rian_frostdrake

you will likely be able to craft rares in all 4 at that level, provided your teams arent bad, and lb i will just suggest they probably wont be. as for very rares, as you probably noticed with the alphas, very rares really dont enhance things that much, outside of some of the lores. they help, but they are definitely prestige levels, the additional power over rares is frosting, but rares will provide the significant bulk of your power. i didnt see you specify tier 4s, so i didnt take that into account, but i see a good number of players stopping at 3, and i have myself. its where i got my shifts, and its where i got most of my power for relative low investment of time, if you want to run 3-4 times as many to get to the tier 4, then yah, make it higher, but tier 3 is really enough. I actually found that in the time it took me to unlock the slots, i could make tier 3s and never even dealt with t1s or 2s so i started at high strength.

as for you warshade, impressive, ill admit, with rian(my main hero) i have yet to ever get him to a billion inf, and fully slotting him out took significantly longer before i started running tfs(only joined lb a year or so ago) now i was slotting alts as well, so i was raising about 8 chars at once at the 40+ range. and i didnt farm katie or ae, those who did went faster, but for the case of the "regular" player, id be surprised if they got all the ios that a teamer could get it would take longer.

i did mention farming and such for a reason, steel is not generally talking about people at your level of hardcore-ness and i was mentioning that while exceptions like yourself exist, im not seeing a more casual solist like mirai or myself getting a full purple set, or even a number of complete kinetic combats/numis/luck of the gamblers any time soon. but how many allts do you have, how many have you seriously io'd out, my point was that while it was theoretically possible for soloists to achieve io parity before, they had to work a great deal harder, and for those like sam who have a good number of alts, getting a significant number to parity with what dedicated teamers can accomplish with the additional benefits of tf drops, higher kill rates, and additional merits, your post does not really refute that. i had forgotten a-merits, those help for non purple recipies, but still i was saying that there never was full parity between a teamer and a casual solists real likely power levels, unless they play long hours, have insane luck or have frigging spread sheets going, like some-devil i know.

for lambda, i have seen it take between 4-5 runs for me to get interface and about the same for destiny. bafs take longer, maybe 10 runs if you arent on the ambush team and just focus on the avs. it takes less time if you are good with the market and have extra cash, 2.5 mill really sint that hard if you just cash in 2 aligment merits, get something like a kinetic combat and pop up 100+million. lesss if you actually are savvy with the market, im not, an 88 or even my one sgmate can make several times that in a few minutes, but im going for the foolproof way. that can chop off significant amounts of ixp needed.

trials can stack pretty fast, so i have had nights where in a 2 hours i have run 4 successful bafs with no prisoners escaped(more astral merits), you are on lb, right, i know you are a liberty-ite. You will undoubtedly say that 20 runs is too many for judge and lore(about 10 each if you dont cash in or get on ambush teams), but that really is only 10 hrs, and on lb we tend to run 3-5 at a time, so you will have little standing around and much quick, competent teams.

one other thing i have to address, soloist could achieve the same amount of power technically as teamers during the io era(back when hamis buffed more, teamers had a distinct advantage unless they had a teaming alt or a sg sugardaddy to give them ho's) it was not as easy, several recipes were locked behind running tfs, so you had to either be fantastically lucky with a boss(they had a low drop rate), or got preternaturally lucky and got a full purple set from drops,you had to farm, or you had to buy them at inflated rates from the market. none of those were particularly "fun-speed" for a dedicated solist, a teamer always had a distinct advantage, and if you had a good number of alts you wanted to power up, it really became significantly difficult to run at parity with a teamer for a non farmer/marketeer. so while your statement was technically correct, you would be hard pressed to say it was realistic for a good portion of players who would be dedicatedly soloing because of shyness, time or system issues.

the issue is looking at the second half of your post, i dont see saying rational things really affecting your opinion. you already discounted not only the current system but any future system so for you it really probably is the end, and as i said earlier, changes will always count as the end for some people, the best ones also indicate the beginning or the return for others, we will see how things shake out, but i have been here for 7 years, i have seen the general capacity of how much they can produce at any one time, and how willing they are to change things to be more user friendly (do you remember when almost every arc in the endgame ended with an av that only a few at the time could solo? they changed that after getting enough feedback and getting the time to implement it)

my view is simply to be realistic, they can put only so much content out at a time, so things work gradually, but i have faith based on prior behavior that it will get better, there will be more and more angles. if you don't, then it probably is time that a line has been crossed and you just don't find it fun here anymore, but i have to stress that from my observations over 7 years this 22nd, is that that is not how they work, you just need a reasonable expectation of how much they can do in an issue.

that was un colander-ed for.

it is a balance. some people dislike the change, some very much so, some others, including a poster with whom i have fought for years now have posted how a real endgame has caused him to return and reactivate his sub. nobody has real numbers past heavily biased anecdotes, and objectively saying that it has either been universally loved or universally disliked is very likely inaccurate. its being given a chance by a good number of players, it will have to be improved, and change will scare some people into leaving, this is unavoidable and staying exactly the same(focusing on tfs and mechanically similar story arc missions) may or may not have caused just as many people to leave out of boredom, and continued lack of challenge. there really are no facts at evidence other than some people on the internet are angry, as they always are, and a new system will need refined several times before it becomes optimal.

sounds like watchmen.

you know, i always feel kinda sketchy about sharing things told to me by developers unless they explicitly say its official company line and not just the opinion of one or a few people. because that statement, outside of any real context appears to short-sell the trail systems(which without bogging down on who has the bigger group, on liberty certainly is engaging MOST of the long time players on the lb channel) and looks unfairly damaging. can you give full context of it and whether this was someone who actually worked on the full implementation of it, or was just a worker making a flippant comment under the implied condition of it not negatively affecting his co-workers efforts and reputations? It just seems, as related to us by a person who has been heavily critical of the system, to be a little too black and white .

does wendy have me on ignore:P?

and since we are going more by anime asian history than real japanese history, im sure we could indulge in some artistic alterations. there certainly are aspects in folklore that allow for a powerful female character even in more traditional times in japan. the character of the shamanic princess himiko certainly pops up a lot and she may or may not have even existed. similarly in the kojiki(a shinto creation story) inzunagi, the chief creation god is opposed by his equally powerful deceased former wife, inzunami. so a re-tool of her could also work well, if we are going strictly japanese. one dodge i had suggested with my future japan, global environmental damage had cause mass migrations from korea and mainland china to japan, that way we can use the guild wars method of "lets take the cool stuff from all 3 histories and jumble it up" not great for puritst, but if i get my zone, ill be good.

well, to put it in a slightly less pejorative fashion, they keep people from burning through the content as fast as they can and burning out. its really kind of linked to behavioral psychology, behaviors repeated quickly and repetitively, regardless of rewards, die out fast. putting some limiter on them, and randomizing rewards makes them last longer and delays burnout, so it does make sense.

It isnt, but as i mentioned upthread, there is a real likelihood that the solo content may be failable and difficult, at least initially, as the trials were. now remembering the trapdoor situation, this could create a toxic situation with some people. this is not a reason to not do solo-small group stuff, just a cautious addendum, that there will very likely be solo content, but it may not be soloable for everyone.

was there, we were fighting the infinite army of bobcat and getting helped by black scorp. i was the grue that wasnt doing much damage