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Originally Posted by Fulmens

ok, hopping onto E K Nachtmusic if you want an invite to Midlevel Crisis and some fire support.

Originally Posted by Madame Pistacio

Sell at the high end and place bids at like 600 and be patient

Originally Posted by _Klaw_

It's good that things went well for you but details please: Which roses should we be smelling?

Originally Posted by Aett_Thorn

If we do get them, I expect that they'd actually take longer to accomplish than the Trials, if the rewards are the same. I mean, the Trials only take about 30-60 minutes, tops. I've been on some that only take about 20.

Allowing for smaller groups (or soloists ) to get the rewards, while able to go away and come back to it as they need to, I would imagine that they'd be several-mission-long arcs that would take longer to accomplish, but would allow for more freedom in terms of when you accomplish them.

Think about it this way: take Task Forces versus normal mission arcs. TFs get merit bonuses in comparison to arcs of the same relative length. This is to compensate for the toughness in stopping them and coming back to them whenever you feel like. I would think that since the rewards would have to be about the same for Incarnate Arcs that they'd take longer to accomplish.

Originally Posted by Weatherwoman

my only gripe is, why call it city of heroes freedom? name it after a better server D:<

city of heroes pinnacle :P

Originally Posted by Fulmens

Just going back to this for a minute:

The first question should be "Do you NEED them?"

There are some builds- a lot of builds- that get very good results from having a whole lot of extra Recharge. Which, as you have noticed, is really expensive. But a lot of the builds you see on these forums are designed with some or all of the following assumptions:

1) A billion inf is not too much to spend on a character
2) Thirty billion inf is not too much to spend on a character
3) There is no reason to work on a character build below level 50
4) You will never exemplar below level 50

I keep thinking of putting together a build bingo card, like this one.

I will also point out that there's often a considerable difference in price between crafted and uncrafted LoTGs- just don't get high on your own supply.

Originally Posted by Local_Man

The Hero Merit process is the slow-n-steady sure thing way of getting your Luck of the Gambler Recharge recipes. The market is the fast-n-risky way of maybe getting your recipes.

I took one of my oldest characters sitting on 110 mil and decided to try a little bit of marketeering (I'm generally not a Marketeer). I picked a niche that seemed to have a pretty quick turnover. Bought up recipes and Salvage, crafted them. The IOs were selling pretty steady for 20 mil, and I was crafting them for about 3-5 mil, a nice profit. I put them up for sale at 17 mil and they were selling quickly. After about 2 sets of 10, I crafted and put up my third set of 10. 6 sold at the same 20 mil mark, but then there seems to have been a market price switch . . . to 15-16 mil, just below my listing price. Those 4 have been sitting on the market now for 3 weeks at 17 mil . . . I could just eat the listing fee and re-list them, but I'm not really in a hurry. I keep hoping they will sell eventually.

The point of the story is that the market is volitile. You can earn a bunch very quickly, but you can't be sure if a market price fluxuation will suddenly result in losing out on some significan listing fees or take longer to sell. If you have Reward Merits and even a moderate amount of Infl, you can buy one Hero merit per day with 50 Reward Merits and 20 Mil Infl, earn one Hero Merit every other day with Tip Missions. Craft and sell a desired 1-merit recipe on one day and then buy your LotG Recharge the next day. If you choose your recipe-for-sale right, you should be easily able to make up the 20 mil it costs to buy one Hero Merit per day. You will have to do other things to make sure you have 50 Reward Merits per day.

Originally Posted by Aggelakis

Pets' attacks are not affected by +recharge, but anything else will function properly for them. So the movement part of SB works, the debuff resistance part works, but not the +recharge part.

PS; eryq, you should know by now that if you want developer feedback, you need to PM a developer. Asking in Random Forum Thread will almost guarantee no developer response.

Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect

There are two more trials in the immediate future, and the devs are reputedly looking into solo/small team Incarnate content.

The trials will be coming before Issue 21 (one of them at least for sure), so I am anticipating some kind of solo/small team Incarnate stuff to be released in Issue 21. Shouldn't be too much longer.

Originally Posted by Stormfront_NA

Given that the assertion from a poster above, that shard award is different from the norm, in where each mob could potentially award 8 shards, (1 to a player) as opposed to the normal loot practice that a creature checks to see if it has a drop at all, then decides which one player get it.

So in the case of shards on solo versus teams, there is no 1 on 8 chance that given a drop, you may get it for teams. Thus teams tend to be better for shard drops, solely because you kill faster the bunches of mobs that you would be able to do alone. That is technically, in my own experience, it tends to be true. I can solo and decimate entire maps for hours and maybe get 1 or 2 shard drops ( I average a shard an hour, I know my luck suxors), which is often my norm. But I can go to level 50 TF with lots of people, kill in 30 min as many mobs I would have killed in two hours and walk out with an average of 2 shards. Which is by far better, timewise, for acquiring shards.

I still have an issue with the randomness of shard drops, I feel its inherently wrong that luck plays such a large component in the acquisition of a critical component in the incarnate system. I feel aweful when hard working players go into a kill all ITF for example, and because of the "range" they walk out empty handed, and contrasted in the very same ITF another player walks out with 8 or more shards. Again I understand that is luck and the range, but does luck need to be so over-bearing? I mean zip versus 8? Is this really reasonable? Is this pragmatically fair?

I use pragmatically as a means to emphasize in the final analysis. At a low level of fairness, it is understood that we all have the same chance to get a drop, so at an entry level, it is fair. But after an hour of grinding, and when the loot split is remarkly skewed, is that in truth fair?

Lets look at the random number generator, is it working right? Is it possibly getting stuck at a certain range for a player?

Let me delve into my concern, say there is a an average 1% per mob (averaged between minions, LTs, and bosses) chance to get a shard. That means that statisticaly 1 in 100 mobs is supposed to get you 1 drop, this is very basic statistics. The greater the sampling, the more likely the proportion will be experienced. That is if you take a sample of only ten rolls, you are very unlikely to get a drop, it was only a sample of ten and you had a 1 chance on 100. If you take a sample of 50 rolls, you really have a 50/50 chance to get that drop given also some form of standard deviation. If you were to do 100 rolls, and had a 1 in 100 chance, given a 1 sigma statistical variation, you should have an 87% chance to get it; that means there is a 13% chance a statistical aberration may occur and you get shafted. If you do 200 rolls, thus double the statistical pool, you still have the same 1 sigma deviation, but the 13% drops to 7% chance, at 300 rolls the aberration chance is only 4%, at 400 rolls would yield a 3% chance of you getting cheated.

Now lets look an ITF, how many mobs we polish away in each mission? I would estimate about 300 of them. At 3 hundred and at an average 1% chance, under a properly working random number generator you should receive 3 shards give or take one standard deviation or +/- 0.51 shards. Now if you wind up with no drops, yeah sure bad luck, but how bad was it? 3/0.51 is roughly 6, my goodness a standard deviation of 6 is essentially unheard of in real life, really! that statistical catastrophe is like your being bitten by a blind dog, while a lightning strikes your head, as you stood by a leaking fire hydrant, as your cell phone shorted and zapped your ear while talking, and your state is decimated by a giant asteroid: All at the same time! While these events could possibly happen, in or out of the game, they should really, really , really be extremely rare. Judging by the frequency they do occur, I would think something is not right with the so called "range" or random number generator. Please note, these numbers are only after completing a single mission, not an entire ITF! Think how truly broken the range is if you walk out empty handed after an entire ITF!

Perhaps after 100 rolls for a shard, a streak breaker should kick in, and give you 1!

hugs

Sue