Incarnate Rare and Very Rare components

If you buy xp, or pay to create the rares and ultra rares, you're just plain dumb. by the time you have the xp for all of the slots, you'll have most of what you need to craft.

Being dumb got me to have 4 T4s. If I was a smart person, I would have only 2 T4s. I'll stick with being dumb.

It is imminently possible to "get ahead" in the normal game without either grinding farms, being magically granted a state of grace by the evil random number generator, or (the true evil) tainting your very soul by dealing with the odious RMT spammers.

There are very simple guides telling you how to make a quite comfortable income with very little investment of time here in the market forums. Pretty sure I've seen a couple of them linked in sigs on this very thread. If I'm wrong, here's a link to a whole bunch of 'em:

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=123346

Read one of those, spend 10 minutes every few days playing the market, and soon you, too, will be an ebil marketeer casually throwing hundreds of millions around to buy purples. No cheating involved, just supply something that other people are willing to pay you for.

I've been playing trials every night since they started

0 VR drops

I'm not spending money to buy them

I don't think the empyrean merits are awarding correctly either. I've done missions after the 20 hour cooldown and not recieved them.

And I just thought to add, every one of my 4 slots is sitting there maxed out with tier 3's cause I keep making them. I've really got nothing else to make.

It sometimes makes me wonder if we can only ever get so many VRs.

Moreover, I can't help but wonder if there's some kind of activity requirement (like medical school, where they only give out so many As, Bs, and down the line) and it depends on how much killing you've done, how many times you've died, or anything like that.

I'm running into a wall here, too, and it's making me lose interest in playing all together. If there's a system beyond random, I'd dearly like to know what it is because I'm tired of working hard and getting screwed!

Holy necro thread, Batman!

Also, something very important to note in relation to this thread is that the Inf prices have been divided by four over what they were when this thread was previously active. A Rare piece of Incarnate salvage can be created using 100 Threads, one of each Uncommon salvage, and 25 million Inf (this was originally 100M Inf.)

If the RNG is being unkind to you (and I'm fairly confident, based on a lot of parsing of my own reward logs over around 600 trials that it really is random), I think the above method or spending Empyrean Merits are both reasonably accessible methods for getting a Rare component to craft a Tier 3 ability. However, if you are having bad luck and want Tier 4 abilities, I recommend you use the above Threads/UC/25M method to create rares, and save Empyrean Merits to create Very Rare components.

As mentioned, though, bear in mind that VRs, while sometimes nice, are not usually nearly as much nicer as they are harder to get though just about any method.