Congratulations Paragon!

Congratulations Paragon Studios. You just made one of my Invulnerability Scrappers powers completely pointless, and IMO made her completely piontless too.

Which one? Invincibility. It's pretty much a 'must take' for any invuln character as it provides a good chunk of your Defence and also gives you a nice little to hit boost. Well tonight I ran a lambda trial. And I got creamed repeatedly. Ad I don't mean I died a bit and got annoyed or I died 5 or 6 times. I managed to rack up a full quantity of debt on my level 50 scrapper within 20 minutes. Yes she has tier 4 and yes she has a few sets through her build but she's not softcapped (and I don't see why she should have to be either if the Dev's continue with their 'IO's are optional, we haven't made the game any tougher' mantra) but she was completely useless. Her major points are S+L Resistance which is next to useless thanks to all the fire and energy flying around, she has very little ranged defence which for a melee based character who should be 'in there' shouldn't be a necessity either. Basically she's now completely pointless and incredibly painful to play on the Incarnate trials. I feel like giving up on her and she used to be my favourite character. The trial should be difficult yes, but IMo they've taken it too far. it suits some characters perfectly and practically encourages people to softcap, simple because just about any level of resistance is utterly pointless.

Congratz Pragon, you just relegated one of my favourite to 'No i don't want to play her on this, she'll spend more time face down and in the hospital than fighting' league.

I think you'll find a ton of people that would beg to differ on your viewpoint, and if you take a step back, think a minute, and then ask one of them, they'll help you with your build issues. You said it yourself in your post. You're built for S+L, and you're fighting things that are neither. You should expect to have issues if you're matching up against your weaknesses instead of your strengths, especially in these trials where everything is max level.

You don't have to be purpled out for anything, but these Trials, and other Incarnate content yet to come, is designed to be harder than standard content. Standard strategy doesn't work anymore.

Actually, the Trials don't encourage soft-capping since the Praetorians can cut through 100% Defense like it wasn't there (the Battle Orbs, Seers and 9CU's get lots of +ToHit buffs to hand around). Resistance amd Team Buffs are what makes these Trials succeed.

It's a big learning curve from the rest of the game, even for those of us on Test as we've not been handed Threads by the devs to make the Incarnate Abilities that smooth the way.

My recommendation is run with the maximum size League for the Trial, read the guides beforehand and then hope everyone else who hasn't can follow instructions.

I've had a Lambda win over on Defiant, and two losses with substantially the same people on the Trial.

Oh, right, so I have to spend large amounts of influence to make my build 'suitable' for the trial and read up on how to do it? Yeah, Well done Paragon! They've always said you shouldn't need any 'type' of character to complete something, yet if we ended up with a team without many buffs and poor energy def or res then we'll stand a much higher chance of failure?

Congratulations Miss Chief, you have figured out that you need to ADAPT.

The same mindless button mashing that has always worked will not anymore. Learn. Adapt. Grow.

I take any character on my leagues to run the trials. Build matters little; paying attention does. You *do* have to read up on them and follow instructions, or you'll fail a lot.

Softcapping doesn't really help either. Just FYI. I brought my soft-capped DM/SD on Lambda and managed to die just fine.

I also managed to not die quite a bit, so there is that.

The debuff (or 'buff' to the mobs I guess) that I hate is the ACUs getting that chemical burn patch that does huge amounts of -rchg and -spd. Get hit/stand in one of those for 2-5 secs and bam, -300% recharge rate (or more) and it's hard to get out of it because your slowed down.

I think the lowest I've been was like -450% rchg rate heh... Grr...

I'm also not a fan of the "fail until you earn the tools to win" school of design, surprise surprise.

Also not quite clear how control evens the number of Defense countermeasures versus Resistance Debuffs.

I'm kind of annoyed with the way the trial mobs are built. Piles of Fire/Energy/Psi damage, boosted to hit capacity, the capability to FLOOR my Willpower's Regen, the ability to floor my EVERYTHING'S recovery, massive -Recharge and slows.

It's like they took everything I hate about Malta, Carnies, PPD, and the Knives and stuck it all in one faction.

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Originally Posted by reiella Until I see something that states to the contrary, going to assume VK is right .

Cheer up, it's not like you're a Storm Summoning character faced with the realization that between resistances and lag, all that slow, knockback, and repel you have is nearly useless. Which is only about... four to six powers.

So on my Fire/Fire tanker with no Psi protection and little Ice protection, if the Devs come out with a single trial that has an abundance of Psi and Ice damage, they made my character completely useless and I should stop playing the game.

Oh wait, there's still several TFs, a different trial, and plenty of arc content to do. My mistake.