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to the OP - I will try to answer in simple terms how this system works as you may not have discovered it yet doing these trials.

From what you are saying, you are queuing for these trials while not on a team or a league and you end up joining a league after waiting a short time to get into the trial. If that is correct, I assume you are then having difficulty getting in on the next trial that particular league may be running. If that is also correct, it is most likely because once you are already in a league, the leader can not queue up the next trial because you are not in the same zone as the other parties in your team. When a group is formed before beginning a trial, none of the members (yourself included) should be using the LFG feature. The leader will use that button and queue in for the entire team where you will be prompted yes or no to join the event.

What my suggestion is: Find out where the general meeting place on your server where most people form these trials. For example, on Freedom they are typically formed in pocket D. On Champion, they are formed in RWZ in the vanguard base (I don't know about other servers). From there, you will typically seen in broadcast or a player made trial channel (that you may/may not be in) that XYZ is forming a Lambda, Baf etc. You then tell them you are interested, and they will invite you the league. When the team is full the leader will queue everyone.

I find this to be the easiest way to get on a trial team, because when you use the LFG tab, you can't do other missions or task forces while waiting to queue in.

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Yeah, that is what i originally thought. I did update my drivers last night anyway. I didn't have any lag issues, but i was only on for about 2 hours time. During that time i did 4 trials, without incident. I'll report back after i have more extended playtime.

After reading more and more tech issue posts, i'm wondering if it could be a driver issue, as a lot of people are mentioning ATI driver issues. I suppose that is worth a look, and i'll check and see what drivers i'm running and attempt a clean install when i get home. I just hope things don't get worse.

Ok, i'm not exactly sure where to start on diagnosing this problem. the short version is: Recently i have been playing in a lot of incarnate trials. After i do about 3 to 4 trials, i start getting really laggy. Up until that point, everything is smooth. If i am not dual booting accounts, i can play on ultra without any lag, however im usually too lazy to switch so i just leave it on performance even when playing on 1 (which is the case when i do trials). account. So far, the lag has only started inside trials, but then carries over to whatever else i'm doing there after. Zoning doesn't help, and neither does quitting to character select. If i completely shut down CoH, then reboot from launcher all is good again. Perhaps some sort of memory leak?

My CPU and Video Card temps are quite cool. This only happens in CoH.

What i am running is:

i7 930 Quad Core Processor
6 GB Ram
(2) ATI Sapphire 1GB 5850 Video Cards in Crossfire
Windows 7 64 bit Professional

I'm not sure what else i can give you to help, but i guess I'm looking for a starting point, or maybe hear from someone with a similar experience?

I think Cyto's are already replacing enzymes in terms of price structure. They have spiked on the market to about 225 million/each. Of course they still wont give as much defense buff as the enzyme did, but they are still better than a dual IO.

Membranes i think are still kind of meh, they will work now at least which is good.

End becomes an issue in this case as there is no endurance mitigation in Blazing Aura, he/she is running the extra toggle in stealth, and with all that recharge will likely be seeing frequent rage crashes. I have a Electric/Fire and a SS/Fire. The builds are extremely similar to each other. On paper the difference with endurance buff/drain are negligible, but the SS uses way more endurance because of the power selections and crashes. I use top tier vigor in both builds. On the electric, i don't even need to use consume, on the SS i need consume, and have to be very mindful of endurance issues...and my build is a lot more endurance conscious than what is posted here.

correction, just realized who the two posters above me were....move along, nothing to see here. >> >>

Simple, When Issue 22 is released, Enzymes will dramatically lose their importance and market value as they will no longer be buffing defense buffs. Enzymes were supposed to affect defense debuffs and endurance reduction, not defense buffs, defense debuffs, and endurance reduction. On top of that it is giving a schedule A value (the only defense related Hami that does that, the rest are schedule B percentages). What does this all mean? It means that players who wish to use defense buff Hamidon enhancements instead of IO's will likely use Membranes instead. In theory, membranes value may increase as a result of these changes and drive up their market price. A smart marketeer (the OP) would be wise to buy up membranes cheaply, sell off his Enzymes while they are still worth something, and make a nice fat profit.

