What are you expecting for a solo Incarnate path?

Here's an example of what raiding is like in other games. Its only partially tongue in cheek.

1. Apply for a raiding guild. This includes filling out an application, providing urine samples, DNA analysis, background checks, character profile and build, work schedule and computer specs.

2. One in a raiding guild you have to maintain your status by playing a certain amount of the day and week. Raid participation is mandatory no matter what you have going on in your life. The guild is expected to become your new life.

3. Raids are accomplished by gathering everyone in the guild and waiting 30-90 minutes while everyone waits around for the important people in the guild to get there because you cant start without them.

4. Endure massive amounts of drama, whining, being bossed around, and barely scrape by as you complete the actual raid.

5. Watch even more drama unfold as the awesome dagger of awesomeness you've been wanting and raiding for for 4 months gets awarded to the guild leaders girlfriend who hardly ever plays. Get docked 50 million dkpa or whatever for daring to bring it up.

Probably time-gated reward solo arcs with random rewards with virtually no chance of rare and/or very rare salvage. Though anything that would give me access to threads would be a major step, since right now all I can get is 10 threads a week from SSA plus 40 a week from WST. Occasionally an extra 10 from talking someone into Apex or Tin.

Something where solo players could earn Emps and Astrals would be ideal, but not holding my breath.

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Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.

Whatever news comes from the Summit will be the news that determines if I decide to stick with the game. Recent design decisions, even if later removed, have made me question the direction of the game.

Costumes: The Gunslinger set that's actually Gunslinger and Saloon Girl, in addition to the various other complaints about the direction of male versus female costume pieces.

Incarnate: The proposed and removed 15 Empyrean Merit lock on the new Alpha, Judgement, Destiny and Interface abilities vaguely being considered a good idea. Yes it was removed but I honestly thought the devs would have had more sense to ever let it go beta.

Content: Huge gulf in Blueside 30-50 content, especially 30-40. Lack of new Tip and Morality missions. The sub-class nature of being a Rogue or Vigilante and the excuse that 'you can do all content so no merits for you' when actually you can't start missions, use Ouroboros to do missions on the side you're visiting, and if you're a Rogue you can't even go to the Echo of Galaxy City.

There's other arguments and points I could raise, but I have to leave for work soon so time is limited. I hope the Summit pulls cats out of bags and rabbits out of hats and buffalo out of shoes as the team goes 'our bad, here's what we're doing right though, it's awesome, stay and play!'

I'm expecting it to be a way for solo players to unlock and slot Incarnate slots.

I would be OK with solo incarnate content that was accessible once you got the Alpha slot unlocked (since you can do that solo) as long as that content then also provided some means of incarnate progress.

My expectation is that such progress is still going to be pretty slow, but I think I would personally be OK with that if it was not as slow as the shard-only option that exist now. (And I'm talking about how slow that is for Alpha powers, not anything after that, when shards just becomes geologically slow.) But I'm likely to use any solo path to supplement iTrial paths. I like to solo, but I can't ignore how well I can progress currently in iTrials.

I expect it to be full of bugs, all of which would have been reporting during the beta stage, and all of which will go live anyway.

I expect that some of the forum posters will be unhappy with it and express their dislike. I may or may not be one of those.

I expect them to be lazy.

Therefore I expect them to take the existing signature story arc tech and modify it to one or maybe 2 story arcs. I expect them to be 5 missions long rather than 3, with about a 30-minute average time to complete. I expect the reward choices to be 1 astral or 10 threads 1x/week or a repeatable 5 threads or 1 super insp infinitely available. I expect that threads will drop during the mission.

I expect 1 or 2 badges that give either a common or uncommon when first acquired.

they will talk about adding more arcs in the future but not do it. They will talk about a future method to convert astrals to emps but not implement it. They may or may not talk about something equivalent to the WTF for incarnate content but if so, I actually do expect this to be implemented.

I add my voice hoping for the incarnate zone, and I do hope it is the shadow shard.

also, the devs consider EBs to be group enemies. Yes they know some of the players can solo AVs, but they still put warnings to gather a group for new missions that have a single +0 EB (see part 2 of the signature story arc final mission). Therefore I do not expect them to decide that non-incarnates need a team for EBs but incarnates jump multiple levels of difficulty and can handle AVs (one step would equal assuming you can solo EBs whereas they currently assume you need a team for them).

Edit: And I also add my voice to those who feel that the people acting like they deserve a solo path to everything are expecting too much and acting far too entitled. I also add my voice to those who feel that the devs neglect the solo community too much and that those who constantly criticize the all-solo-all-the-time crowd are often being gits themselves. In short, I think both camps are acting like spoiled brats. No one is entitled to anything. No one deserves anything. We don't even deserve a bug-free game that works all the time. We hope for it, and if a company gives us this it is good customer service and smart behavior on their part. But we don't deserve it. Vote with your money if you don't get what you want. Raise concerns. MMos have people who like to solo. MMos are based around group play. Both sides need to accept the other will always exist. Both sides need to accept that nothing will be perfectly geared for their desired style of play.

Can't we all just get along and kick praetorian *** as a semi-unified group of humans, metahumans, mutants, aliens, robots, cyborgs, science experiments gone awry, catgirls, megalomaniacs, escaped looney-bin patients, mass murderers, enraged dockworkers and lolstalkers until they give us someone better to abuse? (/rantmode)

I think any distinction between a solo Incarnate path and solo Incarnate content is... well, something I need explained to me.

You can already become an Incarnate (open the Alpha Slot) solo.

To me a solo Incarnate path just means a way to open the other slots and acquire the salvage needed to craft the abilities: threads and Astral Merits.

Which technically we already have.