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Master of Underground Trial - Friday 9/23 7PM Pacific\10PM Eastern

akarah the hunter

By akarah the hunter,
Posted on: 2011-09-21 21:14 in Freedom

 

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@Viper Kinji is interested, please send him (not me) a tell in game.

He is locked out of the forums at the moment.

 

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how are we meeting up?

I gotta make pain. I gotta make things right. I gotta stop what's comin'. 'Least I gotta try.

 

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looks like we have everyone but 1st son

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Thanks to everyone that participated. We got 2 badges - Preservation Specialist and Tour Guide, but missed getting Avatar Assassin and Regenerate This.

I apologize for missing anyone on the invites. I thought I had invited everyone that signed up, but apparently I missed a couple of people. I know how much I hate getting left out of things, so I feel bad that I missed some. If you guys want to set up a run and want help, I'll try to be available to assist.

Also, I believe that some of the team members were talking about doing an additional run this weekend, so there will be that chance of getting the badges.

 

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I had a blast. We didn't get all the badges, true, but the completion of the iTrial, unlike every other attempt I had made up to tonight, was a foregone conclusion.

So much Clarion, so much mega DE and IDF destruction, and once we realized, "hey, Des needs to keep her health up", her bar never dipped under 90 again.

Thanks to everyone, and especially Doctor Turgenev, for the very fun UG run!

 

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When Desdemona dropped to 60% at the very beginning cause she ran off to fight by herself was pretty funny,

 

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Originally Posted by TheProtector View Post
When Desdemona dropped to 60% at the very beginning cause she ran off to fight by herself was pretty funny,
Um...yeah. It was uh-oh funny, rather than haha funny.

Actually, that one was my fault because she was following me. I wasn't keeping a close enough watch on her early on. But fortunately, we got to her and healed her in time and even got the badge for keeping her above 50%.

 

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Nice run, everyone. We got two of the four Master badges (Tour Guide, Preservation Specialist). Regenerate This was rough; we hit a wall with the AV placement due to pet blockage, but once we got the Walker parked we were able to drop him swiftly. We just missed the Avatar Assassin badge by a spare second unfortunately.

Cheers to all, you did great.

 

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Originally Posted by Turgenev View Post
We just missed the Avatar Assassin badge by a spare second unfortunately.
This is the story of your life.

 

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I was just excited to part of a J-man trial....

 

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Another completed UG trial and another common drop, you spend that much time you should be rolling between just rare and very rare.

Congrats to the devs for creating another trial that the players won't bother running and will rot on the sidelines with that other trial ( keyes ) because the risk vrs reward is all messed up.

Way to go dev team!!!!!

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Originally Posted by Duneman View Post
Another completed UG trial and another common drop, you spend that much time you should be rolling between just rare and very rare.

Congrats to the devs for creating another trial that the players won't bother running and will rot on the sidelines with that other trial ( keyes ) because the risk vrs reward is all messed up.

Way to go dev team!!!!!
I hope they make more trials like Keyes, it's by far the most fun of all 4.

 

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Originally Posted by TheProtector View Post
I hope they make more trials like Keyes, it's by far the most fun of all 4.

Keyes actually isn't bad if everyone knows the deal, but that's the problem: Spending half the trial asking what you should be doing, and the other half trying to recover because people don't know what they're doing, decreases the fun factor considerably.

I think the Underground's strength vs Keyes is that there are periods of combat between the "must explain" phases, which make it easier for people to digest and prep. In Keyes, it's bam-bam-bam for each phase. With UG, it's bam-trot a quarter mile, kill things, bam-go into a hall, wipe a room, travel a bit, bam- etc.

That's it. After each reactor goes down, we all go underground for a 60 mob kill streak, to emerge beneath the next reactor.

I's genius.

 

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Originally Posted by Turgenev View Post

Keyes actually isn't bad if everyone knows the deal, but that's the problem: Spending half the trial asking what you should be doing, and the other half trying to recover because people don't know what they're doing, decreases the fun factor considerably.

I think the Underground's strength vs Keyes is that there are periods of combat between the "must explain" phases, which make it easier for people to digest and prep. In Keyes, it's bam-bam-bam for each phase. With UG, it's bam-trot a quarter mile, kill things, bam-go into a hall, wipe a room, travel a bit, bam- etc.

That's it. After each reactor goes down, we all go underground for a 60 mob kill streak, to emerge beneath the next reactor.

I's genius.

I wasn't being sarcastic? Keyes is by far the most fun trial to me. It's hectic, in your face, requires a bunch of different roles and has this overall intensity that I enjoy.

I feel what you are saying about Underground trial, but I tend to enjoy the more urgent atmosphere of Keyes, although I can understand that certain types of players find that frustrating as opposed to fun, kinda how Terminatour said the Des thing wasn't haha funny, but uh-oh funny, I was laughing in my seat out loud when it happened. Different people interpret things differently.

My only issue with Underground from being as fun as Keyes or Lambda to me is after one run through it, I have my fill of defeat mass waves of enemies, which diminishes my urge to run it back to back.

 

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If my understanding of the badge requirements is correct...we missed getting avatar assassin by killing him 1 second to early.

It's a shame this new content isn't particularly rewarding/popular. It's well done and very uniquely styled. I'm looking foward to more.

I gotta make pain. I gotta make things right. I gotta stop what's comin'. 'Least I gotta try.

 

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Any word on another run ladies and gents?


 

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Originally Posted by Turgenev View Post
Soon. We're leading up to it in the Horde. If you want to take the initiative and form your own team, well, here's the mic!
Nah, I'm still a newbie to this trial but I can't wait! I'm excited to try it out!


 

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Originally Posted by Negate View Post
Nah, I'm still a newbie to this trial but I can't wait! I'm excited to try it out!
Then do your homework here:

http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Underground_Trial for general trial requirements.

http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/The_Un...Trial/Strategy for qualitative tactics for each piece.

The trial flows very nicely, and so long as everyone's listening, it can be done (non-master) on the quick at around 30 minutes. Badge-focused, factor in an hour.