I have run 10 trials today, I never want to run them again. Am I alone?

I lost count of how many trials I was on yesterday, but I haven't gotten bored yet.

Well, I gave it my best shot - and after 5 trials (only 1 of which was successful) I'm not feeling it. I've seen what people are getting for their troubles but the recharge time is off-putting and I've been told that 2 of the slots are limited to trials solely. I still think I can wait on this content. I'm at the top of my game with the alpha slot - I think that's all I really need right now (esp if I'm not running any more I20 trials). When I21 rolls around, maybe there'll be more to motivate me getting these slots but right now... Eh, I can leave it to the completists.


I do have two new concerns though:

1) What's will all the chase sequences? First Battle Maiden, now both new trials? Wasn't there a time when everyone bemoaned having to chase NPCs?

2) Whatever happened to Devs pushing back on the "Follow the Leader" mentality? Wasn't that the #1 why Hamidon was retooled? So why is it being encouraged now?

I succeeded on a Lambda with my Emp, and came out closer to the 30% than the 50% (may have been under it, even). Failed one on a team of six with my Ill/TA, and came out over 50%. I'm assuming the difference was one team vs two splitting defeats.


(I have to say too that my first try with my Emp was PAINFUL. I had no clue what was going on, TP was not the best for navigation, and trying to traverse the inner lab area w/o getting repeatedly ganked was impossible. My Ill thankfully has SJ and Sup Invis.)

The speed of gathering needed salvage the solo way has nothing to do with being bored running the same content over and over x10 IN ONE DAY.

If you know that new content past what we just got is a while down the road from going live, what's your hurry doing the new stuff? Do you think that being tricked out to the max will suddenly make these trials better if you don't like them much now?

You like cake, you eat one piece, maybe two if you're a pig. You don't eat the whole cake in one sitting, and then complain later that you're sick of cake and expect any sympathy.

That is my only real fear. That by not participating in the new trials 'RIGHT NAO!!' I'll be so far behind by the time the new stuff comes out I'll never be able to participate...

The rumors flying around that 'The Coming Storm' will require a level shift is really concerning me as well. We've been anxiously awaiting this Epic Event since Ouro came out years ago. All this time eagerly anticipating it and now I'm starting to wonder if I'll even have a chance to enjoy it.
As I don't plan to become an Incarnate with any of my 100's of toons I'll be HIGHLY ticked off if The Coming Storm is locked behind a curtain for Incarnates only...

Part of the great thing about COH has been it's mantra of You can be more powerful if you want (i.e. Purples) but that it isn't mandatory to enjoy the content. If you didn't wanna bother with IO's you weren't suddenly locked out from participating in all the new content being released. This philosophy seems to have changed now and if 'we' want to see any of the content being released this year and most of next we have no choice but use the system. That fly's in the face of 6 years worth of making the game accessible to all.

I don't mind the Endgame being grindy, or group oriented, or even certain events being tied into them. When it's optional. But to hang a carrot in front of us for years (The Storm) only to find out when it finally arrives that I've locked myself out of it by not spending a year grinding out ixp would really, really... be a let down.

I saw a Citadel forming on Virtue today.... Constant ITF's of course. If you were having fun two weeks ago, all that stuff is still there.

I have 86 characters planned. Only half have actually been made. Most are lower level. Only 8 are 50.

Now I am very attached to my main 'personal' character. For years before GR, that character sat around because he was 50 and there was nothing to do with him. No more advancement. Now I have that advancement. I am playing a lot of trails. I will probably get sick, but only my main and my farmer p/l character will be doing them. If I get bored, Ill go back to leveling my other characters.

As for me, I spent update day looking at the various new slots, researching and planning out how I'd go about getting them. The day after launch, I did an Admiral Sutter TF. It was only the day after that that I even considered running the trials.

I've been making about 3 to 5 trials a day total to unlock the slots. So far I have Judgement unlocked with a tier 3 slotted, and Interface with a tier 2. I'm at 90% toward unlocking Destiny, and around 14% for Lore.

What I want to get done at minimum is to have all the new slots unlocked and with at least a Tier 1 in them. After that, I'll be doing the trials when the mood strikes me, just like I do with any other content in the game. When I was working on my Alpha slot, it was pretty much the same thing; getting the slot unlocked quickly, then letting the shards drop at their own pace, with the occasional TF to get a specific component. I only today got the last shard I needed to craft my tier 4 Alpha boost.

And as for the "converting shards is slow" arguement, who ever said it had to be all shards or all trials? Now that I have my tier 4 Alpha, I no longer have any use for Shards except to convert them into Threads, but the trials will still be my main way of making progress on the slots, with shard conversion supplementing it.

It did take me a while to get my tier 4 Alpha, and will probably take time to get my other slots maxed out, but that's not a problem to me. The game will still be here tomorrow, despite what doom-criers would have us believe.

I originally intended to do just one a day, so as not to burn myself out. Then I realized that after 3 days, I was already burning myself out. So I tried to cram pretty much every raid I'll need one one character into this weekend, so I won't have to do any again for a while. Almost made my "goal", too. It's going to be a while until I bother to work on my second, but I have a feeling that I would be burned out already either way, so at least now I'm burned out and made progress.

It still sucks, but at least I have something to show for it, I guess.

These threads are pretty boring now.

See what I did there?

I am a stuff person and gamer. I am not sure I can burn out. I just want more.

I can see how a lot of folks could get tired of all the runs, I would too if I did 10 runs very close together. But overall I'm enjoying the runs. I think i'm enjoying this carrot, but most runs without a break for me, have been 3.

qr, if you ran 10 trials on a day this nice, you are very likely alone.

serious answer, well, you likely burned yourself out, im spacing mine out to prevent this, maybe max 6 a weekend, that way it doesnt feel like a job. if you dont practice restraint, then its kind of your own fault.

tonight I didnt even do any trials, just ran with some friends, told some dumb jokes, and stomped redcaps. might run one or 2 later if i feel like it, probably wont. your favorite food would become a chore to eat if you ate it for every meal, same with game content, obsessively grinding will kill your enthusiasm, take it at a comfortable pace, dont feel like you have to keep up with the jonses.

though i gotta ask, was it with your stalker? becasue i remember a few threads(ok, more thana few..a lot more) where you said your stalker would never get teams, i noticed on liberty i have run a few successful lambdas with some stalkers, so i wondered if you noticed similar inclusiveness.

Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.

Having way too much fun fighting 54s and becoming overpowered atm.
The groups I hang with have these down to a science, 25-30 minutes tops.

Scrapper with super Fireball (Pyronic), yum.