Going for Very Rare Alpha?
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Posted on: 2011-02-06 19:18 in Archetypes and Powers General Discussion
How do you guys know what the future WSFs will be? Where is that posted/stated?
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Originally Posted by Socorro
How do you guys know what the future WSFs will be? Where is that posted/stated?
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The answer to that question is why I'm not going to go for the Very Rare, or even the Rare on my 50s. I have very little motivation to want to do a Weekly Target (especially the STF/LRSF after reading some of the "horror stories") let alone a number of them. I'm not going to participate in TFs just for the point of participating in more TFs.|
Originally Posted by dave_p
What else are you going to do w/your 50s?
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As a result, since 19.5 I've gone back to what I did before I19: leveling alts. Ok, I'll still run tip missions for generating some easy recipes/inf. But other than that, I'm not sure there's a point of running my 50s until other slots become available that might be interesting.
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I have exactly one that I will get a very rare on. I have two or three I may get a rare on. The others it will happen if it happens. they have uncommons or commons and for now that is enough.
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It boils down for me to what the rare vs very rare will offer beside the level shift. My stone armor toons are looking at the very rare musculature radial and smiling at what it can do for them. |
Originally Posted by GavinRuneblade
I have exactly one that I will get a very rare on. I have two or three I may get a rare on. The others it will happen if it happens. they have uncommons or commons and for now that is enough.
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Unless there is some UBER bonus for every slot having the very rare, there isn't much point in every alt having the very rare.
I'd have to agree with some of what the others said, it really depends on the toon, look at my fort for example, cardiac Alpha's are hands down the best ones for my fort, and really don't care about the secondary bonuses too much. After getting the rare with the level shift, I really don't have motivation to go for a very rare on this toon. On some of my other 50's it might be a different story.
Seems pretty easy to get. I mean doing the WST atleast 3 times a week averaging 10 shards a run would net you the Very Rare in a month. Just saying it is a lot easier than you think, it is going to take a minimum of a month since you need atleast 4 WST to get.
If you suffer from altitis it is going to be rough to get, but I found a toon to cure me of mine.
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im definately getting the rare for my main but they also have a metric crap ton of shards banked so other than running the TF's not a whole lot needed to do , for my other characters its on a case by case basis .
Oh yes I'm working on it on two of my 50's. I LOVE the idea of having heat loss on my Elec/Cold troller 5seconds from perma. Also having healing flames up whenever I need it on my KM/Fire scrap is just sexy. 
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Originally Posted by starphoenix
How many people are not going for the very rare alpha? Personally, the 2/3 ignore ED and the other bonuses don't interest me enough to waste components on building another rare. If Rare gets 1/2 ignore ED and the level shift, then it is sufficient for my needs. The investment for a very rare alpha slot compared to a rare alpha slot is not worth it IMO since I am not a minmaxer that requires to get the maximum benefit out of everything. Of course, I am using a Cardiac in a Mastermind so my endurance requirements are being met with just the rare. I am definite that there will be other incarnate slots that would warrant getting a very rare, but not the alpha.
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May take me some time though.
I went Cardiac for my Brute and Musculature for my Blaster...I will of course work on the others, but yes, they will have the very rare as soon as its possible.
Two of mine will be getting the very rare as soon as possible, 5 or 6 will be getting common/uncommon over time, rest won't probably get anything anytime soon.
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What else are you going to do w/your 50s?
I managed to get the rare Alpha on 9 of my 50s this first week of WSTs, and the next few WSTs will be faster & easier to run than the STF, and most/many ppl running them will be level-shifted. Should be pretty easy to run sub-60 min (prolly sub-45) Kahns all week long starting Tuesday, then LGTFs after that. Sister Psyche being the 4th WST instead of the ITF sorta hurts, but I still fully expect to have at least a handful of ultra rare Alphas ulocked by the end of the month.
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