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What's the best place to do this on vil side?

Yep. I had fireblast for like 7 years on my blaster, and recently changed to flares. There's no question, blast was much better before. But now flares is better imo. The extra delay they added for fireblast really killed the power for me.

My flares is slotted with 3 procs, including an apoc and a glad jav. If you think that using a power with 3 procs every 1-2 secs is "worthless", I'm not really sure how to counter that.

For the threads and rewards?

Also, I haven't had a single issue with getting by the mobs in this phase. But I do have full invis on all my toons. It's so easy to get it, I don't know why anybody wouldn't, other than concept toons. Super speed is great, and almost everybody has it, since pretty much everybody takes hasten anyway. Add a stealth IO on top of it, and that's it.

Yep, I believe that's essentially it. They weren't trying to slow people down. The difference between 1 day and 2 days is simply irrelevant. They were just making sure that the trials are the ONLY realistic way of getting the rewards.

And by introducing threads, they made it so that only happened on the 2nd or 3rd day. Not a big difference, if you ask me. So maybe there's a different reason behind it.

I agree that was a mistake. I really loved the WSF feature, but I have done a total of zero TF's since I20 came out. Why waste time on useless "rewards"? It's definitely unfortunate.

At this point, now that the dev clearly explained the system, there are three options.

1. The devs are blatantly lying to us.
2. You are unlucky.
3. The system is broken, and the devs haven't realized it.

I am pretty sure it's not #1. I'm leaning towards #2, but #3 is not completely out of the question either.

Personally I've gotten probably 2-3 VR's, and a few rares. But like most people, it's been mostly uncommons.

Excellent news, thanks for the link.

Once a player qualifies for a component reward, the final block of choices presented to the player are rolled randomly. If you qualified for a component reward, you reached the level of participation for yourself and your league needed to have a chance at any component type.

So as long as you didn't get the 10 thread consolation reward, that means you had the same chance of getting another component as the one you actually got. That sounds fair to me. Personally I have never gotten the 10 thread deal, so I guess the system always realized that I contributed "enough".

Yeah I remember about that. But I can kill pretty fast myself, so I actually did manage to farm for shards at certain points. But yeah, overall the ITF is definitely faster...just can take some time to get a team going sometimes.

I disagree completely. How do you figure we're in the same business? I really couldn't care less about your toon, and I'm sure you feel the same way towards mine. Doesn't mean I want to see you fail, but I'm not going to be crying all night if you do. Likewise, if you get a great reward, it has absolutely no impact on me. We are NOT working for some common goal, like people do in the same business. I'm working on improving my toons, and you're doing the same for yours. If anything, we are directly competing, because whoever "contributes" most gets the better reward.

However, all that said, don't get me wrong. I personally don't and wouldn't screw over others just for a chance at a better reward. But I can't be mad if other people do, given the broken system they are given. I can't be mad at people for simply acting in their best interests.

That's not true. Some tanks can do very good damage.

Yeah, that's what I heard about it. It's fun and really flashy....but not nearly as effective as some other sets.

Then again, dual blades is kinda like that too.

Btw I forgot to mention that if you really do plan on PvP'ing, the mind/therm is absolutely the only one of the 3 that will be viable. The other 2 will be just laughably bad in PvP. That said, PvP shouldn't really be what you base your decision on, since it's laughably bad itself.

Yes, extreme cases like that can be exceptions. But the Japanese are pretty unique in that sense. Their sense of community is on a whole different level from other cultures. When I made my comment, I was thinking of basically all the OTHER cultures in the world

Another analogy for you. You have a business that competes directly with another person's business. You steal a client from the other person, therefore making money for yourself while stealing it from your competitor.

Have you "exploited" your fellow human being in this case? The answer is no. You acted in your own best interests, the same thing your competitor would have done if given the chance. This is normal behavior and the basis for capitalism, not something to criticize.

The only solution is communism, where everybody gets the same stuff. While that has been proven to not work in real life, it most definitely does work in video games. The ONLY way to keep people from acting like people is to remove their option of doing so.

People will always do what's best for THEM, not what's best for everybody. When you go to the store to get some item you really want or need, and you find out that there's only one total item left in stock, would you still buy it? Or would you say "Nah, I don't want to screw over everybody else that will want to buy this, so even though I desperatly want it, I will leave it for someone else"?

That's a rhetorical question. Everybody already knows what you, and everybody else would do.

Likewise in this game, people will do what benefits their toon. They might not specifically go out of their way to screw over others, but if their actions do that, they won't care, as long as they're getting what they want themselves. It's basic human nature. Nobody here is Jesus Christ or Mother Theresa.

So I do blame the devs. If you allow a system to be exploited for personal gain, it will be exploited for personal gain....always, without any exceptions.

The system needs to be random, pure and simple. If people use that to leech, so be it. At least it will prevent those people that greatly contribute from being ripped off. I'd rather see the least valuable player getting a good reward for doing nothing....instead of the MVP getting crap even though he's the MVP.