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By BrandX,
Posted on: 2010-12-09 19:52 in CoH and CoV General Discussions

 

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Originally Posted by gec72 View Post
Is it possible that the game isn't rolling once specifically for each member of a team, but once rolls once per member then again to see which team member gets the shard?
I got my double-drop solo.

 

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the most shards i ever got off of a tf was 14 shards in an ITF

overall i have 3 toons with uncommon boosts and 3 other toons with common boosts

some of those toons have a ton of extra shards too

 

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Could be that you have a (making up numbers here) 3% chance to have a shard drop when an enemy is defeated.

Then if successful, you have another 1% chance for another drop.

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My top tier characters, who are the only ones that are Incarnates at this point, all run at x8. It's possible that it's related (with the multi-shard issue being an unintended side-effect of allowing all members of a team a chance at a shard equally).

 

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Originally Posted by Leandro View Post
I did not know it was POSSIBLE to get 2 Incarnate Shards from a single mob...
I got three while on a ITF, made my day and my Uncommon Boost

 

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Holy crap. I wonder what the max # of shards is..
I think it's probably 999 - but there's only one way to find out

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My plant/storm/stone controller is sitting on 28 spare shards, I think im just going to save them to see what comes out next patch. It already has the Uncommon slotted.

I find ITF's give better shard drops than the other Task Forces i've done.

However, I ran an ITF on my Ma/Sr scrapper, I only needed 4 shards to craft his uncommon, i got 2 the entire clear all TF. I was kinda bummed, I didn't even need the incarnate salvage you are offered. Perhaps 'touching' more mobs is beneficial(IE, something like blazing aura getting a damage tick on everything, works wonders on a ship raid )? Though I believe it is purely random for the entire team

I have hit 2 shards on the one enemy before, though I always forget to take screen shots WITH UI. I've had 10-12 drop on one taskforce before and as I said, i've had just 2.
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@OP: I don't know much about Incarnate Shards, except that they are important. My eyes are too busy looking at the 10k - 30k that you recieved from defeating one enemy. That's a lot of money in the eyes of my low level character. 0_0

 

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19 solo Missions and counting and have yet to get a single shard to drop, haven't given up hope yet though.

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Originally Posted by gec72 View Post
Heh, I'd wondered if that was the case for some of these, actually. Were you x2 or more? Maybe there's no distinction here between virtual team size and actual team size.

That, or it's just a neat little quirk that's unique to the incarnate shards.
I remember it being pointed out in the beta that a full team of 8 gets more shards per hour on average than a single player running on x8, even if that single player clears missions faster than the full team.

I might not remember it exactly accurately, but you definitely get the most shards on big teams.

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I've had 2 drop from a mob several times now across my 7 incarnate characters I've been playing.

It's kind of neat, I've heard of 3 happening but haven't had it happen to me yet.

If I had to guess I'd say you' never get more than 8 from a mob. I have a hunch it's something to do with the way it does the math for the drops. My hunch is, it decides how many to drop for the team, with no more than the team size. IE a mob goes down, it says 4 people on the team, we can do up to 4 drops. Then after it decides how many, it assigns them, but not always to different people.

So it'd never do more than 8 per mob. But that's rampant speculation based on little hard information.

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Excluding the ending reward, if I ran a whole bunch of timed Cimerora missions at x8, would the end result be different from defeating an equal number of Romans in the TF?
Im running Cimerora Missions on +1/x8 (no bosses). Did three of those yesterday but got nothing. I will try with bosses today... don't know if I can survive that, but I'll try...

So, if you want shards... team!

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Originally Posted by Leandro View Post
I did not know it was POSSIBLE to get 2 Incarnate Shards from a single mob... but, here you go:

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