Why limit content?

Agree with original poster.

I like the newer taskforces more than the raids, but they're all easier than ever thanks to incarnate powers, and the only way to get the new loot is the two raids.

Please add an incarnate difficulty setting to all level 50 taskforces.

"I'm bored with running the new content over and over again."
"So do this other thing which works, but is considerably less efficient."
"Let me repeat, with emphasis. I'm BORED. with RUNNING. the new content OVER and OVER again."

I haven't done the new trials yet. I've got twelve threads or something. I'm not really in a hurry. *shrug*

With all due respect to the great forum names in this thread. As a vet player myself, I appreciate the positive responses and direction to Positron's post rather than responding with "you're wrong" or "don't worry about it" or "just play differently".

Personally, I'm waiting on the dev's post. I want a reason to play the numerous 50 incarnates that I have. As a test of the new trials, I wanted to take one of my most powerful/vicious characters (a heavily I/O'd arch/fire/scorp blaster) through to the tier 4 stage before working on any other characters. The reason that I didn't play my other incarnates was that the system didn't apparently have a time release mechanism to it like the weekly strike targets except for the empyrean merits. To make matters worse, I got a very rare and some rares within the first few times I ran the trials.

My faulty thinking was reinforced and I went into gold rush/gambling mode of "I'll play the trials again, next time I can get the very rare". I no longer wanted to do other things in the game.

I've been stuck getting uncommons (in the upper 30s) and commons for weeks now if I play with my league. Rares have dropped for me if I play against my leagues, and I'd hazard a guess that if I were willing to play against my league some more I'd get very rares.

Now that I know the system is under review and may change in some way, I've stopped to take a breath. I cringe knowing my current level 20 something's have been collecting dust as are my other 50s. This game has always been about alts to me, but I won't try to grind that many alts through those 2 trials unless a significant change is made to the rewards. That breaks the end game for me and probably others.

Anyway, thank goodness the dev's listen to their customers. I'm also hoping for a fix to the current participation system and an incarnate level to each existing level 50 taskforce or any reason not to have to do these two trials adnausium. I also want a reason to do the Tinmage/Apex taskforces, as I really like those two.

Mmm...

You may be appealing to the pragmatist in me...

If my objective is to fully incarnate all of my various alts, then I will naturaly would prefer to do so as effectively as possible, which would result in doing this as quickly as possible.

Once you have entered that frame of mind, then many aspects of the game becomes inconsequential and thus pointless to do.

I can admit at being at that state of mind, I have 10 alts I am trying to fully Incarnate, of those 10 I allready have 3 with Alpha 4, Infrastructure 3, Destiny 4, Judgement 3, and Lore 3.

As a consequence "of my choice" I have little use to do the weekly task force, or any other content since they effectively are a waste of time from this vantage point. Also as a consequence "of my choice" I am stuck doing endless loops of BAF and LAMDA.

But I do realize that my present state of gaming is as a result of my choices, I am fully aware that the rest of the game is still out there.

Sue

Being manipulated and forced ARE two different things. The devs have every right to create both in thier game. As players, we choose to abide by both, some, or none. However, you can only pull a rubber band so tight before it snaps. There are some who feel that the rubber band is too tight for them and are becoming burnt-out. Of course the devs don't want to risk losing business. The players are manipulating the devs, but the devs can choose who to listen to or can they? I'm sure the devs ARE forced by someone or somegroup.

Anyway, choices are great! However, everyone wants their cake and they want to eat it, too. If that is your choice, then you are forced to go for it since it may not just come to your mouth. Manipulating me in pursuit of my cake makes me think of other options. I just don't want to lose my taste for the cake.

I really do wish they hadn't made a separate, [mostly] non-interchangeable reward system with I20 (I don't count breaking down stuff into Shards and then turning Shards into Threads as "interchangeable.") If I have a Shard component in one hand and two Thread components in the other, why can't I just make something with that? Will it destroy the universe?

I was just getting ready to post the exact same question.

I can't stand that I don't get credit for the regular incarnates, what if I'm not finished with those then I'm screwed. Everything in the past has allowed us to play any content. I'm am so SICK of lambda on anything other than a tank/scrapper. I'm sick of the whole content and I've only leveled up two characters for the minimum slots. BAF requires something like 20-30 runs to get one character leveled up for two slots. LAMB crate/acid part of the game is just one big death trap for any squishy without invisible powers + super speed.

Yeah, my Energy/Dark Corrupter has Petrifying Gaze 5-slotted with a near-full Lockdown set and also Electric Shackles 4-slotted with Gladiator's Net, and both of these together often fail to do anything to stop Lieutenants, runners or anything else (Although oddly enough it seems like I have managed to Hold bosses for about a second - maybe it's just an animation glitch.) And Fearsome Stare 6-slotted for that matter.

My attacks aren't exactly super-high damage, so having my secondary abilities gutted like this doesn't really help my ability to contribute.

Ironically during a TF/SF, he often ends up not needing these abilities because even large groups of enemies die too quickly for them to be of real use. So it's more than a little irksome to be placed into a situation where they would be more than a little helpful and have them do almost nothing at all. I think if I'm lucky enough to have my Dark Servant use his Petrifying Gaze on the same target as I use my two holds on, I can briefly hold something. I may as well just be blasting away and hoping for knockbacks/knockdowns. It'll briefly disable the targets for about the same amount of time, and damage them too.