Arbegla

don't forget /traps. it has just as much -res as /rad, even more if you can triple stack acid mortars.

Well, to make the slots trival to get to T3 would just mean adding the ability to get a rare 'thread' component to the WST. This will allow you to increase the options for threads, give a more casual friendly stance on it, and allow it to take a week or two to get your t3 boost *granted, unlocking the different slots would be a task in itself, but you could atlest craft your t3 boost before then..*

Your 2.7 year years is worst case though getting t4s, with just purely converting shards, at the 10:10 rate. Your not counting 10:5, and threads from apex/tin mage or even just running 1 trial (within that time frame, ya know, as the 'hey whats this' kinda run)

Even if you avoid the trials, you can get the bonuses sooner then 2.7 years. It is possible.

You need 10 shards to convert into threads. thats where the 500k comes from. You can't do 1:1 conversions (only 10:10)

I never spend more then 10 mins forming, or reforming a team. I lead my own teams, and can clear lambda in about 20 mins, Baf in about 15. Just because you can't, doesn't mean others can't as well.

The cut scenes are about 1 minute long in length, which means you have a forced bio break in the middle, which actually cuts down on the grind. You know at the start of Baf as your loading in, you can go bio, or refill your drink, or heck, even stretch a little bit. Same for the near ending of Lambda. I'd love a way to skip the cut scenes, but instead of complain about them, i just find a way to use them to my advantage.

My understand of how numbers work is clear actually. You need on average 250k inf to convert 1 shard into 1 thread, and about 2.5 million inf to convert 1 thread into 50k iXP. So, on average you need to make about 500k inf per shard in order to convert it into iXP (straight from shard to thread and from thread to iXP) as you need 10 shards in order to convert to threads. Now, as most common recipes sell to a vendor for 100k, and people have mentioned (in this very thread) that you can fill your recipes inventory twice over before getting a single shard, I'm pretty certain you can get 500k inf per shard pretty easily.

Heck, just running the trials, crafting the drops i get from that, and vendoring the level 53 IOs i've made about 200 million inf. And that is from just playing the game normally, not marketeering at all.

Inf isn't your crutch, and trying to say it is the crutch is just idiotic in nature. Threads and shards are you crutch, as inf drops like rain in this game, even if you avoid the market completely.

If your filling up your recipes every 2 missions, and NOT making 2.5 million inf from selling them, then its your own problem. Common recipes sell for about 50k to 100k inf to a vendor, so if you fill up your recipes as quickly as you do, then making 2.5 million inf is a walk in the park.

The reason why its taking your longer to unlock your judgement slot is because your failing the BAFs. when you succeed you get more iXP (as the AVs are worth a TON of iXP, the escapees are basically free iXP, and the bosses that ambush with the AVs give a ton of iXP, but if you fail, then your not going to earn as much iXP)

Also, you want to make sure your on a full team. If its just you trying to kill things then your league mates are going to be stealing your iXP. Threads, recipes and such are league wide drops, but iXP are team wide drops, so you want to make sure your teams are balanced as best as you can get them.

Look, i know its not the best solution, but most of the arguments for not running the trials atlest casually is that they are too long, too hard to organize, and are too hard.

Since day 1 I've been running lambdas in 25 mins or less, organizing them off of tells i got (remember the globals were down the first 4 hours of i20 hitting live) and managed to win the very first run i did.

That pretty much negates the basic arguements. I'm not saying grind them out as much as possible, but a trial run every other day, or even just once a week shouldn't be too hard to do, just treat it like a multi team TF and go from there.

So really, just run the trials. We all want more options, but it just isn't going to happen right now, and repeating the same arguements we had on the beta forums isn't going to make it happen any faster.

Come to liberty. We ran lambdas all the time, in under 25 mins. (if i can convince people to not clear the turrets, we could lower that time even more)

Like was already mentioned, the interface procs currently trigger on damage done, but with thier set caps (4 stacks of the debuff, and 6 stacks of the DoT) i actually don't see it changing very much.

Its happening when you hosp. For some reason this hospital in the trials are on a different map or flagged differently, so that you don't get iXP or threads while in the hospital from kills (that your team did) but you do get a chance to get shards. Once you leave the hospital, you start earning iXP and threads again..

Not sure why its working that way, and it is probably a bug, but thats what is causing it.

Thats a good excuse, assuming you flat out refuse to run the trial, the time shortens a lot when you just add 1 or 2 trials a day to your rotation (instead of grinding out 15+ trials a day)

Now, don't get me wrong, i want more options too, but the current 'grind' really isnt that bad right now, as everyone and thier uncle is running these trials, and most have it down to a science (baf in under 20 mins, lambda in under 25)

Actually a lot of WP's toughness comes from +regen, which can be increased via +hp (those 20% hp from accolades adds up fast) then resistance covers some of the major holes (lethal/smash) and def covers the rest (fire/cold/nrg/neg)

Its just that most people don't build for +regen on willpowers, due to not getting much bang for the buck, and resistance is so hard to get via sets that defense is the only real viable option to shoot for.

But, with everyone going for defense, the sets that offer the most defense (Kinetic Combats for example) shoot up in price, which makes getting your softcap defense that much harder.

I went for a resistance/regen build, with high lethal/smash resistance, and higher regeneration (enhanced by my alpha choice, Spiritual, which also gives me more uptime on my AoEs, which allows me to chew up the romans before i suffer serious hurt on my HP bar)

It seems to work well enough to handle tanking, especially with just about any buff/debuff combination as lowering the incoming damage i take helps a lot. Plus its makes fortitude and cold/FF shields that much more valuable. (where they don't really help out a softcapped WP much, unless they are getting debuffed, but as has already been stated, once you get debuffed, its just a matter of time before you fall)

Yep, only 5 choices, each with thier own choice window all 5 choices offer the super inspiration pick, and you can pick which common/uncommon/rare/very rare component you want, so once you pick the 8 rares you need, 8 uncommons you need, and 4 very rares you need, you can basically convert everything else (including astral and emp merits) down into threads and make all the commons you need for your t4 boosts