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The taunt aspect isn't. The -range part is autohit still.

Wow, thanks for the info! That's definitely good to know.

Are we sure that this affects only rewards, and not IXP? I am currently going through the process on my second toon, after doing so on my main. And while I haven't noticed any difference in the randomness of the rewards, I seem to definitely be getting less IXP.

On my main, unlocking the slots was something I didn't even pay attention to. I just did the trials, and the slots got unlocked looooong before I had anything to put in them. Literally they were unlocked in the first day or 2, and then I spent a good week working on slotting them.

But now, I'm only like 50% into my lore, only like 15% into my destiny. Ironically, I have all my tier 3's already crafted. I'm sure I can get my tier 4's crafted before I even unlock the slots. Is this normal? It's completely different from my experience last week on my main, so I'm not sure how to explain it.

Here's my logic...

The +HP only helps once. It gives you the extra HP at the beginning, and then you get nothing else. So if you use the power and then get hit, you're back at nothing. Also it's only +78 HP for most of the duration. That is fairly meaningless.

Meanwhile the regen helps for the entire duration. If you get hit, it helps you heal back to full. So it's not so much a one time deal, but rather a full duration power. Plus the benefit is just bigger. It's 200% regen at the very least, which is actually very noticeable.

Lastly, you have to keep in mine the hardcaps on HP. A lot of people out there have invested lots of inf in their toons, and one of the main things people build for is +HP. Quite a lot of serious players are at their HP cap, or very close to it. So for them the +HP buff would be a waste. Meanwhile there's no such thing as a regen cap, or at least not one that you can realistically get to. So the +regen will help absolutely everybody around you.

I could think of literally only one situation where the +HP would help more than the +regen: when you are hit with some extreme -regen. Having extra HP would help more than just regen, because the regen would be debuffed to nothing, and the HP would at least have some benefit. But that's such a rare case, I went with the more commonly useful power.

Hope that helps.

That's really the key, and I wish there were more people like you. My tank almost always gets the most attention, I assume because I'm outdamaging other tanks, because I rarely use taunt. And about 95% of the time, I end up being sequestered, because nobody on the league takes the aggro from me. If the trials hadn't become so easy already, I would probably try harder to communicate this to people, but in the end it really doesn't matter. These days you almost have to try to fail a BAF.

I usually keep attacking the AV's when I get 2 rings, but I start kiting with CJ. This way when I do eventually get sequestered, it's somewhere away from the AV's and other players.

I have this on my fire/SS tank, and it's amazing. With the spiritual alpha and incarnate shifts I'm healing for over 1100....in a 60 foot radius. I can take a whole league from close to wiping back to full health. The +regen then keeps them there.

I initially tried the +HP, getting to tier 3 on that. But the +regen is definitely better in my opinion, so I went with that for tier 4.

Nope. Unless the in-game details are wrong.

Your OP said that he hates playing with strangers, which is why he won't do trials. But now it sounds like he simply refuses to do the trials, even if playing only with friends. Honestly man, it sounds like he has other reasons for not doing it, and the whole "hate strangers" thing is just an excuse.

Maybe he has some fear of failure, so he's too afraid to do something new, knowing that he will probably get owned the first time. Or maybe he's just mad like you said, due to his own personal reasons, which really have nothing to do with the game.

I didn't say he was wrong. I said he's a wuss.

Tell your friend to stop being a wuss. Tell him he's not special. NONE of us like to team with strangers. We ALL would rather play with close friends. But we don't quit the game the first time we suddenly can't do it.

The ironic part is that that the new trials are almost completely devoid of social interaction. You'll have the leader and maybe one other person giving instructions, but nobody else needs to say a single thing for the whole trial. At this point everybody knows what they're doing, so these things go like clockwork.

Especially on the BAF, nobody really cares about you and what you say, as long as you're contributing to the trial. There are 23 others besides you. Your group of friends could just continue chatting in your private chat, and nobody would care.

It's not "teaming with people you don't know". It's teaming with your friends, while other people also happen to be there. And if you set it up yourself, they technically don't even need to be on your team!