Master of Respec Trials


Adeon Hawkwood

 

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Hi:

Lately I have done several respec Trials and at times the entire group was hoping for more of a challenge.

So it occur to me, why not set up the trial to be like the other "Master" TFs, but besides the normal limitations, you can't heal the reactor core.

If you complete the trial, you get a shiny new badge to brag about :<)


Stormy


 

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It would still probably be the easiest Master badge yet. I don't think that I've ever actually seen a situation where the core needs to be healed, except for if the entire team wipes or something (in which case, challenge over anyway). In order to get to that point without deaths, you'd probably need to have everyone go afk in another room.

Also worth noting, the Statesman Taskforce steals the last mission from the Villain respec trial for one of it's missions. So, the Master of Statesman pretty much already included the Master of Treespec Trial. So I can only imagine that a Master Respec badge would be silly easy redside as well.


If we're talking about actually making them challenging... how about requiring the "minions buffed" and "players debuffed" challenges? That might actually be enough to cause a risk of death, and make it worth having a badge tied to it.


 

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Originally Posted by Santorican View Post
I'd just like to see something done to the respec trials. They're such a bore
Perhaps some kind of reward...like, I don't know, I'm just brainstorming here, an opportunity to respec your character upon completion. Or maybe a badge and some merits. At least so we have some reason to actually do a respec.


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Originally Posted by DarkGob View Post
Perhaps some kind of reward...like, I don't know, I'm just brainstorming here, an opportunity to respec your character upon completion. Or maybe a badge and some merits. At least so we have some reason to actually do a respec.
It doesn't need a carrot, it has enough of one already. It just needs something to make it more interesting. The current respec trial (blueside at least) is extremely boring. The initial setup is decent but the reactor room fight (the climax of the trial) basically consists of sitting there for half an hour occasionally fighting a few enemies. It's really easy but the enemies are on a timer so it takes just over 30 minutes for that fight no matter what you do.


 

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Meh. And I do mean Meh.

The Respec Trials were made principally for the chance to Respec a character that was gimped in some way, and so some find them difficult. Make them harder, and well, you could, but why bother?


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