i20.5: Astral/Empyreal cost to unlock everything

The very rare components are the only things I'm missing from being able to slot 10 Tier 4 powers across 3 characters. I have another 4 characters that only have the Tier 3 Alpha unlocked. Conversely I only have 8 characters I can use the ascension (regular, decor, or radiance) parts on. So yes, the price is too much.

I'll likely buy them as I spent a month on one character getting empyrean merits and also have an excess of astral merits, but that doesn't negate the fact that the fluff comes with an advancement penalty that is beyond what is needed. Seeing that the developer set price tag for the VR components is what it is, we know that the developers feel the price for the unlockables are worth around the same price as a PVPIO recipe. So about 2 billion Inf.

Feeding into this is the 25 million and 100 million inf price tag for the rare & very rare conversions (200 million inf + 16 uncommon components). If those numbers were lower, the costs on the costume parts were lower, the drop rate for VR components were better, or the Empyrean merit cost on a VR component was lower then it might not be so bad.

As it stands though, the costs impede character progression too much.

Triumph: White Succubus: 50 Ill/Emp/PF Snow Globe: 50 Ice/FF/Ice Strobe: 50 PB Shi Otomi: 50 Ninja/Ninjistu/GW Stalker My other characters

I, for one, won't miss you. You've had seven years of content designed for you. It's okay for some content to be developed for other people.

Especially when the released information on the next update is "Hey! Bucketloads and bucketloads of new content that IS for you! With more stuff each month!"

For the record, this puts the total price tag of crafting a T4 incarnate power as 250 million.

Keep in mind, the casual players are also using their astral/empyreal merits to get their incarnate slots open and slotted.

I have 10 level 50 toons. Months after the incarnate system debuted, I still only have one incarnate with +3 level shifts. The rest are still running at +1 and have yet to unlock their Lore and Destiny slots. I have no astral merits -- since they had no apparent use, I was converting them to much-needed threads. I *might* have 3 emp merits on two or three characters.

I'm just too casual for this endgame content, I suppose. A shame, since that's all the new content we're getting.

Yes, Issue 21 only has the Underground Trial in it

I lol'd.

Math failure:

2480 x Threads = 248 million Inf for the thread portion alone (provided you do the 10:10 + 1 million inf conversion over 248 days). Add another 150 million Inf for the needed 6 Uncommon -> Rare conversions. Add another 100 milllion Inf for the Rare -> Very Rare conversion.

498 Million Inf for the total price tag of crafting a Very Rare incarnate power (not including opening the slot).

Triumph: White Succubus: 50 Ill/Emp/PF Snow Globe: 50 Ice/FF/Ice Strobe: 50 PB Shi Otomi: 50 Ninja/Ninjistu/GW Stalker My other characters

Apparently this is a trademark GG sarcastic joke. I normally get those, but I haven't been *that* up to date with what's happening in i21, so I don't get the funny.

i21 has some stuff for casual players, yes. But it's not here and I don't know when it will be. We were discussing i20.5.

Actually, I wasn't counting either of those. Since commons and uncommons are common enough that there's no reason to convert to them.

Go here then:

http://www.cityofheroes.com/news/gam..._overview.html

Want =/= Forced