Four Shots at Loot?

So... there are four arcs in DA right now, each of them with an Incarnate-geared reward table.

Are these four arcs the only shots we get at getting components via the Incarnate Component reward table selection? After these, is the only other option Ephram Sha's "daily" mishes?

After your initial run throughs... you can replay the arcs in Ouroborus for another reward table.

However, the reward selected is then locked out for 20 hours. Similar to how the SSA's work currently.

ie: You Ouro Heather's arc and select a salvage reward... that reward is locked out from all the other arcs as well. You can select the merits or other rewards though.

A common mechanic during the beta was to run either the same arc or different ones 3 times plus the daily. That gave you: component, merits, threads, and 2 threads.
If you want to and can get to it I'd recommend reading Columb2's "A Month in Dark Astoria Take 2" thread for his results.

There are six arcs in all... and you end up with six tables, even though one arc (Max's) doesn't give a reward table at all, while another (the Dream Doctor's) gives you two. (Those two from the Doc do share the same 20-hour cool-down timer, though, so after the first run you wouldn't be able to pick the same type of reward from both.)

Thanks for the info, folks. Had no idea the arcs could be repeated in Ouro. Pity there's no option to redo them in DA itself, but that's good info! Thanks kindly!

Yeah I begrudgingly freed all 3 even though breaking into the Zig made me feel a lil skeezy. And no, I received no reward at the end.

I swear I got a reward for Max's arc, but I skipped freeing anyone. I don't recall specifically, though, so I'll have to run it on another character and pay attention this time through.

I freed all three and received nothing.

Is it possible that getting assistance as a hero disqualifies you? Or does the arc just not give anything either way?

I did Max's arc twice, once with help from the freed Malta agents and once without. I received no reward either time.

Just part of the continuing schizophrenia of CoH. You've got a player base that clearly and unquestionably wants solo rewards at a reasonable rate, but you've got a design team, particularly Positron, who seem s like they'd rather be designing for the WoW hardcore raiding crowd than their actual customers.

It's really within the realm of reasonable, no more than a few tweaks would set it solidly -to- 'reasonable'. Which is kind of what they intended, they started slow so they could tweak it up. Now that they're datamining a much larger population I would expect we'll see changes eventually to the rates.

The component drops seem a -lil- too heavily weighted toward common again. I won't be surprised if a few folks do some drop testing. Of my run through DA I got 3 common drops, 4 astrals, and 1 emp. Obviously too small a sample size but I'm hearing a lot of others getting mostly commons. Though getting a free choice for every arc the first time through is very nice.

There needs to be a way to earn a guaranteed empyreal every day so someone could reasonably work toward that magic 8 emps for a rare (not to mention the mythic 30 for a VR). The random roll between the two merits is too chancy. Honestly I'd rather just have the arcs award an astral simply for completing the arcs, no table choice, just something you get in addition. They drop like candy in iTrials and they have so little actual buying power in terms of incarnate progress. They're only good for burning for commons, maybe an uncommon if you're desperate, but it takes 4 astrals for a shard common, 5 for a thread common, 15 for an uncommon. Otherwise they're mostly worth blowing on costumes and other overpriced stuff. I honestly don't get the logic where 2 astrals and 1 emp is considered equal enough, getting the astrals feels like a complete jip.

And the repeatable mission reward needs to be tweaked up. 2 threads is a joke and can even be earned over the course of doing the mission. Honestly I've found myself taking the reward merits and the super insp, but then I don't need threads. Even so, 2 is so meager. It could at least be 5. Ideally I'd like to see an incarnate merit attached at the least. Emp would be super nice, but an astral would be ok since they're pretty fast and easy.

I went through the arcs on my +3 Broadsword/Regen/Mu Scrapper (Read: Flying death engine; Did missions solo where given the option without realizing there would be badges involved). Out of six reward tables, I picked the Component every time. Except for Mu'Vorkan's table, all of them were Commons. Mu'Vorkan netted me an uncommon. Is it not actually possible to get a rare/VR component from these arcs, or is it just extremely... well, rare?

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