Lady Grey TF is the best Shard TF!!!
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Posted on: 2011-05-17 08:46 in Player Questions
Ran it today and only got 4 so its not that good for everyone ,you are just lucky 
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Originally Posted by Prof_Radburn
Ran it today and only got 4 so its not that good for everyone ,you are just lucky
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How many were on your team and what level? I get 10-15 every run...it's not luck.
also, my character is a dominator. I wonder if Archetype affects drops?
As far as we know.. Random Number Generator is RANDOM. You may have a few good runs then some bad runs then some mediocre runs.
Enjoy your streak while it lasts.
We'll see, I'll run this heavily this week and Memorial Weekend but what other Tfs are good for shards? Personally, none are nearly as "fruitful" for me. I've heard people talk about the ITF and I've farmed that twice for about 4-7 inconsistently.
I did a Lady Grey TF that killed everything in our way and I got ZERO shards until after the TF was over and we were killing the mobs in the final room. So, I got ONE for the entire event. There is no "best TF" from what we can tell. Sometimes you get lucky and get a lot of shards. I am glad they increased the drop rate on threads, compared to shards. It makes it more reliable and less streaky.
I got 14-16 on one ITF run. Random is random.
There are speed runs, for folks short on time or who have ADHD 
There are what we call on Triumph 'plow throughs'; we don't intend to kill all but God help you if you get in our way And there are kill-alls for the OBCD population. I like the plow throughs on LGTF, and the Imperious Task Force. They don't take that much longer, maybe 15-30 minutes at most, and the Lady Grey has the extra benefit for the Vanguard merits and additional alpha ability component of grai matter.
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Did you do anything special on this run? That's a lot. 15 shards I've hit once.
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Originally Posted by Stone Daemon
I got 14-16 on one ITF run. Random is random.
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There is something you don't seem to quite get Res. Let me see if I can clarify it for you.
RANDOM IS RANDOM
Does that help at all?
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For Shards, the ITF is probably the best choice. You have to defeat a lot of dudes and that's what gets you Shards. And it's not tedious like Dr Q.|
Originally Posted by Residentx10
I think this is the best Shard TF in the game for collecting shards. Any comments?
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Originally Posted by Residentx10
I get 10-15 every run...it's not luck.
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Originally Posted by Sharker_Quint_1
There is something you don't seem to quite get Res. Let me see if I can clarify it for you.
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No, say it louder.
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I'll keep a log for the next two weeks. I'll post the results after memorial day weekend. LGTF is the tf of the week and I'm doing a CoH weekend over memorial day.
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Originally Posted by Ironblade
Wrong. It *IS* luck. Shard drops are random.
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Originally Posted by Residentx10
No, say it louder.
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About all I can do is change color. It won't let me go any louder. Sorry.
Meh. I traditionally rake in 4-8 shards on an ITF, and 2-5 shards on a LGTF, so ITF is my go-to shard-grabbing TF.
Some people are just luckier than others.
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Not really, it might have already been said but there are a lot of extra mobs that drop nothing like the monkey, portals and the spawns from those portals.
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Originally Posted by Residentx10
I ran a speed LGTF this morning with 8 in 1 hour and 3 minutes and got 10 shards, lots of Vanguard merits and my notice. I love this TF because it's a two for 1. I think this is the best Shard TF in the game for collecting shards. Any comments? I consistently get 10-15 shards every run whether it's farm or speed.
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Yeah, but kill-all ITFs can be run in half the time at about 60% of that number of shards. This means, by running two ITFs back-to-back, I can spend the same amount of time and get 20% more Shards.|
Originally Posted by Residentx10
I ran a speed LGTF this morning with 8 in 1 hour and 3 minutes and got 10 shards, lots of Vanguard merits and my notice. I love this TF because it's a two for 1. I think this is the best Shard TF in the game for collecting shards. Any comments? I consistently get 10-15 shards every run whether it's farm or speed.
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ITF wins because there is a signifant drop rate increase among bosses, EBs, and AVs; and the ITF has boatloads more of them than the LGTF.
