I'm sure I'm not the first to say this, but you have way too much time on your hands. Most of us don't even play the game every night (Save for the market part)
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Wow!
Just becasue i am curious, (and want to attempt this as well!) do you have the times it took to do each of the arcs/tf's?
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In general, my SG runs Hess in 30 minutes or less, and Manticore in less than an hour. Best times have been 23 minutes for Hess and something like 45 minutes for Manticore. I've been tryingto run Freakalympics and Freakshow War story arcs in an hour, but I typically average 1 hour 15 minutes for Freakalympics and just over an hour for Freakshow War.|
Originally Posted by Archantos
Wow!
Just becasue i am curious, (and want to attempt this as well!) do you have the times it took to do each of the arcs/tf's? |
Usually can run Numina in an hour or less too.
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Originally Posted by Archantos
Wow!
Just becasue i am curious, (and want to attempt this as well!) do you have the times it took to do each of the arcs/tf's? |
It's pretty routiine to knock off ITF/STF combos in 90 minutes or less. Adding in an LGTF creates a 'hat trick' and rarely takes more than 2 and a half hours.
Although with the STF I almost always roll the Hami, cyto's and membranes and enzymes are tasty.If I was serious about merits, I would run Synapses and Numina's back-to-back. Numina is a real sleeper in my book. Elec armor is your friend.
I have literally THOUSANDS of merits banked, just becuz, well, I like running TF's with my friends.
And I know people who run way, WAY more than I do.
Speed LGTF (37 merits) can be done under 30 minutes.
Speed Kahn (30 merits ATM) can be done under 30 minutes as well.
Sunday Oct 10
Arcs/TFs: Hess/Manti/Numi
Merits: 19/32/36 = 87
Hero Merit Roll:
Debilitative Action acc/immob/rech
Positron's Blast chance for energy damage
Kismet def/end/rech
Decimation acc/end/rech
Impervious Skin end/rech/res
Monday Oct 11
Arcs/TFs: Hess/Manti/Wincott/Flux
Merits: 19/32/4/11 = 66
Hero Merit Roll:
Ghost Widow's Embrace acc/hold/rech
Ghost Widow's Embrace acc/hold/rech
Mako's Bite Dam/Rech
Mako's Bite chance for lethal damage
Unspeakable Terror chance for disorient 
Tusday Oct 12
Arcs/TFs: Freakalympics/Manti/Julius the Troll
Merits: 34/32/6 = 72
Hero Merit Roll:
Debilitative Action chance for stun
Debilitative Action chance for stun
Decimation acc/end/rech
Mako's acc/end/rech
Touch of Lady Grey recharge/end reduction
Wednesday Oct 13
Arcs/TFs: Freakshow War/Ubleman the Unknown/Hear and Now/Citadel
Merits: 33/17/16/40 = 106
Hero Merit Roll:
Impervium Armor resistance
Devestation chance to hold
Devestation dam/rech
Scirocco's Dervish acc/dam/end
Ghost Widow's Embrace acc/hold/rech
Thursday Oct 14
Arcs/TFs: Freakshow War/Horrors of War/Faultline Accolade/Manti/Hess
Merits: 33/18/5/32/19 = 107
Hero Merit Roll:
Time & Space Manipulation +stealth
Tempest chance for endurance drain
Stupefy Chance for knockback
Decimation acc/dam/rech
Glimpse of the Abyss acc/fear/rech
Friday Oct 15
Arcs/TFs: Freakshow War/Babbage/Madman's Council/Hess/Manticore/Jurrasik/Hear and Now
Merits: 33/2/8/19/32/2/16 = 112
Hero Merit Roll:
Positron's Blast dam/acc/end
Positron's Blast dam/acc/end
Scirocco's Dervish dam/acc/end
Aegis end/rech/resist
Blessing of the Zephyr 4 points KB protection
Saturday Oct 16
Arcs/TFs: Freakshow War/Freakalympics/Manticore/Posi1
Merits: 33/34/32/11 = 110
Hero Merit Roll:
Stupefy chance for knockback
Impede Swiftness Chance for smashing damage
Tempest chance for endurance drain
Scirocco's Dervish dam/acc/end
Positron's Blast chance for energy damage
7 Day total: 661 merits, 94.4 merits per day.
13 day total: 1359 merits, 104.5 merits per day.
