Oedipus_Tex

I hope you are being sarcastic. "No one should say anything I don't agree with" is kind of a ridiculous stance (even if its the default one on the suggestions forum).

Armageddon cant be slotted in ranged powers.

Umm yeah I'm just going take to this opportunity to vote "hell no" on that.

I do not want to see content with a lower than 8 person limit. This game is not built to handle it. If you want to do it with fewer than 8 people, thats fine, but forcing a lower limit would break all kinds of assumptions about powersets. Especially mandatory-solo missions or something like that, which some builds would destroy effortlessly and others would be unable to put a dent in.

I think the AoE shielding as a whole is overpowered for leagues. I think it should hit your team + your pets only, to simulate the original way these powers were used. The ship already sailed on that unfortunately. I do think the AoE buffs we have now are much better when playing on small teams the game was designed around than they were before. However they are so powerful in big team events that they ironically defeat their own purpose; undoubtedly we will see an even bigger increase in autohit unresistable damage because of them.

When I was still playing trials, I didn't socialize much mainly because I was rarely at the keyboard. I guess you could say the trials aided my socialization by encouraging me to seek out other games with raids/trials/rifts though. Playing through this content really is optional. Extremely optional, when you consider that you could do more raids that are better balanced in games with less dated graphics if huge team events are really your shtick.

Yep and those PVP changes are on the verge of working out any second now.

I'm sorry you had a bad experience. I think the quote above sums up pretty nicely at least part of my desire to avoid running too many trials though.

It depends. My general issue with the incarnate stuff is less about the specific missions and more about the very limited choice of them.

Going into all this I had the tacit assumption that incarnate level Task Forces would be on the table. I assumed this because that is what so many other games do.

Overall I still prefer the system used by the Alpha slot to anything.

I'm actually not convinced the trials are trying to emulate raids exactly. If you look at the MMO industry the past couple of years, there have (in my mind) been 3 big threats to this game that have challenged it over the past few years. If you look at the pre-launch feature lists of those games, and compare it to the headliner features of most of our issues, there is a pretty strong connection (recolorable powers, the AE (subverted from "archnemeses"), the LFG raid queue, and now trials). I'm not saying we wouldn't have gotten some of those things anyway, but in a couple of cases things that were on the "unlikely to ever happen list" ended up on the "right away" list when another game became a threat.

Anyway, almost everything about our raids resembles features of a certain new-ish game, all the way down to the multiple "stages" with timers, the participation metric, and the combined currency/random reward roll at the end of the fight. The only major difference is that our raids take place on a dedicated map instead of the open world. There are a few other minor differences, most of them not being put into place in CoH until after the first round of beta tests (e.g. cutscenes). While it's possible portions of this are coincidence, the resemblance is uncanny. Hilariously, both games have also seen lots of posts from upset players about some of the same kinds of things, including the super-secret Participation system which sometimes screws over people who feel like they participated, and fights about how "open" a league/team/raid party should be.

In short, my theory is we got the trials because another game had a similar feature and for a while looked like a serious MMO killer.

And Energy Blast could do it at the cost of having no secondary effect at all, as opposed to trading it for a different effect.

My most recent BAF got me 4% toward Judgment (the first 4% that character has made). I didn't know it was actually possible to earn that little for a successful completion.

Basically yes.

Kill the robots, fight the AV, kill the runners, kill the next AV, kill both together.

The biggest tip I can give you if you are confused is to make sure the "show league mates" option is turned on on your mini-map. It is off by default. On my some of characters I also had to hunt for and enable the League chat on a tab where I would actually see it.

I don't have tips on staying awake through the trial. You may want to consider using macros to power through it semi-afk until we get more options.

I'm really not sure what your point is. It appears you are arguing that player feedback should never be considered because it always leads to a slippery slope in which the entire game implodes. That's a level of doomsaying and pessimism far beyond anything stated even by the people who have said they don't like the incarnate system.

It's theoretically doable. Keep in mind that Defenders and Corruptors use the Storm set without very strong mezz powers and pull through. I don't know about mopping up in every possible scenario but Storm by itself does provide pretty strong capabilities. Much more so, IMO, after the introduction of incarnate powers to help it with endurance reduction.

So what you're saying is when you post its "for the good of the game." I'm sorry I can't live up to that standard.


PS I have to wonder what goes on Beta. Do people actually post their opinions about systems and whether the system works for them, or do they get shouted down by the self-appointed forum guardians? I ask this only because if people do speak their minds, it seems incredibly hypocritical to say that those of us not in Beta should never have an opinion counter to what gets delivered. Some of you have an opportuniity to provide feedback that others of us don't. Hopefully you use it.

No it means we are supposed to rip each other on the message boards like our opponents are subhumans without feelings.

Of course I think we are all adult enough to know this debate is a game of musical chairs. In a few weeks we'll all switch sides and forget who slashed whose throat again.

That's when all they are doing is just saying that, and not creating entire new threads just to mock people or give them a stern "listen up" talking to.

And yet your personal post count has increased by like 300 thanks to these threads.