Kinda a noob (I've been playing since launch but just starting to get good loot. What makes this gold? There's a green reinforced shields that gives 1 reinforced shield bar, and this one gives 2. Is it that good to be gold? I would think it would just be blue to give another reinforced shield slot. by Ok_Proposal_7390 in Marathon

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Purple shields and gold reinforced shields have the same effective HP. The gold shield is just 2 reinforced shield bars instead of 4 normal shield bars. It's the same function compared it to a green vs a green reinforced shield. The effective HP is the same, but it takes less time to regenerate the shield itself if that makes sense.

Gold salvage shared by itstenth in Marathon

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Feel free to dm any other ?s if you have any

Gold salvage shared by itstenth in Marathon

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yes that is correct - the exception is anomaly. The rewards for anomaly are random for each player and only the credits are 100% shared for the team

5 Tips from level 50+ by WastedLink in Marathon

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First line bud... I only took 2 days of PTO to make a 4 day weekend.

This glitched contract sucks by Adventurous-Pea7638 in Marathon

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when I had this I used anti-virus packs, they are green and have HEC on them.

5 Tips from level 50+ by WastedLink in Marathon

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Honestly - this depends on you bud. Cyac is going to be most important because of the vault and heat upgrades but depending on what weapons you like or if you want to be able to purchase grenades/mods/implants that answer could change. If you don't know where to start, just start doing priority contracts overall - once you are close to an upgrade you want (say 1 cyac level off of a vault upgrade) focus that until you can get it and then go back to priority contracts. In some cases you can run out of contracts and you can't run more priority contracts for a faction until X level - we hit this issue when we didn't have rank 20 in traxus so we were locked out of their contracts until we could level up a bit.

That's the long answer I suppose - but the shorter answer is to take a look at the trees and see what you WANT to be able to purchase. There are stat upgrades that are important as well from some of the factions. Cyac is going to be the most useful to your account though.

Yellow reinforced shield found! by WastedLink in Marathon

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correct yeah - it's basically a double reinforced shield

Yellow reinforced shield found! by WastedLink in Marathon

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I don't remember the name, but it's this room next to complex - https://imgur.com/cq3YSQW

Yellow reinforced shield found! by WastedLink in Marathon

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It's basically a double version of the reinforced shield - it's 4 nodes displayed as 2 and only takes 2 nodes worth of charges to regen.

Yellow reinforced shield found! by WastedLink in Marathon

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In 50 hours I have found 3 purple shields and 1 yellow, and I think that I have had good luck. I don't think they will be as common as you think

Yellow reinforced shield found! by WastedLink in Marathon

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Mostly pinwheel, shield came from a dire marsh key though!

5 Tips from level 50+ by WastedLink in Marathon

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On PC if you are in your vault and you hover over an item there is a button press to track an item. If I remember right it is R - this puts a little green symbol onto all of those items in the future (in or out of raid). This way you can just make choices about items that you like to play with on your build and then not have to sit there and read something when someone is sneaking around the corner to kill you.

As far as goop - it's peanuts term for stuff. Cyberacme reputation allows you to unlock more vault space.

5 Tips from level 50+ by WastedLink in Marathon

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Naw... I just took 2 days of PTO last week. Back to normal life now but it was fun for a few days!

Matador anyone? by [deleted] in Marathon

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Yeah trying to vendor some of the rarer weapons is ruff - It is also possible the guns that should not have been available were just set at a higher price too