Paladin

Almost entirely multiple team scaled events. After waiting 7 years for an end-game, I've been playing my heart out on Incarnate Trials, Rikti Raids, Hamidon, Cathedral of Pain, etc. They're fun, certainly City of Hero-spirited but requiring a tiny bit more coordination to find success.

Solo-wise, I've only really been running the SSA - They've been very enjoyable, and a bit of a nice change from the finale of First Ward.

I'd say around 7:00pm PST to 10:00pm PST on weekdays is a good bet. During weekends, you can go from 1:00pm to 10:00pm and run into countless Underground trials. On Sunday I was fortunate enough to do three.

There's usually enough interest to get a Keyes going without any significant delay - maybe about 10 minutes to form. Interest in Underground varies, but can take around 30 minutes to get pulled together. If you've got about 4 people with Clarions and a tank or someone who's familiar with how the Underground trial works and a team that's mostly filled with cooperative people you can have a successful run.

The best way to get an Underground is to form one yourself - Waiting for one to form while you're online is a gamble, given how long the trial takes and the limited pool of incarnate players we have in the game at any one time.

Edit: If you'd like to run some incarnate trials, please feel free to add me as a global friend. If I'm not in someone else's trial I'm forming one on my own, and I like to play through the more difficult content.

I love all of you.

Thank you! I'm looking forward to getting a group of incarnates together tonight to join these trials and flail around together. If anyone's on Virtue around 6:00pm PST, swing by the RWZ for a chaotic mess of a time. We might fail, but it'll be a fun experience.

Can't wait.

I just squee-ed at work.

Thanks for the head's up, Zombie! Doing so right now.

BAFs usually represent the least amount of effort involved in a successful Incarnate Trial - You can stand around while someone else pulls, move 10 feet, attack until the next pull, and you're done. As a result, a fair amount of players queued probably won't be that concerned with meeting a badge requirement. As long as the trial proceeds to the end, it's enough.

As far as I can tell, the art department is providing people the opportunity to buy things that most people are buying. The name's misleading, and I hope that the income from these products lead to more diverse, niche costume sets, but I'm not in a position to tell the marketing department to handicap themselves by not delivering what so many people are buying.

In regards to the Medieval pack hypothetical discussion above, I truly and sincerely hope that both armor and "court" outfits would be available for both sexes. My main's been praying for BOTH of those things. A prince outfit complete with crown, without the silly Fabio-hair would be incredible.

Pal's got all T4s, and Ion's the best all-purpose damage Judgement of the bunch. The forgiving nature of it's chaining makes it easy to fire and hit everything nearby, which means you can use it on Incarnate leagues with /shield users/AoE heavy players who run ahead of the group and scatter the spawn.

Void's great for the -damage, but outside of AV or tough fights it's not as reliably useful as straight damage on a league of mostly +3s. I've only found Cryo to be useful if you want to do damage to fires in Steel Canyon. Pyronic's great, but the damage is similar to Ion but requires you to be the first one to the spawn in order to get the most out of the judgement.

Ion also seems to fit a lot more character concepts that aren't straight elemental. Lightning from the heavens works well with magical characters or those doing the gods' work.

I'm thankful for active forum moderation.. please?

I'll attend. It's an interesting theme, and open enough that anyone can exercise some creativity and come up with unique results.

Hey Coyote Seven, wanna go down to the amusement park and try out the new bumper car ride? I hear there's cars shaped like those little clown fire engines.

I don't believe you can dodge the Targeted status. In all the times I've run it I get hit by it, no matter how many Amazing Lucks I've popped during a fight. Could just be terrible RNG luck though!

As said, it's not being Targeted that's KOing you, it's that you're not vulnerable to [Lethal Force Authorized], an AoE centered on targets who have the [Targeted] status effect. Contrary to what's listed here, [Lethal Force Authorized] IS resistible and CAN miss, so if you have [Barrier] or [Moment of Glory], you should be watching for the big red letters announcing [Lethal Force Authorized] is coming.

You should also try to be aware of other people who may be targeted. There's not a good way to tell if someone else is targeted, but the effects are cumulative and stack, so if you have 2 people who are targeted standing near one another you'll get a double dose of the insanity that is the War Walkers' attacks.

To increase your chances of avoiding being targeted in the first place, fight behind the Walker while a few competent tanks keep the critter's attention. The actual targeting is a cone in front of the walker.

Don't know if it will help or not, but PvP IOs are like purples - their set bonuses and procs exemplar down with a character.