Issue 19: Strike Pack - Patch notes for build 1950.201101250108.0

Maybe to do the WST every week you'll need to potentially side-switch. If your villain wants to the this week's WST -- which is, say, Positron -- then you'll need to switch sides and run it before the week is up, then switch back so you can keep earning A-Merits.

I'm sure that would be popular. Right?

The Very Rare crafting section has a scroll bar, and a whole ton of recipes for the various different combos. The combos I'm seeing for Cardiac Core Paragon are:

Partial Core Revamp + Partial Radial Revamp
Total Radial Revamp + Partial Radial Revamp
Total Radial Revamp + Partial Core Revamp
Total Core Revamp + Total Radial Revamp
Total Core Revamp + Partial Radial Revamp
Total Core Revamp + Partial Core Revamp

The other component requirements are all the same.


Still kinda numb in the head from playing too long on live, but unless I'm missing something, the only restriction is that you can't use the same two rares to make a very rare. Other than that, any two different rares will work.

My MA/SR currently has a Nerve slotted. I actually crafted a Spiritual Radial for her, but I decided to also craft a Nerve. The reason is her theoretical final build uses Gladiator to get the last 3% defense to soft cap: without that nigh-mythical enhancement I'm short at about 44% defense. Slotting Nerve Radial Boost added more than 2% defense to my build and puts me a little over 46%. The net effect is a drop in incoming damage of about 20%, and I get some free accuracy.

Its temporary to be sure, although given what I have to do to replace it, temporary might be a significant temporary. Nevertheless, I do think Nerve is the least attractive of all of them. Damage is at least the default: no one can fail to benefit from more damage. The mistake I think was in not realizing that while Accuracy, Damage, Recharge, and Endurance reduction are the big four most commonly used enhancements (the anchors for the four Alpha variants) Accuracy can be saturated. Damage and recharge cannot be, and Endurance reduction is common, but almost never slotted to the ED soft cap. Given that, Accuracy should have been paired up with significant qualitative bonuses that are nice to have but rarely taken. Cardiac and Nerve should probably trade range and defense and fear and taunt. End/Def/Res/Taunt makes more sense, and Accuracy/Range/Hold/Fear makes more sense. I can see why they might have wanted to split them up, but the more I think about it the more I believe that split up just ends up devaluing both relative to Recharge/Heal and Damage/Recovery, and it weakens the sense of power progression through the individual trees.

Good news then. I didn't notice the scrollbar. I've edited my information in the little guide in the GR section to reflect this.

Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.

Who said it would be equivalent and not totally random?

Black Scorpion's initial post on the subject specifically said that one per side would be chosen, and that you couldn't take advantage of this to double your shinies for the week by side-switching.

That would be Fa. It's a long, long way to run.

LOL. It is the right way when it is the way you prefer. Nice.

Or you can wait until i20, when there will be other ways to earn those components by doing brand new Incarnate Trials.

In other words, this is just for those impatient people in our ranks who want rare/very rare NOW. If you don't care and don't want to repeat content, then don't.

Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.

This is very fairly put, and I certainly encourage and hope for an option for solo players to be able to do anything. I feel it's just the nature of MMO's that not everything in them will be possible exclusively solo. The way I understand it, the weekly TF is planned as a way to open up the higher Alpha tiers pre-i20; once that Issue is released soloists would have other options to gain access to them.

Ummm, I was under the impression that the devs didn't want folks speed running, seeing as how they already nerfed merit rewards at least once since the tf merit system came out.

Though I think that philosophy has changed.

The trials will probably work like the rikti raids, thus giving solo player SOME way to get them. However, beyond that I don't expect any other solo Incarnate Content anytime soon.

And if they use the new reward table tech from the Praetorian zone events, soloers will always get something for their contribution.

Do one Targeted Strask force. And if you have your uncommon and a bunch of other shards/components from various level 50 task you will have your Rare (Tier 3) and a Level Shift.

Do three more Targeted Strask forces, and in some soloing, and you'll have your Very Rear (Tier 4) Alpha Power.

If you keep your character a Vigilante or Rogue, they can chose each week whether to do the red or blueside Straskforce so that you can pick the teaming environment least objectionable to you.

So, over the course of 4 weeks, 4 Strask Forces and that character is done. With Alpha.

Take a look here:
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=251208

I broke down all the information and have it listed so you can figure out the path of least resistance.

Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.

You do know that this is just something they're doing until I20 comes out, don't you, which will have other ways of earning the phat lewt?
Just think of it as like the DP and DS early access for GR prepurchases

I didnt see an option for upgrading an uncommon to a rare. If thats the case then I totally screwed up when making uncommons. Maybe I am just reading it wrong.

Grai Matter is limited to one purchase per day so it would take 12 days just to craft a common boost (9 days if it was one that used Grai Matter as a component).

hmm... The particular line you quoted wasn't about how the TF's are run right/wrong, it was about how the devs have decided to incentivize running task forces right/wrong. But I suppose it could be interpreted the same way. I apologize.

I still think encouraging speed runs (by increasing only the final reward) will have unfortunate consequences (new people having a bad intro to TF's and devs lowering merit rewards are just a couple I can think of) but I guess I could be wrong.

You read it wrong, because you need an Uncommon to make a Rare, same as you need a Common to make an Uncommon.

LRSF/STF according to the beta channel.

Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.

Scroll down in the recipe window for the very rares