StratoNexus

The difference on teams between players who move to the right spots in order to help the buffers and teams that just spread all out and move out of range of buffing for no reason is remarkable. You can help the buffers (and therefore the whole team/league) out a lot by positioning yourself for the buffs well.

Because after I gather 10 x and see the other team already has 8 of y and there is 6+ minutes left on the timer, I know I am not really likely to be any help gathering y, because other team is likely already at or near objectives 9 and 10.

Really, it takes 15 to 30 seconds to set yourself up for being part of the cut-scene. If your trail is failing because of that, it had deeper issues to start with. Dragging Marauder outside the courtyard is simply griefing or a terrible error and has nothing to do with hogging cut-scene time. It is also an unfortunate design choice, IMO, but sometimes technical limitations force those on us.

While I agree the server slowdown in the BAF has gotten bad during the AV fights, I am unaware that the in-game clock slows down. As an example, I had a blizzard that lasted 32 seconds, based on the in-game clock tonight. The in-game clock seems to keep accurate (or at least reasonably accurate) time. That can be a blessing during the escapee phase, but it can be a curse on a MoLam (6 minutes of unstoppable, enraged Marauder is pretty hard to beat).

It is possible that one of the girls have a long lasting debuff. If they use that debuff then die shortly after, the body would fade, but the mission won't end until that debuff also drops.

The DPS of Flares and Blast are close enough to be a wash (Blast can beat out Flares, IIRC, depending on how much of the DOT on Blast lands). The opportunity cost of Blast is higher, since it locks you out of other actions for longer than Flares.

If you are thinking Chiblain might be like Ring of Fire damage-wise, don't. Ring of Fire is leagues ahead.

That is the Defiance buff duration.

Killing them all is too much. Ignoring them all is too little. Somewhere in-between is a better place.

I would imagine it is the -damage component to Void. I have found it to be nice on the characters I have taken Void with (although I haven't really measured anything, so it could just be that I would have survived fine without the debuff anyway).

This would work a lot better if those knuckleheads hit the IDF instead of the objectives more. I am slowly trying to educate armored toons that if they attack the IDF, the rest of the team will help them kill the IDF and the objective and the squishies live a lot longer that way. One day this will trickle down to most of the population, one day...

I truly enjoy the trials and I enjoy repeat playing of them. While I very strongly want the ability to get some threads and a component drop from more content, I am content for now to advance with the trials and play other parts of the game when I do not feel like the trials.

Calling us lemmings is very much the case of YOU having a problem, not those of us playing the trials repeatedly. I am sorry YOUR way of having fun does not seem to match the new content, but saying we are all blindly jumping off a cliff is foolish. My enjoyment of the new content comes from a variety of factors, the reward is indeed one of those factors, but it is not the only factor. The trials are a very good way to get variety of gameplay, all in one place. While even more variety would be better, for now the trials are well done and offer a lot of gameplay, on a reasonable time investment.

It is not false. I use shards to contribute to my incarnate progress on almost all my characters that make incarnate progress. Shards generally contribute quite a bit to my Alpha slot, while contributing an extremely small amount to helping me with the other slots.

Farming that requires big teams might be viewed differently from past farming missions. Plus, the devs intend for people to have more options in the long term, so that the farming of small amounts of content is less and less "needed" for solid advancement. However, the devs surely do want us to continue playing and since content will always be finite, I am sure they want us to repeat content. In other words, a certain level of farming is simply expected and necessary (although the AE has many, many great stories and missions, you can check out the forums here for some helpful threads with pointers on good missions in AE). On top of that, times change. Playing our level 50s through the same content repeatedly may be a desire for a large enough segment of the player base, that now finally the devs are catering to that need.

A certain level of repeating the game is good, just like when I farm enemy pawns and knights when I play chess over and over and over again. If the game is fun, repeating play does not need to be viewed negatively.

My first MM was a Merc/Poison. I stopped playing it because the redside market stank, teaming redside was difficult, and it moshed enemies so easy it was kind of boring (I was hoping the active secondary would help, and it does to an extent, but not quite enough).

That character is level 34 and has done fine vs. AVs, even when lackeyed up to help out lvl 50s. I truly have not played it much since I-12ish, I get a level or so every 6 months. I will likely be playing it again more regularly, once I get bored with the iTrials.

My Dem/Storm is a pleasure in the iTrials, although I do have a solid IO build.

So you were not wrong, you were lying. Understood. Next time I will call you a liar instead of saying you were mistaken. Thank you for clarifying the situation.

Your description above is NOTHING like your original description. You do know what the word ignored means right?

That sounds like good play.

I don't care what you think you experienced, I am telling you you are mistaken. The adds were not ignored as you believe, either they were taunted into the group, or people were turning off the AVs to kill them. I choose to believe you just missed smart people on your team handling the trouble, since your story does not make sense to how I have seen that encounter function countless times when the adds are actually ignored.

I agree that PR is a big key here since it is likely one of the key problems with the system is psychological.

I do want to state that my in game experience does not reflect forum concern, outside of a very few characters (not people, but specific characters) that get "too many" rares/very rares. I get lots of people willing and excited to join me for trials and almost all of them work together. I have not heard a lot of griping about only getting commons, although we all wonder why we get so many uncommons (I see the large number of uncommons as a sign that many people are doing well enough in order to get bumped to a good tier of rewards).

The general population seems to be OK right now. A very vocal segment of the forums is likely spreading misinformation (sometimes innocently, and other times not). That misinformation is important to nip and counter.

I lead all the time and type prolifically. It has never affected my reward rate. I almost never actually attack the Security Team in Lambda instead using that time for instructions. I often use some of the time outside for instructions. I usually type directions during the gather temps phase so people can follow me since I have the maps memorized. During the Marauder fight I am often typing instructions, trying to help people find their temp powers. During the AV pulls I am usually typing instructions. During the escapee phase I am often just bouncing around looking for trouble areas and/or typing to direct people to cover those spots. During phase 4 and 5 of a BAF I am often typing for people to watch the adds or to watch the Sequestration. I occasionally die because I am typing instead of watching what is hitting me.


Just got a rare on a MoLambda (that I led and had to type stuff in) and when I do the Keep Em Seperated and/or Strong and Pretty I often get rares or very rares.

I have seen people DC and get rares and very rares.


I expect your expectations will not be met.

Obviously, you are mischaracterizing this. People in your league are dealing with the adds, they are just doing so more efficiently than in the past. The adds do not just run into melee with the AVs, even when taunted and therefore in order to kill them you have to specifically stop targeting the AV and target the adds. Either you are unaware of people doing this for your league or you are overlooking that fact.