Aura_Familia

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

If the archetype was a remix of existing power sets with tweaked gameplay: 800-1000 points

Examples: Assault/Control flipped dominator, Ranged Blast/Scrapper Melee secondary, Buff-Debuff/Assault defender/dominator hybrid


If the archetype introduces interesting new gameplay options but with mostly existing powers: ~1200 points

Examples: Buff/Melee buffing tanker, Control/Control super-controller, fury-driven defensive (instead of offensive) brute.


If the archetype introduced radically unique gameplay options: 1600+ points

Examples: disposable pet-based summoner (think things like photon seekers, tornados, soul extraction, up to the phantom army and gang war), power vampire (ability to remove powers from target and grant them to self), astral projector (ability to confuse, then take over control of NPC targets like a mastermind).

Originally Posted by Snow Globe

So do I with BAF, Lambda, Keyes, or TPN.


I think there is, at most, a core of 5-10 consistent trial leaders on Triumph right now:

@Snow Globe (myself)
@Kay Parfait
@Magenta Bolt
@Critical Ebon
@Sayaki

Not as frequently heard leading open trials on Triumph:

@Emerald Fusion (or anyone from the Fusion Force as they usually form as a group, but I haven't heard much from them lately on Triumph's main badge channel)
@Summoner Delmain

There you have it. The trial leaders of Triumph who frequently announce and lead open trials. As to who shows up for the trials, that depends on if it is an open or closed league. I know that I personally don't turn anyone down for BAF, Lambda, Keyes, or TPN. The opposite in fact. There are people that say "Keyes is too difficult for me because I'm on a new 50 that doesn't have a level shift." My response has always been "Keyes is easy, let me show you."


Apparently I have to repeat my policy (yet again):

• BAF: Bring whatever character you want, as long as it is at least level 50.
• Lambda: Bring whatever character you want, as long as it is at least level 50.
• Keyes: Bring whatever character you want, as long as it is at least level 50.
• UG: Bring whatever character you want, as long as it is at least level 50+3.
• TPN: Bring whatever character you want, as long as it is at least level 50.
• MoM: Bring whatever character you want, as long as it is at least level 50+3.
• DD: Bring whatever character you want, as long as it is at least level 50+3.

In no situation do I say "we have too many tanks, someone needs to switch to a healer". If a player wants to bring a tank, I'm not going to stop them. If they feel the need to switch to a healer or debuffer after seeing the team make up, I appreciate it, but I don't require it. I don't lead trials to tell players what characters to bring, even if it makes the trial a little harder.


And my typical response is "whatever you want" to BAF, Lambda, Keyes, or TPN. For the others, it is "Something that is +3, please."

Originally Posted by Zyphoid

It is because of the server culture in general. Snow is a part of my global network that started on Tri. I no longer play there (during the day it is pretty dead), but a large number of my friends still do.

Snow has no trouble because when he states what he is forming, the reply is "What do you need?" or "What should I bring."

Arcanaville is right, it would just never fly there. Shoot I play on Virtue and it barely makes it through there. When people request AT and powerset info before invite, I just ignore them.

Personally, I would not even attempt UG, MoM, or DD with a toon that is not +2 or +3 shifted. Because to me being face down that much is just not that fun.

Originally Posted by Goliath Bird Eater

Which mission was 3? Because I was able to finish the entire arc.

Originally Posted by Xzero45

This is the part that gets me. If your kid, and anyone else for that matter, actually enjoys Bay's product, then why complain? I'm willing to see if what he produces is actually a good movie or not before saying over-the-top metaphors of "Way to take a time machine, find me as a childhood, and ruin every good memory I had of this source material somehow."

Originally Posted by Death_Badger

A little story. I was mooching in Pocket D on Defiant and asked if any trials were forming. oh yes a MoDD run, to which I replied, sorry, only +1 here so can't help, oh join anyway we only need a few and your buffs will be welcome (I was on my Sonic Def). So I joined and we completed it, and it put me on the road and gave me actual impetus to get my character to +3 so I could do the tougher stuff.