I dunno, I'm starting to talk myself out of random hero merit rolls. At least at level 30, I've been rolling quite a lot of junk, and very few awesome finds.
We hit 22 minutes on Hess this week, and 44 minutes on Manticore. I managed Freakshow War in 50 minutes, and twice more in 53 and 55 minutes. I can see why that one's popular. Freakalympics, my best time was 1 hour 9 minutes.
Also -- I ran Hear and Now the first time and was surprised when I got to the end to find Maestro was an AV. I beat him anyway -- first time I've ever solo'd an AV! And that's without Eagle's Claw, my tier 9 attack.
I want to solo a Manti now.
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Originally Posted by CapnGeist
I'm sure I'm not the first to say this, but you have way too much time on your hands. Most of us don't even play the game every night (Save for the market part)
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Hero Merit Roll: Debilitative Action chance for stun Debilitative Action chance for stun Decimation acc/end/rech Mako's acc/end/rech Touch of Lady Grey recharge/end reduction |
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Part of the reason I roll my randoms at 32/33/35 is that 30 gives you a shot at all the L10-30 crap AND all the 20+ and 30+ crap. And any level 50's rolling in the 25-29 and getting something that caps at 30 will get the same effect you do . Nobody creates level 32s but a level 32, though... less demand, but almost NO supply.
I'm honestly not random rolling for profit, though.
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Since our group runs it every night, it's not as much of a problem getting started -- usually. It's also a large SG with new people (and brand new players) joining all the time, so nearly every night there's someone that doesn't know how to find Striga Isle. I've learned NOT to say, "It's the boat just past the ferry to PI," because then they'll take the ferry to PI... |
Originally Posted by Reptlbrain
Did it take longer to get started than to run it? I've never done a Hess where getting participants and getting them to the zone took less time than the TF itself.
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Originally Posted by Fulmens
Part of the reason I roll my randoms at 32/33/35 is that 30 gives you a shot at all the L10-30 crap AND all the 20+ and 30+ crap. And any level 50's rolling in the 25-29 and getting something that caps at 30 will get the same effect you do . Nobody creates level 32s but a level 32, though... less demand, but almost NO supply.
I'm honestly not random rolling for profit, though. |
But at this point I may shift to level 32. Rolling right at level 30 exposes you to far too much crap; better to roll above or below there.
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100 merits per night didn't sound like anything special until it occured ot me you're doing this on a level 30 toon. That's hardcore.
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Well, bonus points for lvl 30 but frankly sustaining an average of > 100 merits per night is pretty impressive regardless of level.
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Originally Posted by Shred_Monkey
100 merits per night didn't sound like anything special until it occured ot me you're doing this on a level 30 toon. That's hardcore.
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I could do 112 merits in 4 hours but I'd pull my hair out in bored frustration from repeating the same thing over and over. Usually I get to about 1 hour of it before I bail and do something else.
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Originally Posted by Sardan
Well, bonus points for lvl 30 but frankly sustaining an average of > 100 merits per night is pretty impressive regardless of level.
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This is like having Ra's Al Ghul show up at your birthday party.
I screwed up a bit this week. Last Saturday I didn't make my hero merit roll until after Midnight -- I didn't have the merits earlier to do it and then I was busy running several TFs. So on Sunday I wasn't able to roll before 9 PM, and after that I was on a mission team and then logged off and completely forgot about it until the next day. So all week I was rolling the previous night's merits at about 3-4 PM after coming home from work. I really wanted to get a roll in every day, though. My plan was to roll by Noon or 1 PM on Saturday, 8-9 AM Sunday, and maybe wake up really early Monday to roll early in the morning and eventually catch up that way. But then Friday I had other things on my mind and forgot to roll again until late, and I had to run a quick Ouro arc to have enough merits, so I rolled around Midnight again.
