Trial reward tables...

Does anyone know yet what determines which reward table you get at the end of a trial? Because I heard it's dependant on how much damage you dealt. I don't want to believe the devs would implement a system that flat-out screws supports/tanks...

We have been told (by a redname) that "participation" is a factor and there is also a random factor. We don't know how heavily each is weighted, nor do we know what qualifies as "participation".

There is also the possibility that each level of participation has different probablities to drop each reward. Doing nothing might have a 75% chance to get threads and a 0.5% chance to drop a very rare while maximum participation might be 50% for a rare, 25% for a very rare, and 1% for threads. Problem is that we don't know anything about how rewards drop or how participation affects drops so even getting hundreds of player's data is meaningless since the first problem is determining which participation rank they fall under.

It's always been good to me *knocks on wood* with both my tanker and my controller. I've gotten 3 rare tables, 2 of those on my controller who also got a very rare. My tanker seemed to mostly get commons and my controller seemed to mostly get uncommons (in fact, I don't think the controller got the common table ever despite me hoping for one).

But then my controller must have sacrificed something or someone very valuable to the RNG gods because she was extremely lucky the last 4 days. In addition to the 2 rare and the very rare rewards, she picked up 2 good purple recipes, 2 respec recipes, a LotG +recharge recipe, and was 1 shard short of going from a tier 1 alpha to tier 3 in a single ITF... and she picked that 1 shard up in the very next mission she teamed up for. Yep, a very good long weekend for me.

The first few days I got a couple very rares. Now, nothing but common and uncommon. I run a softcap Tank, and I actually try to Tank. My Tank is not a Scranker, he tanks, period. I also am trying to get incarnate abilities that debuff my enemies damage, and buff my teams defense. Yes, tanking harder. But, I cannot seem to get anywhere in the trials. I ran trials for 15 hours Sunday. I only received commons, uncommons, and once the table with either 10 threads or the inspiration! I am the main tank on almost every run I do. I did a master of Lambda attempt last night with 3 other tanks in the League, I was chosen to tank Marauder. We completed the mish, failed the Master (not enough debuffs), I got an uncommon.

You know, I think this whole thing is slightly.....uncommon.

Keep in mind that this is the only character I am playing. This is my 2011 toon I started mid/late January. I want to finish trials and start badging with him again. I have been doing nothing but trials since i20 dropped. (did one NoW TF last week, will do another Monday night) I have made progress, but yesterday was just stupid.

I want to get back to the rest of the game, badging, etc. What is with this spend 4 weeks just grinding 2 task forces constant to get the rewards?

And on my brute set up for tons of AoE damage I have been able to get 6 tier 4s other than alpha. I have 2 judgements (for after they fix ion) and 2 destiny, one for farming and one for grouping. On that toon I have recieved a total of 3 common drops. Rares and uncommons drop like mad and I end up converting them to threads so I can make commons.

When I play my defender, I am doing everything in my power to buff, debuff, heal and attack, yet I get mostly commons and some uncommons.

Please reconsider the "participation" aspect of the reward tables.