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They've already said the solo stuff will be faster than the current solo method, but slower than the Trials

Which is what's so great about an Incarnate zone - people can run missions or street sweep in the downtime between Trials.

That's because they didn't actually say that
What they said is that right now, they'd prefer not to add a new type of salvage, but it's still possible that they will if they think players have stockpiled way too much loot.

I'm pretty sure there will be several timed missions - and ambushes - they're both good ways of cranking up the pressure, and are already used a lot in the current Incarnate content.

The Incarnate system is based around Trials - that's the core content, so it was important that they got them released, tweaked and balanced first of all - which is exactly what they have done - the Trials are now fully established in the game - we have 4 that are live, 2 more in beta, and a 7th one was announced at the summit yesterday, with many more to come.
They've now got a good idea of what makes a good Trial, what the times should be like, what the reward rate should be and so on - and there's now a big enough group of players with Trial experience to guide newer players through them.
The Trials are now the main stuff for 50s to do, and with the new Sewer Trial, the Haunter Mansion Trial, and the upcoming Winter Realm Trial, all new players are being taught about the basics of the LFG tab, the TUT and the general style of Trials right form level 1 and up, which will help them transition much more smoothly into the Incarnate Trials at 50 - they won't have to go through the bumpy part we went through in I20, when the player base ahd to adjust to a new type of content - Trials are now a natural part of the game 1-50.

The lack of large team content at 50 was one of the top things mentioned on the leaving surveys - and it was also mentioned a lot in that marketing survey form a couple of years ago that had the basic GR stuff outlined in it - so it was only natural that they'd work to fix that problem, which is why they created the Incarnate system, and has been pretty popular with a lot of players.

They are - which means that DA will almost certainly replace RWZ and PD as the staging gound for Trials.

None of the enemies on the Trials are tagged as Incanrate enemeis either - they just happen to feature in Incarnate content, liek Adamastor will.

"Another"? Got any examples of these previous VIP "pacifiers" Because giving free access to new zones and mission content for people who pay 15 bucks a month is kinda what they've been doing since 2004

If it's an Incarnate zone, then Adamastor would be upgraded to an Incarnate level enemy, so the badge for him would be the same as any of the badges on the Incarate Trials.

Also, if they make DA a VIP zone, that would remove the problem of forming leagues, and then finding out someone is a premium or freebie.

A god of death worshipped by the Banished Pantheon.

According to Paragonwiki:

So it looks like the devs have just taken these small bits of lore info and really fleshed them out, rather than making up something totally new.

By street sweep, do you mean clearing the entire zone?

It'll be way more than a couple of Trials for the Battalion

Don't forget that lore-wise, they're described as an even bigger threat than the loyalists, and that they were originally planned as a villain group to go with the Invention system, who would so powerful that players couldn't take them on solo, and even teams would need IOs to be able to stand a chance against them - the IO part has obviously been dropped, but using them as a major threat even to Incarnates suggests that the idea of tying them to a system of power advancement is still part of their basic design idea.
The Coming Storm is a cosmic conflict, a war between a force that's already devoured dozens of other planets, and the two major human dimensions of Primal Earth and Praetoria - the chances that the major battles of the war won't be played out in Trials are kinda small.

They took some questions from UStream.

Time-gating Empyreans seems like the simplest way of slowing down the non-Trial progress.

Another interesting thing about the DA revamp is that with the changes to the LFG tool to let players queue while doing missions, I could totally see DA becoming the new Trial staging ground, with players running the repeatables or even the arcs there in normal sized teams while waiting for the league to form - or even just street sweeping.
It's got the potential to totally remove the reward downtime between Trials by allowing players to continue to earn Incarnate rewards in between Trial runs.

That's pretty interesting, because that suggests they'll need to do a lot more work for that, rather than the simpler option of just having the arrival of the Battalion force a truce in the war between us and the loyalists.

Right now, yes - but in I22 it's going to be open to Villains too - and it's even going to have evil content for them too, so red siders won't have to go there just to help save the day

That's what Dark Astoria is for

We also got the costume and lore panels - those were very popular

So the Summit-goer exclusive panels should have been the ones that fewer players were looking forward to?