gec72

This is pretty much what I had been thinking. I started out using the LFG tool, but now if I don't want to wait forever I'll just reply to any of the folks broadcasting that they're forming a league (though then you still can wait a while for the team to completely fill). I'd wondered if it would be feasible to give a boost to queue participants' salvage tier chances at the end or possibly extra merits/threads, but other than that I can't see people going back to the queue method.

And is still a royal pain to have to do on however many alts (followed by changing the text size).

Ok, good reason.

That's assuming I know going in what I actually want. It's not just checking the power, it's checking and comparing the eight tier-4s for a given slot, on the fly. Especially the first day this came out, I did not know what all of the tier-4s did (power or percentages), what the differences were in the lore pets were, etc. Heck, I still don't.*





* I will admit that I need to assimilate the info on the GR site for these better. It WOULD help a little though if I didn't think all 16 trees were Cardiac Alphas though.

I will admit to being guilty of this last night on a BAF league. And I do apologize for it.

From my end, I got on looking for a BAF, entered the LFG queue. Saw chatter in the TF channel, figured joining would beat waiting for the queue. Joined, went to S55, and waited a decent amount of time until the league reached 24. Ran the trial, got badges, everything going great.

Figure I'd stick around for the next go-around. I wait, and wait. Hrm, getting late...and the kids are still up. Maybe I can get them in bed while we wait. Check the league. Ok. Check the kids...not yet ready. Downstairs, league still ok. Kids...ah, one has to poop. League still ok. Kids finally get in bed. Oh, someone needs to tell me what spooky happened in one of the Harry Potter books...ok sure, maybe that didn't take too long. *SIGH*, league went in while I was away.

I'm guessing there was maybe a good 20 minutes between when the first trial ended and when the next one started. Had I known that, I probably would have exited the league right after the first trial. But probably a good 16-18 folks looked like they were sticking around, and I figured we'd roll right into the next one. Wasn't the case, as people left, more came, and things didn't go until ALL 24 were filled. I just happened to miss when that happened.

If the trials can go off just as easily with 23 as 24...why do the leaders wait for that long making sure they fill out the whole 24?

The only thing with this vs invention salvage though is that you have to plan better. If I get a Hamidon Goo from a drop and later I happen to find out that I need a Pangean Soil, no big deal - I go to the market and sell one and buy the other. If I get a very rare reward table and happen to pick the wrong piece of incarnate salvage, I've lost a good deal of value - I now have a piece of purple salvage I may not be able to use which would make little sense to break down, AND I still need another bit of purple salvage that I either have to get lucky (again) to roll or have to build.

I haven't done the warehouse part to know what the tileset is, but if it's the new warehouse introduced in GR it has always been laggy for me - and that's solo. I can't imagine it with a team. The Praetorian labs slow my computer down some, but not as bad as some of the large warehouse rooms.

Have to agree though that racing through on a squishy is *not* very fun. My Emp had a real time with it.

I'd think they would be there for the opportunity of adding any players who entered the queue after the initial batch. Like the timers in the banner events, it's a chance to add numbers. The cutscene is a diversion during your wait (kind of like rides that show intro movies while the group in front of you is in the real attraction).

Doesn't do very much good on full pre-formed teams though.

Now if they could only get the last guy kidnapped by Council and hidden behind a stack of crates under an array of fish ponds and tucked around a corner in dark shadows guarded by two guys who don't really count as foes for mission objective purposes thing ironed out.

I completed the mission on my Elec/Sonic. I did get sent to the hospital once, but defeated her after the return trip. I can't remember all of the details of the fight, but I'm sure having access to both a confuse and a location-based sleep helped.

Likewise. I've started two characters in Praetoria and will probably start two more there just to run those arcs (haven't done the two extremes), but that might be it. I'm just not sure I have the concepts for more*.

I dusted off an old level 8 tank the other night and actually found it to be refreshing. I even took him to the Hollows, something I hadn't done with a character since oh, 2005. I don't mind the lower levels, there's something comforting about doing some early street-sweeping in Galaxy, then Steel, mixing in newspaper missions and an arc here or there. I spent a couple of years focusing on villains and had gotten a little tired of the Isles. It is dingy, and after a while I do get sick of Arachnos.

My perception is that Gold > Red > Blue on the difficulty scale, at least solo. There are dangerous mixes of foes in both of the first two that seem harder to avoid than blue-side.



* I do wish we had the ability to create any AT in any starting point, especially after the shiny of Praetoria/side-switching has worn off a bit. I'd like to take a level 5 MM around Galaxy, or a level 10 blaster through Port Oakes.