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Have never tried using the EoE's on the LGTF, but I do know that the order in which you take down the pylons, etc. does not matter. I've seen it done first, last, middle, etc. and nothing changes. I run the LGTF's that I lead exactly as you do.

Oh, I believe it's a true story. I was just making a funny there.

I have a cat as well and, while she's not deaf, is extremely skittish due to my young son. She may know you are coming up on her, but it's not until you touch her that she jumps to the roof.

Coming from Justice here, and I agree that the LFG queue system is a broken mess. I have tried, on 5 different occasions, to get into a league using the queue. All 5 times I waited for a minimum of 25 minutes and a maximum of about an hour as I forgot I was in the queue when I logged out. All of those times, the highest "average wait time" was 2 minutes. I don't use it and simply head to the "pre-formed team areas" of Pocket D and RWZ which seem to be the hot spots on Justice, and also rely on global channels. Never had an issue with that method, but the LFG is completely useless to me.

I understand the mechanics behind it and that entering a pre-formed team into the queue to get into the trial messes with the "average wait time". And I understand that the queue system puts you in a trial when the minimum threshold of players is reach for that trial. All those things considered are just poor design decisions.

If I were to do it? I'd make a queue system available as I like the idea of putting up the flag from anywhere in creation in the game and eventually getting into one while I'm marketing, street sweeping, etc. However, here is what I would change about it all:
- Pre-formed teams never go into the "queue". Pre-formed team leaders can simply say "Take league into trial X" and that's it. That way their entry time does not affect the queue "average wait time".
- The queue should have an option that you, the character, set as what the minimum number of people would be that you would be ok with when the league auto-forms and begins. I've been on 8 person Lambda's and 12 person BAF's that failed miserably. I'd rather only try with 12 and 16 as my minimum, but that's just me and I should have that choice.
- The "join in progress" function actually needs to work. I have 2 accounts and fiddled with this the other day. I was in a BAF that only had 18 people on it and it started. I waited for the load in and still counted only 18. I loaded up my second account, LFG > Join in progress event for BAF. ... Nothing.
- Change the name to "LGL > Looking for League." That's what this thing is for, leagues. A "Looking for Group" menu on top of another "Looking for Group" menu is just confusing.

I'm thinking this is a suggestion and needs to be moved to the Suggestions and Ideas forum?

That said, I like the idea of this. I gives another iXP avenue, however briefly. No harm in that, even when the new trials are available down the pike.

So my main character, whom I play nightly, is an Ice/Storm/Ice controller. It was my first level 50 character and I take great pride in playing it. When Inventions were first introduced, I carefully put together an IO build which focused heavily on recovery, +max end and recharge as these two sets together are very endurance intensive and have some long recharging powers. With this build, pretty much all endurance woes had been solved.

Fast forward now a few years to Incarnate abilities. I've gone with the Cardiac Core Paragon Alpha power, which gives the extra 45% endurance reduction along with some damage resistance. With this slotted on top of the set bonuses I have, I have an endurance bar that does budge past about 90% even during a cast of all my pet and pseudo-pet powers.

At this point, it's a bit of can overkill I think. I've looked through all the other Alpha powers and the only thing that jumps out at me is the Spiritual tree for +recharge:

• Musculature: I don't feel the extra damage enhancement is useful here. I only have two large damaging powers: Ice Blast and Frost Breath via the Epic Pool. Maybe I'm wrong, but extra damage enhancement for powers that do little damage doesn't boost them much.
• Nerve: Without set bonuses, the simple enhancers themselves along with Tactics provide a large enough Accuracy bonus that I don't feel Nerve would accomplish much. My Holds currently have Hold duration enhancers in them so additional hold time is not something I'm looking for either.
• Spiritual: The Radial Paragon here actually does interest me. The +recharge, +slow and +to-hit buff effects are all things I have in my build that could be helped. Well, perhaps not the Slow portion. Most of the powers I have also have a Slow component to them so I'm likely close to the Slow cap as it is. I do have Snow Storm on this build which undoubtedly puts me at the cap when I have it toggled on.

So, it's coming down to this: do I simply switch to the Spiritual tree for the +recharge and call it a day, or do I keep the Cardiac I have and rework my build for new areas of set bonuses? I'm leaning towards reworking the build for new set bonuses, but what to shoot for? I guess this depends on some powers I have and play style. My normal tactics are to be in the thick of the battle as I have Arctic Air running all the time. In non-iTrials the confuse fires off a lot and is very helpful (which includes a Contagious Confusion proc). In the iTrials, Arctic Air doesn't do much so I tend to stay at range with the team, keeping my Leadership toggles running along with Steamy Mist. I focus a lot on damage mitigation via holds, Ice Slick, Snow Storm and Lightning Clap. I have one major debuff power via Freezing Rain which recharges extremely fast and I fire off whenever it recharges. I rely on most of my damage output from three powers: Jack, Lightning Storm and Frost Breath. Ice Storm works well for large groups but doesn't recharge fast enough for use on every mob.

So, that is a long way to go for the question of what IO sets would you shoot for on such a character? More ranged melee and ranged defense since I alternate between the two? More recharge to get those damage mitigation powers recharging faster? Maybe something I'm missing altogether? I'm open to any and all criticism and discussion.

Thanks in advance!

It is not just you. My Ice/Storm controller is my main, who I play for hours nightly. Jack seems to have chewed down a lot of paint chips recently and doesn't seem to recall he has other powers to use. I can't put my thumb on when this began occurring, but it has been recently, say 1-3 months.

I have bugged it but no idea if it's being looked at. Is there some red name we can PM to take a look at it? I think that used to be Castle but I don't know who to go to for that kind of stuff anymore.

Who's Eddy?

Anyone here a Psych fan? I use the list of Gus' alias names for my starting point. I've gotten good inspiration starting with names like "Ovaltine Jenkins" and "Clementine Woolysocks". Look up the Wikipedia page on Burton Guster to find them all.