DreadShinobi

It's not a matter of the incarnate slotting cooldown time itself, it's more about having a reason to do more incarnate content on any given toon. More to do = more time played = being subbed longer = more money for devs. Right now I have no reason to play because all of my toons are fully maxed out and I have no interest in making new toons, this would give me something to do on my characters while I wait for them to release the next tiers of the incarnate system. It's not super huge and amazing, but it's something. *shrug*

MoM's system of rezzing isn't broken. If you're using an awaken at the wrong time, that's your own fault. There are plenty of opportunities to use a rez and live. There are other people that can rez you, or heal you after you rez. You can pop a break free and some greens after rezzing as well. If you're dieing in the penelope stage you /should/ be dieing next to penelope (everyone should be grouped up in melee with her), which means there will be a bubble there or one that will get there soon, or you can have someone teleport you into the group. If you've tried and can't use an awaken, just take the Desdemona rez, it's usually not a big issue unless there's a ton of people doing it. And if a ton of people are dieing you're probably looking at a fail anyways whether your timer is being reduced by rezzes or not.

It's part of the challenge, it's not "broken" just because you don't like it.


As I said in my post above yours, UGT's warwalker mechanics do need to have much better visual queues, so I agree with you on that.

Doesn't change the fact that it is optional.

It's not such a ridiculous suggestion. Most people play this game to enjoy themselves. The only thing I get from your posts is that you're not enjoying yourself and that alot of it is due to the server you're on. A server merge isn't going to help anything, moving yourself to where you would enjoy yourself more most certainly could.



TPN's bug (which I've never personally come across even having run TPN around 30 times before my sub expired) is a huge exception. It's not a problem with the trial itself; it's a problem with the exceedingly slow rate that the development team can actually fix things and make changes to the game. Other than that, really the trials are fine. UGT could use it's mechanics have graphical effects and overall be more defined. Lambda, Baf, and Keyes are great easy entry level trials that people can casually farm if they choose to do so. Old keyes was fun and challenging. TPN is fun, challenging, and rewards team efficiency. MoM is challenging and along with TPN are designed for people who are into the incarnate system already and appropriately balanced for such people.

The shift click bind isn't going to make it faster, it might make it easier to use (especially if you're a clicker), but it's not going to get rid of teleport's issues. It's still only marginally faster than setting your pets to follow and maneuvering yourself with combat jumping or whatever.

I've got a fire/time corr too (though I went dark mastery). 45% defense to M/R/A and a pbaoe debuff that can herd and cushion defense debuffs with optional mez protection via clarion on top of fire corr damage is dead sexy.

Sadly though it's damage still can't compare to that of a fire/cold or fire/kin corr which is always a letdown to me when I play mine because my fire/cold and kin just crap all over my time's damage output. Not to say it's bad though, being practically untouchable while still being on a high damage corr with good buffs is a very nice spot to be in.

If anything I'd like to see /Time be able to put out a bit more -regen, but tbh that might even be asking too much because of what a defensive juggernaut the set can be.

When it comes to the term of tankmage, fire corrs are some of the best.

I'm not very tech savvy like many other posters are, but I'm pretty sure there are quite a few issues in the way of it, such as projectile speed, root time, melee vs ranged, taking a dump over concept/theme/sense (which the devs tend to care about most of the time), and just in general probably being a coding nightmare.

That's not to say it wouldn't be fun to play around with though.

Team Teleport is very slow compared to super speed, as well as having to use a 2 second activation where you otherwise would not have to (ie you can't attack while activating it, you can attack while moving with SS or SJ or Fly). You're "mobile", but in comparison to super speed and combat jumping, he could definitely say there is a lack of it. Many traps powers have to be used on the ground or while stationary, all of TA can be cast while jumping or in the air.

Nope I haven't even run trials since, uhhh, december(?), and even if I was running trials I'm not sure I would keep track, because, A) I don't have any issues with trials or my success rate with them and B) I just don't care enough to put in months of record keeping to prove one point on the internets. If I had done so from the get-go it would be different, and I would be glad to share my findings, but I didn't do that. I'm sure there are plenty of people out there that already do keep records as you do, you would just need to find them. You could also try running trials on other servers yourself so you don't have such a narrow minded view of them, but that's really up to you. I just don't care enough.

For shame! Especially the fire/kin, they're so freakishly good.
May I suggest a Fire/Rad corr? I would forgive you for deleting your other corrs if you did.

