DreadShinobi

New options to spend incarnate powers are a good idea (and I like what you suggested as things to buy with them), and I'm pretty sure the devs did mention that they were going to be adding new stuff to buy with your emps and astrals already.

Just to add though, you can also get multiple powers for each tier if you are looking for something to spend your stuff on. Having multiple Destiny powers to switch between depending on what your group needs can be very handy to have.

Signed for shoulder pets for male toons.

Someone mentioned a dragon shoulder thing too, which would be great also, even better if it was animated and breathed fire, but I may be getting in over my head asking for that 0.o

Asking for level shifted toons is hardly something to call hardcore. The trials do have a very minor amount of progression in them, something that isn't necessarily a bad thing. This is endgame content, content that is supposed to be harder and get harder as we progress. lvl 56 AVs aren't meant to be killed by nonlevel shifted 50s. It's not hard to do some of the first TFs on your new toons a few times, and pick up a level shift before doing the higher tier trials. If the only trial forming is one of the higher tier trials, why can't you switch to a higher level shifted toon? I am sure there is something they can get out of it. You can also mail threads via ouro to new toons to get them lvl shifts before even setting foot in a trial. T3 alpha doesn't take many threads - convert a handful of astrals and mail them to your new toon, and maybe do the WST to get the notice for T3.

Just be glad the trials don't require real progression like other MMOs. Requiring you to always run with the same group. Requiring you to run the dungeon multiple times learning how to beat it before actually even completing it. Wiping multiple times learning each boss. A normal guild, with experienced players that work well together can spend a month working through endgame content before completing it the first time, and a while longer before they can get that content on farm. Here, you can pick up a whole league of random joes, without any guarantee of how good they are, and complete a trial the first time you run through it. There is no wiping repeatedly on bosses learning their mechanics, there is no learning how to work as a well oiled machine, effectively no progression, you go in with whatever you can pick up right then and there and you expect to finish it without a hitch, and if you don't throw a fit, as everyone has such a massive sense of entitlement. Sometimes you need to put a little effort into it, and the amount of effort needed for the trials is very minimal, moreso when you compare them to other games, it IS casual.

I can't say a whole lot about crabs, as I haven't played one since they were originally introduced.

But in general for GMs:
You need a certain threshold of dps, or a good source of -regen
Softcapped defense
Good regen or a heal



For a crab spider, I'd generally say you'd want all your pets+lore pets, slot your powers with achilles heel procs and keep the GM -res debuffed, and run TTAssault and Leadership assault, this way your pets are doing as much dmg as possible. Without the pets though Crab Spider st dps isnt so hot.

For soloing an ITF you're going to need a way to deal with cascading defense failure. This means using barrier, or potentially ageless. The healing nictus with romulus could potentially cause issues for you as it triggers a heal for every person within range of it, including your pets. As well as other than lore pets you can't command your pets to target a specific AV, meaning you can't focus fire against the AVs. Of course you could always cheat with teleport. I'm not saying it's impossible in any way, you'd just need to build accordingly.

I'm sure we'll have a trial having to do with the well in some form or another by the time we reach the omega slot.... in a year or two.

Just reduce the -end to -75% end instead of -100% and keep the recovery debuff. This way you still have to pop blues or use a recovery power to keep fighting, but you won't lose your toggles.

God forbid people actually play with other people in a MMO.

tl;dr, however I'll say that after all the grinding and annoyance of having to deal with the day job system on 2 toons. I really don't want anything more to come of it where I would feel compelled to have to deal with it on all my toons. I think day jobs were a bad idea in the beginning, and it's even worse that they keep adding more of them.

I'd say we're CoH 3.15, assuming every issue is a 0.1 patch. 21.5 patches since release (1) is 3.15.

I would like to think a major update liike a "2.0" would be the reason our current issue releases take so long to come out, as resources would be devoted to releasing the big update, but I am not an optimistic person.