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Originally Posted by Oedipus_Tex

I don't know how many characters I incarnated. None got all the way to T4. One only has 1 T3 and the rest T2s even though he has every slot unlocked and has for some time. On that one I just gave up because the thought of spending any more time getting destroyed on trials only to get more Commons and Uncommons is depressing. That's the only character I've ever semi-retired simply because of bad gear rolls, something I didn't think was possible in CoX until trials came around.

All I can really say is that I don't really spend much time playing the trials. I'll be point blank here: when I think about the incarnate system, I really want to log off and play something else. The incarnate abilities and the way they are acquired remind of the kinds of things some players pay real life cash to acquire on the blackmarkets of action rpgs.

For me it's not so much about the trials themselves but about the strangehold they on advancement. As missions they are okay. As content that needs to be run over and over and over and over and over I really dislike them. So I just stopped.

I feel the same way about the "Summer Blockbuster" event FYI. I never did get the procs I needed. Rather than run those I just play an alt, or failing that, another game.

I wish the game would stop bribing us into content by putting a highly desired reward behind a very narrow band of content. It may get some players to play it, but it does the opposite to me. It just makes me wonder why I am wasting my time doing this when I could play something that is actually fun.

Originally Posted by Nethergoat

That sounds like MMO's aren't your cup of tea.



No MMO offers a "well rounded" RPG experience- it isn't structurally possible.

But hopefully you'll enjoy a different set of similar good guys beating up a different set of similar bad guys in a different similar setting.


MMOs are what they are. Other games focus on different aspects of the experience, but fundamentally they all come down to beating on stuff for rewards.

Originally Posted by Blood Red Arachnid

I... picked all of my interfaces for random themes. Sometimes they have better benefits than others. For now I will skip the ones that have that "novelty" aspect like Cognitive.

Now, if you want to do damage, most damage procs will work to your advantage. The best, of course, being Reactive since Fire is heavily unresisted and it will come with a resistance debuff. The drawbacks to procs based upon damage is that not every character can really benefit from that damage too much. If you already have a high damage output or if you have slow but strong attacks, the few extra ticks would do less damage than your damage aura.

If you want to take down AVs instead of the run-of-the-mill enemies, the two powers to look at are Diamagnetic and Degenerative. Most of an AV's defense comes from their regen, and both of these powers can reduce it. Diamagnetic can reduce regen directly, and can be quite effective at doing so. Degenerative will decrease their max HP which will decrease their regen, but it does decrease it less than Diamagnetic. Degenerative does toxic damage, however.

If you want more defense, the three to look at are Diamagnetic, Gravitic, and Paralytic. Diamagnetic has a 5% to-hit debuff, and with the option to have it work 100% of the time essentially adds 5% defense to all of your stats (then 10%, then 15%, ect...). Gravitic and Paralytic are niche powers. Gravitic is good if you have a -recharge powers, but it isn't heavily based on -recharge like psionics. Paralytic is good if you have damage reducing powers (Kin melee, Kinetics, ect). Outside of those two situations, I see little use for either Gravitic or Paralytic.


Of course, if you just want the fun stuff you can slot cognitive and pretend that Quills has Contagious Confusion slotted in it.

Originally Posted by Zombie Man

Totally agree.

Since it's free to VIPs, the SSAs were a way to get money out of Freemium accounts.

The question that Paragon Studios will be asking themselves is: Did it work? Were there enough purchases of SSAs to warrant a new series?

But because the next series is already mostly developed, they'll probably continue with it. But, my money is on the next series being the last.

Originally Posted by Rodion

My guess is that they've done research and have found that people who tend to do just one thing burn out on the game more quickly and don't subscribe as long. I know that if all I did was play one character I wouldn't have lasted more than a few months. Similarly, if all I did was grind one fire farm solo I wouldn't last a week.

Most people also tend to desire human contact, so promoting team activities encourages players to have a wider circle of friends and provides more "social inertia," making it more likely that people will stay because the people they know are still playing. Players seem more likely to quit when all their acquaintances drop out, and the smaller your circle of friends, the more likely you are to quit as well.

You may in fact be different. But you're the exception: most people need variety to avoid burnout, and are bound by social interactions.

If you want to do nothing but grind the same thing over and over, you can still do so and reap maximum rewards by making multiple alts and grind the same thing out on each of them in turn. Yes, it will take you more time to accomplish the same thing. But that's the entire point of these exercises: to keep us subscribing.

Originally Posted by PowerLeveler

Wait what. You are saying that 1: They are discouraging people from doing a variety of content by 2: Limiting the rewards for doing the exact same bit of content over and over.

I don't like your intrusively weird obsession with the idea that the devs are out to 'get' the playerbase.