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I'd love the photonic one, as it matches the oribtal strike I so dearly want for my DP/Traps.
Quote:Eh. RP wise I ignore incarnate stuff altogether, cause how it works storywise is very meh for me. Easy enough to explain it with technology.Originally Posted by Thirty-Seven
No character who has Incarnate powers is "Natural" anymore. They are Incarnates and empowered by the Well which, I would surmise, is akin to some sort of magic. -
Quote:Because anyone who wants those purples has to either farm them up or spend that inf. Everyone has to expend the same effort.Originally Posted by Hopeling
Would you spend 400m to equip a character with the best IOs they could get short of purples?
Why is it not OK to do the same for Rare Incarnate powers?
You can't say same the same about trial rewards right now. Some characters simply can't do whatever is needed to rank V rares, especially with sets like traps not counting as credit at all, as they are pets. -
Quote:No. As much as I'd love to have just one character, my main, have V rares in each slot, its not worth the, lets see.Originally Posted by Arbegla
Then horde your uncommons, and grind threads and inf to turn them into rares and very rares... It'll cost you a bit of inf, but if you really want it, isn't it worth it?
100 mil for each rare, 4 rares per V rare, that what, 1.6 billion?
400 mil per V rare, need 4 of those. Thats another 1.2 billion?
Are you seriously suggesting I grind up 2.8 billion inf that could be spent on far more useful things? Mind you, I don't have a farming character, nor do I find farming enjoyable in any way, I already have a job. -
Quote:Only those threads are useless too, as I don't need commons either. I need rares and V rares, and thats it.Originally Posted by Eric Nelson
If they're so "absolutely useless," deconvert them into Threads. There's no cost associated with that, and you'll net 8-10 Threads per Uncommon deconverted.
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Quote:There is randomness, but not nearly enough.Originally Posted by Ironblade
Did you conveniently overlook this part: "While there is an element of randomness"
If there is ANY random factor (and THERE IS), then one person can't tell squat from a limited number of runs.
I have done a ridiculous number of trials on my DP/Traps, and all I get is uncommons. I only get rares if I'm willing to not support my team at all and try and hog the spawns and manage to beat the the damage dealers to them. I have 24 absolutely useless uncommons in my inventory because I'm certainly not going to blow hundreds of millions of inf I can't afford to throw away, and don't have, to convert them.
It will take me two months, assuming I grind trials every day, to get my V rares. My friend announced last night that she got V rares in every slot on her super widow build. That took her a whole 13 days.
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Quote:Indeed. As a /traps Corr I get better rewards for not using my secondary.Originally Posted by GATE-keeper
And I think it's a bad move. Some say it seems the more targets you affect, the better the reward.
Like I said in another thread, when I park my tank at a door during Escape phase and just fire my AoE off and then park near the Adds spawn point and fire my AoE, I get good rewards.
But when I use my "Commando" target macro and hunt escaping lieuts during the Escape phase and then ignore the adds spawn point and focus on the AV's (to the extent that I get several "GATE-keeper, Second Warning" warnings, I get the Ten Threads of Failitude.
Imho, the first example (where I get better rewards), I am less useful to the league as a whole that I am in the second example (where I get poorer rewards).
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Quote:That would be all good and fine, except, as they say here...Originally Posted by Ironblade
No, this is what people don't get. With over 100,000 people playing, you can be absolutely certain that some people are going to get results that seem like they can't be random. Someone will get common, uncommon, rare, very rare in order and have it repeat again. Someone will get the same result 10 in a row. That's how random works. It's not random for each person. It can't be (unless they do the same thing 4,000 times in a row and keep a tally). It's random in aggregate.
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=258308
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Quote:It was two different scrappers of mine, for a chain of lesse...around nine rares at least. The odds of that in a truly random system are very minimal.Originally Posted by Ironblade
Really? One person gets a bunch of rares and someone else gets commons (or uncommons, or whatever) while doing essentially the same thing. That sounds entirely random.
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If we are forced into random leagues, I'm not doing them anymore. I want to play with people I know that are fun to play with, not random people who cannot listen. -
So I brought my MA/SR scrapper on a few trials. Rare, rare, and rare. Then I went and got my fire/fire/fire scrapper with no incarnate slots unlocked, in need of a respec, and only SOs, and got enough rares running BAFs that she has enough for a rare in every slot, and two for some of them. She got nothing else but rares. This can't be simply random.
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Got this one last night. Got all the temps inside and completely avoided the ones outside. S/Ls killed the adds while the rest of us focused on Marauder.
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Yeah, its stupid really, considering how little of the new stuff requires "ideal" incarnate builds yet.
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Quote:More that people are less likely to want to take you, as I'm pretty sure that without pacification grenades he has 100% s/l resists.Originally Posted by TsumijuZero
I think he means if you ARE Smashing/Lethal (which I am) based, that getting the badge is a bit harder unless you can rope in lots of debuffs and psychic damage to help take him down.
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I love how this Master badge is so heavily weighted against S/L damage characters.
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I've done a lot of trials each day. I get a ton of uncommons, which are pretty useless once you have a couple of each, a decent amount of commons, and three rares. Not a V rare in sight.
My friend started late, and on their first day got few rares and at least one V rare, and has been doing far better than me with drops over all.
My main is a DP/traps corr. They were using a much more damaging dom. In face, most of my friends that use damage heavy chars seem to be doing better than I am.
Not much proof, I know, but there be my experiences so far. I really hope its not based on participation or else my character is kinda screwed. I mean, she does ok damage, but not enough compared to real damage dealers, and traps doesn't do much that would be measurable as activity. Doesn't heal, I'd be surprised if FFG was tracked as a buff, so I'm mainly left with debuffs, but the Lambda trial is rather...anti traps, with all the stealthing and then Marauder jumping about.
Commons and uncommons are pretty useless to me where I am now, and I can't afford the millions for conversions, so...I have to wonder if I'm just going to have to grind out Emps. If so, not fun at all. -
Quote:Nothing a little grave digging and necromancy can't fix. >_>Originally Posted by Philly_Guy
Yes, but Virtue is dead, remember? lol
I'm actually on a static team right now
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I find it amusing that people are now using his thread to make teams.
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Virtue is so dead that in three hours my Cold defender got invites to seven teams she wasn't looking for, and only one was for an ITF.
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Thank you.
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I see a lot of people begging for SB or using SS on the ski slopes, but I just got a 49.25 with just IR...and walk was on. Am I correct in that run speed has no effect on skiing?