Ironblade

Yeah, from the description that doesn't really seem like a great solution. I guess I'll have to try it and see how it plays out.

I haven't done any Hami raids since Homecoming came around, but I did every role (except raid leader) in the various raid formats on live. Currently, my only 50 is a scrapper. Since I want to get back into raids, what would be most useful for me to level up? Hopefully it's either empathy defender or tank, since I'd like to level those guys anyway. 🙂

This is definitely an issue. If it was a zone with no missions or task force, the cap might be fine. But the RWZ is what it is so the cap needs to be higher.

So by "right this second", you mean the bug that has been in place since *MAY*. And yes, 400 merits in an hour is completely broken. The correct comparison is not AE farming. The correct comparison is the stated time/reward rate where an average player/team will pull in about 1 merit per 3 minutes (or 3-1/2).

So far, every character I have made has been one of my previous characters. I've been picking out the most fun and/or useful ones and systematically recreating them.

Which is why the change was absolutely required. It was either reinstate the zone cap or nerf the hell out of the reward. The target reward metric, if I recall correctly, is 1 merit per 3-1/2 minutes of effort - based on average performance. So a super-team can blaze through an ITF in 10 minutes while an average team takes.... whatever, an hour? This is why the Dr Q task force rewards like 120 merits. On average, it's a tedious slog.

I have an opinion. This is a guy who has dedicated YEARS of his life to this game without compensation and has now been asked to "step away". This concerns me.

Yes, it's just you. 😛 I had every character build recorded in Excel, including slotting and IO sets. When the shutdown was announced, Titan Network created a tool to export character data to an XML file. I used it on every character 'just in case'. Well, now that the game is back, they created a tool that lets you extract the costume data from the XML files and save it in CoH costume file format.

Week starting October 28th for that one.

I do have a question. What server will this be on?

I agree the threads are easier but I used up almost all of my threads getting all three level shifts ASAP. I wanted to get my Alpha slot to T4 for the recharge boost and I was only 2 shards short. And Rocketeur explained why you're not getting Vanguard merits. Until you do the arc and get that badge, I think the odds of a Rikti dropping a merit is similar to the odds of dropping an enhancement, i.e. very low. After you get the badge, it's much higher odds and it's 2 for a lieutenant and 3 for a boss. During a mothership raid, every Rikti is guaranteed to drop 1 or more Vanguard merits (based on their rank).

There's time. When the game was live, I took every AT to level 50, every controller primary to 50, every tank primary to 50. Nowadays, I have one 50 so far.

/e fancybow 🙂

There are 15 archetypes to choose from. You must play all of them eventually. 🙂

Also, if you're just short a couple of incarnate shards, you can buy G'rai Matter incarnate component for 150 V-merits. It's needed for some powers or can be converted to 1 incarnate shard. I've already got the Vanguard Heavy, the increased storage, and a couple thousands V-merits left over. But I was two shards short for a component to get one of my slots to tier 4.

I think you might want to start your event a little late and run into November. Dr Q is the Weekly Strike Target during the week of October 7th, followed by each of the others and ending with Faathim's TF week of November 4th. Weekly Strike Target seems to be the one time that it's actually easy to find Dr Q TF.

1. They act like task forces. They will exemp you down to the max level of that particular chapter and, at the end, you have to call the contact one last time to get out of 'task force mode'. 2. They are entirely soloable, although a few chapters are challenging. I can solo some parts on an empathy defender, but some really need a scrapper/brute/etc.

The Signature Story Arcs are available on both red and blue sides. These ParagonWiki pages list them with the level requirement, start zone and contacts for each chapter. 'Who Will Die?' has 7 chapters and 'Pandora's Box' has 5 chapters. https://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Who_Will_Die https://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Pandora's_Box_(SSA)

Who knows what's optimal. I had a tank based on regeneration. He was invuln and I got his regeneration to around 340%. He was awesome.

For merits, I do the following: 1) The Weekly Strike Target TF. Since the double merit reward is once per week PER CHARACTER, I'll run it on multiple characters during the week. 2) Signature Story Arcs. A lot of these can be soloed in under 15 minutes and the 4x merit reward (20 merits) can be claimed once per week PER CHARACTER. P.S. The bonus rewards on the Signature Arcs are kind of weird. Every character can get a 'free' run of each chapter. So you can pick a character, do all 12 chapters on that character, and earn 240 merits in a single sitting. Then you can pick one chapter, run it again for 20 merits and that counts as your run for the week. Then THAT CHARACTER has to wait 7 days to get the full reward again. P.P.S. Some chapters are pretty hard. I can solo them all on my scrapper. Some are pretty easy and I can solo them on my empathy defender. P.P.P.S. If you're going to do the arcs, definitely run through them all once for the story and amazing unique maps. As far as merits are concerned, the final chapter in each arc is much longer and simply not worth it.

It's not you; it's fandom.com. I absolutely refuse to visit that site. It's just bad news.

In that case, I LOL at your puny Steam directory. Mine is 210GB. Then I have Star Citizen at 48GB, Secret World Legends at 47GB, Black Desert Online at 34GB. A few other small games and I'm running out of space on one of my 500GB SSD's.

I prefer the point of view from Dilbert, where Dogbert is prepping Ratbert to appear on a talk show. "Assume that everyone has read the same books you have and knows the same things you know. So, if they disagree with you, it can only be because they are stupid." 🙂

Also worth noting, the Wikia/Fandom site was serving up malware on two separate occasions from their ad servers. ParagonWiki has no ads.