Emberly

Glad to hear people are getting this badge. My badger, a DB/DA scrapper, has been on five failed attempts and kicked off three more for being S/L, for which I hold no grudge. Looks like it's time to grind up some Seers to at least feel like I'm helping.

Terrible font; didn't read.

Two days ago I got a Hecatomb Rech/Acc from a mob in a tip mission. The mob was 47.

After running a ton of these things on an MM today I am pretty firmly convinced that if the rewards are based on participation, then pet damage/orders don't count, despite that being the primary of a mastermind's powers and abilities.

Oh yes, this is very nice An accomplishment to be sure! Vicky looks to be quite helpful hey?

Hell if I know. Here's what I do. When I am on a character that wants fast levels, I form TFs. Non-speed, kill most TFs seem to get me plenty of XP and I enjoy that playstyle. When I am powerleveling someone, I run Borea missions at +3/x8, because I have several characters that can handle those missions and they go fast.

You get a free uncommon component when you get a badge in the trial. When you get the Masta Badge, you get a free rare, IIRC. After you have got the badge, recompleting the badge req's grants a free astral merit

Yep, that's where we tried it, was watcing the tracers from the turrets go right through the buildings. Maybe there was some silliness from getting targeted by turrets earlier,or lag or something, but we were absolutely getting shot up by turrets when we were hiding between the barracks buildings.

Raaaaaaaaan about twenty trials yesterday. Had my stuff unlocked and slotted well before I finished, was enjoying it so much that I was helping others get their stuff unlocked, get badges, whatever you need. If I wasn't heading out of town for work today, I would run a whole bunch more tonight. Hell, if the hotel internet is decent, I will run some more tonight anyway!

Bottom line for me is: if this is a grind, bring it on devs, I am loving the new stuff. I love helping others achieve goals and the fact that I enjoy the new stuff on its own merits is just gravy.

I ran over twenty BAFs and a couple Lambdas yesterday, succeeded all but once, and got exactly one table that wasn't uncommon. It was very rare, which was nice! Rather a lot of people have been joking about how common the uncommon table is in-game.

I've taken the insps too, when I realized I had at least five of every uncommon incarnate salvage. Mostly gotten the blue ones, which is a letdown seeing as at that level of play I am not exactly hurting for recovery.

Warshades are awesome and I love having them on my teams. A peacebringer is fine too. Dunno why they wouldn't bring something to a team, they have damaging powers and are as likely as any other AT to be run by a good player.

I just ran thirteen BAFs in a row, formed my own full leagues and all, with new people every run. We tried for specific badges, we zerged, we succeeded every time. I got the uncommon table every time. For the last five runs, I had everything I needed and was then running it because it is a fun new thing to do, to help others and to meet new people, not for any ingame rewards. I had a **** ton of fun and would still be doing BAFs if I didn't have to break to pick up my partner.

These trials don't feel like a grind to me. They feel like a fun new thing with lots of varied rewards and ways to complete them. If people wanna call it a grind, that's on them, but to me this is way less grindy than, say working on defeat badges to get another alt the Eye of the Magus accolade or Portal Jockey. If me playing the way I do makes someone say "but that is a grind! you were grinding!" then the joke is on them, because I enjoyed myself so if that's grinding then bring on the grind, devs.

I have not seen this need for control on these trials. I have run on and led numerous successful trials, and many have had few or no control ATs. No specific blend of ATs is needed. Holds are nice but certainly not necessary. You talk about "stuck with just brutes, scrappers, tankers, corruptors, and blasters for a trial" as if it is a bad thing but that would make for a fine league. Hell, I find myself wishing for more ruptors/blasters on these things, and have never once thought "we need more control."

I was on an 8 man pug Lambda last night, succeeded handily without any issue. Split into four-man teams to handle the training/weapons facilities, and we got every power and the Synchronized badge as a bonus. I have run undersized pug BAFs and succeeded in the last day or so. I was under the assumption that spawns scale with league size, and my experience bears this out. As far as the super reinforcements thing goes, I like it. It actually makes these trials a challenge instead of a war of attrition that the players know they are going to win. I especially like the 9CUs and their ongoing buff, makes the league think about prioritizing versus just dogpiling the AV.

I don't see the costs as a problem to be honest. People who don't want to run the new content won't get the rewards as quickly. That's how it is. You can still work towards the new slots by running the TFs and missions that everyone has down to a science. It's going to be slower because it's avoiding the threats and challenges that incarnate heroes are meant to take on. Think of it as the slow-slow path to Incarnatehood, for those without the gumption to take on the threats that count.

That's crap and I am sad that it happened to you

I actually quite like that I can make progress regardless of success or failure at the trials. Good thread Nalrok.