Amygdala

The Lights bug is pretty much what stopped me from attempting any badge runs for Magisterium thus far. For all of the badges you need to complete the trial for it to award. I'd hate to see a league succeed at the badges only to lose the last fight due to the bug.

Since you're going to run MoMagisterium on Sundays what I'll probably do is use Saturdays to wrap up the last few badges people need from the other trials.

I'm thrilled to have confirmation of this.

Welcome back to the game! If you're just starting out with iTrials I'd recommend BAF, Lambda or Keyes. If you have any questions about the Incarnate system I would gladly answer them.

I sent you an offline tell in game. Let me know if you don't receive it.

So far I've been hosting badge runs for various trials every Saturday at 8pm Eastern. I've been checking this thread and rotating them accordingly.

I think there are some people who still need Green Stuff so I may run it again, but it probably won't be for a few weeks. Next week I have RL obligations and the following week will probably be a MoBAF. I imagine there will be interest in MoMagisterium as well.

If you would like I can send you a PM when Keyes comes up again. You're welcome to join us.

Looks like MoBAF will be next then.

I'm still not 100% sure about this. What lead me to believe this might be happening was the section Cobalt quoted and what was written in the Wiki article. However, it seems someone made an edit only recently and specifically changed that part.

Before:

"Once Tyrant is below 50% health, a bar appears showing his "Favor of the Well", a number which directly affects his regeneration. If defeated players retreat to the hospital when Tyrant is below 50% health, it increases his Favor, granting him a regeneration buff."

After:

"Once Tyrant is below 50% health, a bar appears showing his "Favor of the Well", a number which directly affects his regeneration. Favor of the Well will increase by two points for every % of his MaxHP that Tyrant drops below 50. Similarly, Favor of the Well decreases by two points for every %MaxHP that Tyrant regenerates."

The fact it was edited out raises some questions for me about the accuracy of the information.

It's also worth noting that last night we ran 2 trials back to back with virtually the same league. The league leader specifically told people to stay out of the hospital. The first trial succeeded while the second failed. It was unclear how much of an influence staying out of the hospital had on his regen.

I have also read elsewhere on the forums that the level shift buff you get from the lights is called [Notice of the Well]. It says that it caps at 16 people. This would explain why on a 24 man league only some people were getting the shifts. However, I tested a 16 man league and the shifts were still highly variable. Overall it did not seem to make a difference. It was mentioned that perhaps pets are counting against the cap, but I'm fairly certain we didn't have any pets out at the time.

Other people have suggested that the buff is limited to the team of someone who took a light out. This has not been true for any of the trials that I've done. I've specifically spread out people dedicated to the lights across the 3 teams. Heck, I've even not gotten shifts after taking one out myself. Teams do not seem to influence this bug at all.

As far as I can tell, it's random who gets shifted and who does not, the length of time you might get shifted, etc.

I just ran a 16 man trial to test this. Still variable level shifts across the league. People calling out a mix of 3s and 9s each time the lights were taken out.

I didn't control for pets, but I don't recall any being out until I called for Lore later on. May have to retest for it.

As far as I understand it, the lights aren't supposed to affect his regen.

From Arbiter Hawk:

I have noticed on several occasions that, despite no lights present, I was still at +3 only. The picture in this post clearly depicts this issue.

I'll second this.

I ran a few Magisterium trials tonight and had a few friends monitor their level shifts. On one of the runs I was +3 about 90% of the time even though all the lights were out. I quickly clicked on my league mates to check shifts and noticed that several people were +9 while several were +3. So as of right now it does not appear to be working as a league-wide/zone-wide buff.

I'll also add that I tried this having certain people on the lights, those people members of all 3 teams (to rule out the team influence). Even clicking on people of the same team showed variable levels. There were times where I personally took out a light and remained unshifted.

I should have probably added that previous experience with TPN isn't necessary, but helpful.

I'll go over the badge requirements before we start, but the meat of the trial involves boosting a progress bar called Public Opinion. It's the yellow bar in your trial UI. The way to boost it is to click the glowing terminals found inside the 3 buildings on the map. Before a terminal can be clicked, the Technician guarding it must be defeated. The Technician cannot be damaged until the IDF around it are pulled away or defeated. So the order of events is usually run into building > pull IDF away > spike Technician > click terminal. Keep doing that until Public Opinion reaches 500. Public Opinion also declines over time, so if the league is especially slow at clicking terminals, it's possible to fail the trial if it reaches zero.

That is what 90% of the league will be focused on. We will also have a small team of people with strong single target damage that will focus on Telepathists, which are bosses that spawn outside. For every Telepathist alive, a map wide debuff is applied to the league. They also have the ability to brainwash civilians into attacking the league.

Throw in a few fights with Maelstrom and that is TPN in a nutshell. It's a fairly repetitive trial. If you'd like more information on it, I'd recommend reading this overview and looking at Master of TPN Campus from Paragon Wiki.

I find my Gravity/Dark Controller to be highly useful on iTrials to the point where it's become my main trial toon. Wormhole makes pulling mobs away from terminals so much easier. This applies to Keyes, TPN, and UGT (where pulling mobs from crystals lowers their regen). You can also use it to pull Voids in MoM to position them exactly where you want.

As for Dimension Shift, I use it mostly on Lambda during the collection phase. You can put it down behind you as you're running through the map so that anything following you gets trapped in it, or you can Wormhole troublesome mobs into it.

This one is pretty simple. Just remind me next time you're on a BAF that I'm leading and we'll take care of it then.