brophog02

Agreed. The game's new super easy mode makes me lose interest.

I feel the opposite. For me, 24 man BAF is about the most boring thing in the game. It's almost impossible to fail.

When your scrapper gets the energy blast primary, then you'd have an argument.

Keep at it. The player base, as a whole, is getting much better at both trials. BAF, in particular, is becoming the norm for the PUGs to succeed at, and in the coming weeks we'll just continue to see big jumps in the performance.

Except for the fact that the LFG randoms have done it, and have done it with the minimum.

It's harder to do Lambda with the minimum than BAF because there are more points of failure, but to say that only pre-made leagues can do it just isn't true.

You forgot to mention ugly.

I disagree. Lambda needs two people per group in the sabotage phase: something to distract and something to kill. That's it. Could be a melee to hold aggro or some form of control, it doesn't matter. It just needs to be capable of distracting the mobs.

BAF needs control even less. Again, it just needs distraction and damage. Melee toons, specifically scraps and brutes, are often capable of handling the reinforcements so that damage toons can take out the AVs. It need not be more complicated than that. Control and melee aggro holding overlap in responsibilities, just like everywhere else in the game. The only difference here is the level of the enemies.......and that's really just temporary until more people get level shifts.

See above. Many of us have done hundreds of these raids and seen a lot of permutations. In general, the playerbase is becoming much better at the raids, either from LFG or pre-assembled leagues.


See above. It doesn't take special sets or ATs, it just takes concentration and knowledge.

We're not even to the point where the majority have the incarnate powers unlocked, and I completely disagree. These things are boring at the sizes you specify. A BAF at 24 is just dull AV killing. They're much more fun when there is something at stake.....when it takes teamwork to do things. It doesn't take much teamwork when you throw overwhelming numbers at these things.

And he's trying to get his money's worth out of that idea, too...........

I really don't think so. Both trials are quite basic, and the novelty runs off fairly quickly.

The MMO genre in a nutshell. If you're really dedicated, though, you find ways to use those powers to ignore playing the game, in order to get new powers.

Then, brag to your buddies how you skipped more of the game than they did, making you super duper awesome!

They're intentionally avoiding it to overcome its shortcomings.

At least your were up front. I've seen many that *neglect* to point that out until after it's already started. Like some common con man.

My runs are getting that way in BAF too.........and it's really irritating me.

Why is it even necessary to have distinct rates (and for that matter, are they really distinct? For us vets, it's just another addition onto the game. Don't look at it from the viewpoint of a vet, though, look at it from the viewpoint of a new player or returning player, who looks at the system as a whole and asks these types of questions.

Personally, I don't really care that we have shards and threads, but that doesn't mean it isn't unnecessarily complicated for the end user.

Yep.

Not a week in yet, and even PUGs are to the point that someone has to (really) screw up to fail a BAF.

Unnecessarily. It's two names for what winds up being, in essence, the same thing. Threads only exist as a hurdle to those that built up a bunch of shards prior to i20 to gate content.

It's unnecessarily confusing to new and more casual players. It's an example of the worst kind of over-complication in currency.

One could eliminate the duplicity and retain the functionality, both for solo players and those that team.

Definitely. Some have spent so long playing an easy game that they forgot how (or never knew how) to actually use goto commands, re-summon, and in general, play as Masterminds.

Thankfully, you were wrong. What purpose would there be in doing anything else if that were true..........

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