It is too small to be weighted with any significance. I've said this before to you, to make your findings have any weight you need to get those results from all servers from multiple people and compile them. Otherwise the only thing your data says is that Triumph is a terrible place to run trials on (no offense to Triumph).

I've never run on Triumph before, but I definitely get that impression to say the least.

So much this!

Oh god, my eyes.

Whoa. This is probably the most wrong statement in this entire thread.

Both small servers and large servers have their advantages and disadvantages but smaller servers aren't disadvantaged compared to larger servers when doing trials.

I play on Champion, which isn't super small, but it does have a lower population compared to Freedom and Virtue. We completed both TPN and MoM on the first day they were out with PuGs and we have a much higher trial success rate than what many people claim their success rate is on these forums. I'm not trying to say we're better or anything, what I am saying is that because we have a smaller trial community we have a much more tight nit group and doing things the right way becomes common practice very fast, typically we're ahead of the game. This is greatly in part due to most of our PuGs having many of the same players on them. On larger servers there are alot more people that will have to learn how to do a trial, how the mechanics work, how the leaders run it, etc. We figure out our own strategies, many of which is different from what other servers do). We also aren't in a "SLAMBAF" til you drop rut, we actually run the newer trials far more than lam and baf (I personally almost never run BAF anymore and only run Lambda when there aren't enough people to do trials that require more people.

If you want to be able to hop on a trial team practically 24/7 then sure, Freedom is a good choice. But never say that smaller servers are going to take longer to figure out how to run new trials, because it's just not true, the QUALITY of players is what affects this, not the quantity, and quite frankly more is not better.

I guess my question was rather trivial.

Yeah, your points would definitely be the biggest hurdle to cross.

Looking back at when Kahlan and I were working on duoing the STF (his rad/sonic and my ill/storm, way before incarnates) the big issue we had was at 25% recluse uses his mass bane summon, which meant the PA and Phantasm couldn't focus fire recluse, which was the majority of our dps due to his resists. The fight is actually quite similar to that of marauder when you take his resists and pet summons into account. Of course later on with incarnates he was able to solo it with his Ill/Cold (which he leveled and IO'd specifically for the task) and I really wish he still played the game to comment on what it would take to do this as I don't think he ever said (or I can't remember) how we was ultimately able to get his pets to stay on recluse through the bane summon, or if it was because of lore pets which are commandable. Granted when he did this he explicitly mentioned the numerous times he died while fighting recluse, so a time limit on Marauder's fight is definitely a hurdle as well. This is one reason why I think an SS/Fire could be better, because it doesn't have the same risks as an ill/cold while transitioning phantom army aggro.

Sample Size is too small.

This isn't standard mission content. If you don't like it then don't do it.

Blatant exaggeration is what it is.

Now I don't have first hand experience with Ill/Cold since I can't stand pets, but looking specifically at Ill/Cold, which can solo Recluse on the STF, I'd mostly compare this fight to that (and this was done before Interface, Destiny, and Lore) I definitely think an Ill/Cold could solo Marauder in Lambda. If the Ill/Cold had a single target chain with a single target epic blast (fire blast, power blast, etc) then I don't think the crates would be too bad since they automatically give a containment boost since they are auto-immobilized. Speaking of containment, this would be even easier when marauder is affected by containment damage.

I think an SS/Fire could do it too, however they'd probably need lucks even with 45% S/L defense for marauder which means less space for Red Insps and Ultimate Insps.

You don't *have* to retoggle it.

Lambda has already been duo'd (by an SS/Fire brute an a Cold corr), and it is quite possible that it is soloable also by SS/Fire brutes. It's not that hard.

However they changed it to boot you out of the trial if there were less than X number of players on the map under the minimum(8) after Y duration. So you need fillers now and they have to be VIP fillers, which makes it difficult (I wouldn't ask people to fill then make them sit around for 30-60 mins while I solo'd or duo'd lambda)

I can log in 8 accounts on my computer but I don't have access to 8 VIP accounts nor are my own accounts VIP.

Basically if you were going to "solo an eight man Lambda" you could do it with 1-2 toons and all the extras would just sit there.

Were you mass summoning lore pets with 2 clarions? Cause that's all the last fight really comes down to and I haven't seen it fail using that strategy. The only times I've seen it fail in the last fight was when there wasn't 2 clarions and the confusion halted dps.