Rare Ultra Strikes?
tl;dr - Why are Ultra Strikes so rare? Any tips to gain them more consistently would be great! Despite hacking enemy portals and dropping an ITO EN Transmuter (-) on my own portal. Not getting much.
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So Ultra Strikes are listed as very common on the wiki, but they sure don't feel like they are. XMPs are definitely very common though. I'm usually swimming in XMPs, but starving for Ultras, which are obviously essential for taking down well-defended portals.
Especially given my current Access Level of 6 (almost 7), and being in an area with much higher level players than I, Ultras come in handy. I'm definitely having a blast taking down many fields/links boosting my AP gain, but I'm burning Ultras without gaining much back through hacking.
Even hacking a L7 enemy portal that had multi-hacks and heat sinks on it didn't offer much. Even throwing on my ITO EN Transmuter (-) on my own nearby portal isn't giving that much. Definitely swimming in XMPs no problem. I could ask my nearby teammates, but feel it would defeat the point of going out and hacking. Hope I get lucky and get a Quantum Capsule to drop soon.
Is there something I'm missing? Any tips for gaining more Ultras consistently is appreciated.
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Ya...I'm good... 🙄
Unfortunately, that's it. You'll need to keep hacking. The ITO- should improve your chances but that's about it.
Kinda figured unfortunately. Appreciate your confirming that I'm not missing anything else!
for common they are rare to me, idont know why they are tagged common it doesnt feel so all years i play.
Considering how much they basically null shields, I think the ratio is fine. If anything duplicating and ITO- might give too many.
Fair enough, they do extremely well nullifying shields. Maybe it's for the best, balance-wise, that their drop rate is low.
I just think it would be nice to see their actual rarity reflected in-game and on the wiki. They're definitely not "very common".
They feel pretty common to me. I'm fairly certain I get more of them than common shields and hack mods, for example.
I'd give you mine if I could... I often recycle them to make room for more X8s.
its RNG i would say, sometimes a VR shield can pop off just with 1 US strike, sometimes it feels u can fireaway 10 and its still not gone.... its random really.
Are you glyphing at all?
1) if you can start saving, that’s something I’ve had in quantum caps when I wasn’t hacking as much.
2) glyph hack and then glyph hack more
glyph hacking earlier P7 with - ito en - and didnt get many US.. nailed most glyphs with 70%ish speed... so yeah i stand corrected they are rare to get even with ito en - ....
They're pretty common after putting them into a MUFG (Quantum).
Yup every chance I get!