loving i20 and the triple level shift
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Daemodand,
Posted on: 2011-04-07 15:20 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
I still haven't even slotted my first post-Alpha, and some people have multiple rares...
I am impressed.
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Hell, most of my chars don't even have a slotted alpha yet.
i prolly either have too much time on my hands, or i prepare before issues, the several weeks before i20, i got my main toon the 50 weekly tf badge, which i did mostly during ITF week, and thus netted him about 225ish shards, all of which i just directly converted to threads and those threads into xp with the inf i was saving (i also was bored enough to get almost 6 toons with tier 4 alpha boosts before i20 as well lol)
doing the above basically netted my a judgement and lore unlock on day 1 with about 88% of my interface unlocked
breaking down astral merits and empyrean merits into threads also helped speed up the process of getting the tier 1/2 for the slots, i got lucky on 3 occasions where i got the rare component reward table to craft the 3 rares i have now
overall though, i found it not very difficult to get the slots because most of the trials i was on were successful and i was averaging about 15-25 threads per completion depending on how many drops and astral merits we got
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What I've found to be key to getting a few tier 2's slotted on 2 characters:|
Originally Posted by Diellan_
I still haven't even slotted my first post-Alpha, and some people have multiple rares...
I am impressed. |
Now that there are a few successful leagues forming on many servers, don't hoard that uncommon salvage. Save a couple pieces you've planned to use. But when you get some of the bonus uncommon salvage for completed objectives that are random rolls, by all means break it down into 8-10 threads.
The rate at which I've heard in league chat that rares and ultra-rares seem to be dropping--which is rare--or the fact that 8 completed trials will increasingly become possible for crafting your rare via empyrion merits--you don't need to save all those uncommon bits.
And speaking of merits--yes, we will be able to use those astral merits for something cool eventually--BUT successful trials often result in 3 more merits so those come at a decent clip. At this stage in the game, burning a stack of 10-12 astral merits has been worth it for my post-alpha unlocks.
Just my take on it currently. (Though I may change my tune if I see that 100 astral merits will buy me some neat costume unlock on my entire account or some other such shiney!)
Edit: oh and btw, congrats to the OP! Was on a small team Lambda (9 people) and we got pretty darned far considering that for four folks, it was their first one ever. And having even on level shift on the league made a huge difference.
this was my experience, the tier 1 and tier 2s were very very easy to get, i could get as tier 1 boost of almost anything within 2 successful trial runs because the uncommon component reward table was popping up quite frequently so when i didnt need something i just broke it down to 8-10 threads
and you got same idea as me for astral merits too, i have literally broken down every astral merit i get into threads, almost as soon as i get them too, BAF i usually average 4-5 astral merits, lambda sector i can average 2-4 astral merits
breaking down empyrean merits is also something i did a few times because those are worth 20 threads which helped get my common boosts filled faster
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Trials+conversion is the fastest path, no doubt about it.|
Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master
im not ashamed either that i blew about 380 mil inf to do shard to thread and thread to xp conversions because it was well worth it that i could slot stuff in there immediately after crafting them
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Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master
ive not had to spend any other inf aside from that because the rare component reward tables seem to pop up fairly frequently
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At this pace I think you'll be at the top tiers in another week, then you'll be bored.
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ive been on a few successful PUGs, and it took me a week to get tier3s, but to get tier 4s i have to work up the tree again and get lucky on rares again, or save empyrean merits|
Originally Posted by Daemodand
You must be playing on set teams. On PuGs the reward tables are almost mythological they're so rare. Fortunately, you don't need them to progress. But yeah, they help.
At this pace I think you'll be at the top tiers in another week, then you'll be bored. |
i doubt ill get bored too, this is only my main toon, i want this awesome goodness on all my toons (ill prolly start with the toons who already have tier 4 alphas, which is almost 5 other toons besides my main lol), most of those toons though dont have the shard storage like my main did so they will be unlocking the slots a bit slower
as of today ive gotten both lore and destiny up to tier 3 and its so satisfying to see a lvl 54 boss thats NOT purple lol
im not ashamed either that i blew about 380 mil inf to do shard to thread and thread to xp conversions because it was well worth it that i could slot stuff in there immediately after crafting them
ive not had to spend any other inf aside from that because the rare component reward tables seem to pop up fairly frequently
im not sure entirely how long or how expensive it will be to get tier 4s, but if i can get up to at least the tier 3s for the slots then ill be mostly happy since they dont differ much from the tier 4s