docbuzzard

I've seen two different approaches, and they are about equal in frequency. The first is "team 3 kill the adds". I've been on that team sometimes.

The other is "dedicate a melee or two from each team to the adds". Since I play a crab, I don't get that job. I prefer this one anyway really as it is more equitable.

Either way, once you have your slots unlocked it's mostly moot since thread drops are fairly sparse in my experience compared to astral merit conversion.

Funny, the trials are thus more inclusive than the two incarnate TFs. But then I have long been of the opinion that the alleged hurdle to join an Apex or Tin Mage was like leaping over a paperclip.

How about we panic over that 'atrocity' by the devs when we get to it? Can't we limit ourselves to their current 'atrocities'?
I mean to hear it now, they are absolutely ruining the game, and making it all but unplayable. I should think you'd expect COH to be well and truly buried long before that ever made it to release.

Even better, we get hyperbolic, speculative doomcalling. Of course a +3 level shift in the face of +12 enemies will do exactly diddly squat, but why let facts distract us?

I can't account for all outliers. The only case in which I've ever seen level shift mentioned was on one BAF where the +3s were put on a single team to take care of adds to get the strong and pretty badge. The whole league benefited from that partition, but nobody was excluded from the league.

I imagine Marauder would be proud of the double entendre.

Bollocks.

I have been doing trials pretty much every night since i20 went live. I have never seen any recruiting specification beyond "we'd like a tank".

No "you need level shifts". No "you need slotted judgement". No "we need destiny barrier rare". Nothing. Nobody is that uptight about it, well maybe except you.

What I have seen is "grab him if he can fog a mirror so we can get this damned run started".

Lambda is slightly harder and longer, so people pursue the path of least resistance (BAF). However since you can only get an Empyrian merit from each TF roughly once per day you will still find lambdas if you try. I have not had trouble getting lambdas each day. It just takes longer for them to start.

The TF and SF are quite different, and include a lot of maps and other features. They are hardly thrown in. We've seen issues with less content than those two before.

How about you just ignore the incarnate trials and accept that two good TF/SFs were added to the game?

Considering how many obvious departures from reality your commentary suffers from, you should not be slagging people for comprehension issues.

We have a comprehension issue here. The two new trials are just part of the picture. Anyone which even a modicum of awareness knows that two other incarnate trials are coming down the pike fairly soon, and there are the two incarnate TFs (Apex and Tin Mage) which can only be played by incarnate prepped level 50s.

The two trials are only really required for the incarnate XP for opening the slots. Since shards will now drop for any 50 with alpha open now, you can do any content in the game to secure advancement in incarnate status now (with a 1:1 conversion of shard to thread, this is even easier, used to be much higher in beta).

As with everything in this game, you make progress even if you don't succeed(if I fail on a LRSF I will have gained influence, prestige, and drops the whole way like normal). The only real issue here is that failure is explicit and will happen. Normally the game is so easy as for failure to be an almost never occurrence. You get better rewards if you do succeed like in the rest of the game.

There are exactly 2, yes count them-2 effects of the incarnate powers which are limited in effect to the trials. These are the latter incarnate shifts (formerly known as level shifts). Every other power will work for all other content run at level 50.

Hogwash. I mean complete and utter hogwash. The irony of you complaining here that the trials are too hard (which they are not, they are merely not walk overs like almost all other content), while complaining earlier that people get rewarded for failure is rather glaring.

The trials are not that hard. While there are bugs, a team with a modicum of organization, and some clue about what has to be done will succeed. The only reason you would need to start piling up the incarnate powers is if you want to do the trials with undersized teams. Full teams doing either trial are reasonably easy.

We get the idea that you don't like the trials. Fine. However lying about the actual state of affairs does nothing to make your case. Stick to actual facts and don't make things up or people will call you on it and you won't come out looking good.

Actually I'd say Blizzard did better.

True enough, but given the track record of JLA efforts so far I can't say I'm overly optimistic, and I generally cut comic book movies a fair amount of slack (I didn't even mind Dardevil or Wolverine too much).

Ditto.

I prefer a more cautionary "It would be nice to see it happen and not suck"

Oh, OK, now I remember posts about that. I guess I must have considered him forgettable since I'd never heard of him.

Just a matter of wait and see I suppose.

Adams looks like a decent choice, and I'm pretty sure it's logical that Lane would be older than Kent anyway since she already had a name as a reporter when he shows up.

Ok, I must have missed something. Who's playing Clark?

I rather agree with this. I'll probably pass, though if it shows up on Netflix streaming I might take it in.

I think if they wanted to do something like that, it would just be squatter's rights, as in who got the name first. I also think that's more trouble that it would be worth. This is like complaining that someone gave you a BMW, BUT iN THE WRONG DAMNED COLOUR!!!!

However I do think you are making a mountain out of a molehill at the very least. Then again if the enjoyment you get from the game is so marginal that this perceived slight makes you bail, so be it.

Personally I was thinking Donner Party, but them I'm a bit more twisted (hmm, more twisted than Steelclaw, I wonder if that is permitted?)

I think I was able to tolerate about 5 minutes of Highlander 5. Even that was a stretch. I cannot comprehend the notion that anyone was able to finish that movie.

Actually I think you are missing a market segment here. The iPad is the ideal computer for the computer illiterate. For example, my GF's grandparents were given an iPad for Christmas. They had not previously owned/used a computer or accessed the internet. For their purposes, the iPad is ideal. My GF set it up for them, and showed them the basics on how to use it. They are getting a good amount of use out of it, and they still don't need to know diddly about computers. So even without having a computer they need to understand, and have the ability to mess up, they can get into email, use the web, and use all manner of handy apps which make their lives easier.

You're crossing your mythologies here. Gaea is Greek.

Thor's mom was Fjorgyn (basically the Norse earth goddess, so you are close).

I don't know about the movies being deeper in any way. Of course not being so deep as to be a morass was something I considering a plus for the movies vs. the books.

I would posit Silence of the Lambs for this simply because the characters were much better fleshed out by the great actors in that movie than by the hack writer of the novel.

It can be observed that Hopkins did just a great job with the Lecter character that Harris pretty much revised the character for Hannibal to follow the Hopkins version rather than what he had been in previous novels

Having owned most models of iPhones since they were available, this isn't quite true. With the iPad 2, the only thing you can't do on an iPad that you can do on an iPhone is make phone calls, and with Skype even that isn't completely true. The original iPad lacked the cameras, which really was the main difference.