So I gave up. I skipped a day this week. ^_^
I also turned on experience this week for Alting until I was 33 and nearing 34. All of my rolls for the week were 35-39 range rolls. I think the rolls have generally been better -- less junk -- but otherwise nothing truly spectacular. I sort of figured after 19 days of hero merit rolls, I'd have gathered a few Luck of the Gambler +recharges, Numina's uniques, Miracle uniques. So far I have 1 of those, period.
(Also, in case it wasn't clear, I'm not earning all of these merits on the level 30 (now 33) character Alting. I need 50 merits a day for Alting though so I can make my hero merit conversions and rolls. So about half. For the other half, the vast majority have been on my level 50 MA/WP scrapper Tiffany Blackheart who now has over 1,000 merits saved up, but also occasionally on other characters. One of the Manticores we ran tonight, we decided at the last minute to try and make it an all-blaster TF, so I played my 43 energy blaster Liberty or Debt. We had 7 blasters and 1 brute. ^_^ )
Sunday Oct 17
Arcs/TFs: Citadel/Katie Hannon/Synapse/Babbage/Hess/Manticore
Merits: 40/9/58/2/19/32 = 160 merits
(level 35-39 rolls at level 32)
Performance Shifter rech/acc
Edict of the Master Aura 5% Def Buff for Pets
Numina heal/rech
Obliteration acc/dam/rech/end
Devestation dam/rech
Monday Oct 18
Arcs/TFs: Babbage/Synapse/Babbage
Merits: 2/58/2 = 62 merits
Analyze Weakness acc/end/rech
Aegis +Psionic and Mez Resist
Stupefy chance for knockback
Forced Feedback rech/end
Mako's Bite acc/end/rech
Tuesday Oct 19
Arcs/TFs: Hess/Moonfire/Stephanie Peebles/Manticore
Merits: 19/32/15/32 = 98 merits
(level 35-39 rolls at level 33)
Gift of the Ancients defense
Ghost Widow's Embrace acc/hold/rech
Stupefy acc/stun/rech
Decimation acc/end/rech
Lockdown acc/end/rech/hold
Wednesday Oct 20
Arcs/TFs: Freakshow Wars/Hess/Manticore
Merits: 33/19/32 = 84 merits
Lockdown acc/end/rech/hold
Mako's Bite dam/rech
Mako's Bite chance for lethal damage
Scirocco's Dervish dam/acc/end
Decimation acc/end/rech
Thursday Oct 21
Arcs/TFs: Freakshow War
Merits: 33 merits
Mako's Bite acc/end/rech
Touch of Death dam/end/rech
Mako's Bite chance for lethal damage
Blessing of the Zephyr 4 pts knockback protection
Positron's Blast chance for energy damage
Friday Oct 22
Arcs/TFs: Hear and Now/Return to Vampyre Mountain/Imperius/Sara Moore/Madman's Council/Madman's Council
Merits: 16/13/26/64/8/8 = 135 merits
(No hero merit roll)
Saturday Oct 23
Arcs/TFs: Freakshow War/Freakalympics/Hear and Now/Manticore/Manticore/Hess
Merits: 33/34/16/32/32/19 = 166 merits
Devestation acc/dam/rech
Ghost Widow's Embrace acc/hold/rech
Mako's Bite acc/end/rech
Decimation acc/dam/rech
Sovereign Right acc/end
7 day totals: 738 merits, 105.4 merits per day
20 day total: 2097 merits, 104.85 merits per day
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I am really enjoying this tread congratz on the test. Like others have said this is very impressive, I find myself getting bored with the same old same old, so perhaps I will give something like this a try. My problem is that there are only 6 members in my SG and usually none are on with I am on.
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Mini-guides: Force Field Defenders, Blasters, Market Self-Defense, Frankenslotting.
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I agree. I've been enjoying your experiment! (well, reading about it at any rate). I have the same problem that you do, Hell Jumper. My SG has only 4 people (including myself), and one of them is deployed overseas atm. |
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I am really enjoying this tread congratz on the test. Like others have said this is very impressive, I find myself getting bored with the same old same old, so perhaps I will give something like this a try. My problem is that there are only 6 members in my SG and usually none are on with I am on.