Is it such a bad thing to actually help fellow players even though they may only be +1 or +2, in the end you will end up with a larger pool of precious +3s. Not every +3 is equal either, I was in a similar discussion with someone in a global channel who stated that anything below +3 was useless, it turned out that person still only used SOs, which to my mind made his assertion pointless as he was deliberately hampering his characters by not slotting IOs.

((and in response to the WoW analogy, yes it is pretty much the same thing, all they care about over there is Gearscore, equating your ability with a number, which is exactly what oinly requiring +3s does))

Originally Posted by Tyger42

And, yet. SG finds runs with his requirements that are a clear step down the road toward it... I'd say the evidence counters what you say here quite well.

Originally Posted by Tyger42

Well, thanks for doing your part to bring the WOW mentality to this game!

Originally Posted by kyriani

i was compelled to make that pic... I just couldnt help myself ^_^

Originally Posted by Anti_Proton

This is a "ZONE CREATING" statement if I ever saw one.

Originally Posted by Zyphoid

I don't want it to trigger any less often than it does now. Sorry if I was not clear there. I am just saying rather than buffing the crit chance (except for the ATIO proc), buff the damage the crit does. x3 damage crit would make it different from the stalker crit.

Originally Posted by Zombie Man

Well, I guess it would help remove some of the stigma of teaming with scrappers if they at least have the illusion of basic social graces.

Originally Posted by Zombie Man

A communicative Scrapper?! Are you high!!??

Originally Posted by Reppu

You forgot the part where it floods Local/Team/League with "DON'T WORRY GUYS, I GOT THIS." or something equal to this.

Originally Posted by UberGuy

I will mostly agree with Brutes, but not with Stalkers. Fury is not ignorable in my opinion, but it's easy to build, especially solo. I do not ignore my Assassin's Focus. I spend time paying attention to where it's at to gauge when best to AS. I don't have to do that, but I need to if I want optimum performance from AS, which I do want. I like that Scrappers are "stuck", just like a lot of people prefer powersets that are "toggle and go". Don't get me wrong, I like my Brutes and Stalkers, but how the Scrappers play is my favorite experience, because they just "are".

Originally Posted by Zyphoid

I can see why several of us are so dedicated to Scrappers having something that is uniquely theirs, what I can't see is why you are so dedicated against it.

Like it or not, this has become such an issue in so many places the devs will have taken notice. Assuming they hadn't already.

Originally Posted by gec72

/smacks forehead

Completely forgot that astrals could serve this purpose.

(Or really, any purpose. I think the most I've done is break them into threads. Ok, maybe I unlocked a couple chest emblems.)

Captain Nolan did not show up as a contact until Alpha was unlocked. Heather wouldn't talk to me as a contact just by walking up to her (didn't try Ephram).

Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane

I have no doubt they'd 'fix' it, much in the same way one has their dog or cat 'fixed'.
No thanks.


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Originally Posted by Elf_Sniper

Drink!

Originally Posted by PleaseRecycle

I don't recall anyone saying Snow Globe can't play how he wants. My point is that there's a wide gulf between a league of twelve unshifted characters and a league of zero unshifted characters, the only two extremes that Snow Globe has ever experienced. When pressed he went off about how anyone at anything less than +3 is leeching whether the league wins or not. Sure, dude.

The other thing I'd note is that Snow Globe himself goes on and on about all these failed trials he's run. Oddly enough, I don't see many failed trials myself. Perhaps we can look at the common element of these failures and deduce a pattern?

Originally Posted by Snow Globe

I'm not interfering with other player's play. However I am limiting how much of their demands on my time affects me.

If you think that I'm elitist because I don't want other people wasting my time by bringing characters that are ineffective (like a level 50 scrapper with Single Origins) to a DD trial, then have at it. Multiply that by 5-6 players on a 16 player max league and you'll understand where I'm coming from. I don't want to deal with that on a harder trial, and I shouldn't have to.

Because I stipulate what I'm looking for in a character that joins a trial that I lead, all of a sudden I'm being vilified and I don't like it one bit.

Originally Posted by CBeet

The only thing I've learnt from that list is Kill It With Fire™