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

I sort of see the OPs point. First the only people that will get a Notice of the Well are the 50 levels. So anyone below that doing it gains nothing at all from Posi 1 being picked as the WTS. Then let's look at the whole Merits system and the "supposed" analysis of them that resulted in the rewards being what they are today. The Katy Hannon TF isn't very long but in the first mission alone you battle the same AV 10 times before getting a mission complete AND as you go along she increases in Level making it harder to defeat her. People stealthed missions 2 and 4 and got so good at it there were completion times under 20 minutes. The result? Completing Mayor Bower's arc in Croatoa awards more merits than completing the task force.

Now can you honestly tell me based on the huge groups of people we've been seeing camped out in IP around Statesman this week that teams comprised of nothing but 50 levels won't use every trick available to speed though a Sister Psyche since the ONLY thing they want from it, and since they CAN'T earn shards the only thing they CAN get from it, is a Notice of the Well? There are speed runs going on these TFs now because players don't care about the TF or trying to help any lower level players on the team gain levels.. All they want is the reward merits at the end. How long will it take doing this before someone at NC Soft decides to lower the merit rewards on some TFs again because everyone is racing through them?

I realize restricting the WTS, I prefer the WTF, to only those that are 45-50 does limit things a lot. Hero side you have the Kahn TF, Statesman TF, Sara Moore TF, Justine Augustine TF, and Faathima the Kind TF. Villain side it's worse with only the Lord Recluse SF and the Barracude SF. Of course both can Coop on the Lady Grey and Imperious TFs but that leave us with 7 that Heroes can run and 4 that Villains can use. But at least those offer a 50 level the ooportunity to gain more shards, add more components and actually USE the incarnate powers they have acquired.... Oh and while I shudder to think of them picking it since I just can see some of my incarnate 50s doing well on ir.. Both sides could also do the Apex and Tin Mage TFs as a potential WTF. I almost forgot those!

I don't mind doing the lower levels TFs I have a bunch of characters that have Task Force Commander and aside from a couple of them I enjoy doing those as well. But picking a TF designed for player between 20-25 and making THAT the task force required to gain a NotW needed to build a very rare enhancer for my 50 level's Alpha slots just seems sort of lame. Oh trust me if it continues I'll have my 50s out there taking down Freaksshow for Sister P, Council for Citadel or whatever but i'd rather be doing something designed around my level.

To put this another way.. Let's see how many of you are saying it doesn't matter what TF they pick when some Dev gets the BRILLAINT idea to make the WTS the Doc Q TF in the Shadow Shard and you can look forward to 3-5 hours of play time to get ONE Notice of the Well. I can promise you that will be the week I skip running them and level my lower level characters. LOL

I welcome the lower level TFs being included in this. This looks like fun to me, and that is all I need.

I thought this thread was about Avatea being the strike target of the week?

Hmm I think 1 hour and 20 minutes - 1 hour and 30 minutes for 100 merits is an awesome deal, got to run STf on my dom, lata all.

It’s good to see all the different opinions on the WST. Thank you all for responding to my initial post. Even the comments on grammar or spelling errors were noted.

The WST was proposed/advertised as a way to get Notice’s of the Well. That is strictly an incarnate system reason.

To get shards you have to defeat level 50 opponents. Doing lower level TF’s is just NOT efficient use of a level 50’s time. Especially if he already has the TF.

Nobody who has commented knows why a lower level TF was picked as a “Target”.
I only address Avatea with the subject, is because she/he is the one that posted it. It matters NOT who does, only that it is inefficient and therefore poorly thought out for the above reasons.

Double experience, influence and merits seems to be incentive for people who have NOT done the incarnate system to help the level 50’s who have…not the other way around as many of you seem to think.

Do you realize that if you have not unlocked the incarnate doing the WST actually prevents you from getting a “Notice” until the next week’s target? So a level 49 doing the WST and making 50 has to wait another week..To get a “Notice”. So the double experience is actually a “Problem”, at least for him.

I would not mind doing a lower level TF – if it was boosted to 50 for the week it was the target.

Oh no! Not the alpha slot! Even though we've played without it for years now that it's here we've suddenly lost the ability to do anything below level 50!

Seriously, get over it. If you hate it so much then run it ONCE for the notice, then run the ITF a million times over for the shards.

Most people already have the badges....or will by then.

Thats not the point....I don't mind doing the tf...I do them all the time - for my friends as well as merits.

Will i enjoy the extra merits? Of course.

Again not the point...the choice of the TF is messy. It doesn't seem to fit the scheem of incarnate system or its purpose.

Maybe it's just not understanding the developer purpose...

Incarnate is an excellent reason to dust off the old 50's, using a lower level TF doesn't.