Yellow Dawn II: The Revenge of Bad Mission Design

Noticed something interesting.

Well interesting to me anyway.

Even the Lore Pets are customisable, as in you can colour both their aura AND certain parts of their armour.

Perhaps this is the reason for the lack of other pets, the Praetorian pets, using items mostly available to players, can be customised, other pets would have to be tailored to accept such customisation.

Though perhaps we are seeing the first step towards MM customisation in this, who knows.

The incarnate trials are suppose to be the hardest content in the game, so there's obviously a chance people will fail, especially since it's only day 2 of i20.

Along with coordination, buff/debuffs will greatly improve your chances of success like for everything in this game. Remember you do have these little things called inspirations you can use and if you die, you can get more in the hospital.

So far I've done 6 trials (5 successful) and I'm still at 1 death on my Fire/Rad Corr.

Yes there certainly is a fairly steep learning curve on the new trials, as of writing I think I've been on around 4-5 lambda trials with zero success, though got quite close on one. and 2 BAF, 1 completed with 14 SECONDS TO SPARE!

The thing is the first runs were rather disheartening, defeat after defeat handed out by the most minor of enemies. Now, well still getting defeated a lot but I have a better awareness of where things are on the maps, and a better idea of what the priorities are.


It's a shame that there aren't solo friendly trials though, Incarnate repeatable content that an incarnate could run for even a small reward, with missions tailored to the fledgling demigod's AT perhaps.

I declined to read all of the complaining, mostly because much of it was the same thing over and over again, although there were several valid points made about the queue system.

In my case, first night of the new content, I used LFG for BAF. Only one of us had done it before. We were fine until we faced Siege and Nightstar at the same time... But, we got exp and so it was okay. Still, I felt as if my invul tank was armored in butter for that first time.

Then came Lambda. THAT was a painful experience in the first PUG. Nobody knew what they were doing and we got swarmed. BUT, I still got exp and I was okay.

But, I told a friend "I just got tatered... TWICE!"

I had dinner, and went back at it.

2 completed BAFs and a completed Lambda later, I called it a night with my Judgement slot open and a tiny bit of experience towards Lore and 75% of Interface completed.

The next day I had Interface open and slotted.

This is challenging stuff still. I fail 2 times out of 5 attempts still (mostly with escapees or not getting the acid in time), but the experience and the learning curve are fun and I look forward to getting more powers and more ability and understanding about the process.

I, for one, say bravo Devs.

I'm just going to be straight here. My account is only almost a year old and in that time I've seen big changes. My opinion is that some things in the game are almost impossible to get unless you've been playing for years or are really, really lucky... or learn to cheat, find an exploit, or buy $$$ from one of the generically named level 1 vendors who spam broadcast chat with their wares. An example of this is any decent enhancement worth having costs anywhere from half a billion to 2 billion inf especially if you hope to have any kind of chance of being a competitive player who can literally stand their own ground. Another example would be purple drops. and PVP... what's the point?

People play games because they enjoy REWARDS...

When i20 was in trial I chimed in with everyone else who disagreed with the difficulty of the BAF, how the powers make melee toons useless, and how a PUG clamors to make sense of it first, then tries to beat it, only to die repeatedly.

I did beta over and over... remaining objective in that I was not joining the brown nosers who were telling the devs how GREAT it was ( I saw you, you know who you all are!!!) ... and I wasn't going to let the influence of the unknown make it an unpleasant experience either. After i20 went live I did it again... FOR TWO DAYS!!! I went into the BAF over and over and over again... a different assortment of a team each time. Every single time WE FAILED! All of my toons except 2 are 50s. All of them are completely developed, totally IO'd, uniquely themed even with their own story lines. In other words I put a lot into each and every one of them. They all died.... over and over.

Afterwords I went into the courtyard in Atlas and briefly expressed how I'd like to finish the BAF just once.... and some righteous brown nosing **** said 'we just finished 3 times'! Well, I don't know what exclusive club that person belongs to but great for him, great for his whole team/league! How am I any different than him? That's what I want to know. Seriously!

People don't play games to feel like failures or to die or to never reach content because they can't even complete the mish... and what of these reward 'strands' now among others? I suppose doing the BAF and lambada are the only way to get them? Good thing I figured out yesterday I can still be rewarded for being a failure despite my best efforts as my salvage is full of strands and astral merits! I only have to sell myself out to do it! So if I want these items I just go fail! WOOT!

As someone who has worked for yahoo, geocities and NBC I would respectfully suggest to the devs to definately keep adding new content because it's ALL ABOUT THE CONTENT... but when doing so please try to focus on the community at large and not an elite few...

Thank you.

Sometimes the entitlement complex displayed by the forumgoers here plain disgusts me. "What do you mean we can't faceroll our way through this content, like 99% of the rest of the game?!", you cry. "Why can't I solo this content designed for 24 players within a day of release? What do you mean I might have to listen to others??", you sob as your FF/DP Defender ineffectually hurls bolts at Marauder. "I am a special snowflake! This end-game content, specifically said by the devs to be extremely hard and providing the biggest challenge yet seen in CoX, is far too hard!!", you mumble through the tears and snot staining your face and collection of anime figurines. "It's all too much. Time to make a forum post, just like with the last nine TFs the devs released!"

lol this game is hard...