Madadh

I think you're getting the picture, but I'll spell it out. Nothing is needed. 'Support' types don't need anything else any more either. Support types can and often do run on maxed diff. I farm with a defender solo quite often. And a team of all support is the most steamrolling you will ever see.

I'm not even sure what that is..... But yeah, it's not 'line' to get into a show, or event, or on the bus, etc...



However. Yes, the LFG works perfectly. Some servers might be slower, some faster. On a busy server, I'd imagine you're fine. I spend most time on Justice (often rated as the #3 server after the big 2) and Exalted, which has a fairly vibrant population but not near the top... I avoid joining trials that can only be accessed via the LFG except through hopping into the queue. I hop in the queue, and then go do missions till something kicks off. I figure my playtime is limited, and I'm paying a flat fee per month to play. If I spend time sitting about with my thumb in, while people recruit, when I don't have to, when I could be at least running some solo missions, I got nobody but myself to blame... So I don't.

I try to not be too restrictive, as others have said. Don't be too picky for a specific iTrial, for sure. But small, and lower level trials go more often. If it's a thing that can't be directly entered via the LFG tool, though, I'd recruit the old fashioned way.. Have never had success getting into a sig TF via the LFG tool, for example.

But for DfB, DiB, special seasonal event, and iTrials, the LFG tool works wonderfully, even since they allowed you to be in missions and still be in the queue. At least on the busier servers. AS a previous poster said, I hope they can make the LFG cross server, because that will help the smaller servers a ton, and the larger ones, too. Win/win/win.

I have done this SO many times... I sorta wish I could TP from pocket D, but barring that a "Hey Stupid, are you suer you want to activate a useless power here?" sorta prompt would be awesome. Do I expect that? No. If it their fault I brainless on occasion (too many, in fact)? No. But I'd not mind if they tried to make my stupid error harder to do. There are so many prompts already that I find silly, so....

And, as to the OP. With both the mish porter, which I've had forever, and the Team Transporter, I've never seen a problem unless it was my fault for not setting the correct mission first, or jumping the gun before the team leader set the next mish. I strongly suspect you, like someone else said, and I have done, are having PEBKAC errors..

Welcome to the forums. Er, welcome to posting in the forums...

And yes, that sounds like my experience from some of my alts that are more solo types. I agree, the solo path seems too long. I am fine with it being longer, even much longer, but it still feels a bit too long. And that there is NO solo path at all for Hybrid is bothersome. Even when Judgement/Interface/Lore/Destiny came out, there was a solo option, even if it was stupid long. You could collect shards and convert them. I'd never want to do that, but it was an option. And you had 2 trials to choose from, at least, if it was only one of the 2 that you hated. Now, to get hybrid, you can't even convert shards or threads that I know of. And I KNOW that there is only one trial option. I'm a bit less than thrilled that the treatment of solo players seems to go from almost fair, to bloody unfair. Never hits completely fair, in my mind, and even if it comes close, it swings away after a short while.

Of course, this is good reason to run some x8 (or whatever you can handle, just don't up the level, but don't lower it, either) tips or radios as well as DA content. Save the threads for slot unlocks or component crafting, and use the shards for the alpha.

Several things I think in this bear comment on.

1) As you say, you are on Freedom. iTrials are not as easily come by on some servers. I play a lot of Justice, which very often ranks just behind the big 2... And yet iTrials get really tough to find or recruit for at about 10PM my time. And by midnight, forget about it.

2) That said, I can get great progress done via the iTrials if I don't wait that late, and I don't even need to head anywhere. I just hop in the queue, and start running DA arcs, or SSAs, or tips, and after not too long, I'm suddenly in an iTrial. If the team was fun, I'll stick with them if they run another, if not, I'll excuse myself, hop back in the queue, and go back to something else for a while till the next iTrial launches.. I think a lot of people forget that you can use the queue and be running missions now. No need to tread water for 10-15 while recruiting happens. You can make DA arc progress while ya wait.

3) I still say a smart build, good IOing, and smart play trump incarnate powers. If you hate iTrials, don't do iTrials. Yes, they are a more efficient way to get incarnate powers than solo, but don't feel that it's that critical to get them that much faster. IOing out fully and carefully and that will bring a bigger increase in performance. There really is no NEED to do stuff you hate to get *any* rewards, but certainly not incarante rewards... So I disagree with the cheesehead. Er, cheeseguy... Capt Cheesy? There is NO way that it is 'worth the effort' to spend your playtime doing something you hate, as a hobby you do for fun..

The one exception might be the one ITrial that guarantees a rare/VR might be worth a tough out.. But not if you truly hate it. Really, if it's not just 'annoying' but truely hated, skip it and do the solo thing.

The RNG hates me.. I've never seen anything other than common on the DA arcs. I wonder if I'm meeting the minimum activity rate metric or what-have-you... Oh, wait, that was the iTrials (where I see rares and VRs a lot more often). So, perhaps when it's only me in the mission, I'm sandbagging and letting others do all the work.... But while teamed, I pull my own weight...

I can guarantee that they used to count, and don't recall hearing that it has changed.

If I recall, CoH came out slightly (6 months or so) before WoW. So for CoH to still be around, having had to compete for market share with WoW for basically it's entire existence, is fairly impressive.

I don't dislike Brutes. In fact, I have a couple that I really enjoy playing, some of my favs, in fact. But I don't enjoy chasing Fury all the time, either. Some alts/builds just seem like they need to be brutes. Some seem like they need to be scrappers. If Stone Melee were available to both, I could feel free to go where ever inspiration took me. Now, though, if while pondering concepts for a Stone Melee-er inspiration leads me to a place where a Scrapper feels like the better choice, my inspiration has lead me down a blind alley.

I'm pretty close to 50/50 in my preferences between those to ATs, tho, if pressed, I think Scrapper would get the nod, slightly, just because I don't feel beholden to a play-style on account of the AT inherent.

I don't find it odd at all though, that you, or anyone else for that matter, prefer Brutes. And yes, finesse vs smash does pretty well sum up the slightly different feels of the ATs. It's not always the case, but it does feel that way more often than not. And sometimes I like SMASH, and sometimes I like finesse. But you're completely right, there is no right or wrong choice, just style/feel preference. Which for me differs from alt to alt. Brutes also feel more recklessly, haphazardly, indiscriminately destructive, where as Stone Melee looks and feels very deliberate to me. Powerful, yet deliberate. That deliberation feels to me a bit at odds with how I feel as a Brute.