near those numbers on resist

this is a big part, NONE of the clickable powers are placed in the players trays, so everytime you have to get the temps again you have to open the power window and drop the temp into the power tray

i also support the suggestion that all ATs should have access to ALL of the clickable powers, then it would make it approx as difficult as kahn in the last mish because everyone will have tools for dealing with the ambushs, and i support the suggestion that the merit reward is awful for barracuda, 20 merits and the fastest i have completed the sf is about 1:15, and the last mish is harder than all of the mishs in kahn tf combined

yeah, the mm temp has been on/off buggy since it came out until about i17 i think in which it was finally fixed and hasnt has had an issue since

while a mm/defender is not required for reichs, you need a very very high dmg/debuff team to beat him without the temps, or you will never out dmg his phase heal (had this happen once yesterday, had 1 mm on the team and they disappeared after the 2nd mish and we couldnt beat reichs because he kept phasing and healing back up, and we werent making noticeable progress after about 4-5 of his phase heals, so we disbanded and regrouped and made sure we had a mm

basically a mm/defender will make the sf at least a guaranteed win, and a much faster win

you need a mm or a defender to get the clickable power of black scorpion which stops him from using his phasing heal type power at 50% hp

at about 50% hp reichs will pop a power which makes him untouchable and heals him back up to about 80% hp, however the mm/defender power prevents this from happening

so a mm is not required if you have a defender

honestly thats prolly the best for a large amount of poeple, because going from the rare to very rare offers very little difference in terms of how much enhancement you get, if you were already ED capped on a power going from the rare to very rare would at MOST give you an increase of approx 7% (thats for the ones that give 45% enhance)

most of the 33% ones would be a bit less than that, so it would hardly be noticeable in the end, or just provide a long term goal to get to

the basis of what he was saying was ignore anything not a mish objective, which means a LOT of stealthing and minimal killing

he was just using kahn as an example, bur for ITF lets say it works just about the same:

mish 1: stealth to the sybils, head outside and get sister solaris to her waypoint

mish 2: stealth to all the cysts and only kill the cysts, ignoring guard mobs and ambushs

mish 3: speed to each general and KO them, then go to the comp and pull rommy and requiem while your fighting the comp

mish 4: straight to rommy and then hit rooftops till the counter is down (kinda hard to speed the last one since the kill 300 objective)


i personally dislike speed runs because usually 3/4 of the team ends up sitting around or dead if they cant handle all the mobs, i usually go with the kill most approach and it still doesnt take more than an hour usually

i honestly have to agree with both of you, i really dislike that im about 7-8 vet badges behind of most poeple which is really limiting my badges (if i had all the vets to the 81 month, i would be around 1200 now as well)

but i agree with the badge is a badge argument, because well, all those poeple who have more vets have been playing longer and are essentially more loyal, kind of like the loyalty badges and such, it shows that they are big supporters of the game.

and since it is a game, a badge is a badge, to me i just want to have them all that i possibly can, and i know there will be some that i wont be able to have fast or at all due to not physically being around at the time (ie i missed the 2nd anniversary badge (i think its called reveler), because i started playing the game about 3-4 months after they had the anniversary log on time)

so i wish i could support both sides of the argument, so compared to other poeple it would be more fair, but at the same time i understand that if you werent around to earn them, or havent earned them yet, then they are just a badge that you can just take off your personal list

definitely more of a life than me lol, im in college as well, but i still average around 6-14 hours a day of this depending on how much homework i have in the week (yes i know i have no life lol)


now for the topic at hand:

i dont mind the weekly target, but its sucks you are only alotted one per week per toon, one of my toons atm has about 70-80 shards leftover after he crafted 2 rares and all the salvage he needed for a very rare, so anything to get him those notices faster would be nice

from my experience the shard drop rate while solo on the standard diff (+0x1) is extremely low, i manage *maybe* 1 shard every 3-6 mishs (depending on the length of the mish). from the teaming experience, my average amount of shards goes from around 1-4 shards a mish, thus earning around 6-12 shards over the course of a tf (the tf im using for this is the ITF, but it really depends on the tf, on LRSF ive only averaged 3-6 shards and BSF ive averaged 8-18 shards a run)

while this is very pricey from the solo standpoint, from a teaming/tfing standpoint it may only take about a week to earn all of what you need for it, or even less if the RNG smiles on you or you farm a lot

what its currently listed as would be fine if its not time gated, but i agree that if it is lowered even by half or requiring only shards, then it would have to be time gated, so that poeple could earn no more than 2 per week if they were really teaming but still had extra shards to spare

in any case ill most likely continue doing weekly tfs, but im glad that we at least have another option to work towards

i believe bane spiders and the lvl 40+ snakes have higher toxic resist, and any mob that has dull pain or healing flames resists toxic

the only good thing about toxic dmg is there is no def type for toxic, the only way to defend against toxic dmg attacks is positional def

the nictus AVs in ITF give no rewards, thats why poeple avoid having to kill them (and because they are a PITA, but no rewards is more disliked)

it wasnt a ton noticeable, but it was easier to hit stuff, their debuffs didnt hurt as much, and we really layed the smack down on stuff like warwalkers since our debuffs had more effect on

the most obvious difference was that minions were conning red instead of everything being purple

the only problem with that theory is grai matters are also limited timewise so you can only get 1 per 18 or 20 hours

actually you can still ignore the guns, they didnt change it to a glowy, just an object you have to click on, kind of like a contact, except that the thing instantly destroys (thus causing a bit of lag if you were the one clicking on it), or it would tell you that you were wrong alignment

and i also ran the snaptooth mish once as well, and the reward table doesnt have any new badges on it either, so there is nothing new with this event then (except the minor changes made to the mishs and mish text)