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Anyone willing to explain a couple of things to someone not in the loop?

Do I have to be in a big SG to participate? I have a 'personal' SG, just for the characters of me and my partner, so, 2 players. I assumed this meant I would never be able to do the trial. Is there any option I wasn't aware of?


thanks for whatever info

And to expand a little more... ;D

I'm a good test case for going from full stop ignorance about the Incarnate System to having my Alpha Slot slotted with my first Uncommon boost, so my experience might be useful.

First, do what they (previous posters) said.

1. Go to Oroboros and run Mender Ramiel's arc. Check out the boards for clues about completing the missions, a couple of them are a bizatch if you try to solo it. I managed with 1 person's help for Trapdoor and actually solo'd Capt Holtz and Honoree with pets but it was pretty brutal. I helped someone else with that one and with just me and one other (third) team mate it wasn't that big a deal.

2. Now you have an Alpha Slot! Where the heck is it and what do you do with it??? Also hopefully you got some Shard drops in the arc missions to let you know what the goodies are that you will be seeking.

The Incarnate drops have their own tab under Salvage, and the Alpha Slot itself can be accessed by opening your Powers screen from your tray. There's new little bit of text at the top edge of the Powers screen which, if clicked on, will bring up the Incarnate window where you both craft and slot the boosts. This was the single most elusive piece of info for me. I have no problem with accepting that it might be because I'm one taco short of a combo plate but seriously, the Paragon Wiki article doesn't explain this, the official CoH articles don't explain this. I found this part out from Zombie Man's wonderful Guide.

The Guide really helps a LOT to fill in any gaps in the other sources. Yay, Zombie Man! The reason I am now godlike on my one 50!

3. As far as what you will need to do to get the Shards and Components you need for your boosts, here was my yesterday: I started with just the Shards you get from Mender Ramiel's arc. I asked around on broadcast and the server channel (Liberty) if anyone was doing ITFs and got on one. What the leader described as a normal run gave me several Shards and the Component you get from that TF. You can't get that component from that TF again for another 18 hours. (I hadn't paid attention to that part, it's in the articles, so I ran another ITF during the course of the day, but it was fine, I got shards from the second run, just not the component.)

After that I ended up on a team that did the Winter Lord event mission, (which was actually easier than I remembered from last year for some reason) and got shards there. Then I decided to hang out in the Rikti War Zone for a while and got on a Lady Grey Task Force, same thing, "normal" run, more shards and a component from that one. I had heard there was a regular Mothership Raid on Sunday night on Liberty so I hung around for that (after doing the second ITF). The zone was so full that when I left a mission I ended up in RWZ2 and couldn't get into the first instance, it was locked out. After hanging out in the Vanguard hq in Atlas a while I finally got into the first RWZ, where the raid was already underway. Nice folks answered my call for a team and TP'd me to the ship (where I promptly DC'd - doh!). After the fastest re-log in history, I ended up rezzing on the ship! I got teamed up again and participated in the remainder of the raid, getting some more shards and some Vanguard merits.

After that I spent some time trying to figure out what kind of boosts I could make, and what I wanted. I made the Common Spiritual and slotted it (again yay Zombie Man's Guide for even finding the crafting and slotting screen).

Then someone was talking on chat about doing Tin Mage TF. I knew from reading the I19 notes that like Apex, you couldn't even really do that TF without having an Alpha Slot, slotted, but I now had that so I joined up.

More shards. After that, with the shards from that run plus the Gr'ai Matter component I purchased using the Vanguard merits (some from the raid, some I already had), I was able to upgrade my common boost to the uncommon Spiritual Radial one.

So in one Sunday, I basically got all the materials needed to slot up to my first uncommon boost. The only thing I had starting out the day was that I'd done Mender Ramiel's arc previously.

TLDR; perhaps, but sometimes it helps me if I have a real world anecdotal. Mine's a good case because I'm about as average joe player as there is.

Hope it helps!

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is there going to be a raid tonight? sunday 12/26

I would like to hear from anyone who had done the halloween tip mission, finished, trick or treated some more. and gotten a second halloween tip mission - the next one, not the same one.

Has anyone gotten any halloween tip mission other than the first one?

Hmm okay.

I ran the halloween tip mission (Recover the Malleus Mundi), then ran it a second time. It's no longer in my tips panel, but it's still in my mission tab. It says "return to contact" but there is no way to do this...

Perhaps this is why I'm not getting another halloween tip to drop?

I got the halloween tip as drop within 10 minutes to trick or treating in costume. Got the same results as everyone else, no reward dialog at the end etc. Nothing new to add.

Do have a question though - is there a second halloween tip mission? Should I be getting another halloween tip drop at some point or is it once only? (sans the repeat bug)


thanks

what the subject says. :-)

Thanks, Liberty, you made my Saturday night amibitions a reality. ;D

<3

Heyla - I'm on Liberty tonight, anybody interested in doing a katie hannon? I've never done it on my 50 scrapper, somehow it just got overlooked.

@MomentaryGrace, toon is Trixibelle

enjoy your evening!

I'm doing "Steal the Dimensional Raygun", morality mission going from villain to rogue.

The nav text says, "Get topside into the Sky Raider base to get the key to the safe!"

I got through the ship and out of it, and I've been all over the base (looks like an oil rig) and tried every door multiple times. I can't get into the base!

I have no clue what to do.

Anybody done this one, can you help me figure this out?

Thanks in advance.

Great post, Sam. I love your description of the ironic contrast, and the experience you had working through Praetoria and then arriving in CoH. Nicely written.

I was all bedazzled with the new stuff, and I'm definitely looking forward to playing through it multiple times to see how the branching storylines play out. I paused with my new Praetorian yesterday though, because I have a Villain I want to get moving towards his redemption. I haven't played him in a while, and left him at level 17. I thought since I need to get him to 20 before I can start looking for tips, I'd go ahead and work on that.

When I picked him up I discovered I'd left him in the middle of Seer Marino's arc. It was just content at first, a means to level. However as I worked through the last several missions and completed the arc, I suddenly thought, "Wow, this feels more like something a Rogue would do, rather than a villain - helping this Fortunata Seer try to save her brother." It starts with threats of revenge against Ghost Widow but in the end, you find yourself helping to resolve, as much as the situation can be, a conflict between two very human (though one is a ghost) characters.

So, I wouldn't say the legacy game is in any way devoid of the same themes that seem to run through Praetoria. It doesn't steamroll the legacy content for me, it actually has brought an interesting extra depth to it.

I like them because I love the concept, and the visuals.

I've only got one 50, and she's a broadsword regen scrapper, and never had any real problems with them once I got the gist of how they operate.

For the Ring Mistresses and Master Illusionists, she goes in and hits them hard, taking them out fast before they get too fractious (usually). Headsplitter cures many ills.

I love that alt. She's spoiled me for a lot.

Nothing's been the same at Paragon Studios since old Marley died.




:P

Thank you!

...if so where?

If not, hmm. no auctioning till level 20?

I looked around but I couldn't figure this out. Any info appreciated.


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There's one in the transit stations also.

Servers are going down now - thought it was 4 AM....