Alreay repeating WST
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Adeon Hawkwood,
Posted on: 2011-03-29 04:56 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Well, yeah.
There are a limited number of Task Forces in the game that are either co-op or have equivelants on both hero and villain side.
They are specifically making sure that you can do a WST whether you are a hero or a villain, vigilante or rogue. With that in mind, they are going to repeat rather frequently.
You have:
STF/LRSF
Kahn/Barracuda
LGTF
ITF
Sister Psyche/Silver Mantis
Numina/Ice Mistral
Synapse/Tarikoss
Citadel/Renault (though for some reason Renault is being paired with Manticore this week)
Apex
Tin Mage
Those are the only Task Forces and Strike Forces that have equivalents on both sides or are co-op. You can't make it something like Faathim or Quaterfield, because those are hero side only and would exclude villain characters.
It is completely understandable that they would start repeating, because after the Manticore/Renault pairing this week, they have only Synapse/Tarikoss remaining. And they may not use Synapse because it is so much longer than it's villainside counterpart.
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You forgot the Ouroboros TFs:
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And as a partial solution: Make the bloody Shadow Shard co-op 
(Yes, it would require some reworking of the TFs because some of the missions are in Paragon, but it's not a massive amount of work, just move the doors into the Shard & change of couple of the contacts).
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They could also make the respec trials the WST, since they have red/blue equivalents.
More importantly, the fact that they only give two weeks is interesting. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Apr 19-25 will be Admiral Sutter/Mortimer Kal.
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so would a lot of people. but the point is to give reasons not to run nothing but ITFs, because frankly, fighting nothing but romans is dull.
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Originally Posted by _Klaw_
I'd be happy if it was the ITF all the time.
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Originally Posted by Soul_Stormer
so would a lot of people. but the point is to give reasons not to run nothing but ITFs, because frankly, fighting nothing but romans is dull.
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Just ask Manticore.
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Originally Posted by _Klaw_
I'd be happy if it was the ITF all the time.
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What a delight it was to have Apex and Tin Mage as WTFs instead of this thing. For many level 50s the WTF is the only thing that will drive them out of three ITFs a night, and I for one am grateful. The only thing I dont like are "speed" Apexs and Tin Mages, which makes me laugh because why do we need to "speed" through a 30 minute TF? Seriously.
Apex and Tin Mage are Task Forces Done Right and lets see more like this. I am about sick unto death and beyond of ITF.
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Originally Posted by _Klaw_
I'd be happy if it was the ITF all the time.
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Originally Posted by Bad_Influence
I am so sick and tired of the ITF I could practically scream.
What a delight it was to have Apex and Tin Mage as WTFs instead of this thing. For many level 50s the WTF is the only thing that will drive them out of three ITFs a night, and I for one am grateful. The only thing I dont like are "speed" Apexs and Tin Mages, which makes me laugh because why do we need to "speed" through a 30 minute TF? Seriously. Apex and Tin Mage are Task Forces Done Right and lets see more like this. I am about sick unto death and beyond of ITF. |
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I do wonder why Virgil hasn't gotten a turn. If it's because Synapse sucks, heroes can get one of the Posi TFs.
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It probably IS because of the difference between Synapse and Tarikoss. |
Originally Posted by Eva Destruction
I do wonder why Virgil hasn't gotten a turn. If it's because Synapse sucks, heroes can get one of the Posi TFs.
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Tarikoss can be run in 30 minutes by a PuG, Synapse run by the same PuG will frequently take nearly 3 hours, simply because of the sheer number of defeat all missions that are strewn all over the city.
Or maybe they just don't want 30 Babbages wandering around Skyway when all the level 50 teams skip the fight to get finished faster.
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Originally Posted by The_Spad_EU
And as a partial solution: Make the bloody Shadow Shard co-op
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That was my first thought when I saw that. By only giving us two more weeks, I am going to assume Tuesday Apr 19, is my target date for I20 drop.
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Originally Posted by Jasra
They could also make the respec trials the WST, since they have red/blue equivalents.
More importantly, the fact that they only give two weeks is interesting. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Apr 19-25 will be Admiral Sutter/Mortimer Kal. |
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That was my first thought when I saw that. By only giving us two more weeks, I am going to assume Tuesday Apr 19, is my target date for I20 drop.
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Either way, hopefully they aren't going to stop doing WSTs when I20 drops. That would kinda screw people who have characters in the 40s that they want to take Incarnate, not to mention those who'd like the badges but don't have the time or inclination to run six or seven identical S/TFs every week.
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I don't think they're going to stop doing WSTs. It's the best way to get Notices.
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Originally Posted by mousedroid
Either way, hopefully they aren't going to stop doing WSTs when I20 drops. That would kinda screw people who have characters in the 40s that they want to take Incarnate, not to mention those who'd like the badges but don't have the time or inclination to run six or seven identical S/TFs every week.
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I'd be surprised if they stopped the WSTs just because of the 50 "assists" badge.
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Yeah, but doing Sister Psyche every four weeks is going to get old quick too.
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I kind-of wish they WOULD do Katie some week for the hero side... I have a few characters who need it to finish out the accolade for Geas, and getting one together with everyone distracted by WST-grinding is a royal pain in the butt. o_0
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Originally Posted by mousedroid
Yeah, but doing Sister Psyche every four weeks is going to get old quick too.
Just ask Manticore. |
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I don't see the need for all the TF/SFs to be equivalent. There aren't as many villian SFs so I can see them repeating semi-often, but I don't see the need for the blueside to repeat at all for a long time. If anything, I say just make the co-op ones pop up semi-regularly, but the normal TFs and SFs shouldn't have to be bound by the other side.
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Originally Posted by EvilGeko
So bad, so lol.
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Also surprised to see the ITF so back on the list so early.
Also who was the fool who said they'd put the shard tfs (which only heros can access and which there are no equivalently long villainside sfs) in the WST. They must feel pretty bloody foolish.
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Black Pebble mentioned it.
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Also who was the fool who said they'd put the shard tfs (which only heros can access and which there are no equivalently long villainside sfs) in the WST. They must feel pretty bloody foolish.
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