More Reward Merits or a Reward Table for defeating Giant Monsters

Hello, everyone. I just thought I'd beat a dead horse.

The developers seem very keen to reviving/revamping old content lately. Giant Monsters aren't too popular anymore and I can see why: They're too much effort for too little of a reward. Giant Monsters give the standard of 2 reward merits if I'm correct.
Why not have a reward table for contributing to fight them? For example, it could be:

• 10 Reward Merits
• Non stacking +10% XP/Inf boost for the next 45 minutes
• A single Incarnate Shard(Level 50 VIP Incarnates only!)
• Two Incarnate Threads (Level 50 VIP Incarnates only!)
• A random super inspiration

In general I don't have any issue with this.

I mean, they did revamp Adamaster(sp?)'s rewards. But they also revamped how he was spawned.

The only quirk I would see is the Paladin in KR. While he's been "fixed" many times, there still manages to be a couple of his floating around. 3 Paladins = 30 merits in a few minutes. It's an extreme end of the spectrum type thing, but it could be an issue.

Either way,

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Yeah the Paladin spawning would definitely need to be fixed. You'd probably need a dedicated league to fight all 3 of them at once though.

I wish GM hunting was more popular. It's hard to get a team for the more obscure ones like Jurrasik,Sally,and Deathsurge

Heck,I'd settle for a small increase of merits.

Don't need a team at all to actually beat Sally. Just would want to get one if you want to let more than just you or someone else get credit.

I've probably only seen one or two Jurassik teams ever in my entire CoH experience.

Yeppers. Sally goes down in a single hit from anything I believe. It could be two depending on how heavy of an attack it is. I could see Sally being the one exclusion to this idea. *Sagenod*

I'm not sure I want to see a 'standardized reward' for every GM. I'd rather see each GM get it's own table for rewards, maybe even its own merit amount. like maybe one you can pick the merits or pick a temp power or the like or even a costume part.

Adamastor was definitely a step in the right direction, people seem to enjoy taking him on regularly. 10 merits and 5 threads (for 50s) once a day is not bad at all.

i think if they were made more similar to adamastor it would be fine, adamastor currently awards 10 merits, and if incarnate, 5 threads with the reward being on 20 hour timer

the GMs are not very hard though, my ill cold can solo every GM out there except for seed of hamidon and the arachnos flier (seed of hamidon due to mechanics and flying, arachnos flier due to flying)

I support this. Though an additional idea I'd like to add is increased rewards for fighting harder monsters.

The fact is that Caleb spawns on Virtue only, like, once or twice a month, and in all of my time playing this game I have never seen a team recruit for the arachnos flier once. These monsters are hard to get to and quite hard to fight. Something like the Clockwork palaldin practically spawns en masse. Giving the same rewards for both doesn't sit quite right.

I'm for it.

There would have to be some sort of reward lockout/Diminishing Returns.. and knowing Paragon it would be shared among *all* GMs.

So, using Adamastor as the example, the first GM you slay would yield 10 merits and 5 threads (for 50s), second one (within 20 hours) yields only 5 merits, so on and so fourth.

Maybe? But only if they institute direct ways of bringing them about. Atm Adamastor is the only one that's fast and easy to summon. Most of the others work on a random timer (usually every 2-4 hours from what I've seen) the ones that don't require an effort like defeating X amount of an enemy group. Or there's like the kronos titan who is -only- in one instance (as an archvillain, though it gives the badge) and one ambush (as a full GM).

As it is I've been in in a few Monster Hunting groups. It tends to be a hit or miss thing, you never know who or what is going to be up. The Seed of Hamidon seems to be the only thing that stays spawned, even after defeat the respawn seems to be about an hour or so.

I -hate- that Redside GMs despawn. I've been in a handful of Scrapyard teams when he despawns in the middle of the fight. That is -ssssssssoooo- damn annoying, especially when we've been close to dropping him.

I think if he aggroes he shouldn't despawn :P I can't imagine that's a super hard change to code