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The trials arent perfect, but theres nothing I hate about the trials themselves. I find them fun, exciting, challenging and epic. Even UG. Not that anyone can be positive about Incarnate content.

I hate that the devs cant give the playerbase anything remotely different than the same old solo/single team arc content.

Thats because the LFG dumps you in the trial with too few people.

It's set to queue up to the minimum, which for the DFB is 4. You have to go in with at least 6 people otherwise the AVs only spawn as EBs and becomes not worth running for xp.

Just another failure of that system.

Never had many alts. My main had a lot of effort and IOs and miles under his belt. He'd done everything and there was little point in doing it again with a weaker alt I enjoyed less. I stopped bothering rolling them altogether because I didnt want to waste time with an alt I wasnt going to like (I try to give them a fair shake and get them to the mid 20s) and end up wasting all that time... time I could have spent rocking stuff with my main.

Now I've got five 50+3s. (thats a lot to me ok! ) Thanks to the DFB I can tell in an hour or two if I'll enjoy my new alt rather than a week or two... then delete/reroll or keep going to regular content. I didnt even know I liked entire archetypes until now. Now Im constantly rolling new toons. I've already filled the last of my home server slots with a future Grav troller/dom and future Staff stalker.

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- The long animations can get annoying. When you don't have momentum, it can be a HUGE pain in the butt. The worst is when you are winding up and your team wipes out the target during your wind-up.
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Also, you get Momentum if you were going to hit the target whether it dies beforehand or not. So your next targets in for a world of hurt.

Re: the delayed impact/sound effects

I think it was intentional. Made to mimic those parts in movies and anime where the guy swings his sword and the offending enemy appendage falls off after a bit of dramatic pause. Personally I kinda like it.

I like the new trials a lot.

Its unfortunate that I have to run my lvl 53s to contribute and have a good time though. They dont even need the increased rewards, there's no incentive for me to run them other than for the fun of it. That's not enough when this system was billed as a way to progress my 50s.

My up and comming Incarnates would love the rewards... the 60 thread boost, the better rare and very rare drop rates... and even more than that because I'm so freaking sick of BAFs and Lambdas I wouldnt mind never running one again. Unfortunately taking anything less than a 53 at best doesnt contribute much to the leagues success... and at worse actually hinders it.

Honestly, if they nerfed the rewards for the TPN and MoM and removed the level shifts so my unfinished incarnates have more to do, I'd be all for it.

The tier 9 is a twirling breakdance of doom... and the PBAoE attack got a few more twirls.

The rest of the attacks seem to keep the same animations more or less.

Well, they ARE the 99%.

Airplane!
Robin Hood Men in Tights
The Incredibles (a bit out of timeframe, but imperitive viewing for working in this genre of game I think)

Mystery Men

The TPN feels like an extended version of the Prisoner Escape phase of the BAF... with a much smaller margin of error.

Everyone has a role. AoEers and control types camp doors and handle the minions in the BAF, and massacre the Technician spawns in the TPN. Single target oriented types spike the commandos in the BAF, and eliminate the Telepathists in the TPN.

Hopefully like the BAF, the TPN will be done in our sleep once what's expected becomes more common knowledge.

I agree that the TPN is much to complicated. The "gimmicks" pile on much to fast and furious with no explanation of what the league is supposed to do to succeed... and VERY little room for error. I got the impression from my experience that if the league doesnt know exactly what it needs to do at every phase and execute it perfectly, you fail.

MoM on the other hand is damn near perfect. Only one or two "gimmicks" at one time, and TIME to explain what's going to happen in between phases to get the league on the same page.

I like TPN well enough, but I'd do MoM every night.

Staff Fighting and Darkness Control are both in I22... and I think I22 is closer to March than February.

Still, I got more than enough to keep me busy at this pace!

They'll probably figure out a way to stop the sale of the free "extra" Staff skins for people that dont buy the set outright... if they do anything.

I can only hope the Medieval set is too far along for the devs cancel the Chainmail Bikini.

EDIT: More on topic, I cant wait for next week's UStream!