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Originally Posted by Golden Girl

The focus shift must have been made sometime after Halloween then

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

There are plenty of new players

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

Incarnate debt?



If the next 5 slots have different types of IXP that are only available on new Trials, then players will play them - nothing can head that off

Originally Posted by Zwillinger

Here's a hint.

There's lower level content in the works.

Originally Posted by Jake_Summers

I personally find the iTrails fun. I enjoy leading them, I enjoy the challenge they represent. Currently, the trials seem to get run quite regularly. I don't think this will change come Issue 22, the people who like trials and want to get their irewards faster, will still run trials. The 100% against trials group seems to be the minority. People will continue to do what they find fun.

Now if after issue 22 it becomes impossible to find a trial team, I'll admit changes need to be made. We'll see.

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

The slower progress and time-gated rewards on the solo path will make it less attractive to any players looking for the fastest way to advance their Incarnate abilities.
The Trials are toughest content in the game, and the core of the Incanrate system - they'll always have the most attention from the players and the devs.

Originally Posted by El__D

A few points.

A) The trials are fun for a lot of people, myself included. Otherwise I wouldn't be able to form four or five of them on any given afternoon on my server (Protector). Just because you don't enjoy them doesn't mean they aren't fun to play at all.
It's kinda funny how this point on how the trials are not fun is a common thread in alot of these threads on feedback.

B) The trials are not 'anti-melee' or 'anti-ranged' or 'anti-' much of anything for that matter. Some trials are harder for some ATs opposed to others yes, but no one AT has been singled out with any of the gameplay aspects put into the trials (Stalkers getting a special entrance in the Keyes bunkers aside). The big damage pulses and patches? They hit everyone in-range. Confuses? They confuses everyone they hit (do melee characters get hit more often due to where they stand? Yes. Is it simple enough to have someone with CM hit you with it by asking them, or just carry some breakies? Also yes.).

C) The trials are not 'light on story' either. The only way the trials could be considered light on story aspects and plot is if you consciously skip over all of Prometheus' dialogue, and all of the dialogue and scenes in the trials as well, and ignore the fact that they are part of a massive, interconnected story-line that spans all levels of the game (with the iTrials being the conclusion/endgame). Hell, the MoM trial has numerous sections in-between each phase where you can talk with various NPCs for information, with no rush or anything.
As I point out, the green stuff power on the Anti Matter fight favors ranged over melee. The blue patchs in MoMM trial again favors ranged over melee. UG, having ranged helps in the bomb runs and the AV fight due the fact you are able to hang out of range of the bomb boom and the AV attacks. And it's kinda hard to read anything when as folks have stated when you got a lvl 54 mob trying to kill you. This how I know what going with the "story" of the trials: Golden Girl's spoilers from the betas. That how. I can't read said story because how rushed doing the trials are.

Note that all of that doesn't mean I don't want the solo I-content to be fun, or interesting. I want it to be both, with story content as well! It'll give me even more ways to get more incarnate stuff in addition to the trials, and lets me do something for those lulls when iTrials aren't going on. However, trying to paint it as 'iTrials are horrible and the Devs should make them different because they're bad and nobody likes the trials!' won't work because, well, it's simply not true. Sometimes the trials have to be modified a bit yes, but that doesn't make them 'bad' just difficult to manage (and even then, that can be improved. It's gotten to the point where folks can lead successful runs the day these things come out with a group of people who've never done it before, because they've done the other trials and learned from them).

Originally Posted by Snow Globe

So the TPN is going live with no changes, with all the feedback from late October ignored. Congratulations, you've managed to make an Incarnate Trial I will not run.