BAF/LAM all there is??

I think I am missing something; now that we are all 50, are we all stuck doing BAF/LAM over...and over...and over...and over...and over to get everything we need to be an incarnate? Is there something else besides these repetitive trials or the ridiculously long Underground/Reactors et al??

I'm a long time player of COH/COV but, this is really boring. Please tell me there is something else.

Thanks...sincerely.

There's a whole game other than those two iTrials.

Well, there is Keyes, Underground, First Ward, whichever side your 50 didn't level on, TFs/SFs, flashback missions, AE missions (Yes, there are actual story missions there, some very good ones), badging. You should be able to find a couple of things to do besides BAF and Lambda. (I admit, I am somewhat strange. I actually enjoy all of the things I listed, including Keyes and Underground.)

In order to get the stuff needed to craft your individual incarnate powers you can just play regular content and rely on shard conversions. That of course takes an insanely long time so going for EM's, AM's and threads via the most time efficient trial(s) is the most time efficient way and that's what most people do.

It says a lot about how much the game has changed when Keyes and Underground are considered long trials. Old school Posi back in the day used to take 3 times as long (at least, if you were lucky enough to even be able to keep a team together long enough to do it), and it was a hell of a lot more repetitive and tedious.

Like Psychoti said, there's more to the game besides iTrials, and there's a few other things you can do to earn progress towards your Incarnate stuff (any non-iTrial content you do will drop Shards which you can convert to Threads, Apex/Tin Mage give 2 Threads per run, you can get 1 Emp/Astral per week from the SSAs after you run them for the first time). We've also got two new trials coming down the pipeline in the immediate future, and more after that.

Patience. Nobody becomes a god overnight.

UGT may be a longer trial, but it now guarantees either the rare or very rare reward tables on completion. IMO that makes it worth the extra time involved. Keyes got nerfed hard with the last patch, so it's not so long now. And there are two more trials known to be coming soonish.

UG and Keyes are NOT long.

Players who make this complaint should be publicly shamed.


So to answer the OPs question: No, there are FOUR trials, soon to be 6.

Keyes isn't any more. The UGT is.

However, the UGT is now a guarnteed Rare/VR to make up for it.

In my experience, the thing that makes UGT a 'long' time investment isn't actually the trial... it's collecting 23 other people willing to do the trial.

I24 Proc Chance = (Enhanced Recharge + Activation Time) * (Current PPM * 1.25) / 60*(1 + .75*(.15*Radius - 0.011*Radius*(360-Arc)/30))
Single Target Radius = 0. AoE Non-Cone Arc = 360.

Also, if you want to make the UGT faster, send someone who is familiar with the bombs ahead to act as a minesweeper.

The volunteer just needs to be reasonably mobile. Stealthy (or durable) helps if you send them out to do this starting with the very earliest bombs, because there are still DE spawns past those. Otherwise anyone can do it if they have enough regen and/or self-healing to survive the spore DoT. (The latter isn't very hard, most melee characters have the HP/sec regen to survive it, as does most anyone with lots of IO set bonuses.) The sweeper just runs up to each bomb, makes sure they see the message showing it triggered, and then they run off to the next one. The rest of the league follows at whatever pace Desdemona moves at.

Ah, a big THANK YOU to all the posters who answered my question without a dig. No offense was intended in any way. Just acclimating to the incarnates which, are great fun. Getting them is...an adjustment, for me at least, and having options are fun, too. Thanks again for taking the time to answer everyone.

People who do trials without obtaining the +1 level shift beforehand should feel bad. It's not hard. I believe I formed up and ran an Imperious TF, Statesman TF, and a Dr. Kahn TF over two nights to get mine the last time.

I started doing iTrials without my level shift and I don't feel bad at all. So, .