I have yet to delve into it too deeply as I only ran one character through the opening arc twice -- once with a group and again solo to read the story. And I did this with my namesake who already has his T4s so drops and IXP aren't a concern.
But it seems to me that the ability to earn IXP, I-merits, and components at any time of day on any server is not being given enough weight. Should it be faster? Perhaps. But just the ability to log on anytime, any server, and be able to earn these items is very valuable to me.
Even though Justice has a pretty good group of raiders that form trials every day at various times, I often have to wait ten to twenty minutes to get enough players or worse, fill up the league. Sure, sometimes you are the last person and it starts almost instantly, but more often than not there is significant dead time waiting to start.
I think we will all have to wait and see at least on month to find out how reasonable or unreasonable the DA path is.
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Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba
I'm here to play as well. The problem for me is that I can play the vast majority of what I want without being VIP.
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I'm a tier 9 player as well, so I don't lose much when I drop to Premium.
I'm still paying a subscription because:
A) I like some of the new powersets that are free to VIPs, but not enough that I'm prepared to shell out $10 apiece on them.
B) I'm enjoying the SSA arcs. And there's no way in hell I'm spending $10 on each of those either. $10 for 3-4 missions? I think not.
C) What little there is in the Market that I want my point stipend covers nicely, without me having to hit up a credit card to buy crap. I don't mind saving up points to get power sets, since there isn't really that much else I want at the moment. (Incidentally, I was disappointed in Titan Weapons as well. But I will roll one up as soon as I find a concept I like for one.)
D) I've actually used my free transfers. A couple were spent as ghetto renames, and the remainder were used to bring retired characters back to Pinnacle when I became interested in playing them again.
Incarnate stuff is just a nice bonus where I'm concerned. It's not my reason for remaining subscribed, and I didn't really miss it when I dropped to Premium for a little while.
Obviously I'm in no hurry to gain more power for my main, since he's tier 3 in one slot, tier 2 in 3 more, and tier one in the last (which I unlocked on the Lambda run the other night).
I just play the game like I always have, running whatever strikes my fancy when I log in. every now and then I look at my Incarnate crap and say "Hey, if I get this piece here I can go up a tier, maybe I'll run a trial tonight." ....and the rest of the time I really don't worry about it.
*shrug*
Maybe it's just me, but I have too much stress in the real world to be getting stressed out and pissed off by the thing I do to unwind at the end of the day.
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Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison See, it's gems like these that make me check Claws' post history every once in a while to make sure I haven't missed anything good lately. |
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I am planning to try to farm the solo arcs for purple recipe and catalyst drops. Is that doable? +0/x8...?
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Originally Posted by FNG
I ran three DA arcs with two friends today. We were at +4/x8 dif the entire time (I don't know if that makes a difference or not but, thought it should be mentioned). In running three arcs, and doing some farming while waiting for them to get to DA so we could team, I ended up with a grand total of 15 threads, 1 emp from the completion reward, and 2 astrals from getting a second completion reward. One friend got a piece of common incarnate salvage the first time and 2 astrals the second. The other got two pieces of common salvage. All three of us agreed that while the iXP rate was just fine, the drop rate for threads was terrible and even think that it'd be reasonable if they decreased the iXP rate if they'd also increase the drop rate of threads. As it stands though, we all thought the solo arcs aren't really very good for anything aside from getting an empyrean.
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I ran Heather's arc at x8 with a few friends. Between the 3 of us we netted 5 catalysts by the end.
Go for it man.
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I ran all 6 arcs last night at x8, clearing every map. 2 purples (think it was a hecatomb: damage and an armageddon: chance for fire) and 1 catalyst.
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Originally Posted by Blue_Centurion
I am planning to try to farm the solo arcs for purple recipe and catalyst drops. Is that doable? +0/x8...?
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Be well, people of CoH.
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Thanks Bill, good news and from a trusted source! Call me "Soloing in Dark Astoria"
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Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba
I ran all 6 arcs last night at x8, clearing every map. 2 purples (think it was a hecatomb: damage and an armageddon: chance for fire) and 1 catalyst.
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Agreed.
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Originally Posted by SwellGuy
I took 2 of my characters for a spin in DA last night.
As being content to play that awards Incarnate threads and such? - good. As being content to gain incarnate xp and threads and such? - not good. If the second one is my objective I am better off to sit around however long it takes waiting for an incarnate trial to form or to run the SSAs for Astral Threads and Astral Merits every week. Both of these options are painfully boring to me. My other option is blow off the incarnate stuff which then as Bill wrote I may as well go Premium. I am a diehard fan of the game but when they have someone like me seriously pondering going Premium they might want to examine what they are doing. |
I don't suffer from altitis, I enjoy every minute of it.
Thank you Devs & Community people for a great game.
So sad to be ending ):
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It should be, I ran around for a little while on my scrapper which is +3 and tore apart everything I came across even at +4/x8 and know plenty of my friends have gotten catalysts in DA already even though I've yet to get one.
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Originally Posted by Blue_Centurion
I am planning to try to farm the solo arcs for purple recipe and catalyst drops. Is that doable? +0/x8...?
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Except it isn't because they have this really inexplicable habit of front loading rewards in a system that is supposed to last longterm. In the first 3 days the rewards are fine. Stretched over a month they look worse. Stretched over 6 months they look pathetic.