galadiman

TY!

I suspect it's because the internet has not yet ben able to transmit an attachment that could hold

a player's immortal soul.

Patience, soon...

Hmm. 2 Points.
1. I just remembered, didn't the Vanguard pieces get unlocked? Would you count that as something minor for the character creator? I sure would.

2. "...minor like the Buttcapes"
This statement makes me believe that you are woefully uninformed about how the buttcapes was a VERY complicated costume piece to put together and make work in the costume creator.

To unlock one slot, on one character, I don't think you'd need more than 6 runs on one trial. I know I ran lambda 2x on one character last night and had around 40%.

Bill, I do understand that for people with dozens of alts, it will take quite a while to unlock and fill the slots. [I have 12 L50 characters myself, and I intend to slot (nearly) all of them up... eventually.] Only thing I can think of is, as much as Devs want to encourage alting, providing characters with more and more power too easily might make the game seem trivially easy at times, and devalue the achievement of the upper tiers of performance. Perhaps they are moving towards people having one or 2 truly exceptional characters, and a host of others who could achieve that level of exceptionalism someday in the further future. You have to admit the powers are quite exceptional, and I'd say game changing in many ways.

But the argument that it should be easier because people have lots of characters.. I think there's a logical flaw in there somewhere, but I'm apparently running into a logic-block. One complaint I DO have is the crazy complicated Incarnate Salvage model - I wish they would simplify that. And I wouldn't complain if they made it, say, 30% easier to get the upper levels of the Incarnate abilities... but I think the rewards are worth the effort, from what I can see now.

I'll be interested to see how fast people achieve the higher ranks in the different slots, and how that affects the trials we can do now.

So. Get. Back. Up.

Yeeeeeeeeeeeessssssss.
And where before people thought it was challenging, NOW we have... Very Rare Alphas that allow us to be so strong as to make a 3 man ITF readily doable.

And in 3 weeks (probably more like 1 week!), we'll have large groups of people with multiple Incarnate slots filled so as to make the TF MUCH MUCH easier to accomplish. And in a month or 2 we'll have a buncha people with multiple VERY RARE incarnate enhancements slotted, and these TFs might begin to seem even trivial.

And even when you fail the TF, you are still making progress. Does anyone STILL NOT GET THAT?

Doing a TF 5-6 times to unlock a slot does not seem like grinding to me. By which time you will probably have collected enough threads/components to slot that puppy up. How many TFs did you run to get the very rare Alpha slotted?

Oh yeah, IMVHO.

Pretty good haul for a bunch of failed TFs, though! Hmm, perhaps a conclusion could be drawn by others from this experience...

Excellent, so you want the rewards, but not the effort. Sorry, no sympathy here.

Well, there's a flaw with this argument. Let's say you're def capped. Now let's say, for argument's sake, the mobs before I20 had a 44% chance to hit you. So you take 0 damage.

Now, let's say the devs give the mobs +2% chance to hit. Now you're taking 100% DAMAGE. And you say,
"OMGWT*BBQTHISGAMEHASGONETOTHEAMERICANSEATINGTHEKI TTEHSOMGOMGOMG!!!"
Perhaps, instead of depending solely on "I WIN" buttons, people should look at their tactics, and rather than mashing buttons, think on their feet a little. It's beatable, even without an optimized team/build/etc...

BUT! The key was stated in another thread: You Don't need to 'win' the trial to advance your incarnate XP and achieve the desired goal (unlocking the slots)!! Don't worry about success/failure so much - UNLOCK THE SLOTS!! It will get easier as more people learn it, more people get THEIR slots, and more people get level shifted.

So RELAX and go with the flow. These things are great fun, if you relax and watch what's going on around you - people backing each other up, saving each other's bacon, adjusting to the enemies, beating a challenging foe... it's what I play the game for.

Archer reference?

Again, technically, yes, your statement makes sense. But this would punish the player for making a character RP choice. Just like after you defeat LR in single combat (as part of a team), he doesn't send 500 Toxic Tarantulas after your insolent little upstart a**, so too the Devs decided that making you lose all of your inf on character changeover would be a) too draconian for the players to sign on, and b) just encourage workarounds (like setting bids on market recipes only to rescind them later and get the refund).

I often think these questions are like arguing about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.