Jophiel

Ran a whole bunch of trials this weekend on my tank (not 10 in a row though) and had fun throughout. I'll happily admit that a lot of the "defense is worthless" grousing I'd heard was overblown and my tank still felt tank-y even if I did need to pop a purple now and then to re-soft cap my soft cap against the higher innate chances for trial mobs. I'm on Virtue and didn't have trouble getting into Lambdas or BAFs. On a Lambda I was on last night, we still had 4 or 5 people who had never run it so everyone is definitely not "done" with it yet.

Switched to my controller and ran some more trials. BAF as a 'troller is different enough from BAF as a tank to make it still fresh. Lambda as a 'troller means a lot of time staring at the lab/weapons storage floor

This is really sort of the sweet spot for me. Now people know how to run them so it's not an immediate exercise in frustration yet new enough that it still feels fast-paced and challenging. We'll have to see what happens in three weeks.

My Character: Minaret
Your Character: Caemgen
Location: Small park next to the Atlas Park Wentworth's
Event: Minaret & Caegen are battling one of the giant sized plant-type Devouring Earth. This being spring, it's naturally covered in small flowers. Since two guys beating up a flower isn't any fun, I picture it smashing one fist into Minaret's shield (sending out a spray of flower petals) while flinging Caemgen off with its other arm (knocking him out of the air or whatever).

I know DE aren't "native" to Atlas Park but the idea of the two brawny heroes battling a giant walking flower garden was too good to pass up on a technicality.

Thanks, both of you. That's information I can use!

As you may have guessed, I've only done Lambda so far.

I've run a couple Trials without seriously worrying about the actual Incarnate tiers/slots but I've noticed that I'm getting experience in "Interface" while everyone else is talking about having slotted Judgment or Lore or whatever.

Do I have to achieve Interface first and then it goes to Judgment or was I able to set where the xp went or what?

I really need to find a complete overview for this. I'm sure it was available somewhere but I didn't realize how complicated this was versus the old Alpha slot stuff.

Farm the wall in Cim.

I thought the new screens looked fine.

Did they finally do something about Statesman's lazy eye?

Back when I switched to SP3, my wireless receiver stopped working. I contacted Cisco and was told "We don't support SP3 for that, tough luck". When I groused about it elsewhere, people said "Why did you switch to SP3? That sucks and you should roll it back. SP3 is garbage". Not a single opinion was "Don't listen to them... upgrading to SP3 is the way to go!"

I've since gotten a new computer with Win7 and my old XP machine was eventually upgraded back to SP3 (and is directly wired to the router now) so it's a moot point from a CoH perspective but not everyone who isn't using SP3 is a lazy mouth-breather who can't be bothered to keep up.

I'm currently running my first Vigilante -> Villain path and more or less enjoying the missions so this isn't a hard complaint. But, to address the OP, I do think some of the missions could have more of an element of "Taking this sweet tech for yourself will help you in the future, to heck with the cops" or "You could let this pile of cash sit in impound or you could put it to real use". Something that sloped towards greed and power more directly then just bloodier vigilantism.

If such missions exist, I haven't noticed them yet but this is my first time around that bend.

Repeating others, my Bots MM uses it for thinning out problem enemies. Paragon Police aren't as scary when I can port the Specialists and Ghosts into a six bot beat-down one at a time.

I don't have eight 50's but I'd be able to make a good run at most content with what I've got.

50 Rad/Rad Defender
50 Trick Arrow/Archery Defender
50 Earth/Storm Controller
50 Assault Rifle/Dev Blaster
50 Shield/War Mace Tank
50 Kinetic Melee/Super Reflexes Scrapper

Buffs, debuffs, crowd control, AoE damage, ST damage, two defense capped melees... I've been on worse teams of eight.