Mega_Jamie

If you read the recent dev posts, you would see that the reward table is having its weighting changed to increase the chances of getting a rare and very rare.

And as for the crashing and stuff, its either your computer or your connection. Or the server you play on. If everyone else is crashing then it will be the server, if its just you, then i'm afraid its just you, and probably something you're end.

I've never crashed or lost connection or anything on an incarnate trial, and now that the EU servers live in the same place as the NA servers, my connection has a long ways to travel

/Storm is fun, but maybe doesnt have the level of support you're after, and it has a targeted heal, which you may hate as you may be expected by some to be a "mini-emp"

The shield sets /sonic /ff /thermal /cold have shields on 4 min rehcarges so its not that much of a pain (to me) to play them and focus on primary while I go. /thermal and /cold both have excelent debuff values in there, sonic too, but it lacks on -regen.

Kinetics is fun, but you run the risk of being a slave to Speed Boost, and in the end game Fulcrum shift is also expected to be you're first actionable choice.

Which brings us back to /rad as Void said.

It has a diverse and useful set of debuffs that can make some controllers level GMs.
It has a brilliant buff.
It has a little Healing Aura clone for you to rock, if you so choose.
It has some extra control
and it has a few quircky things
oh and a rez


As far as primary goes. Earth with turn the defences of anything you leverage it against into mush, and some of those debufferies are autohit.
It also carries one of the best holds in the game (and rad has the next best plus one more!)

Illusion provides mitigation via your phantom army (very almost i.e. theres one entity in the game that can kill them) unkillable pets that can be made perma, and is very much a top perfroming set.

other control sets re fun too, and have their own quircks and so on, but for what you seem to want, these two plus rad while let you have alot of fun.

(and now im going to lament over not making my Earth/Rad incarnate yet)

Speed Boost and Siphon Speed are functionally quite far apart.

One boosts the Recovery Rate, Recharge Rate and Movement Speed of a ally.

One Boosts only the Recharge Rate and movement speed of yourself, and debuffs those values on your opponent, and requires a to-hit check.

Siphon Power and Fulcrum Shift... I agree completely. Should not co-exist in the set, Siphon Power just adds nothing to Fulcrum Shift (except for being available in early game which isnt really an addition)

Repel > while I dislike it, I'm sure someone will come in here and sing it's virtues. another skippable.

Inertia Reduction > a movement power giving verticle movement to anyone (even granite's en masse). No toggle endurance useage and doesnt require a pre-req power choice. Yes please!
(although I do agree maybe more buffs in here would help)


My main gripe playing kin is that if my anchor dies on Transference or Transfusion i've wasted my power with having no effect!

And the patch notes covered it too................................


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.........................Good....Find?

Each trial has a minimum number of participants.

presumuably if enough time lapses between people quitting and them not coming back or the slots getting filled it will fail you're trial.

Were you by any chance in Pocket D.


TP Supression, its wasted my powers more times than I can count.

I persoinally wasnt experiencing any lag at the time.

no league members where nearby and they ran into a group at the edge of my draw distance.

they were newly summoned pets that shouldnt have had agro on anything.

Now I know that mastermind AI has always been a little bit buggy, I accepted that when I rolled my DS/Dark. I accepted that when i chose her to be one of my most heavily IOd toons, and when I decided she would be my first to charge down the Incarnate path.

I accept that sometimes they charge into melee when they shouldn't because they are cycling their melee attacks etc etc.



But theres something seriously wrong when after summoning the only command I issue is Follow Passive (repeatedly) and watch the poor little demons run to their death, while rather amusingly spouting the "yeah i'll stick by you" blurb they give when issues Follow Passive.

This seems to only be an issue in the new incarnate stuff, in the BAF trial when i'm on reinforcement cover they will charge off around the courtyard running towards siege or Nightstar, ignoring Follow Passive, and even ignorning Goto Defensive, I just can't keep them in place.

And just now on Lamda we were regrouping for a judgement driven swing at marauder and his reinforcements when I watched them all charge in.


its ever so mildly frustrating and its reached a point where its no longer an issue I can work around, or put up with, as was previous AI problems.

Yes

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=257591 <seach function is your friendly, bla bla bla

Have you looked in the announcement section?

You may notice that the servers went down about 30 mins ago.


EDIT: Double Scooped

If you mouse over any of these buttons they tell yo what they do!

It took me about a year of casual being aroundyness to actually complete an STF, when that first came out I read all the guides, I ran it constantly and I just couldn't get it. There was PuGs, Global Channel teams, SG teams, nothing worked!

So I gave up, I decided that the end game content wasn't going to fit for me. Called it bad design and left it alone. Now I can't recall the last time I had much of a problem with it.

Last night, after having only tried the Lambda briefly on test I did BAF>LAM>BAF>BAF>BAF

Of which we failed>WON>WON>boot crash>Fail>Fail (because of a UI bug)

My point is, at the start, it's just luck, and hoping you team with knowledgeable and good players, on the first day saying "Oh I'm never gonna win this", being rude and throwing toys out of the pram isnt good feedback, and isnt giving the new content a go.

Bugged this when it happened on Union last night. But it was a BAF, not Lambda