Like many other VIP players, I have been actively participating in the incarnate system trials. Over the course of a few weeks I have been actively trying to save my Empyrean merits so I can cash them it at the Emp merit vendor in Ouroborus for some vary rare IO’s. So far, I have 20 merits and figured it was time to go see what I can cash them in for. Low and behold the majority of IO’s available required a 40, 50 or 60 merits for a single IO! I am astounded at the amount of trials it must take to get one of these, let alone a full set…It seems out of balance to me. I know that there is supposed to be some Dark Astoria content arriving soon that has repeatable trials (after the first one that gives 2 emp merits) to get 1 at a time, but still. It shouldn’t take months to acquire a single enhancement/recipe. I guess my question is, does anyone else feel the same way and should it be addressed?

Additionally, after checking in with multiple merit vendors, I wanted to see if I could trade in astral merits for Empyrean merits, and it appears that the trading only goes one way…which is down. Should we have the ability to trade up? Also, why is trading down from Emp to Astral a 1:1 ratio….that seems completely unfair for the time and effort put into these trials.

Anyway, that is my feedback and thoughts on the matter; if I seem off-base or miss-informed, by all means please correct me.

Electric

I have a Electric/FA/Soul brute that i use mainly for trials and farming. Darkest Night on trials is sweet. I would take MU of course if it were strictly farming as it provides better DPS (as i did on my ss/fa). The rest of the build is strictly a farm build. I have to say, while it doesn't AOE the hell out of everything like SS does, my completion times are not far off and survivability is actually better because of soul mastery (not that it matters in a fire farm anyway if you're soft capped). When doing 4X8 farms, the minions and LT's just melt while i'm pounding on the bosses anyway. While the single target attacks don't match KB blow, they are fast activating and better on endurance (I don't even have to look at my blue bar and don't even need consume for endurance purposes). I do notice as a whole that SS/FA/MU (my other toon) eats endurance like crazy. That is even with a fully IO'd build, and top tier Vigor incarnate power. So, i would strongly recommend Electric primary if you are looking for something different.

I would imagine that you run out of endurance rather quickly as well.

After getting more involved in the trials i do see the benefit of having the higher level shift. I ended up using a free transfer to Freedom for approx 1-1/2 days. i spent basically a few hours that first night (when i couldn't seem to get in on one), and most of the afternoon the following day doing trial after trial. It was far easier to get on them because they have a higher population. However, i like the people here better and prefer to play with my friends. In that time though before transferring back, i took my character from +1 to +3 and capped out my alpha slot ability, and I'm on my way to doing the same with the other incarnate abilities.

As far as my playtime goes, i typically get about an hour after work around 6PM on weekdays, and then 2-3 nights out of the week i'll play from about 10:30PM -12:30AM. There are trial teams on Champion, but there is usually only 1 group running at at time (sometimes two). I managed to get in a very solid group of the weekend, but the fun was cut short with a cable/internet outage on my block (highly annoying when in the middle of a MoM trial). Thanks for the responses all, it just took some time to figure it out for myself what others had mentioned. I'm picking up these pretty quick, but don't yet feel comfortable to lead all of the trials yet. As soon as i do, i'll try to pitch in to keep them as busy as possible.

It was most likely what you guys are calling a master run. From the original chat, I probably wouldn't have known the difference. I'm not butt hurt or anything that my request to join was simply ignored, I just wanted to get a better understanding as to the reason why, i never for one second thought it was personal. During my last couple of weeks playing on Champion, i have been noticing there isn't all that many people around to run this content with, at least when i have time to play. I guess that is most frustrating part. Perhaps i'm better off just getting my Incarnate drops elsewhere and transfer back when i'm all set. Thanks for the clarification about the badges, I can see why +3's can make the difference in achieving certain tough requirements.

To be clear, Where does the term "Master run come from". Are they "master badges" or something, hence coining the phrase?

Just curious, last night while playing it seemed like the only trials going were people requesting +3's only. Are the TPN and MoM trials that challenging that this is required? I'm a little late to the party when it comes to incarnate content as i have only recently went VIP. My character was +1, and only a couple of threads from bumping to a +2 level shift. I haven't tried TPN yet, but last night i used a free transfer to freedom, and got in a baf, slam, and successful MoM within minutes of each other as soon as i logged in around 11:30 PM EST. The level shifts were ranged from +1's to +3's, no un-shifted level 50's on this team.

Obviously i can see why +3's are desired, but it does make it harder for those of us trying to catch up if we can't get into anything because of a level shift.

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