Repeatable solo Incarnate content

For those people who absolutely under no circumstances want to team up with anyone ever and still want the Incarnate powers, how about a source of repeatable radio-like missions? Solo-only, with an EB at the end of every one, and a guaranteed Incarnate Shard as a drop once every 20 hours.

Would be nice.

Solo, repeatable Incarnate content? How about the RWZ, Borea offers repeatable level 50+ missions, then theres the PvP zones, there are repeatable level 50+ missions there, then theres cimcity, with repeatable level 50 missions against romans..

Does that count?

Wouldn't it be easier to just sell Incarnate shards at merit vendors? I have no idea what the price would be but perhaps 200 reward merits or 2 hero/villain merits?

Well considering the anecdotal evidence through talking with other people it seems the drop rate on same level/x2 or x3/Bosses when solo is 1 Shard every 3 mission so running Tip missions is normally enough to get you one shard while doing your 5 tip missions a day.

Sometimes you do get lucky though, managed to get 3 Incarnate Shards in one mission yesterday and none of the rest of the missions.

The RNG is a fickle mistress.

Why not just bite the bullet and join a team for a couple hours? ><

Why want the incarnate shards more solo-able than they are now (because, you can do it solo now...you WILL get slotted if you just play normally for a week doing some missions alone)? The taskforces the incarnate slots are needed for aren't soloable....

I'm up for anything that mitigates the have and have-nots design approach they've taken, first with Vanguard Merits and now Incarnate Shards.

I play an Empath solo 75% of the time as my main (working graveyard can do that to ya), and the solo shard drop rate SUCKS !

From the beta testing it was determined the rate approx;

1 shard per 1000 minions
1 shard per 150-200 Lieutenants
1 shard per 50-75 Bosses

We all know the bulk of our fighting will be against minions, and Bosses can be pretty annoying on a low-damage AT so how about? ;

1 Shard per 450 minions
1 Shard per 150 Lts
1 Shard per 50 Bosses

This would even out soloing for some ATs without really messing with anything else.

I thought the new ones were too short They take maybe 45 minutes ....

The fights were fun, but not much buildup or discovering things. Things like statesman taskforce or khan seemed like a lot better buildup.

How's this for a suggestion:

Add 1-3 tip missions to each level 50 alignment group. These missions only show up for characters with the Alpha Slot unlocked. The objective always deals with an NPC who has unlocked the powers of the Well of the Furies, and is a fledgling incarnate, much like how you can see the NPCs going through the alignment system in the current tips. Completing one of these missions grants a guaranteed Shard in addition to the normal rewards. Add some red or orange text to the bottom of the tip description that says something like "This is an Incarnate Tip, and successfully completing it will grant an Incarnate Shard as a reward."

If balance is an issue, make it so that you can only have one of these tips on your list at a time, and when you complete it, it triggers a 20 hour timer that prevents you from getting another "Incarnate Tip" until the timer runs out.

Yeah they need to change this. I play very very late too and even less than last year. No one is on to group with. They definitely need to change it because I am finding other mmos to have better population at my hours then this one. I love this one more but the devs don't care about all hours people or anything really but miserable unfun gameplay for some people.