Bordering on too Efficient: iTrial Tactics

Just hoping to pick some brains. I have recently started Incarnating out my Gravity/Force Field Controller and there are a couple tactics that I use that I'm not sure if I should continue to do. What are your thoughts?

1) Plugging Baf Spawn Points

As most of you probably know, the spawn doors in the BAF trial can only have so many NPCs spawned at one time (16, iirc). My tactic for those doors is to try to keep the minions alive for as long as possible. Between Crushing Field, Repulsion Bomb, and Gravity Distortion Field it is easy to keep the minions all grouped up at the doors entrance and watch as nothing else walks out the door.

At one point during a string of BAFs there were a few people who wouldn't stop killing my nicely controlled groups. I took that opportunity to explain in league chat why I was doing what I was doing and basically got two responses:

• Don't complicate things, people don't listen anyway.
• We'll get less drops and iXP.

In my opinion, an easier time getting the Astral is more than worth the lost iXP and drops.

2) Negating Crate and Container Mobs in the Lambda

I've recently learned that the Weapon Crates and Containment Chambers in the Lambda are resistant to intangibility, but the Mobs around them aren't. When I run through them with a team I target the Crate/Container and use Dimension Shift effectively nullifying the threat around them.

I've noticed that people aren't used to this strategy. Kinetics users are the worst as they attempt to target the Mobs for heals and buffs only to find nothing happening. This method seems to work very well for me (I can jump right in without having to wait for a meat shield) but it looks like it confuses others. I believe the 'less drops and iXP' also could also count here, but safety and quick destruction is more important in my opinion.


What's your opinion?

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Favorite Villain: Gimp Computer (Fire Control/Psionic Assault Dominator)

At this stage, people are there mainly for iXP for alts and threads. Plugging 1 door just means they spawn elsewhere and someone is doing the work you should be doing.

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Favorite Hero: Computer (Empathy/Energy Blast Defender)

Favorite Villain: Gimp Computer (Fire Control/Psionic Assault Dominator)

I wasn't being literal. I was referring to the fact that other people are killing for drops and iXP while you're not, which slows the rest of the league down. It's not an equal contribution, and the "ease of getting the Atral" isn't enough to counteract it.

Unless people are completely pants, its always a success, and it has a fixed time limit. You're not saving time, you're not making it easier for anyone, you're just robbing the group of drops.

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"Null is as much an argument "for removing the cottage rule" as the moon being round is for buying tennis shoes." -Memphis Bill

I look forward to playing with this tactic.

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Favorite Hero: Computer (Empathy/Energy Blast Defender)

Favorite Villain: Gimp Computer (Fire Control/Psionic Assault Dominator)

I see this as most useful on small 12 man Bafs that lack pets. Just one of those things to have in the old bag-o-tricks.

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I certainly like the tactic for the Lambda grenade and acid runs (so long as the team is not looking to take everyone out... which is an extremely rare tactic, although a good one if everyone is on the same page).

I don't see the BAF door strategy as needed or particularly useful... but it certainly is a different option... and that's a fun thing to learn of, if nothing else!


Still... Dimension Shift during that Lambda phase should receive a lot of likes, considering all of the people who tend to not enjoy getting left behind by the tanks and such (if they don't keep up and such).

Just remember that it is a team event! So, if enough people are against it... there ya go!

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Paragon City Search And Rescue
The Mentor Project

Usually what i do on the BAF is i have 2 people per door (on a 16+ group) and the rest cover roads. That way if anything escapes the doors (i like controllers on doors, damage on roads) its usually taken some damage, and can be killed easy.

Its about an 90% success rate for the extra astral, but again, astrals are only as useful as the threads/items they convert into..

But i would still convert all astrals into threads, or just stockpile them in the event they add something to convert threads into the next currency, or allow you to use astrals to convert into the next tier.

On the container/crate section, i just have everyone nuke the crate/containment. Ignore the adds and just go. You can't clear the map, and most of the patrol adds respawn anyways, so instead of trying to fight a timer, and debt, just cruise through the phase and get to beating on Marauder. You'll get more iXP and an extra astral from taking out your bent up aggression on the adds that spawn with Marauder then you would be trying to clear every group at the crate/containers.

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Favorite Hero: Computer (Empathy/Energy Blast Defender)

Favorite Villain: Gimp Computer (Fire Control/Psionic Assault Dominator)

I like the intangibility on crate spawns idea, might have to try that.

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the shift on the crates works great. I've run it with him and its a wonderful way to keep squishies alive.

Saying astrals are trash is like saying reward merits are useless. They buy all the same things.

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I find your lack of signature disturbing.

They'll likely make new currencies for them to prevent instant t4ing the second the slots go live.

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