Ironblade

Quite possibly. Let's remember the adage: Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity. Sounds harsh, but you get the meaning.

It depends on both my character and my role. If I formed the team, or if I am the lead (or only) tank or if I am playing a support character - I will be watching my teammates very closely. If I'm playing a squishy, I'll be paying attention to a tank or support characters for my own safety. If it's a 'master' run or hard-mode content, I'll pay very close attention to the leader and their instructions - other players, not so much. If I'm on a scrapper, secondary tank, stalker, etc - eh, I'll notice what they're up to generally, but I might wander off on my own sometimes.

Yeah, this is definitely my experience. Just in case I run into something difficulty, I get a Shivan Shard on EVERY character. I have never even SEEN another player. To be fair, I once saw another name on the search list. But I never saw them directly. To be fair again, I usually go into the PvP zones during the middle of the day, specifically to avoid other players.

So, you know at least two. I had 3 accounts and did that also. It wasn't my main source of income on live, but it was easy inf. Pretty sure that I engaged in every known method of generating inf back then. Nowadays, I don't bother with most of it.

(shrug) Maybe. But it was the Group Fly user who got booted from the task force. Seems like it was more their problem than the other players.

Only one piece of the salvage comes from the ITF. There are lots of other task forces that drop needed items. The only task forces you might want to avoid currently are 'hard mode'. These will be announced as hard mode or 1-star, 2-star, etc. Currently, hard mode only exists for Imperious, Aeon and Lady Grey. Anything else is fair game. You can also start doing 'incarnate trials'. This is high level content that will get you the materials to craft the incarnate powers in the other five slots. Some of the harder itrials have specific requirements (like having higher level incarnate slots unlocked). The 'starter itrials' are BAF (Behavior Adjustment Facility, but no one calls it that) and Lambda. People typically recruit in Ouroboros. Depending on what shard you're on, there might be a public schedule of what will be run each day.

Ah, but when you log in three accounts and it's the weekly strike target, suddenly we're talking about 732 merits.

hmm.... would it not morally fall on the other players to go out of their way and take extra actions to prevent YOUR powers from messing with them? um, no.

It's probably not your toggles. Make sure your attacks have END reduction also. In my experience, getting around 40% end reduction on everything is enough. You're wasting slots in Stamina due to 'enhancement diversification' (i.e. diminishing returns). Stamina needs 3 slots: two level 50 endmod and the Performance Shifter +END proc. For a bit extra, you can boost the endmods up to level 53 or so. Beyond that is a waste and adding another slot is a huge waste. Take some slots over to Health. It needs 3 slots for the Numina, Miracle and Panacea uniques. If you have resistance powers, consider the Unbreakable Guard set as two pieces of it give a 2.5% END discount on all powers. After that, go for IO sets that give extra recovery. My character Toggle Man (see link to his story in my signature) runs 17 toggles in combat. He has all of the things I described above with 52% recovery from IO's and his endurance is not a problem *AT ALL*. FYI, he's a spines/dark armor scrapper. P.S. Oh, and as a scrapper, he's able to take Physical Perfection from an ancillary pool at put one endmod and a Performance Shifter +END proc in it.

Well, I do play my 'main' more than any other character. And I have my main on every shard but only two of them are 'finished'. I consider a character finished once they get all incarnate powers to at least tier 3. If the character is any fun at all, I'll usually get every incarnate to tier 4. Also, many of them will have multiple Destiny powers (usually Barrier, Clarion and Incandescence). At that point, they're typically retired except for specific purposes. For example, I have a beam rifle / kinetics corrupter created specifically for Really Hard Way badge runs. I have an electric/electric tank specifically designed for tanking the Avatar of Hamidon in the Underground trial. I have a radiation/radiation defender on my second account in case Ironblade wants to fight something he can't quite solo. Etc, etc. P.S. Out of curiosity, just checked my spreadsheet. I have 15 characters vet level 20 or higher. Ironblade is vet 188. The next closest is vet 66.

Many of the temp powers are borderline useless so I typically remove them from my power tray and never give them another thought. On my main, I collect them and have over 100 - which I don't use. The only ones I do use are the Shivan Shard, HVAS and anything that's going to expire automatically after a set amount of real time (not in-game time).

To maximize your merits, consider doing task forces. Every week, three task forces / strike forces / trials are designated "weekly strike targets". Upon completion (if you are not yet level 50), you will receive a large amount of bonus XP (up to half a level worth). You will also, regardless of your level, get DOUBLE reward merits. You can receive this bonus once per week per character. Right now, the weeklies are higher level. Starting Sept 23rd the weekly will be Positron (minimum level 8 for part 1, minimum level 11 for part 2). Two weeks after that, Synapse will be up (min level 15). Two weeks after THAT, Penny Yin (min level 20). Followed at 2 week intervals by Citadel, Manticore and Numina. These six task forces are the 'Signature Task Forces'. I do these on every single character for the massive bonuses and also the Task Force Commander accolade power. This gives your character 5% additional hit points. Personally, I start slotting select IOs around level 35 and add more as I level up. This reduces the cost of upgrading the SOs, although I have some SOs right until level 50 in the powers where I'm going to put purple recipes.

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That's the key factor. Some people are willing to spend exactly zero time crafting/converting. And then, some people are Yomo.

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Or not. Firstly, by definition, it's not a fairy tale price. It's the actual market value, even if you don't approve. Secondly, we've seen long-term and/or permanent price changes before. This could be one of those. Time will tell.

um, slow down there. Diantane was talking about BOOSTERS and you're talking about CONVERTERS which are way cheaper than boosters. Try to get up to speed before you start laughing at someone.

OMG I remember that. And we only had 12 character slots per server. I created over 600 characters across 7 accounts. Muahahahahaha!

As Yogi Berra might have said, "No one plays on Excelsior any more; it's too crowded." 🙂

Yeah...... I actually just do random tip missions for the badges. Why would you... oh "25 alts with all the badges!" That's why you need to be efficient about it. 🙂

My impression is that you need to put in a bit more work to get the big payouts. I use merits to buy converters and then use them to convert trash enhancements to valuable ones. For a while, I would give a new character a pile of 3,000 converters and get to work. I would do this on a new character so I knew I would be logging the character on a regular basis. They would approach the influence cap before finishing their incarnate powers and I would move any remaining converters to a new character. I started to taper off after passing 10 billion inf since I don't think I'll ever run out at this point. Playing high level characters generates a lot of inf and it takes me a while to take a character from level 1 to fully tier 4 incarnate.

Once upon a time, these were a big deal because you could get one type of SO at much lower level. Now we can buy low level SO's from the regular vendors so . . . more of a novelty now.

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Definitely take a good look around. There are new power sets, new story arcs, and the Homecoming servers are officially licensed by NCSoft.