Rebel_Scum

Yeah, I can see myself doing the same as well. Probably why they did it, when you stop to think about it.

As someone who lives less than an hour's drive from where that was taken, I can say with reasonable certainty that that is a salmon, not a trout.

As I understand it, when entering a trial it actually disbands your league entirely and puts you and anyone it might have pulled from the queue onto a new one. When exiting a trial it doesn't do this, which is probably why this issue happens only on entering. It tries to put you back in the same teams you were in before you launched the trial, but something gets messed up along the way somewhere and it ends up putting you in the wrong order resulting in some people being kicked. Or something.

I'd say it's likely a bug in whatever merges the league the queue forms behind the scenes with your pre-formed one, but people report the same thing happening on closed leagues. So that's only part of the problem, at best.

Actually they're not. MMs give the same resist buff (15%) with thermal shields as controllers and corruptors do. Or so says Mids, I haven't checked ingame. Which is odd, really. They have lower debuff numbers, but their buffs are the same.

See also: Forcefield, Dark, Pain and Storm. All sets with at least one buff power, all giving exactly even numbers of buff as controllers or corruptors with the same set. (Resistance and defense buffs, that is. Damage and tohit seem to be lower for MMs, and I didn't look at regen buffs.)

To be fair, the version of that one in the actual invulnerability powerset DOES have a no FX option. If/when we eventually get customisation for epic pools, you'll most likely get the same option there.

Actually, yes. There should be. The game should not outright tell me sorry, you're never going to get this no matter what. Now, that's not to say some things shouldn't be difficult (Master badges) or time consuming (PvP/purple IOs, tier 4 incaranate powers) to get. That's fine, I can deal with having to work for my shinies. But having things that I literally cannot get regardless of anything I do would suck.

That said, the antimatter pulse in Keyes isn't a barrier to reward. It just isn't. The net effect of it is the trial takes longer because people have to run back from the hospital. It adds no actual difficulty, especially with the half hour time limit on those sections which may as well not even be there for all the lack of tension it creates. All it does is make the trial longer and more annoying.

Personally, I would like to see the pulse removed and replaced with a different mechanic which both actually has a chance of making the trial fail if you mess it up too badly, and can be overcome with teamwork. Note: Not with having higher numbers. With teamwork. As in, working together. I know that's an alien concept to some people.

To be fair, they revamped that at one point specifically with the intention of making it not take hours to do. Alongside other goals.

This. This is why I dislike the antimatter pulse. It's not only autohit and unresistable, which I get is a balancing thing so it doesn't indiscriminately murder squishies or be unnoticable to non-squishies, but beyond that it's completely and utterly unavoidable. It's a cheap substitute for actual difficulty. It doesn't make the trial any harder. The net result of it is more people spend more time running back from the hospital cause they ran out of greens, or someone's twilight grasp missed at the wrong moment, or whatever. That's not difficulty, that's just annoyance. Stuff like the Obliteration Beam, or Marauder's Nova Fist over in Lambda, that's actual difficulty. Both of those will ruin your day more than the pulse, IF you get caught in them. But after the first few times, you shouldn't. Congratulations, you've overcome a challenge. With the pulse, there's no way of doing that aside from mechanically smashing the heal button every thirty seconds like clockwork.

Random joke idea:
Make using a power cell on a terminal make you immune to the antimatter pulse for x seconds. Bet people would figure out how to check their temporary powers then, rather than making us wait around and/or go get more cells that we shouldn't have needed.