How will the Incarnate system work for the "Undesirables?"

I'll third it.

As I said, my main is a stalker and I've been refused a place on a team (ITF) precisely ONCE and that was when I first started playing. In fact the ITF I did earlier today, the guy who put it together SUGGESTED I grab my main not my VEAT/kin/myriad other alts.

I'll put a not to the "depends what you're known FOR" comment from CMA earlier. If you're known for running through the map, drawing aggro to your squishies and being about as much use to the team as a chocolate fireguard, that might be your problem in finding a team. I've always killed the nastiest thing, then stood and fought in melee like a scrapper.

Good to see that the COH community is as casual as ever.

As others have alluded to if the Incarnate Alpha slot (and boy oh boy what we saw leaked on test from the OHTER slots) works how it did in closed beta . . . no one has anything to worry about.

It seems to mostly be blasters and stalkers that get left out.

Can anyone say with a straight face that a team of 6 def/cor/cont and 2 brutes/scrappers dont whip through content faster and easier than just about any other possible combination.

This is why I feel blasters and stalkers will be left out. Blasters have a damage primary and secondary and Stalkers are somewhat innefective against Av's compared to a brute or scrapper.

Stacking buffs/debuffs is so effective it negates just about any other strategy.

Its not that its impossible to do things other ways, but if a team leader is faced with content they are unsure of winning.

The SUREST way to win is to stack buff/debuff.

The more sure the team leader is of success the more likely they will take Builds without secondary roles.

Threads like this always seem to start up with the flawed thesis that the judgment of a random PUG leader recruiting via chat is the main determinant of whether or not characters of certain builds will be prevented from taking part in whatever content. It is just not the case.

People with SG's and communities of friends will run the content with each other regardless of the specific builds they have because they enjoy playing with each other.

Honestly... if this is such a big problem on your server, move to a different one. As Memphis Bill said, that group is consisted of idiots.

Or, I dunno... start your own team?

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Originally Posted by Durien I don't even demand kins on my stone/stone brute.

This reminds me of a semi funny story, so an ITF is forming up, and we snag a stone tanker, who demands a kin. After several minutes of an argument about this going on, he quits.



Now, forward to when the TF ends.
We completed it with hardly any deaths, and a few minutes below an hour.



Honestly, I think he would've slowed us down.

I just hope the materials to build incarnate slotables are transferable.

Even though my stalkers are well built (Multi billion builds), and are better than 90% (Yes made up statistics, but I am confident) of the scrappers in the game, I just can't seem to get them on STFs and RSFs with any regularity.

People just rather take the SO scrapper than the Min/maxed IO stalker.
Its just reality.

So I hope that I can use my other "More acceptable" toons like my dom, my huntsman and my defender to farm materials so I can work on my perfered but hated stalkers.