right now, no there is nothing useful for them except the thread breakdown
That's just kinda... stupid. When you get rewarded for a defeat, why not make it give you 4 threads instead of confusing us with something that does nothing but ask you to use the Breakdown recipe?
I mean... huh? You paid artists to create an icon for something that isn't needed at all? You had programmers work on the code for these vs just granting more threads?
...sounds weird, right?
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from what i know, astral merits are awarded for doing really good on a phase, such as on lambda trial, you get an astral merit for getting all 10 weapon caches during the raid part and/or you can get one from 10 containment things|
Originally Posted by JayboH
That's just kinda... stupid. When you get rewarded for a defeat, why not make it give you 4 threads instead of confusing us with something that does nothing but ask you to use the Breakdown recipe?
I mean... huh? You paid artists to create an icon for something that isn't needed at all? You had programmers work on the code for these vs just granting more threads? ...sounds weird, right? |
more or less its basically bonus threads atm, but im sure there will be more rewards to choose from coming in the future
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Eventually they're going to be used for something else.
But right now it is indeed just "Hey, you beat a phase! Have some bonus threads!"
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Originally Posted by JayboH
That's just kinda... stupid. When you get rewarded for a defeat, why not make it give you 4 threads instead of confusing us with something that does nothing but ask you to use the Breakdown recipe?
I mean... huh? You paid artists to create an icon for something that isn't needed at all? You had programmers work on the code for these vs just granting more threads? ...sounds weird, right? |
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Originally Posted by Von Krieger
Eventually they're going to be used for something else.
But right now it is indeed just "Hey, you beat a phase! Have some bonus threads!" |
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Im burning my for threads for the moment to get my slots filled/upgraded quicker. I can always stock up on more later. I am sure I will be doing the trails enough.
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Yeah same here, and by then, Astral merits should be FAR more easier to get. I recommend everyone else do the same.|
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Im burning my for threads for the moment to get my slots filled/upgraded quicker. I can always stock up on more later. I am sure I will be doing the trails enough.
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I was hanging on to all the Notices of the Well until last night on my tier 4 alpha, and then I figured, why the hell am I not burning these? So more shards for the daily 10 threads conversion...
I mean really, when you think about it, if you burn Astral Merits to get more powerful more quickly, you can get more Astral Merits faster and easier when you need them in the future.
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I will eventually break down my 4 Notices when I run out of shards to convert over, but since I made a suggestion that they do something better for Notice conversion, I was hoping they would listen. Though when I run out of the 30 shards I have left to port over, I will break down and break them down.
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Yes, this was stated by a redname. (The 'more things to choose from in the future' part.)
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more or less its basically bonus threads atm, but im sure there will be more rewards to choose from coming in the future
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Im burning my for threads for the moment to get my slots filled/upgraded quicker. I can always stock up on more later. I am sure I will be doing the trails enough.
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Originally Posted by JayboH
Yeah same here, and by then, Astral merits should be FAR more easier to get. I recommend everyone else do the same.
I was hanging on to all the Notices of the Well until last night on my tier 4 alpha, and then I figured, why the hell am I not burning these? So more shards for the daily 10 threads conversion... I mean really, when you think about it, if you burn Astral Merits to get more powerful more quickly, you can get more Astral Merits faster and easier when you need them in the future. |
But by the same token I'm not going to be automatically burning Astrals if I don't have to. I've been able to run plenty of trials in the last 2 days for well over 100 Threads so far so my -need- to burn Astrals for Threads has been very minimal. I also still have plenty of raw Shards to burn too and I can wait a few weeks for the better once-a-day conversion on those.
If you want to unlock the new incarnate stuff like "RITE NAO!" then yes I'd follow JayboH's "recommendation". But since I'm taking the longer view on this I can afford to wait a few more days of doing trials so that I don't have to burn resources might want later for something else. For all we know Astrals could be good for super cool temp powers or some other kinds of "unique" awards that we won't be able to get any other way. I'm just going to keep doing enough trials so that I won't have to waste them on Threads.
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I'll put it another way: for the majority, burning Astral merits has a chance to making entire leagues succeed more often now, when the issue is so fresh.
It's not a requirement, I just think it makes far more sense right now to become powerful enough to not fail as often. If a trial keeps failing because of hoarding sickness, that kind of upsets me I guess.
I know the feeling though, when it comes to large inspirations, I tend to ignore them far too often.
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One Labda down successfully, no Astral merits.
But then, I only got 4 threads, the one component and 22% unlocked too. This is going to take a LONG time.
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I'll put it another way: for the majority, burning Astral merits has a chance to making entire leagues succeed more often now, when the issue is so fresh.
It's not a requirement, I just think it makes far more sense right now to become powerful enough to not fail as often. If a trial keeps failing because of hoarding sickness, that kind of upsets me I guess. I know the feeling though, when it comes to large inspirations, I tend to ignore them far too often. |
But after running about a dozen BAF and Lambda trials since Tuesday I think the only failed ones I've ever been on have been the 2 or 3 that bombed out half-way through because the game lagged or mapserved the league I was with and ruined the trial. Not sure that I've been on one yet that failed because the league failed to play it well enough to finish.
I suppose it just boils down to how you want to plan out your goals for this game.
I doubt there's really a single "right" or "wrong" way to do it.
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I knew being a loot hoarder would reward me someday.
With the notices, extra shards, wicked amount of grai matter, and other junk I have aquired adn never used i was able to breakdown enough shards to buy 10 for 10 threads and then covnerting the others at the 10 to 5 rate. For now i will msot likely hard the otehr astrals I get. (from two BAF runs I had three)
There should be no reason a full league shouldnt be able to shut down the escape for an astral. I basically stood right at the door with my normal AoE fire/fire balster and watched things die. easy astral for a team spread out right.
Are they good for anything beyond making threads?
I glanced at all the recipes and unless I missed something, nothing requires an Astral Merit.
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