A non-beta player's crash course in the new trials

I don't know.
I'm still deleting tons of temp power recipes.

If there is a weighting system for the reward tables then I really hope they tweak it some.

Oddly, all other things aside, now that I've actually run these missions, I find the guide to be a very accurate depiction of what really happens, and it totally makes more sense now....

After three days straight of grinding both BAF and Lambda on my Emp/Dark I can honestly say that whatever the rewards system is, it stinks.

I spam heals, buffs, tentacles, and shoot whatever I can, as often as I can, but in the end after every single trial I get a common. I can recall only once or twice (in 100+ runs) getting an uncommon. Never a rare or a VR. So whatever the weighting system may be it is clearly off-kilter.

I received a rare yesterday on a BAF when I was barley paying attention to the AV battle because I was too busy ranting about some thing or another to Animal.

<--- Takes credit for Mari's good fortune

There seems to be some evidence that its some sort of a weighted system. Arcana is poking around the drop rate. Thought Uber said she found a table related to it, but didn't find the post in a 30 second search.

I need to pieces of very rare salvage to craft my final very rare Incarnate powers. I keep trying to vary my participation, and nothing seems to help. I'm stuck on an uncommon loop.

Today on my blaster, running BAF's, I am getting mostly uncommons and rares. only twice have a got a common. No VR's as of yet, athough I was getting rares and VR's (occasionally) fairly steadily on my scrapper.

While only from a sample size of one, the one Very Rare I received was when I was very busy on SiberianTigress on our borked MoLamda run. During that run I was using Transfusion as often as it would come up to provide the -regen, but the other thing that happened was that when the group got caught by Marauder's Nova Fist I also healed those that had also been caught (BTW thanks for the Barrier buffs whoever had it & used it!). One of the other things I did was was use both Siphon Power & Fulcrum Shift as often as I could. The thing I noticed then was when I used Siphon Power, I did try to see to it that someone other than me got the benefit of the buff by being in fairly close proximity to me. And with Fulcrum Shift there were times when I held of just a bit when I saw incoming enemies so that I could provide a little bigger buff.

The other times I've used Tigress & received the lesser rewards, I had either not been as careful to squeeze out as much benefit from my buffs, or not had as many opportunities to "optimize" my buff/debuff (someone else got the heal in, or the mobs were all dead before I could get Fulcrum shift off).

I've seen similar trends with my other characters (catch as many targets as possible when using AoE's, go to the thickest concentration of allies when I pop a buff, wait until I see someone's actually injured before throwing out my Rebirth buff/heal & catch as many people as possible to provide the regen buff.) When I make deliberate efforts to make the most of as many of my character's abilities as I can, I tend to get better rewards. It doesn't always happen, so there likely may be some element of comparing performance relative to other characters on your team or league. (Which I think would suck because I am lucky enough to play with some very good players & don't want to be graded on a curve with them... I know where I'd fall... :P)

I don't know if there's anything to these observations, but that's what I've noticed & I thought I'd mention it just in case it can help anyone. (I thought to mention the making an effort to make the most of the use of your powers because I've seen others write that they're spamming their powers & I'm not sure if that means they're just using their powers as often as they come up, or if they are assuming that people know that they are also trying to use them to best effect & just use spamming as a conversational short-cut.)