Avatea strike target of the week? Your kidding...

Strike Target of the Week

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February 1st to February 7th - The Statesman Task Force (from Statesman in Independence Port)/ The Lord Recluse Strike Force (from Lord Recluse in Grandville)

February 8th to February 14th - Return of he Reichsman (from Dr. Kahn in Founders' Falls) / Thus Spoke the Reichsman (from Barracuda in Grandville)

February 15th to February 21st - The Lady Grey Task Force (from Lady Grey in the Rikti War Zone)

February 22nd to February 28th - Clamor and Destruction (from Sister Psyche in Independence Port) / Pirates of the Skies (from Silver Mantis in Sharkhead Isle or your supergroup or villaingroup base's mission computer or oracle)


The above is posted...Doing the Sister Psyche in the 20's...Give me a break. Your Alpha slot won't work...not that it needs to just "facepalm".

We should be doing CONTENT that will generate SHARDS meaning lvl 50 opponents.

Extremely disappointed.

I'll give you a tissue with shards in it.......

I'm the opposite, I was looking forward to the hefty experience bonus on my lower characters. I'd personally prefer it if they alternated a level 50 TF and a lower-level TF, but that's just me.

Nobody says you can't do other level 50 content, there's plenty out there waiting to give you shards.

No matter what TF they have us doing, you'll still get a Notice of the Well. That's really the point of doing these. You can get shards anywhere.

I thought next week was supposed to be the ITF. I'm pretty disappointed by this change, the ITF would have given me exactly what I needed to craft my second Rare. I guess I can always breakdown the reward from Kahn/Cuda, but ugh those are both terrible to run (especially Cuda).

As to the topic, I'm glad it's not just going to be level 50 TFs (I was worried that it would be). I'd rather not run the same 4 TFs (STF/LRSF, Kahn/Cuda, ITF, LGTF).

The Incarnate System is not the sole reason for the Weekly Strike Targets - obviously otherwise no merits or xp would be awarded.

Here lets do this, I'll run the SPTF for you and I'll keep your notice of the well and you can keep the inf, deal?

The devs have been trying for years to get people to do more TFs. They added rare recipe rewards in large part to get people to do them, and then switched that to reward merits, and that still didn't get large numbers of players to participate. Part of the problem is that getting teams together for TFs is extremely difficult unless your supergroup is doing it.

By designating a TF of the week, the devs are gating a large number of players through the same content. This will make it much easier for people to find teams because so many people will be doing the same TF. This will also get a broader swath of players doing them, so a bigger segment of the player base will be more familiar with them, which means they'll know how they work and they'll (eventually) be more efficient doing them. Which will make them much less painful to do. When you know what you're doing, most of the TFs aren't significantly harder or time-consuming than a similar string of 5-10 missions.

It's a good idea to include lower level TFs in the WTF schedule so that more people can get the Task Force Commander accolade. By providing a way to make forming TF teams easier (making everyone do the same one each week), the devs are helping all those players who just haven't been able to get on a TF but want those badges and the associated accolade.

But if you don't want to do a certain TF because you don't get shards, skip it that week and do the ITF again. And again. And again...

I particularly like the part where he blames Avatea for the choices.

"Mailman, why did you bring me McDonalds coupons this week? I wanted A&W!"

For once I am actually excited about a Dev decision. I think the WTF is a great idea and will help people get used to finding TF teams. I've haven't seen so many people running TFs on pinnacle in years.

I also hope they decide to remove a few from the rotation. Some like the Caverns, Katie, Hess, Eden, Sewers and the Shard TFs, just don't have a Red counterpart. A part of me does hope they slip in Moonfire and Mender Silos.

I Wish they would revamp the Shadow Shard. Make it co-op. Add some light bridges, those jump jets just suck. Clear the fog of war and rework the TFs so they never leave the Zones. There is some great content out there that is just such a pain to access that relatively few ever bother.

"Your kidding..."

My kidding what? Don't leave me in suspense here.

Personally I hope they mix more of the lower level TF/SFs into it. I know the Alpha is the newest shiny, but it's not the only reason to play. If it was, why even bother doing anything other than farm your way to 50.

Where did that list come from, OP?
... Oh dear my search fu just got weak!

It's going to very quickly become glaringly obvious how many more TFs there are than SFs.


Open the Shard to the Redside.