future Incarnate slot unlocks and stockpiling

When just Alpha was available, lots of people stockpiled shards, I hear, and so threads were invented to stop instant Incarnate T4s being crafted on day one when lore, Destiny etc were added.

When Hybrid, Vitae etc get unlocked, surely there's going to be the same potential problem?

Are we going to get Incarnate Fragments, Facets, Slivers, Chunks, Slices, Nuggets, Blobs and Bits as well as the currencies we already have?

Eco.

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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow [The Incarnate System is] Jack Emmert all over again, only this time it's not "1 hero = 3 white minions" it's "1 hero = 3 white rocks."

No, we're going to have shards become relevant again, but it only gets revealed at the last minute, and at such stacked costs that it's going to take ages to save up enough for even a common bit of salvage. Therefore we will have to do whatever new things the devs have set out for us.

Oh, and they'll take away the option to use shards for alpha slots, as they'll realize how easy it is to get it under the new system.

My guess would be a new salvage type for the next few slots - possibly new types for each new slot, depending on how often they release them.
If they release a new slot every 4-6 months, that gives time for a pretty big build-up of Threads and salvage.
There's a new Trial in I21, but no new slot - which means that it'll be I21.5 or I22 before the next slot comes out, and by then, a lot of Incanrates are going to have stockpiled components.

My bet is on Incarnate Fragments, Solar Merits and Celestial Merits as the next tier. Because there will be a next tier, because the devs seem to like more currencies.

That'd just be for the next four. Afterwards, for Omega? Incarnate Remnants, Commendation of the Well, Grace of the Well, a similar system as to Shards.

Shards and threads are our two basic bare bones components. What I hope is that they will do away with one or the other, or, improve the shard drop rate so its a little better than it is.

My guess is, we'll get the next 4 incarnate doohickeys, and then Omega will be released last as Alpha was released first.

But if they do decide to invent a new type of basic salvage for the next four then if I'd took the time to play and prepare for the next ones, I think I'd be quite personally insulted.

Incarnate Quatloos...

A new currency is fairer for the more casual players - it stops the frenzied raiders from stockpiling the current lewt and then "opting out" of doing Trials to unlock the new slots and powers.

the only problem with creating new currencies is that it does not solve the stockpiling problem

my main stockpiled 225 shards before i20 (im sure there were poeple out there with even more), but i had at least tier3s slotted in all my powers by day 2, so the bottleneck to slow poeple down didnt really help all that much and just overcomplicated the system

We have shards (points, zero dimensions) and threads (lines, one dimension). Next will be discs (two dimensions) and blocks (three dimensions). A natural conversion rate progression would be 1 block = 6 discs = 24 threads = 48 shards.

I would love to think that the incarnate currency sub-types will not expand, but I'm feel sure the will. Quite frankly, if they didn't, people like me would just retain salvage from existing trials and not go through the hell of doing new 'more challenging' trials like Keyes.

Simply, new currency and new slots gives reason to run the new content that opens and equips these slots.