Hurray the alpha slot is here!!!

Its here! Its finally here! Finally the alpha slot is here! Now its time to go from amazing to plaid! CELEBRATE!

I got my uncommon Alpha Boost on Succubus Kali a little bit ago. Loves it!

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Spiritual_Radial_Boost

So, what is everybody else going to get for their mains?

Wow you're fast.... and don't you dare say that's what she said because thats what she said! No really that was pretty quick lol, its going to be interesting to see how quickly people will get the very rares. I am getting the Spiritual boost, not sure which one though, probably just the total core.

Got the cardiac boost, i just rushed the story arc in lowest settings then went to farm until i got the 8 shards, + the vanguard one i bought. I won't rush the uncommon though, i'll get it eventually after looting shards from my regular gameplay. Average 1 shard per demon farm map, sometimes 3 and sometimes 0 several times. Map takes about 10-15Min so, it's not that bad on a good farmer.

Now getting it on the other archetypes will be hell...

I'm one freakin shard from having my Spiritual Radial Boost on my namesake.
Getting that, and running at least one of the two new TFs is on the agenda for tomorrow.

As well as physics and anthropology homework... Stupid school >:[

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Originally Posted by Iggy_Kamakaze I hate to be the bringer of bad news... but Willpower sucks!!! you're better off rolling a regen

Two shards dropped for me on a run through Council Empire. I was worried that the drop rate was going to be ridiculously low and make this take way too long solo, but it looks like my fears were unfounded. Shouldn't be a problem, even if I don't have my enhancement tonight.

I soloed the arc without any problems :/

I blame water spout. It's just that awesome.

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Originally Posted by Iggy_Kamakaze I hate to be the bringer of bad news... but Willpower sucks!!! you're better off rolling a regen

Stupid work

Well, having endless End Recovery already as a DB/WP/Body Scrapper...I won't lie, none of them look OMG *DROOL* I MUST HAVE.

Going Spiritual on my main. The added Recharge will help in those times I get slowed, and CP (1 slotted with a lvl 50 RCH IO), will be up even more often, when I likely hardly never need it

The +Heal will go nicely with the currently unslotted Fast Healing and Health, while pushing the 95%+ Heal in RTTC and HPT up a notch.

The Stun will just be wasted. :/


Sadly, none of the others look much better. +DMG is nice, sure to up my DPS around 7-11 DPS a second, but the Defense Debuff would be wasted as would the Immobilize.


+ACC and +Defense, I was thinking about, but I think I'd get more survival out of the +Health for healing per second, than I would out of what would likely be 1 or 2% increase in Defense.

+End +Resist wont go far either :/

So Spiritual it is! \o/

Unlocked the slot on Pinny, my Claws/SR scrapper. Not sure what boost I want to get, though...

The Accuracy one gives a boost to defense buffs, but 20% with most of it being reduced by ED isn't a lot...

The obvious choices are endurance reduction and recharge...

I'm curious about drop rates on shards. I have 2, so I know i've done everything needed to generate drops but I don't know when they dropped. After getting those 2 I went to the Storm Palace and lvl 50+ killed bosses and LTs for over an hour (I watched the last 3/4 of a movie at the same time). 0 drops. I kill fast, so that seems to me like I was either unlucky, or the shadow shard is outside of the effects of the well of furies.

They're supposed to drop from level 50+ foes anywhere, so I'm guessing you were unlucky.

Me, I got two in a single tip mission. Then I ran four more tip missions and got nothing. Random number generator is random.

On an unrelated note, the Malta Gunslinger Action Figure tip mission has received the Terra Volta reactor treatment. So in an issue that makes 50s more powerful, and that added an arc with multiple EBs that is required in order to make your 50 more powerful, they made a completely optional mission that can be dismissed and avoided completely easier? Does this seem backwards to anyone? /end rant.

On a completely related note, I want my Spiritual boost I want it I want it I want it!

I scraped 15 shards off the boots of minotaurs and cyclops in two ITFs last night. I am sure it was random but it seemed like it was always on those guys and seems like a high number of drops compared to other spots (I farmed the wall and got 1 in 20 minutes and I got none in P.I. Or the RWZ).

Did a LGTF right after getting my alpha slot. Instead of speeding through, we cleaned up almost every mob in every mission except the Hami raid. Took a bit longer than the usual TF, but I think everyone on that team walked away with someone slotted in their alpha slot.

I'm going +dmg and +def debuff, then again I'm Katana so the de buff will be nice.

I did the arc and one task force on my claws/regen last night (lgtf) and got 13 shards total. I used vanguard merits to craft a GM and I sloted a spiritual for the recharge. Have 5 shards and a hero 1 componet left. All I need is ITF so I can upgrade. I'm a little upset Riez (BS/Regen) is in the middle of an IO overhaul and is unplayable. Although I could use the old build but I want to break out with the upgraded one.

Using a DB/Invul build with common IOs only, Fighting + Leadership toggles, I'm going to go for the end one. I'm curious to see if it'll be enough by itself (on top of CP that I already picked) to solve the obvious endurance issues.

I got my alpha last night got the default shard then ran a STF got 7 more shards and the full already completed shard instead of the merits so I was able to make my spiritual common