New Episode Halls of Power Part II Launches For Members May 12, 2015!

when will halls of power be available to purchase for non members?

next week

Only for t7

seriously.......well not going to reach that level anytime soon >.< 2 maybe 3 marks of victory a day..way to go update for new players. might be fun for old players. new players suffering the most. hearing this all the time. most of us just sit around in the game now or log in and do our daily vault n event then log off.

I agree with you MacCait. I haven't played in awhile but my troll 111 cr but i'm not going to buy gear that raises cr until styles I want are
done. But what isn't right is the style vendor prices they just lowered some of the cost but should be all items. When styles bought with
marks or fury came out they put at nearly same cost of weapons, that's ridiculous. they are just styles not armor not weapons they do not raise cr. I'm not mad at devs they just trying to keep game interesting but those higher tier styles need a large drop in price too if lowered people will get styles finished faster. to off shoot the fact that once people learn playing this new content combined new cr will leave their main toons unable to finish their feats from styles like
MacCait , there will be less people ,(who actually care about more skill points so meaning just about everyone), playing the new content which will leave an unbalanced game play.

What can not be is what they have done. This is very well designed, but poorly developed. There are high-level players can only receive 4 marks instances, as they want to gather a piece of September 50/60 ?, is impossible, you throw instances at least 1 hours and only receive 2/3 marks.It is very bad.

No limitation to the CR for lots of marks
No limitation to the CR for lots of marks

How they should create separate low and high levels of a better way than this.

Question....If my 113 Fire DPS is now T7 (new content minimum CR is 111) and the suggested CR is 117-121 on the new content, I'm guessing that getting in and surviving to get marks in the T7 content will be difficult at best. So if I can't get marks from T6 anymore, and probably wont be able to get but a few marks from T7 until I get a few more CR built up, where will I get the marks to buy this new gear to raise my CR? I'm all but 1 piece of 99 purchased gear or 100 drops now.

I guess I can try to plow through T6 content and hope for 100-101 drops, but as no one will be running it who is able to run T7, I get to join the same long queues I now see with my CR 78 healer getting into Prime or Gates. And if I don't get any gear I can use hey at least I get a few marks....oh...wait....I don't.

Guess I can replay the vault 40-70 times per piece I need. Seems like that is the main goal of the new update anyway....selling replays. Oh...and shoot...I forgot Promethium boxes....those drop every 6 hours or so, so I got that going for me....which is nice. Good time to get those exobit farming feats out of the way, or are they putting in a cap on how many exos you can get too?

Reinheld

T6 was the exact same way once it started. Every tier change is a different mark. When AF1 dropped all we had was the 3 open world solos, 2 challenges, 2 duos, and 1 alert. I don't see why you feel the need to complain. For the first time we are able to earn marks from the previous tier to a certain point. Nobody likes complainers. Just saying.

Why will it be legendary I feel as if it were a free?

Not sure how you do not see the difference? When T6 launched, the main currency was Furys, which dropped from the T6 content, but rent or old gear for styles was paid with Triumphs which could be gathered from many different runs, which people of all levels still ran. Since the update, you do not get any marks from lower tier runs which makes the new marks more valuable by default (23+ marks avg a month are towards generator/utility belt rent if you keep it fully geared). Also add in the fact that since the 'stat leveling' or whatever it's called, lower level runs now take much longer if you were going to try and get a few non-mark drops...partially because of the stat leveling itself and partially because the higher level players don't want to waste their time with the content and therefore the groups are made up of lower level, lower skilled players. Taking 3 hours to run Prime due to wipes and people getting kicked or leaving is not my idea of a 'fun' run.

As T6 progressed, yes new DLC specific symbols were added which meant you had to run some of the content to get new gear, but you could also continue to run any T6 for the Furys which were required at a x2 rate for the new gear. All the while you could be running some low stuff to pay the rent or buy old styles you missed on the way up....or hey...some catalysts to convert bits...Those now cost Victory's too.

If you are T7, how is this 'the first time you are able to earn marks from the previous tier'. What T6 runs are you getting marks from once you are T7?

BTW I have every right to complain. Just as you have every right to defend the changes. I pay my membership every month just like you and am entitled to my opinion and feelings. I've been playing for 2 years now and until recently have enjoyed this game. Nobody likes a suck up either...I'm just saying.

Reinheld

It should be noted that having relevant marks drop from the vault only happened in the last DLC. By that time we were already getting more then enough marks from content to pay for mainframes, so using the vault itself is a viable way to pay for mainframes without worry.

While I cannot argue with that fact, running the vault each day was not something I ever did (except in seasonals) and didn't really want to start. I'm not really considering that valuable content for my $10 a month. It would be nice to run content to get the things I need to progress and maintain in the game, but again....you are technically correct, rent can be paid with MoV exclusively gained from the vault, assuming you run the vault every day...assuming you get in every day.

Reinheld

The GU47 & DLC is a mess. A huge amount of game raids & alerts will now have no reward on marks for 117CR+. Why continue to pay & be a member if so much of teh game is now unrewarding. Plus, new member will quickly be too weak to run a t4 raid like BD because only 70-83 CR will be rewarded for marks & the bosses can one shot a CR113 player now. It's ridiculous.

Marks for t6 stop at 116 not 117.

I have a bigger issue with the fact that when I ran the Vengance operation with my CR78 Healer with 140+ SP who is relatively well geared has about 10000 health. She's on the higher end of the correct tier to be in the content and has arguably more Health than would be expected from a standard user due to SP, and yet was consistently one-shotted by Eclipso hitting for 12000 and 13000 per hit. So if the runs are supposed to be appropriately hard and if it was a moderately decent group (it wasn't the best group, but by far not the worst), how is that supposed to be enjoyable? Granted I might even be able to get to 12000 or 13000 if I put straight health mods in and re-stat for Health, but I shouldn't have to do that just to survive some one-shots.

I like a challenge, but I also like to not hit myself in the head with a board for an hour too....and that's what it feels like now on some runs.

Reinheld

Yes i did not word that properly & 116 is the cut off for t6

Yea I agree that after cr116 running anything other than t7 is useless as far as marks. So what's the point of legendary. As for me I wont be renewing my sub.

Mark of Victory Rewards
• The relevance of lower level tiers has been expanded to include some amount of overlap into the next tier. The amount of overlap is determined by the maximum Combat Rating achievable from content within that tier, plus one. This means a tier only loses relevance when there are no longer any worthwhile upgrades available within it and you have earned meaningful rewards in the next higher tier.
can anyone explain this in a simpler form. Confusing, disturbing, just make it so we can get a mark from all content running, help out the much cr players over 110 cr n such n still screw us low level players and new players from reaching any gear, not waiting months to obtain a piece or two that also becomes irrelevant in stats as apparently you can get better gear, screws up the style rewards and makes players say whats the point of wasting their marks when that piece needed can only offer lower stats and use up all the marks players grind for.

That's why they made the change so where players couldn't skip tiers like they use too. Because before this update player always begged for walk ins to get marks to get gear and jump over tiers and not learn from the experience of doing thee runs and most of them had low sp and couldn't do nothing in the mission so that is why they made the change. So no more skipping tiers could take place or players just getting walked in to a t4 mission or higher. same with t2 and 3.

I just did, I was only running level 3 content with the new updates, I got several piece of gear that bumped me from combat rating from 52 to 60 cr and then from 60 to 70 running with a mixture of cr gear from 52 to 70getting all those gear drops from t3 runs, after update and now just useless to run t3 raids now since getting marks are too slim and non existance....