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Originally Posted by Tax_E

HAHA

Loved the video!!!

"Where is Quiller?" I say that often... he's a slippery bugger.

I missed this CoP, but glad you got the opportunity to do it.

Originally Posted by EvilGeko

The arc hasn't been altered.

Originally Posted by Hit Streak

This is still considered a beta program for us.

Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood

I had to check the url to make sure I wasn't reading Valve's blog

Originally Posted by Werner

I ran one full Magi on I believe the first day, and it failed. However, on the surface, it seemed obvious why it failed, which was that people weren't doing what they were told to do. If that really was the problem, I assume they almost all succeed by now, but I don't know and it doesn't affect me now. I hated being forced to play it at all (Why couldn't I trade threads for iXP like the other slots? I'm a soloer.), so I farmed it with no mercy and no shame, then never went near it again.

The level shifts seem like pretty clear power creep, but I also consider Destiny to be overpowered. Even as an individual buff it's huge, but as a full team buff? Stackable? OK, I'm on a big team as rarely as I can get away with, but doesn't it get ridiculous?

That said, it's been better than I expected. I expected that when they added levels, all my IOs would become worthless, and I'd have to get a whole new set. I'm glad to see that we don't have to buy all new IOs every time they add a new level. That probably would have driven me from the game by now.

I'm very worried about our and our opponents' rapidly increasing power, but so far, I'm still enjoying the game. It was the lack of a solo incarnate path that drove me away for half a year. We have that now, and I'm happily grinding away.

Originally Posted by The_Cheeseman

Hmm... How recently was this? Like I said, I was running them the first couple days it was live, and from all the chatter I heard in Pocket D, as well as people discussing it in various leagues throughout the night, almost nobody had actually managed to win. I heard people saying they'd tried 4-6 times and never managed it. Between my characters, I was only around 1/6 (not counting intentional farm runs).

But then, the level shifts granted by the lights weren't working at the time (The level shift effect was only be applied to a max of like 16 entities, including pets). Not sure if that's been fixed since.

Originally Posted by Blackleviathan

You should come to our villain side one sometime :3

Originally Posted by The_Cheeseman

People prefer to simply farm Magesterium mostly because it's a poorly-designed trial. 95% of the exp is in the initial phase, which is trivial to complete. Then you have a series of random-feeling boss battles with fairly simple, run-of-the-mill gimmicks that any league should have no trouble handling. Then BOOM, Tyrant, who is just far more difficult than any fight in the history of the game. The worst part is, it isn't even a climactic fight. I've literally never seen a league wipe against Tyrant, it's just 20min of banging your head against the brick wall of his obscene regen until everybody gets discouraged and quits. I'm sure it would help if the trial launched with the level-shift mechanics working correctly, but without them, the fight was just too strict in its requirements when compared to previous content.

Coming from games like EQ and WoW, folks understand the idea that you need a strong, well-designed raid force with the correct buffs/debuffs and mix of tanks/DPS to have a chance against the high-end content. But CoH has never really been that way. It's always been a more casual type game, where you're not expected to have to IO-out with the very best enchancements, maintain a top-tier build, and recruit a tight-knit group of experienced raiders on specific required characters for each given challenge. People expect to just get 16-24 people together, and then run through the trial. It's actually pretty rare to fail iTrials, in my experience, assuming you have a full roster and no major lag issues.

But Magesterium is actually a real challenge. You need a well-coordinated force with the right powersets to reasonably expect to beat Tyrant. Then, to top it all off, the reward is pathetic. Kill Tyrant: get a common component. I mean, seriously? Why even bother fighting past the initial phase, where nearly all the iXP is obtained anyways, when you could probably finish BAF twice in that time? You don't even get the badges you earned during the earlier phases unless you beat Tyrant, so there isn't even a reason to bother trying for some extra bonus astrals. In fact, Mag is probably one of the least rewarding trials, even though it's arguably the hardest.

Note, I haven't bothered running Mag since the first few days of release, after getting all my incarnate characters' hybrid slots unlocked, so I don't know if things have been adjusted since then.

Originally Posted by Hyperstrike

From past experience with the CoP.

Yeah. Trying to taunt enemies to the center is kinda useless. It's usually just more efficient to go in and hammer them down. ESPECIALLY now that you can have overlapping Judgements (of different types) on them. Pulling them just wastes time that you could spend kill them and the the AV.

Originally Posted by Duneman

Loved some of the comments made..

Come here you little dorks! LOL

Originally Posted by Hyperstrike

Yeah. The new IoPs were implemented pre-incarnates.

And, now that we're this far along the Incarnate chain, I'm betting that these things ought to be STUPID easy.

Originally Posted by BlueRidger

In response to the OP: I thought that video was pretty interesting and look forward to see how the devs will continue to address power creep.

Originally Posted by Rufus T Fyrfly

It is to me.

You're not selling me on the idea of Incarnates. It's ok. Don't take it personal.

Originally Posted by Rufus T Fyrfly

I agree with QuarriosSoul. Personally, I don't find the Incarnate powers that big of a deal. Once I hit 50 on a character, it's on to the next one for me. It's not the destination but the journey that I like.