In Just Seven Days...
By
Bill Z Bubba,
Posted on: 2012-02-13 19:39 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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You keep saying this whilst conbeniently forgetting the doubling up of rewards first time through before the time-gating activates. The second and subsequent T3s will take longer.|
Originally Posted by Golden Girl
One level shift a week seems pretty reasonable progress for a solo path.
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Your math is generally poor, I notice. Mime is too, which is why I recorded this data. I recommend that folk like us note things down so that we have evidence to support our opinions on things. Otherwise we're just flapping our lips and making air-noises!
Eco
MArcs:
The Echo, Arc ID 1688 (5mish, easy, drama)
The Audition, Arc ID 221240 (6 mish, complex mech, comedy)
Storming Citadel, Arc ID 379488 (lowbie, 1mish, 10-min timed)
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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."
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Originally Posted by MrCaptainMan
You keep saying this whilst conbeniently forgetting the doubling up of rewards first time through before the time-gating activates. The second and subsequent T3s will take longer.
Eco |
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| Something something Heather's arc something something <smiley>. |
Also, keep in mind that this "one level shift in a week" statement that keeps getting trotted out is VERY luck dependent, as is the entire system. If you run the whole story line for the first time, along with a few extra Heathers and the RNG likes you, you could hit Alpha T3 in a single day. (6 first time component rolls, plus 1 repeat component roll + 1 Emp + threads = 9 components)*
If it DOESN'T, though. Well, at a 1/8 chance for rare or better per roll, the odds of not getting a rare after sevenTEEN rolls are a little better than 1 in 10, assuming all players have equal luck. No guaranteed Emps to soften the blow either.
"One level shift in a week" makes for a good sound bite, but it's incredibly deceptive. It did happen for the one solid data point that is being collected (thank you Coulomb), but it is far from a sure thing. Assuming the devs make no changes, we can and will have some players running this content to its fullest and still without a level shift after three weeks of grinding.
*Seriously, DON'T do this. My advice is not to worry about Alpha in DA at all. Barring a major sea change, if you're avoiding trials you're already going to be repeating this content until your eyes bleed. Get your Alpha via non-DA means, just for a little variety.
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Heh that sounds like something to should be left to the privacy of your superbase. |
Originally Posted by MrCaptainMan
Forced reaming wins again.
Eco |
I will be using the solo content myself on alts that won't be seeing a lot of trial play. It's nice to have the option, especially on low-pop servers.
Nice write-up by the way.
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I ran Heather's arc myself, tens of times, trying to help with the drop rates reporting, and it is extremely easy to solo in about 10-15 mins, depending on Travel power and Damage output, but after your first run through of all the DA arcs, you can only do it once a day, so its short timescale is moot, really. If it took a half hour, it wouldn't give any slower or faster overall iProgress.
The only way a DA arc would take longer than they already do to dole out rewards is if they added one that took 20hrs+ to complete 
Eco
MArcs:
The Echo, Arc ID 1688 (5mish, easy, drama)
The Audition, Arc ID 221240 (6 mish, complex mech, comedy)
Storming Citadel, Arc ID 379488 (lowbie, 1mish, 10-min timed)
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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."
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Good job. Now start over from level 1.
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He's just hit +2 in eleven days - so he seems to be getting faster.|
Originally Posted by Yoru-Hime
"One level shift in a week" makes for a good sound bite, but it's incredibly deceptive. It did happen for the one solid data point that is being collected (thank you Coulomb), but it is far from a sure thing.
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He got a current average of 1 shift every 5.5 days - and there's still 10 days left to get the 3rd before the 3 weeks are up.
@Golden Girl
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The way he describes it, though, grinding the DA arcs via speed-running seems to be even less fun than grinding the trials is |
Originally Posted by Golden Girl
He's just hit +2 in eleven days - so he seems to be getting faster.
He got a current average of 1 shift every 5.5 days - and there's still 10 days left to get the 3rd before the 3 weeks are up. |
Eco
MArcs:
The Echo, Arc ID 1688 (5mish, easy, drama)
The Audition, Arc ID 221240 (6 mish, complex mech, comedy)
Storming Citadel, Arc ID 379488 (lowbie, 1mish, 10-min timed)
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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."
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Well, you could forget about speeding to a top that hold nothing else to do (except go back through the content you sped through initially) and just meander through the game, enjoying where the journey takes you...
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Originally Posted by MrCaptainMan
The way he describes it, though, grinding the DA arcs via speed-running seems to be even less fun than grinding the trials is
Eco |
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This is my preferred playstyle, tbh, but I did meander through the DA content with a fresh 50 Stalker, clearing all in every mission, and at the end, I had one T2 in Alpha. In ordeer to continue 'meandering', I'd need to park her there and wait for more solo-friendly incarnate content to come out. |
Originally Posted by Chase_Arcanum
Well, you could forget about speeding to a top that hold nothing else to do (except go back through the content you sped through initially) and just meander through the game, enjoying where the journey takes you...
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Eco
MArcs:
The Echo, Arc ID 1688 (5mish, easy, drama)
The Audition, Arc ID 221240 (6 mish, complex mech, comedy)
Storming Citadel, Arc ID 379488 (lowbie, 1mish, 10-min timed)
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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."
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