DarkGob

See my edit above.

Since nobody has stated it explicitly: nobody that has posted in this thread works for NCSoft or Paragon Studios, we're all just players. Nobody here can accss your account or provide official support for you, all we can do is try to help based on what we know about the game. You will know if a poster is a game developer or community representative because their forum name will be red instead of white or gold.

You can't compare Incarnate content and regular content like that because regular content vastly outweighs Incarnate content in terms of variety. There's also no real reason to do any non-Incarnate non-repeatable (i.e., not a paper/radio/Tip mission, not counting Ouro reruns) content such as Laura Lockhart's arc more than once on any single character. But when you start taking alts into account, you see a lot of replay. How many times had I played Doctor Creed's arc for lowbie villains pre-Freedom? Plenty, since I love the arc and played it every chance I got. How many times have I done the Vial of Pulsating Liquid Alignment Mission? Or This Is How She Dies? Also plenty. And those even get repeated on the same characters.

Prior to the Incarnate System, people used to say "There's no sense in rushing to 50 because there's no endgame to do once you get there besides running the same 2 or 3 TFs over and over again". Now this is no longer true, but that doesn't mean people don't play sub-50 content anymore. The WST means that sub-50 TFs/SFs get run on a regular basis (and even if they aren't the WST, they still have badges, and folks love badges), and the devs are not only releasing Incarnate content with new issues (Laura Lockhart being a prime example of very recently released non-Incarnate content). Much of this content has non-XP/inf rewards associated with it (badges, Alignment Merits, Reward Merits, Notices of the Well, Incarnate Shards) that cannot be obtained through farming AE missions or running iTrials, thus they still get run. iTrials have certainly became a main focus of the game, but that's mostly because they're relatively new, and they are still not the focus.

In short, the sub-50 game still exists, and a new player should definitely run through it if they want to know anything about how to play their character and the game in general. Even if their eye is on the endgame, nobody is going to be inviting them to iTrials if they don't know what they're doing. Believe me, I've seen a few folks on Pinnacle who quickly developed a reputation for not knowing how to play their characters at all, and as a consequence they got completely ignored when trials were forming. This should serve as a cautionary tale to the OP and any other new players reading this -- learn to play first, or no one will want to team with you.

This. I took my nuke on my Elec/Elec Blaster, but didn't use it very often despite having Power Sink available to make up for the crash. Endless Destiny changed that, however, and I use the nuke a lot more frequently now (usually while Ion Judgement is recharging).

You're not my buddy, dog.

They did the same thing with Sister Psyche and Penelope Yin. Lazy, ain't it?

Phasing tech breaks zone events.

Good lord that is a neck. Is she a Cardassian or something???

Costume powers disable stealth powers, which is a damn shame because it really screws with the concept on my shape-shifting Energy Aura Brute.

Fix it, devs!

Still not the point. The woman behind the swearing fine idea was offended.

It's just not the same as saying "Person is behaving in manner Y because they are race/gender X".

Those are the ones I was talking about...