Agent White

Yup, the trial is set up so that when you or your teammates complete badge requirements, everyone on the team earns the badge.

Yes, there will be other ways of unlocking Hybird eventually.

it's no different than when the initial slots were opened and we just had Baf/Lambda. Future trials will have future iXP and there'll eventually be a solo option ala Dark Astoria.

It's just going to take time.

Oh, probably want to switch it over to a Thread drop event too. Or maybe keep it shards -and- include threads, as the only hybrid style event in the game atm.

The sewer trial wouldn't be a bad idea too, breath some old life into it.

Actually I'd love to see a Dark Astoria based TF too. Or at least some kind of zone event ala Adamastor, etc.

Yeah, recall that too, which is just absurd at this point. A single Emp for the reward would hardly break the bank and you could just as easily form a full team and do Dark Astoria missions, even repeatables, to farm both kinds of iXP in comparable quantities.

It simply isn't a valid reason anymore considering how the incarnate system has grown. And I just want to see more incarnate level task forces in addition to new trials and solo content, Apex and Tin mage are the first and last 50 only TFs in the game so far. That just doesn't seem right.

Just some idle thinking earlier. The Apex and Tin Mage taskforces are currently the only non-trial Team incarnate content but at the same time, they're not. They came out so early that they just aren't up to date with 'modern' incarnate goodies and they really didn't come out that long ago.

They were designed at a time when just the Alpha was out, so for instance you get the Alpha level shift and you have access to any higher incarnate slots but you get no Incarnate shifts from your T3 Lore/Destiny slots. The enemies are all Level 54 and, as far as I'm aware, award no iXP of any kind.

And the reward? A single Astral or a chunk of reward merits for something that's as long as a BAF/Lambda run. (Sometimes even longer depending how fast your server does SLAMs)

So as the 'initial Alpha Strike' these Taskforces just have not aged well in light of the trials and Dark Astoria and they're not even that old. As it is they're just kind of the fairly unloved middle stepchild of the lot, pretty much run -solely- when they're the Weekly Strike Target for a Notice of the Well. That just seems wrong for 'incarnate' taskforces.

So, what should be done? Well, the mobs are already the appropriate level, I don't know if they have the increased ToHit of standard Incarnate mobs but they could at least drop iXP for the trouble, maybe just one type per Task Force?

And bump the reward from one Astral to an Empyreal merit. Maybe set it up like the trials so doing badge requirements awards an astral? (even if you've got the badge). That last could be too much, but then Astrals already drop like candy these days, a few more I don't think are going to break the bank.

Though for level shifts, I could see a case for continuing to only allow the Alpha shift. I mean let's face it, the Task Forces aren't exactly hard and a full team of eight 50+3s could probably steamroll it harder than it already is. Then again, they'd probably just run a BAF/Lambda anyway >>

Just some food for thought. It just seems a shame that these two rather well done and fun task forces are kind of wedged into this limbo of 'incarnate but not really' content and could offer up a small team option for folks that want a lil more than Dark Astoria but a little less than a full on trial.

And just as a comparison, the rewards for every other end game task force award a common Shard component (worth FOUR astrals) or merits or the Synthetic Hami-O in the case of the Statesman/Recluse TFs, and for the most part those TFs all spawn 50-51 mobs (again, Statesman and Recluse the exceptions, without bumped difficulty settings).

That's probably Praetoria's greatest sin. It's hard, but not so hard that teaming wouldn't solve it, but you don't want to team because then you shoot past the arcs too fast. It's a handy little paradox that has just pushed greyside empty among all its other problems.

I've so far run Scirroco's and Black Scorpion's.

Of the two, I'd definitely say BS's was the easier. Mostly because of the Elite Boss at the end. Serafina is a -pain- to fight.

Well you'll still get access to Soul mastery once you complete his arc anyhow.

Well, that's okay! It's why we have the choices in the game. If it's not your thing, it's not your thing.

Yeah Vanessa's is the end of the First Ward string, night Ward starts separately with Mistress Maria.

I'd run the repeatables ad nauseum. Vickers (everyone), Road Flare(Resistance/hero), Mr Caldoun(Villain/Loyalist), Trina Furst(hero/resistance) and Angela Hu(villain/loyalist). At least 3 will give you missions. A pretty good variety too.

And as a point of note, Mistress Maria starts at 30, but the follow on contact (no spoilers) is locked at 31 :P And Maria's arc is short, to the point you likely won't pop up a level completing it.

Luckily, there is also Fireball, Trilogy, and the 2 Night Ward Repeatables Sir Lionel and Atherton Cromwell, all 4 of whom are open to everyone.

Mmm, could it be you have too many missions/arcs open atm? Might prevent him from giving you access

No one is touching hasten

We don't know what the plans are for power pools but they hinted at customization for the graphics and adding 5th powers (to which, we don't know, possibly all remaining pools). That's all that's been said, there hasn't been so much as a hint about anything happening with hasten.

Always been curious what Dream Doctor meant by the Mender Silos from Faathim's reality.

Virtue definitely has no problems using the LFG to jump in without pre-forming. Victory... has been a bit hit or miss, without some prodding via channels anyhow.