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That's good, so I can probably pretty much bring anyone and they'd have a role. My Ill/TA might not be bad for the hold part (two ST holds), though he does already have a rare slotted.

Thanks to those who pointed out the order for the mitos and their weaknesses.

Which would be good for my INV tank, who has SS and a +stealth proc. And he has access to Assemble the Team. Of course, tanking and any lead role that might play really isn't my comfort zone.

Heh...my other character that has the rare slotted is my Grav/Storm. I could see trying that and messing up and/or getting myself killed.

Like others have said, with A-Merits it's really not that bad*. My richest character is my latest 50, who started in Praetoria. I ran the regular content through Praetoria, then ran a mix of arcs and alignment missions from 20-50. At level 30 or so I started rolling Hero Merits and converting Merits to A-Merits. I had well over 1B when I hit 50 (currently about 1.5B), and that was with an almost-complete build (no purples, but plenty of LoTG+ and the Numina and Miracle uniques, only need a couple Kinetic Combats).

All I did was craft and sell what I didn't need. That character hasn't run a TF nor has he hard-core farmed (I only run a wimpy 0x2 with him). Just soloing arcs and tips.

Incarnate shards on the other hand...he's only slotted 1st tier and has a whopping 4 shards to put to the 2nd tier.


* Unless you really hate crafting, which I can respect. Though I personally have a hard time fathoming Crafter, as I have never come even close to it.

Indeed. I am very much enjoying the salvage I am getting from running my AR/Dev through the 20s and now early 30s; not only is the salvage coming in handy for his own crafting, but for all the recipes my 50s have from A-Merit rolls on sets that top out at 35 or 40.

(fwiw, I'm rolling A-Merits on him on the way up, to help the market ever-so-slightly. His last two rolls were quite lucky though, with a Numina unique and *2* Miracle uniques. Those I'll be keeping...)

The answer to that question is why I'm not going to go for the Very Rare, or even the Rare on my 50s. I have very little motivation to want to do a Weekly Target (especially the STF/LRSF after reading some of the "horror stories") let alone a number of them. I'm not going to participate in TFs just for the point of participating in more TFs.

As a result, since 19.5 I've gone back to what I did before I19: leveling alts. Ok, I'll still run tip missions for generating some easy recipes/inf. But other than that, I'm not sure there's a point of running my 50s until other slots become available that might be interesting.

I've gotten pretty tired of the ones with Carnies (Debutantes and Whispering Hand). I run my Ill/TA at x3 though, and at that setting the spawns have two Master Illusionists...which can actually be good, if I just confuse them and pit them against each other. It's still really tedious though so most of the time I say to heck with it and drop the mission. I second the call for more Dark Ring Mistresses, I don't mind them as much. Master Illusionists have always been cheap, but seven years in I figure it's too late to really complain.

On melee characters I am leery of DE missions. The increased ToHit can be dangerous, and if you have Guardians dropping Quartz, look out.

Oddly, I don't really mind Sister Jocasta or the Knives.

That would be a very cool effect.

Well, there's a bit of a difference between the forums and the game though. There's another layer of separation in the forums. Sure, you can post on the forums and interact. Or, you can post on the forums and not really interact. It's much less one-on-one than an in-game setting. In game, you can be asked something and you pretty much have to fashion a reply then and there. Interaction is direct and really can't be avoided w/o consequences (like being kicked from the team).

On a forum, you can muster up the energy to post something and then fade back into the background. Your post may or may not be responded to, and if it is you don't have to reply back to that immediately, or even at all. The old "I'll hang up and listen to your answer."

This is probably part of the reason I've never cultivated a friends list in-game. I have no problems posting here, I'm never put on the spot (heck, most of my posts are swiftly passed over and forgotten). With a friends list you log in and you invite interaction. Even if it's just pleasantries, you NEED to respond or else you look like a jerk, even if you don't really feel like interacting or chatting. And if you turn down invites from friends too often, there's really no reason for them to keep you on their friends list anyway.

There's also the group setting of a forum. Or a chat (and on a full team, this is actually less of an issue, at least for me). I'm part of an online community where we have a devoted chat room. I am very active in the chat; there's a lot of conversation going on and it is easy to play off of what others are saying. Like a forum, there are many voices. To chat one-on-one though? A lot tougher. Even with folks I've known for a while. Like talking on the phone (which I've never liked). It's all you. The conversation goes bad or is stilted, you're the one at fault. You're the one under the gun, you're the idiot. So, rather than risk looking like an idiot and tarnishing how folks feel about you, you avoid those situations.

(note: I am not professing to speak for all introverts here, this is just my strange brand of introversion)

I know it's silly, but for a number of slots I will wait until 33 vs 32 (or 38 vs 37, etc) just to have a chance of combining the new enhancements with the old ones. Even though I have a couple billion available across accounts. Old habits die hard (like selling at the appropriate origin store...).


edit: Golden_Avariel beat me to it.

Yeah, I still support the inf-for-shift idea.

I'd say it was true in the Praetoria content. It would be nice to see some of that carried over to the "old" game.