Arilou
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Quote:Yeah, something like that.Originally Posted by SilverAgeFan
Or brought up a new temporary power popup window or something? A special tray that can only hold trial powers? Or on your compass like meteor fragments do during a shivan run? (Though this may just confuse some folks)
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Quote:And all that happens in trials. Like the last BAF where Ms. Flaming's barrier saved our bacons from those AC9's, or Comrade SMERSH cracked that hilarious joke against Siege.Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane
Bad analogy.
The BAF is not the Infinity Gauntlet. The BAF would only be one subplot in one issue of a miniseries titled 'Incarnates: The Praetorian War'.
In those giant crossover events, you didn't have every hero in the same place fighting together at the same time the whole time. They broke into smaller teams or pairs, that way everyone got face time. Smaller teams doesn't mean 24-32 people.
And even when they were all together, each character got their moment to shine. Hulk got to hold up a mountain. Captain America got to tell off Thanos. The Flash got to make the ultimate sacrifice. Superman restarted the universe. Batman killed Darksied
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It would be nice if the grenades/acids either showed up on a special "plot relevant power" icon, or at least was grouped in a separate place from your other 15+ temp powers.
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Superheroes gets one-shotted all the time.
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Quote:The Sutler TF clearly takes place in the context of the Praetorian War.Originally Posted by Dr_Mechano
yes but the new TFs aren't Incarnate content, they're regular content.
So you can have the Incarnate Praetoria War content with just a single team or even solo, now it doesn't have to skimp on the challenge, infact it shouldn't. -
Quote:Like the new TF's?Originally Posted by Dr_Mechano
Yes but war also makes use of much smaller commando units to strike at targets as well as larger companies of men. There is plenty of room for normal team sized content and still keeping the 'war' theme.
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Quote:YeahOriginally Posted by Energizing_Ion
And part of the issue is just human nature...people want to stand out...heaven forbid we all just work together as a team and win as a team.
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Quote:What do you consider a reasonable time-frame?Originally Posted by Gemini_2099
There is a big divide.
You could slowly advance for the alpha slot in a reasonable time frame. The conversion of shards to threads isn't reasonable by any means. -
I think the point is that it's not really balanced for the extremes (people who grind until their eyes bleed to be first with the new content, or people who refuse to do the new content) it's balanced for people who do a trial now and then but would still like to advance while doing other stuff.
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You can still advance by doing pretty much any content and converting the shards to threads. (It's slower, yes, but it means you advance even when doing other content than the iTrials)
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There does seem to be *something* going on with the alpha, my Fort is hemorraging end when doing the trials.
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Seriously, giving us rewards for even partially completing a trial? Very nice.
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Quote:Huh, I though the reverse. Horses for courses I guess.Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
QFT and amen.
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Quote:The thing with Pugs is that they are, well, random. You can end up with the best players in the game just as easily as the worst.Originally Posted by enderbean
I ran Lambda with an 8-man PuG and we got Marauder down to 20% life before we ran out of time. It is possible to do both.
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Quote:Two new TF's. That ain't cat ****.Originally Posted by Gemini_2099
Actually you are told to do something else...well...not much else in Issue 20: Incarnates.
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Quote:You get at least 10 threads for winning a trial, more if you convert your astral/empyreal merits. And you get components too (I got 2 uncommons, but you can get a rare)Originally Posted by firespray
I feel you man.
I did some back of the envelope calculations, and it looks like getting the very rare in a single new incarnate slot will take about 2000 threads, and a billion influence. Even assuming threads drop 5x as often as shards did, that's 4 times as much work as getting the very rare alpha slot was. And getting the very rare in the alpha slot was no walk in the park.
And we don't even have a large variety of content to run to get these like we did with the alpha slot. We just have to run the same two trials over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.
And from the one I attempted earlier tonight they're not even that fun. I took my purpled out, softcapped fire/sr scrapper into the lambda sector trial, and died at least 5 times in the first 15 minutes.
I finally checked out the combat logs to find out "oh hey, instead of being floored at 5%, these guys have over a 30% chance to hit me"
So instead of giving me awesome new content that makes me feel like my character is a superhero, the devs give me a long repetitive grind that invalidates the several billion influence worth of IOs that I spent several months earning the money for.
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Quote:No it isn't, we finished it with an 8 man PUG. The trick is getting all the acids in stage 2 (It's not as important to get all the grenades)Originally Posted by IanTheM1
In before "lrn2play"...oh, dang.
Lambda was sold on being completable with an 8 man team, and the raid system is designed for PUGs. From what I saw those two are simply mutually exclusive.
There's also the fact of the matter that the molecular acid is so wildly more valuable and raid-altering that I'm tempted the next time I run to have the entire league or at least a much larger group raid the labs rather than split evenly.
It really wouldn't be nearly as bad as it is if the human bosses didn't spam battle drones. Without their hyper-stacked buffs, Marauder's horde might be surmountable. -
Quote:It's rare or uncommon depending on level.Originally Posted by GuyPerfect
Steadfast Protection: Resistance/+3% Global Defense is available for Alignment Merit purchase and is Uncommon.
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Quote:I thought it had to do with "strength" of the knock?Originally Posted by EvilGeko
I thought Knockup was just Knockback aimed in a different direction?
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The irony of Protean taking over after Manticore is staggering
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That would be pretty fun.
Especially if a villain can do it so that you can use the war to grab some incarnate goodies
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Quote:That would be your snipe.Originally Posted by Le Blanc
Ok. Just checked my Blazing Arrow. It goes off at 48 yards. This kinda ticked me off cuz an Olympic archer has to be accurate at 70 meters (just over 76 yards)!! And I'm supposed to be a SUPER hero? My regular shots should be going off at more than that!
Perhaps the Dev's need to re-examine Archery ranges. And don't give me "balance" sillyness. -
Cursed the radiation emission defender who had coloured his rad-fields blue.
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Quote:How so? One tiger pretty much looks like another.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
If I make a costume that someone completely accidentally makes almost the exact duplicate of, I'm doing something wrong.
And that's ignoring the people who deliberately go for a uniform-ish look. -
I wouldn't go for purples unless you're really a completionist and/or have nothing better to do. The differences between purples and oranges are relatively minor, but the price difference is... Rather steep.