Im close to giving up on tier 4s.
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AquaJAWS,
Posted on: 2011-05-17 10:11 in Archetypes and Powers General Discussion
I, on the other hand, have received no purples since... November? Even though I have been playing my 50s a lot more than I used to. I have bum luck with those.
VRs, though... think I have three on my one character with all rares for the four newest powers, and one VR apiece for the other two characters that have worked on them so far. That's quite a few trials for each of them so far, and doesn't happen too often. Random is indeed random.
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OP I don't feel your pain, I assume karma is to blame for this. Its like trying for a baby, once you stop expecting is when you'll get lucky. Same goes for purples; of course my drones have had more luck on drops than the main doing all the work.
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I don't think he expected to receive all 4 by now, but if he has honestly ran 115 and not received any, I think it's understandable how discouraging it can be (especially when your gauge for drops is someone you can closely monitor, who managed 4 in less than half the time, by what's claimed). |
Originally Posted by BrandX
Why do you expect to have all tier 4's already? Sure it can be done (and has) but nothing in the system says get them quick.
And like others have said, do the up/side/down grades to get what you need. |
It's the downside of having a partially random system, where reaching the minimum qualification for the reward, doesn't necessarily correlate with any extra effort and/or overall time invested.
I'd like to say I somewhat understand why the devs chose this method for rewards, and there are workarounds, but I can't think of many systems where I'd willingly call these conditions favorable. I'm a bigger advocate of the reward being equal to the contribution and time invested, among other criteria (but understand the downside to this, too). I haven't kept count of how many trials I've ran, but I'm positive I've received 2 very rares within the first 20-30 successful attempts. I consider that lucky, if I'm using the acquisition of 30 Emp merits as a gauge.
IMO, the tier 4's aren't that good that I think they should take months at a time to unlock. However, it's also interesting to see what people's impression of 'quick' is, in context of how long the realistic expectation is to unlock them (especially when currently angled towards repeating two trials, daily). For now, it is what it is.
To the OP,
Can't say much more than try and follow the suggestions, and wish you better luck.
I know that the first week or so i20 came out i got something like 8 purples (prolly 50/50 in/out of trials). Looking back most of them where stun, hold, or sleep. But i figured random is random.
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