Myrdinn

Aye. Seems to me that Statesman's Incarnate attack is pretty body based... I'd throw Riechsman's and Tyrant's in, but that would be redundant.

O.o Sounds good ;-) Be nice to get Myred beyond Alpha...

I'm almost betting on it.

However, making that bet, will result in Pos playing sneaky poker, knowing that we all will make that assumption, and...

...I feel like that scene in the Princess Bride.

BAF Master is fairly straightforward... indeed, it is easier than a moApex or moTin. The big trick to a moBAF is all about either running it twice to get the Mo OR really, really good control on the players during the prisoner outbreak stage.

IE, our runners who do the Mr E Mo events could do them right now with just a signup and go (they/we are skilled/listen well enough that getting it should be just one or two tries).

Lambda, however, will probably require everyone to be +2 or +3 (all sixteen) to carry successfully in time.

Sixteen will equal one Incarnate Tau. But... would that make it an Incarnate Turn?

On the subject of a Tau, does that mean, secretly, it is 300 incarnate numbers hiding in the background!?

Queue "nerds.jpg" image, here.

Without coming out and saying it in the OP, yes, this is where I was leaning. Lore (and not the power), RP, and character concept wise, there are some excellent choices of incarnate abilities in our current pool.... for some characters. Of the sixtyish I currently have (yikes, I don't even want to think about how long and how much #$@%@ trials I'll have to do), thematically, only about ten have perfect fits to the current powers. Some additional twenty have a few powers here and there that match up with some of the concepts behind the new slots... but that leaves the other half in a conceptual hole.

Since we do have powerset proliferation, I figure at some point we'll also have incarnate proliferation... I just wanted to get the discussion going.

...plus, I'd like a polearm powerset, but that's not what the thread's about ;-)

Lore addition:
I'd like the dancing swords (like you see in Apex).

"You draw the essence of a large, orbital laser cannon from the minds of many a mad scientist, combine it with the power of the well to layth downth a smackdownth."

From what I've seen, I'd say the tier IV's have the same powers and are buffed. Happened to see an essence victoria slide up against a normal victoria; the essence victoria tore the regular one apart. (this was outside the "normal" zone of engagement during a phase III BAF; essence victoria was a tier III or IV, and was away from the host player and the ring of buffing/damage of the kill-adds group).

I hate raiding with a passion. I also have (another) dodgy harddrive. By the time I get that worked out, the first runners will likely have moved on from these two raids.
I hate raiding, btw. Refuge of the uncreative (both Dev and player), with the exception of the Mothership raid (which really isn't a Raid in any sense other than a mess of folks having kitbash fun).

Looks like the drop rate is decent though (from what I read, been dealing with hardware issues Tues/Weds nights, the very few hours I was home), if you can find twenty people to run it ad nauseam... if you can stand raiding.

I farkin' hate raiding, too.

Been in MMOs for about ten years at this point (10.166, with the six repeating), and I really, really detest raiding/raider mentality. I liked CoX because it was different in this regard.

This one element might be the writing on the wall, though, given that the more I read, the more it seems this is the way these current devs want to go.

Thanks, Dispari. Was afraid of either of those answers!
I do appreciate the information, though.

Generally hope so; more I read on the beta board and the guides, the more I'm tempted to just say "fark it" and head to another MMO.