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I usually get 0-2 shards on speed lg's.
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Originally Posted by Zombie Man
Yeah, but kill-all ITFs can be run in half the time at about 60% of that number of shards. This means, by running two ITFs back-to-back, I can spend the same amount of time and get 20% more Shards.
ITF wins because there is a signifant drop rate increase among bosses, EBs, and AVs; and the ITF has boatloads more of them than the LGTF. |
LG is nice if you don't have a server that runs Mothership raids for your gr'ai matter's, but outside of that ITF is better for shards vs. time invested.
***The following is based on my own experience and discussion with others in-game, I welcome any confirmed/dev-sourced/Arcanaville-based information that refutes it.***
Try running a TF with a bunch of SK'd folks and then run the same one, in the same fashion, with all 50s. On the one with SK'd people, the 50s get more shards, because the game seems to be able to generate a shard for each player but will only allocate them to 50s. This concentrates the shard drops in to the 50s who are present and might explain why you sometimes get two or even three shards when a mob dies. On a TF with all 50s, the same mean number of shards are dropped, but they are spread amongst more 50s, so each player gets fewer. This has been my experience with the system, and I regularly find that the ITF generates more shards for me when I am SKing people along rather than running a doom train of Incarnated 50s.
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The following is based on my own feeble understanding and discussion with others in-game, I welcome any confirmed/dev-sourced/Arcanaville-based information that refutes it.|
Originally Posted by Emberly
***The following is based on my own experience and discussion with others in-game, I welcome any confirmed/dev-sourced/Arcanaville-based information that refutes it.***
Try running a TF with a bunch of SK'd folks and then run the same one, in the same fashion, with all 50s. On the one with SK'd people, the 50s get more shards, because the game seems to be able to generate a shard for each player but will only allocate them to 50s. This concentrates the shard drops in to the 50s who are present and might explain why you sometimes get two or even three shards when a mob dies. On a TF with all 50s, the same mean number of shards are dropped, but they are spread amongst more 50s, so each player gets fewer. This has been my experience with the system, and I regularly find that the ITF generates more shards for me when I am SKing people along rather than running a doom train of Incarnated 50s. |
When a boss is defeated in a mission or task force that generates shards for level 50s, each of the 50s has a random roll to determine if he gets a shard. Bosses generate more drops than lieutenants and lieutenants more than minions, but then all have a 'random roll' upon defeat for each eligible character. However, by increasing the spawn sizes by filling teams and getting the max x8 occurrences there are more opportunity for shard rolls.
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You've run the ITF twice and called it farming?
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Originally Posted by Residentx10
We'll see, I'll run this heavily this week and Memorial Weekend but what other Tfs are good for shards? Personally, none are nearly as "fruitful" for me. I've heard people talk about the ITF and I've farmed that twice for about 4-7 inconsistently.
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I'm not sure about this. Lag is bad in Cimerora. No VG merits. The scene with the nictus raid up top should give more shards. ITF is more scenic though.
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Originally Posted by Zombie Man
Yeah, but kill-all ITFs can be run in half the time at about 60% of that number of shards. This means, by running two ITFs back-to-back, I can spend the same amount of time and get 20% more Shards.
ITF wins because there is a signifant drop rate increase among bosses, EBs, and AVs; and the ITF has boatloads more of them than the LGTF. |
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I was talking about the LGTF. LGTF is the TF this week and I'll run it alot over memorial weekend. I probably run all the tfs then but I will probably run ITF and LGTF daily.|
Originally Posted by tanstaafl
You've run the ITF twice and called it farming?
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Edit: I've "Farmed" the ITF twice only because it is so long, I done regular or speed run in it many times before.
I ran an LGTF this morning with 8 in 1 hour and 3 minutes and got 10 shards, lots of Vanguard merits and my notice. I love this TF because it's a two for 1. I think this is the best Shard TF in the game for collecting shards. Any comments? I consistently get 10-15 shards every run whether it's farm or speed.