Ironblade

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The Sister Psyche TF, Clamor And Destruction, is gone (as is Sister Psyche). It is replaced by the Penelope Yin TF, A Clamor For The People. It awards 20 merits.

Although this comes with a limitation. Unless it has been changed, you can only coalition with 10 SG's.

I didn't think you would. I was just trying to clue you in that your manners affect how MANY people perceive you. Do with that what you will.

Sure, that's a longstanding feature. We had that back on life. Just keep in mind that, on some maps, you go to the prison area instead of the hospital or your base.

Right, for the sake of profit. I can't stand how Homecoming is fleecing me. P.S. As others have noted, you really do come across like a jerk and it impacts peoples perception of you.

Stalwart isn't bad, just..... desperate.

You can also make the character look like a blank - total darkness. I have a rad/rad tank named Vic Void whose head and arms are exposed and are just black voids.

First of all, your comment is completely ludicrous. "You shouldn't need to be rewarded to play the content." And yet, the overwhelming majority of online games have some sort of progression system. I guess developers and players worldwide have some sort of screwed up motivational driving factors. You know, like experience points, currency, loot drops, badges, etc. Addressing the OP - I think some of your points are valid. When things are basically thrown at you, you don't value them as much. I remember when we had 'SG mode' and, at higher levels, you had to decided to prioritize earning influence or prestige. I understand why the 'secret server' changed that - they just didn't have enough players. The Homecoming team inherited a lot of design decisions from the 'secret server', and not all of them good. The fact that everyone can build their own huge base has had a negative impact on supergroups. One of the reasons to join an SG has been removed. (Not all - just one.) Having said that, I don't think any content is obsolete. It may be grindy. It may be less fun. But content is content and it should stay around. Like we can still do the original Positron task force even though we now have the new two-part Posi TF. We just need new and better content - which the devs ARE producing. It's just a very slow process with a small team of volunteers.

It did not count any part of the 20. As for the second question, it did not occur to me to check that. I can do that easily enough. I run part 1 at least half a dozen times per week.

Yep. Look around and most people you see aren't even in SG's.

And now I have data on this from doing the Abandoned Sewer Trial last night. As I expected, based on the size of the discrepancy between the terminal and my actual merits: the terminal counted the 29 base merits and did NOT count the 29 bonus merits for it being the weekly.

I can speak to the soloing aspect. You can absolutely take other pools and be effective soloing. As for farming, I dunno. I farm so little I can't really address 'best practices' and 'best builds'.

(shrug) I have exactly one character with Black Scorpion as patron and one with Ghost Widow. I also have: - one blaster with Munitions Mastery - one scrapper with Body Mastery - one controller with Stone Mastery - one defender with Power Mastery - one corrupter with Dark Mastery And I have a tank planning to take Arctic Mastery. My other tanks (three), my other corr and my other defender took no Ancillary/Patron pools. Variety is good and I am indulging in it.

Well, it *IS* a mission arc, but I think it's not counting because instead of an automatic reward, it brings up a reward choice window - exactly like a Hami raid which also did NOT count on the info terminal.

It has not been my personal experience that prices have gone up. To be fair, I NORMALLY place bids and expect to wait a day or two for them to fill. Maybe the price for impatient people has gone up. I can't say. Basic economic principles apply in games just as they do in real life. The conditions and parameters are different, but the principles still apply. Price caps are never sound policy. Price caps simply lead to shortages.

Did I say weeks? I obviously meant hours. I just did several flashback arcs and the merits for each counted. (Apparently, now that they no longer track server-wide stats, the kiosks update immediately.) In the process, I earned the Aftershock badge for completing all arcs in Faultline. That awarded 20 merits which did NOT count. I expected that, since the kiosk says those are mission stats. I then did a Signature Story Arc for 20 merits and none of that counted. I did not expect that, since the SSA are clearly 'missions'. I'll have to do a WST TF and see what that does. Edit: Additional data - just did a Hamidon raid and it did NOT count. Possible pattern here - the Hami raid and the Signature Story Arc both have a reward choice window and neither was counted by the kiosks.

Derp. I'm stupid. I also did respec trials. That's where I would have gotten the respecs. Still not sure about the tailor coupons.

OMG, I was doing Penny Yin's arc in Faultline and I had to hunt down one of the Lost named Muxley. When I found him, he said: [NPC] Muxley: Rackin' frackin' rausey-rakin'! Classic cartoon curses. I think his name comes from Muttley, Dick Dastardly's sidekick (who didn't talk; he just snickered).

I don't think so. I don't have a version of that shot with characters names, but here are two with MsCats and names. She is Mud.Bug and Scrappy Brat.

If that had been the reason for disabling the double influence, yes, it would have been stupid. But, since it wasn't, your comment is meaningless.

On my tanks. I'll monitor either resists or defenses (or both on invuln and willpower). On a character I routinely use for stealthing missions, I'll monitor PvE Stealth Radius. For the Underground iTrial, I'll monitor Confuse Protection. On Ironblade, I monitor Melee Defense because I enjoy seeing how much I can stack from Parry. That's about it. Many characters don't monitor anything.

I'm pretty sure you get a free respec and free tailor coupon every 10 levels. Although my main character has 9 of each and I've only done the cape mission so I'm not sure where I got the extra three.

Based on my numbers, that doesn't seem possible. I do VAST numbers of TFs vs very few missions or flashbacks. My badge progress says I have done just 15 flashbacks. Back on live, I had a spreadsheet page tracking merits on Ironblade (earned 11,112 total, FYI). I may start doing that again to see exactly what the kiosk is tracking. Edit: I just set up the spreadsheet with separate columns for mission, TF, TF bonus, SSA, SSA bonus, flashback. In a few weeks, I should be able to draw some conclusions.

Well, I was curious about the merit situation now that two people mentioned it so I logged in to check. The Info Kiosk is showing 2178 merits while I have 4116 in my inventory. Despite hitting 50 quite some time ago, I'm pretty sure I have not spent any merits on this character. So I seem to have earned 'non mission' merits. Perhaps it doesn't count the bonus merits received for doing the weekly? If so, these numbers look about right. Aside from the bonus merits for the weeklies, I have been doing Signature Story Arcs quite often and that awards 5 merits plus 15 'bonus' merits.