Great, the incarnate system requires completing a mission arc

Ok. I think I understand.

1. You dont want to do missions/content for the sake of unlocking "rewards."
2. You want all "rewards" available no mater what.
3. Youll only do content/missions because you feel like it, not because you have to.
4. You dont want people/devs/game telling you to do missions to experience content but will do those same exact missions to experience content as long as you wanted to on your own.


did i get that right?

I do not have Midnighter Access to most of my dozens of characters because it is repetitive and boring. So I start with SOME understanding of where the OP is coming from, but then he just kept digging.

I remember I have run a farm mission 100+ times for the rewards, run Positron dozen of times (the old one) for the rewards, etc. So yea, if you want the rewards you do the mission. Midnigheter access is not something most of my characters need, so I CHOOSE not to do that arc on them all. If I want the Alpha slot unlocked on a certian 50, I will do the arc, even if I have done it 45 times on other characters.

I wouldn't mind the arc if I thought it was fun. I think it's pretty boring, so I wish we didn't have to do the arc in order to unlock the Incarnate slots.

I like any extra missions I can get provided they aren't AV type missions. I prefer to solo and getting missions like some of the Patron missions is a pain. This is true even when you reduce them to EBs. Example: a Dominator cannot easily solo 5 unholdable EBs in a row without really crippling the mission (-1 level and/or outleveling and using lots of Inspirations) or using a full stick of summoned blobbies. I don't feel much of a sense of accomplishment by having a summoned mobs defeat everything for me while I hide behind him.

On the plus side now you CAN cripple missions by setting them at -1 which is a help at times.

Other than that more missions = better. Just don't link to a Task Force I draw the line there. Been on too many where the team couldn't get through the first room much less the TF. lol (I am serious though, been on 2 TFs where the team broke up after multiple wipes in first room because of poor play)

I can sort of agree with the OPs point. It does get tedious having to run the same arc over and over and over and over and over and over again because it unlocks something you want. I stopped getting capes and auras quite awhile ago because it started getting tedious. I'm getting to that point with the midnighter arc as well. It would be nice if they introduced multiple ways to unlock these, or made them account-wide instead of character dependent or something.

If that was your point, I'm afraid you singularly failed to make it.

What you said was that you "hate" (in a non-extreme fashion, despite hatred being a very extreme emotion) having to do content to unlock other content.

I presume you've never led a Katie or Hess TF, either?

Oh, and as a point of utterly valid interest:

You "HATE" something in a game?

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I also said "Having to do it on every toon I want Incarnate access on would be so tedious."

And I have never lead either of those TFs, for this same reason, although I have done most of the missions in Croatoa on various characters.

oook, qr'ing since thigns got silly. This is endgame, while coh is peviously based on being very casual and alt friendly, in endgame heavy games, they tend to revolve around having just one or two characters to develop incrementally slowly with the content. if i were to see the reasoning of the decision in relation to other mmos, you really arent supposed to think of incarnates as something you are taking 30 characters through, but rather something to take 3 or 4 through to get the incremental upgrades and slowly build a few insane characters with the higher level buffs of each kind. endgame is for purpled out warshades, not for everyone in your entire roster. just my take on things.

for the record i quite like the incarnate arc, the first mission pretty much makes you feel like godzilla and the later challenge really forces me to bring my a game.

Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.

I can see the OP's point, I'm going to have to put about 60 toons through this arc, but it doesn't take long and for the first few weeks, finding a team will not be an issue and it's trivially easy on a team, as only on one mission do the EBs become AVs.

It's actually not a bad arc, but once you've read the flavour text once, turn it down to -1 and blow through it, find a friend if you need to.

We already have content like this, and I'm thoroughly bored with the hero cim unlock arc which I've probably done closer to 100 times, but if I want to go to cim, I either find somebody about to talk to the student or do the arc.

I will very partially agree with the 'Dislike' part here, having now done the Alpha Slot arc.

All I can say is;

****. You. Unlimited. Rikti. Portal mobs.
Go die in a freaking hole!
I genuinely hated that mission by the end of it. And I was spitting incadescent rage when my net dropped me while talking to the second EB

I r NOT amused....

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.