Alphja Slot Rare and Very Rare Requirements

I haven't seen them, and maybe they're not available yet, but does anyone know the requirements for Rares and Very Rares yet?

I can guesstimate how much I need to save up in shards, but I'm speaking specifically about components required to make Rares and Very Rares. I figure I can pretty much do all the component contact over and over for a while and still not have enough, but it would be nice to know.

Well, from the website, we see the note that the Very Rare boosts will require 2 rares.

That's all we really know at this point.

Not really - they seem to have been drawn different, but the in-game tree would match the "Any Two Rares" discription on the website.

Of course, it's not live yet, subject to change, etc.

Even though we have little real data yet I think we can speculate with a reasonable degree of certainty. It's quite likely that given what we do know that Rares will take the equivalent of many dozens of shards and Very Rares may take upwards to a few hundred shards total.

I'm not going to go crazy farming for as many shard as possible, especially before we get more precise info on this. But I really don't think it's going to hurt anyone to have several hundred shards racked up and waiting for Issue 20.

Well I do consider the website to be accurate, but I will not be betting the house on it.

From what I gather from the website, speculation and assumptions, is that it only takes 1 Uncommon [plus other unknown things] to make 1 Rare. And it only takes 2 Rares [plus other unknown things] to make 1 Very Rare.

So, since I have 2 Uncommons for each Alpha, I have met the basic requirements. It's all the extra shards and components in addition to the Uncommons that I don't know about.

Of course, the website could be wrong and maybe it's still in development, but based on what they gave us, it's not a total mystery, just incomplete information.

Thanks for answering the short term question. I guess we'll all have to wait to see what shards/component requirements are imposed on the R/VRs.

Edit: and my speculation is that it will take about 255 shards to go from nothing but an empty slot through to Common all the way to a Very Rare.

I don't get the whole shard farming thing. Do a thirty minute story arc, run about 4 TFs, and there you go, uncommon boost in 3 hours. Even if you can't TF for whatever reason, normal playing should get you there in about a dozen hours in the worst case scenario.

Considering leveling a normal character to 50 without powerleveling or powergaming takes, what, 50 hours ? 100 hours ? The time required to get an alpha slot seems quite fair, generous even, considering the performance boost it provides.

Well, switch my argument to "I don't get people who worry about what might happen based on unrealistic expectations" if it reads better for you. Based on the current rates, it seems kind of far-fetched to me to assume that the very rare will require heavy grinding/farming.

I think it's completely reasonable that the rare and very rare alpha slots cost many shards. After all, they're supposed to be the top-tier end-game unlockables just like very rare IOs. What makes it all the more reasonable is the fact that alpha slots are purchased with currency that can be stocked up on prior to the release of new enhancements (like IOs), so to have an incentive for people to play new stuff (more than once) they'll probably release with the rest of the alpha slots, they'll have to account for the fact that many people are very likely to have at least a few dozen shards from just playing the game.

So I've been thinking about how expensive the Rare Boost might gonna be, and I figure it might be either 60 shards (28 shards + Uncommon Boost) or 68 (36 + Uncommon Boost).

I'm making two assumptions here. One, that the Rare Boost will use three components like the Common and Uncommon Boosts, and two, that there won't be components rare than the uncommon components.

So I figured, if the Common Boost uses three common components and the Uncommon Boost uses two common and one uncommon components, the Rare Boost would either be two uncommon and one common components, or just three uncommon components.

'course, we all know what they say about assumption. In any case, if I had to bet on some shard costs for the Rare tier, those would be my guesses.

Hi,

I too was wondering about the practicals of implimenting all the new slots.

I was trying to imagine a row of "Menders" in Oro all with one slot, or one Mender with a bunch of slots, or some other way/locations of provision.

Any thoughts?

Maybe when the next level tiers are released then the new TF's (Apex/Tinmage for now) will drop new incarnate salvage and so on? That would make sense of them not dropping stuff now before the tiers are open?

Anybody seen anything about the system workings yet?

Cheers

Edit to clarify: By Slots I mean the Alpha and Justicar et cetera slots, and by tiers I mean Common/Uncommon et cetera.

It can really be anything, the next couple of slots could be unlocked using shards, or another storyarc. It could even be earning a series of badges, i doubt that it's just going to be a ton of contacts in Ouro unlocking each slot by the end of it all.