Bohmfalk

I agree with Flip here. I think that badge content should be able to be accomplished with a full team that is dedicated to the task, maybe that is geared to have at least 1 of each element (buff, debuff, damage, etc), but not so specified to say that anyone that's not psi dmg or debuff is useless.

If I can jump on and get it first try (each time), I have no complaints :-)

Ouch! Dude, I implore you to stop until this goes live!!

Awesome. Maybe I'll actually be able to get these badges now.

Yeah, but unfortunately, I've had very little time the last few weeks to play even that much, without there the possibility of being interrupted halfway through.

Only 4 failed attempts for me, but that's not because I've had any successes....I just don't have the time to get on and try. This whole system is starting to bore me.....The BAF is more fun and better for rewards, but Lambda is the only one I have left to get badges on. On top of that, I have all the new redside badges to get, except that those all take at least a tf-worth of time to run. I'm starting to get antsy waiting for SW:TOR to come out....

I was thinking this as well....the seers don't seem to be up in time, so I figure its best to use them when they'll be the most use, during his unstop.

Nothing for you to see here....move along, move along....


:-P

I know, I was super excited, up until that last minute and a half.

Yeah, I was wondering that too. I dropped my seers once he showed up, and they didn't come back until after he went down. Does the 15 min rech not start until after they go away?

I guess we need to step it up once he's dropped unstop next time, take him down before he can hit it again. These are just crappy badge requirements.

That's what we've been doing, however the fight 2 nights ago (I believe flipside was on my league) it looked like we were going to get it. He had literally 2 points left when our time ran out. It was ridiculous too, because I think we did less damage in the last 2 minutes than the rest of the fight, save for his unstop. Dang shame it was.

And again.....just for 1 of the badges. When I finally do complete it, I'll only be 1/3 of the way there.

You seem to think that raising the lvl cap will be a quick, end-all-be-all fix to the game, and that rainbows will shine out of everyone's orifice once that happens. In all reality, they will need to spend many many months (more time than they have on Incarnates) in order to implement this, with 10 lvl's worth of xp, enemies, content, lore, badges, zones, indoor maps, outdoor maps, enhancements, costumes, pvp, and anything else you can think of just to keep most people happy. And you can lolpvp all you want, the fact of the matter is that there is an actual pvp playerbase in this game, several of them I met and played with in my badger's run for the 400 rep badge (yes, I did it the non-afk way). And after a few months, all the lvls/badges/content would have already been run by at least everyone's main toon, leaving everyone griping for more. With the Incarnate system, they are able to dole it out piece by piece, with even more to come that goes beyond what's already been announced. And while we may not get to the actual level of 60 (with only a few giving shifts, and 2/3 of that so far only being usable incarnate-wise), we still get a large amount of extremely useful attacks, buffs, debuffs, etc, that make us far more powerful than a non-incarnate.

They did, they're called Praetorian badges :-P

My point here is that many of the players won't settle for an increase in lvl without an increase in IO cap. And the devs wouldn't really want to do that either, since it would pretty much leave everyone at their max already once they reached that lvl. So within a couple of months, everyone would already have finished all the new content.

In order to keep us interested after upping the lvl cap, they would have to keep doing so, or keep adding new bonuses to the lvls (enhancements), or both. With the Incarnate system, they're able to do this periodically, keeping the interest up.

My point is that the incarnate system is a substitute for an increased lvl cap. I'm not saying that it's the same thing (new powers aren't the same as new lvls), but it's relatively the same idea. As to the lvl 53 content, that will be useful for when they introduce all the new trials that I mentioned (you can't expect to get everything at once, without a huge paid-for update). And for the extremely useful Incarnate powers, they can be used anytime you're not exemp'd.

One thing that you have to remember here is that they are planning on introducing new Incarnate Trials quite often, at least once per issue is what I've heard, and they even have 1 set to come out before i21 (we're on i20 now, right?) even comes out. The way I see it is that they meant for everyone to have a plethora of trials to choose from when they hit lvl 50, its just that there are so many who are already there, they are getting stuck in this "hurry up and wait" pattern. Look at all the people on here who post about their 12-50 lvl 50 toons who they don't think they'll ever "Incarnate." After a few months, they will see that their main toons have everything they can have and/or need, and that they have more than enough time to add another toon or two to that list of Incarnates. It's the exact same thing as getting to lvl 50. You focus on one or a few, and get them there, or you focus on a bunch, and only a couple ever reach that lvl. (Or for those with more time on their hands, you run them over and over and grind all week/month long until you have everything you want, and go back to alting/farming/trolling/badging/auction-house-manipulating, whatever you like to do to pass your time.)

You seem to overlook the fact that all these IOs only go to lvl 50. Since the majority (I'm estimating here) of players use sets and set bonuses, at least for their mains, that would mean that they would have to at the very least create new lvl 50-60 IOs for each set that goes that far, otherwise create all new IOs for lvl 50-60. Which would mean that all of those lvl 50 IOs that everyone has spent billions of infl to create and slot would now become useless, and the 10 per respec that people would be able to strip down would sell for much much less than they do now. So basically, the many people who waited until lvl 50 to outfit their toons with lvl 50 purps, pvp IOs, and whatever else top-lvl IOs they have, would have to spend all that time and infl all over again in order to optimize their toons. They could lvl to 60 (which would last a month or two), and keep what they have, but it wouldn't even get out of beta without HUGE complaints if they didn't up the IOs.

Yes, it is a grind, however, it doesn't cause you to lose all the enhancements that you have worked possibly hundreds if hours to get. And upgrading enhancements isn't as simple as you make it sound. If they're going to increase the lvl cap, they have to make new, higher-lvl enhancements. Which turn those hundreds-of-millions or even billion-infl purps and pvp IOs into ones worth maybe 10-mil inf. I think that would cause more people to leave then anything.

That may be, but I'm not about to waste my money transferring one of my good toons to Freedom. I'll more likely create a newb and drop him in randomly for the badge, and never go back.