I gotta say I"m surprised

I thought that with the release of the newest trial in the new issue and with all the power gamers and min/maxers (I'll admit I've become one) we have on this server I fully expected to see to see some sort of DD until the cows come home kind of event. Sort of a get twenty Emps in a day kinda thing.

I have a second account (so my brother could try the game and I wanted to try dual boxing myself) and I subscribed it so I can start incarnating my one toon on it. Problem is even with the new DA its still difficult. I try and get on whatever trials i can but not many are run at 6 to 8 west coast time. (friday night and only found the 1 keyes ) Yes I can hear it already, "Start a trial yourself". Two responses for that, I've asked numerous times if there was any interest in a BAF or LAM and the globals remain quiet. Also, I dont like leading. Having to explain everything and spam all the different channels and keep track of PM's, whats going on in each channel, and in league speak. It's a bit overwhelming and I applaud our regular's who are putting trials together for being able to do it.

But anyways, does a multi run of DD sound interesting to anyone? I only ran it once but it didnt seem like it took too long. Plus I'm sure if our big name veterans were involved it would be a cake walk. (You know who you are)

But yeah, not explicitly trying to form this up but rather hear what people think about such a thing. I think if the end of the sub starts creeping up and I'm still not T4 across the board I'd push more for this idea. Also excuse whatever typo's or whatnot. Havent gone to bed yet but will in a moment. Be back in about 6 or 7 hours Champions.

Yeah, been using DA late at night. 3 speed heather runs and now 1 repeatable mission a night for 1 component (usually common), 2 astrals or an emp, and 20 threads (so another component).

Yeah, I'm on the west coast also, work, have a family, and so forth. It can be hard to get some trial action going in the evening after wifey is in bed due to low population on the server around that time.

I have my son every other week and he plays, but his bed time is 830ish; after dinner, homework, and bath time we usually squeeze in 45 to an hour of play and sometimes we can get on a trial in that window, but often we can't.

The weeks I don't have him, I usually work on other projects or play a lowbie alt to de-stress before bed.

Thus, I tend to get in some iTrial action on the weekends. However, I did mostly solo thru the DA arc with one of my newish 50's, Big Blue Basher a couple of weeks ago. I unlocked Reactive and Judgement doing it (he was already alpha slotted) and managed to get t2's in both, but I just haven't gotten the drops or threads to go any further on non-trial content as of yet.

I'm glad there is some solo-able i-content now, but I do wish they would put in a 4-8 man iTrial so that we could get something going when the server head count is low.

Hey, I just...sort of rejoined the game (I never canceled my subscription, but my video card crapped out two years ago and my participation has been limited since then). But now I have a new PC and life is good. Anyway, I'm just getting my feet wet again and figuring out what's going on, but I love doing Trials and TF's. My main is a stone/stone brute that I'm eventually going to make less villainous to open up options, but I'm still looking forward to trying the DD or BAF soon. Let me know, I'd love to try them if you don't mind me looking vaguely newbish and being pretty underpowered for an Incarnate.

@Dark_Epitaph

The best way to get on Trials and TF/SFs, Comix, is to be on several global channels. If I see you in game I'll try to get you some invites. You can send me a tell as @gameboy1234. You can also just make your own thread here about getting trials and you'll probably get responses from several channel operators; going directly to them is usually the best way.

The second best way to get Trials is watch broadcast in DA and the Help channel. Third best way is put yourself in the queue and hope an open league starts. Use the LFG menu at the top of your Chat window to add yourself to a queue.

Welcome back, and good luck.

For some reason asking people if they are interested in trials gets little reply on champions, but if you somewhat spam that you are forming a trial rather then asking you get a better response. I am not sure why but its just the way it is, been playing on the server for a while now and asking people if they are interested seems to be too much for a reply, just better to say "I am forming this trial send tell if you want in" makes a difference.

Just bumping to add this:

Last night I was in DA, didn't see anyone doing anything, so I ran off to run some solo missions. As an afterthought I added myself to the LFG with "any trial."

After one mish, and not seeing any chatter in either /hc or the global channels, I got the "Press green to ready for Trial" dialog.

LFG works! Well we knew this, but I think we forget it. If nothing is going on, drop yourself in the LFG and go about your business. Since they added the ability to stay in the queue in instances, it's hugely more useful for finding Trials and other teams. You don't have to use pre-formed teams 100% of the time.

I would also like to add that a Lambda was formed at 10am Eastern this morning. Just goes to show you can get trials going at times other than peak hours.