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One of the solutions that I have found is joining some of the various channels and weekly events that are posted on the server forums. (ie Fire/rad goodness on Mondays and Fridays, The Freedom Horde events on Monday nights...) Guess it depends on what time you generally play and which server you are on! If you are on freedom, feel free to send me a tell (@Epoxy Man) as I'm usually up for stuff!
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It sounds like NaNoWriMo, except for gamers. heh.
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It sounds like NaNoWriMo, except for gamers. heh.
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So yeah, I won't be earning a lot of merits in November.
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Depending on the server you are on, don't forget to jump into the easy and quick hami raids...can be a fast 53 merits or whatever it is now.
I think that this is the first time I've ever heard of Hamidon raids referred to as "quick and easy". heh.
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On the servers where they are run with regularity, that's exactly what they are.
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I think that this is the first time I've ever heard of Hamidon raids referred to as "quick and easy". heh.
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I keep forgetting about those. And yeah, on Virtue they can complete one in 30 minutes, which is just about the fastest route to 53 merits I know of. I haven't actually been on a raid in several months but I assume they're still running them pretty quickly. I'll have to remember to join that tonight. ^_^
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Since I've been keeping track of what I do each night for over a month, I was able to tally up the merits I earned in September... almost 2,000. That got me thinking... why couldn't I earn 3,000 merits in a month? That's 100 merits a night. That's doable, the way I play. ^_^
So as of October 4th this became my goal -- average 100 merits a night for the rest of the month. A side goal is to earn at least 50 of these merits on Alting, a character that I have level-locked at 30. The idea is that I can convert 50 merits to a hero merit and roll for 5 recipes every night (level 30-34 rolls, by necessity). Sort of a double-challenge, then.
I'll leave it to others to decide if all of this adds up to anything interesting. But here's my results for the first six days:
Monday October 4
Arcs/TFs: Freakalympics/Synapse/Hess/Manticore
Merits: 34/58/19/32 = 143
Hero Merit roll:
Touch of Death dam/end/rech
Obliteration acc/dam/end/rech
Expedient Reinforcement End/Dam/Rech
Decimation acc/dam/rech
Analyze Weakness acc/end/rech
Tuesdy October 5
Arcs/TFs: Freakalympics/Freakshow War/Hess/Manticore
Merits: 34/33/19/32 = 118
Hero Merit roll:
Devestation dam/rech
Decimation acc/end/rech
Mako's Bite Chance for Lethal
Stupefy Chance for Knockback
Ghost Widow's Embrace Acc/Hold/Rech
Wednesday October 6
Arcs/TFs: Hess/Hess/Manticore/Numina/FF Explore Badge
Merits: 19/19/32/36/5 = 111
Hero Merit Roll
Aegis end/rech/resist
Kinetic Combat dam/end/resist
Lockdown acc/end/rech/hold
Pacing of the Turtle end/rech/slow
Tempest: chance of endurance drain
Thursday October 7
Arc: Freakalympics
Merits: 34
Hero Merit Roll:
None. I clicked too quickly and accidentally rolled for low level rare salvage
Friday October 8
Arcs/TFs: Freakalympics/Freakshow War/Citadel/Hess/Manticore
Merits: 34/33/10/19/32 = 128
Hero Merit Roll:
Expedient Reinforcement: Resisst Aura for Pets
Unspeakable Terror: acc/fear/rech
Scirocco's Dervish: dam/acc/end
Positron's Blast dam/acc/end
Lockdown: chance for +2 mag hold
Saturday October 9
Arcs/TFs: Freakalympics/Hess/Hess/Manti/Madmen's Council/Hess/Freakshow War
Merits: 34/19/19/32/8/19/33 = 164
Hero Merit Roll:
Blessing of the Zephyr: 4 Points KB Protection
Luck of the Gambler: +7.5% global recharge
Positron's Blast: Chance for Energy Damage
Devestation: Chance to Hold
Forced Feedback: rech/endurance
Six Day Total: 698 merits, 116.3 merits per day.
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