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I was going to counter this with another set, but to be honest I'm not really sure I can disagree from my own play style, which admittedly, isn't everybody's. I have tried playing an Emp numerous times and at this point the only one I could stand to play was an Ill/emp who is stuck at 37 and hasn't been logged in 500+ days. Emp, as a set, to me fails higher up. Pretty much any other support set would feel more worthwhile. Again, IMO.

I logged on a character that was boosted by the AoE buff and I have to say it is rather fantastic. I really need to dust off some Kins and play them.

Teams doing trials don't need them either.

Is it really that hard to figure out why people who solo want the social environment as well? Again, are you buying me an XBox? You going to buy me those games I'm going to like to play even though there is no XBox counterpart to CoH, and XBox titles "tend" to be FPS games, which I can't stand? Really, I have way more single player games than I likely ever play. Thank you Steam sales. Let's say I play on one of the smaller servers that at one point it took me about an hour during prime playing time to get on a ITF when it was the WTF. Now, how easy do you think it's going to be able to do that if someone logs on during odd hours? I've had shifts that made me grateful I got on even four person teams. Trials? (laughs)

I don't feel like editing my post over and over again. It's 150 Vanguard merits for a Gr'ai Matter, which is a common. Oddly enough you could make it via 4 shards as well and my guess is you'll get the shards before the merits.

200 Merits for the LotG: def/+recharge, or 2 A-merits

EDIT: 500 Vanguard does seem as little high for soloist to get a common, but the idea is right.

Fixed.

So I can get an inferior gaming device that is widely known for breaking, ie RRoD? Also, I can't stand console controllers. You do understand there is more to an MMO then just teams right?

So, instead of coming in here and offering help to make a valid test of the drops you instead decided to come in and defecate on Bill's thread? Gotcha.

It should unless I missed something. I actually saw people recruiting for an Apex TF and they said they only wanted people who had their alpha slotted. I find it one of the more odd mechanics in the game. Unlock your alpha and do iTrials until sick of them with no penalty, but do Apex, or Tin Mage without your alpha slotted and well, you get to be -4 for those. Not that I do a lot of the Incarnate stuff anyway, but I have yet to do a Tin Mage TF and I don't recall seeing one being formed since I started to do the iTrials.

EDIT: Clarifying here, I understand you can do the iTrials without even unlocking your alpha, which makes the Tin Mage and Apex TFs all the more odd. What I meant was there is not a penalty while doing the arc to unlock your alpha for obvious reasons.

Please don't bring logic into this. The Numi TF seriously needs a revamp.

I think you could set them up like TFs with challenge settings and the harder settings would offer the chance of a VR/R drop. This way a player is putting in a certain amount of effort and skill into it.

Let's say in the same amount of time you could knock out the missions you needed for an A-merit. This would mean 6 shards are roughly equal to an A-merit. I'm curious to know how intended that is and all the more so considering you soloed at x8. You could easily get a 2:1 ratio, if that, of shards to A-merits if soloing on x1.

I also think it's a crock you have to do repeated trials just to unlock the first non-alpha slots, but that's a separate ramble.

My guess cost will be cheap enough to open it up. Once a player knows the focus of the game in on Incarnate content, they will want to be there.

Reporting offending images to a mod and getting your sig fixed?

Me: 1, You: 0

You made this thread under a week ago.

I didn't realize cost was a factor and you never gave the hint it was based on what you could afford. I'll just shake my head at the idea of a IOed out /dark brute being too easily slaughtered. A 55% damage bonus means things die faster. Since things die faster, you have to deal with less incoming damage, which in turn makes you more durable.

The recharge times on the buffs sets that got buffed were made so they could buff the whole team from day 1. The recharge on something like Fort meant it was never designed to be on the whole team in the first place.

They never said that.

Deleting the rest to make a smaller post. I'll just add that I have noticed a lesser number of support characters doing the trials compared to what happens on team outside of the trials. Controllers and doms are even lesser played on BAFs for one obvious reason(escapee phase). I've only felt the desire to really use my Kat/sr scrapper for the trials. All of my other 50s outside of my Claws/regen are support.

So you mean they have a chance to finally be good then?

All I'm going to say is this comes across as somebody who is rather ignorant on how much the base building community has tried for improvements only to get treated like some sort of red headed stepchild. There has been one notable attempt by the devs to deal with bases only for it to be so messed up it never even hit beta. That's it and bases have been around since CoV hit. "Base changes are quite likely in the future." You mean before it's been 20 issues since bases were first introduced?

Part of me is thinking it's the devs way of giving a middle finger to the player base that made their AE the abomination that it is. "So, you guys like farming your way 1-50 past all of this content we made for you huh? Boy, do we have something for you." If the Incarnate system had a Facebook page, I'm still waiting to click on the "Like" button.