Want a Notice of the Well solo? That'll be...
By
Adeon Hawkwood,
Posted on: 2011-02-10 19:03 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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I did an ITF shortly after the Incarnate system came out.|
Originally Posted by docbuzzard
Well if you intend to do a 30 minute ITF you need to do just the objectives and nothing else. That's pretty clear. Even with doing that you will get shards since there's a fair amount of mandatory 'arresting' in a number of the missions. Did a fairly speedy one last night and got around 5 shards. I can't remember the time, but it must have been around 35 minutes. I think it might have taken the originator longer to recruit the team given that everyone wanted a LGTF.
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We didn't do a speed run because we wanted Shards. I ended up with a whopping 3 shards from killing most of the baddies in all the missions. Funny thing though, we did a LGTF too. Done the same way, and I managed 12 shards from that TF. That doesn't count the common component from either TF.
The RNG is random for random people that get random drops randomly.
There I was between a rock and a hard place. Then I thought, "What am I doing on this side of the rock?"
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It varies somewhat from TF to TF. If you spend more time ghosting to glowies or boss-defeat-only spawns, you'll defeat less foes/time than you would on a "kill all" run. What you're defeating when you defeat stuff matters too - if you spend time ghosting objectives but then beat up on foes with high shard drop probabilities, it may break even or even come out ahead.|
Originally Posted by EvilGeko
If I do a speed run ITF, I'll usually get 2-3 shards, versus a 1.5 hour kill most where I get 7-9 shards. That works about to about the same earning rate, but I also can get in another TFs like a Kahn or a Lady Grey (or all three) and get significant numbers of merits or incarnate component in addition to the shards.
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The ITF requires you to defeat lots of foes, so you lose a lot less time to running around doing other stuff that doesn't generate shards. The Apex and Tin Mage TFs are pretty combat centric, too.
Blue
American Steele: 50 BS/Inv
Nightfall: 50 DDD
Sable Slayer: 50 DM/Rgn
Fortune's Shadow: 50 Dark/Psi
WinterStrike: 47 Ice/Dev
Quantum Well: 43 Inv/EM
Twilit Destiny: 43 MA/DA
Red
Shadowslip: 50 DDC
Final Rest: 50 MA/Rgn
Abyssal Frost: 50 Ice/Dark
Golden Ember: 50 SM/FA
If I do a speed run ITF, I'll usually get 2-3 shards, versus a 1.5 hour kill most where I get 7-9 shards. That works about to about the same earning rate, but I also can get in another TFs like a Kahn or a Lady Grey (or all three) and get significant numbers of merits or incarnate component in addition to the shards.
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