SwellGuy

This one may be true.

You wrote how I feel. The RNG hates me. I rarely see purples. I rarely see good random rolls with merits. And now I rarely see shards.

I would love a steady even if incredibly slow way to earn shards when there is no time for a TF in the same way Ouroboros provides me access to rewards merits when I cannot run TFs.

On the other hand we've seen these same old whiny posts about the servers being down for maintenance time and again which serve no purpose.

So what's your excuse?

I thought about unlocking it but knowing my personality if one of my 50s got some lucky shard drops I'd get stoopid and try to incarnte them so I am keeping the door closed on them unless I want to go all the way with it.

Keep in mind we are only in the common and uncommon phase for alpha. We'll likely need a lot of them before it is all said and done.

One of the arcs/missions should involve doing great harm to a RNG.

Techbot Alpha, want to help me kill some humans?

Absolutely. Someone explained it to me 6 years ago just like this so I didn't use it with the team again.

I am not sure why people would be so quick to kick.

The saddest thing is many people don't appreciate the Stooges' work and just see it in that kind of way too.

I consider the Stooges to be comedy jugglers/acrobats. They are a circus of humor going on in many places at the same time but too many people just see the commotion and not the connections.

I agree. There are some things that are the people who do them/did them. They weren't exactly characters in the sense of say Superman or James Bond or the Lone Ranger.

It would make no more sense to create a new Three Stooges than a new Little Rascals or a new Shirley Temple or a new Abbot and Costello, etc.

I would definitely love to see a move about them with current actors but I would never see a new Three Stooges.

I haven't seen a purple drop in so long I am not sure it was even this calendar year.

<--- hates the RNG

Respecs return only the crafting cost for set IOs and the memorized crafting cost of common IOs. It has no memory of what you paid in the markets to buy the items because a player could get them as a drop or a trade.

As a matter of fact if you pickup cheap common IOs you can make inf in a respec.

My first post was a counter suggestion to this suggestion that instead of new missions/arcs to guarantee the soloist shards the devs simply sell them to us for merits/a-merits.

My second post was to point out to you that someone who isn't teaming for shards might be due to time restrictions and that when they do have time to team they might want to do the Incarnate stuff not the pre-Incarnate stuff.

My third post was to point out to you that while on average the drop rates for soloists might be fine for some of us the RNG is an evil, cold, frozen bad thing that denies us good stuff. So saying soloists have that is only true on average and not universal.

So let me try this:

My whole point is there are many different points of view and assuming that the RNG is an okay alternative means is only true on average because the RNG hates some of us to death.

If I were to rely solely on soloing I'd expect to get my common boost sometime around 2012.

No kidding. I hate that thing and want to kill it with fire.

Thank you. That was what I kept thinking everytime I read the title of the thread.

Or you can get on and the groups don't form for a while and then when they do they disband for odd reasons in the middle of the TF.

At their height I have had that happen with KHTF and ITF.

I just don't see the devs allowing us to buy them with merits/a-merits as such a ridiculous request especially when we can only spend our a-merits once per day.

I meant the devs sell us the shards for merits/alignment merits like we get Gr'ai matter for Vanguard merits. Sorry I miswrote that.