makerian

That's interesting, because I don't think it's possible to earn more rewards doing LAM compared to BAF if you complete both trials successfully. I'm sure someone's done the breakdown, but it looks something like this, right?:

LAM: astral for 1 synchronized, 2 all acids, 3 all grenades, 4 defeating M

BAF: astral for 1 not overriding, 2 defeating Siege, 3 NS, 4 defeating both, 5 defeating separated, 6 defeating when no reinforcements are present, 7 completing prisoner phase, 8 no prisoners escaping

And doing Mo runs makes LAM reward even less. I don't think threads drop faster during Lambda or the reward table is weighted any higher (in fact, some people believe they receive worse rewards on LAM tables)

Nothing makes me think that there will only be two. I assume you think I believe that because I did not add a disclaimer to my post to the effect of "I know there is at least one trial in the next several months, and likely to be several more in the next several years." See my other post in this thread that preceded yours for a similar disclaimer. If I did add disclaimers anticipating people putting words in my mouth, then every post I made would have to be longer than this one. So, sometimes, silence can be misconstrued, and I apologize that you inferred I was ignorant or obtuse because I did not include some magic words that would give you insight into my worldview.

As for why do I think the developers only want us to do those two iTrials? I do think that and that could be because they introduced Alpha shard iSalvage, retrofitted a bunch of TFs to include shard iSalvage, added two new Trials in RWZ that gave shard iSalvage, created WSTs that give NotWs for shard iSalvage, and then released four more levels of incarnates that did not directly use that iSalvage and created a whole new slop of thread iSalvage that really is completely interchangeable. With reward tables, there's almost no reason (except for the few random drops for badge rewards per character) to have different C/U/R/VR iSalvage except to penalize someone's shortsightedness.

So, I assume the Devs intended to dog whistle to the community that shard iSalvage should be disregarded in favor of thread iSalvage. IF you want to be an incarnate, the reward ratio is so out of sync that there is no other sane method for quickly becoming a 53 Incarnate with T3/4s than doing iTrials to unlock and fill J/I/L/D slots. If there's a faster method, please let me know. And you might wanna let the community know too.

And maybe hundreds of players on multiple servers are wrong. But within days, coop zones like RWZ and PD have been flooded with players hanging around, doing iTrials. Maybe the Devs were completely surprised that players were smart enough not to penalize themselves by earning shard iSalvage and converting and instead chose the path of least resistance and have been farming 2 iTrials over and over for weeks now. Thanks to such farming, my 3 incarnates have multiple T3/4s for every slot. Between my 3 characters, I need less than 600 pieces of thread iSalvage to make 20 T4s each on all 3 characters. That's pretty efficient and I think I'm not the only one that realized this is a gift horse.

I'm a loyal and long time paying customer. I get they need to datamine, I get they needed to add new content. It's just funny that even Apex and Tin Mage weren't included in that design for iTrials, and neither were all the alpha component TFs. If I were going to wait 7 years to release incarnates, I would try to prep the field with more content at least. The 'long anticipated endgame', turns out to be 2 missions for 3 months, then 1-2 more missions for 3 months, etc. If you don't find that funny, well we can agree to disagree about what we find funny in the world.

Once the new missions do come out, finding a BAF or LAM will happen, but I suspect it will be less often, particularly if they open up a whole new slop of iSalvage for the next 4 levels, and maybe even another slop for the last 1 level. But more importantly, I imagine it will happen less often because people will have become numb to running them and eagerly ready to farm new content over and over.

I do know from hearsay that there are still people who do other content in the game. I've in fact even run some WSTs in the past month and done some tips, helped a few people out of tight missions, and earned a few badges outside of iTrials.

PS, It's probably all the strobe lights in PD getting to me. I've taken to sipping brews with the felines on the redside when I'm forming iTrials to avoid epileptic fits.

This is also becoming a thread derail, as it is more off topic than my original post, which did try to address the OP. If you want to discuss it with me, send me a PM. Thanks.

People who mind don't matter and people who matter don't mind...

BTW, has the new patch fixed the lag? I wanna do a Hami raid too, maybe I'll start slow indulging in some LAM/BAF tonight and move to a mellow MSR before gorging on a Hami this weekend.

Here's to "Removed the filtering of league-wide buffs from Patch 1 which was causing additional server processing"!