And I'd like fries with that (LOL) [some what humorous non rant]

I don't have a single character with a full io set! But somehow I iTrial with Wendy several times a week and have never had issues at all.

Some League leaders do whatever they can to make sure their league won't fail. I appreciate the pressure some of them put themselves under (I hate League leading). But it can drive them to make silly requests like this. And that just makes me laugh.

Bolded emphasis mine. Running BAF and Lam at +0 is considerably easier than running MoM or TPN at +0.

I think I've been on half a dozen or so MoMs where there were 6 or 7 +0s, or +1s for that matter, and none of them were successful. Could it have just been bad luck or a poor mix of ATs? Possibly.

Having skilled players with you is great but if you lack the tools to overcome the "gimmicks" of the trials, you will fail no matter how many skilled players are there.

Personally, I think if the devs are going to be introducing more difficult trials they should "level restrict" them based on 50+0/1, 50+1/2, 50+2/3 etc.

I would guess most people wouldn't particularly like that, but I think it would solve a lot of recruiting headaches. But to sweeten the pot on that suggestion, I would also give league leaders the option to disable the level restriction should they choose to.

And don't get me wrong - I don't think excluding people is right, or fun, or overall a good thing. But not having the tools to contribute makes for a poor overall game experience as well.

Anyway, as always, YMMV, just my 2 cents, etc.

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I'd add to that. If you level restrict an iTrial to 50+1, then that should guarantee at least a rare Incarnate salvage upon completion. If it's restricted to 50+2 or 50+3, a very rare at the very least.

That would help to take out some of the grind in doing these trials as well. Sometimes it feels like it takes ages to get all the rares and very rares you need to get your Incarnate abilities, and meanwhile you end up with a huge collection of threads, commons and uncommons. So either make better ways of getting the rarer bits or... something, I don't know.

That's all I got!

I know what you mean. But I suspect it is this very phenomenon that led the devs to give us the ability to convert these lower types of salvage to the rarer types. Clearly it isn't the most efficient use of the common and uncommon salvage, but if you have tons of it just lying around, go ahead and start converting them to rares and very rares.

I had a friend who was Incarnating up and he had the very rare he needed for a tier 4, but didn't have the rare he needed for the tier 3 before it. He had lots of extra uncommons, but I couldn't convince him to convert some of them to the rare piece he needed. If he had done that, he could have had his tier 4 power right then and there, but for some irrational reason he kept running trial after trial after trial with his ability at tier 2, waiting for a rare to drop just so he wouldn't be "wasting" his stockpile of commons and uncommons. *shrug*

In general I agree with this, but for the MoM trial Dark Miasma's rez (howling twilight) is incredibly usefull since there's no hospital to go to and using Desdemona's rez very often can seriously reduce the time available to complete the trial.