What Server most frequently runs Incarnate Trials?


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I live in the North West Coast (B.C. Canada) and I'm looking for a server to join that runs Incarnate trials frequently. Currently I'm in the Protector server but they only run Incarnate trials between 4:00pm - 8:30pm Pacific Time which is exactly the time I have work! I'd like to join a server that runs Incarnate trials outside of that time and preferably with a lot of players around the same region where I live so it's not so laggy. Please give me some suggestions and thank you


 

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Exalted runs them often (nightly almost)
I believe Freedumb and Virtue also do it often.



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Freedom and Virtue have the biggest populations which equals more trials.

The ex-europe defiant might have more people during your play time.

Servers are arranged with the last one you used at the top, then lowest load to highest load at the bottom on the list. Keep an eye on which are always at the bottom when you play.

You can also join the global chat channels for a few servers to get a feel of how active they are.

If you don't already, leading trials yourself via sending tells and messages in global channels is often successful for BAFs and LAMs

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preferably with a lot of players around the same region where I live so it's not so laggy.
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They're pretty common on Virtue. Daytime hours seem to be a little lighter (and generally don't run as smoothly in my experience) and more BAF/Lam/Keyes-heavy, but it's rare that finding a trial is impossible. Once people start getting off from work and school, things pick up pretty sharply from there, both in frequency and variety, and there are a few people who run some (really really good) trials into the wee hours of the morning and beyond.


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Freedom of course.


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Mistress Dawn runs trials mon/wed/fri/sat/on the defiant server at 8pm bst,I,m not sure what the time difference is for you.They are well attended hope that helps.


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Freedumb and Virchoo are your best best for anytime of the day trial forming.


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Virtue runs them constantly. Freedom probably does the same, but I don't play there.


 

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Currently I'm in the Protector server but they only run Incarnate trials between 4:00pm - 8:30pm Pacific Time which is exactly the time I have work!
Is the concept of cross-server teaming dead in the water, or still on the horizon? I have exactly the same problem noted here, and I can't help but think we could continually run iTrials if we could form leagues with a few from several servers.


 

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on Freedom we meet in the Pocket-D. I'm not sure how many trials are going after midnight eastern ( 9pm west coast )


 

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Various people run them on Champion every night. Thul Sorapa(sp?), Artic Keeper (he spells it incorrectly by choice), Jitsurei, Amygdala just to name a few...


 

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Freedom and Virtue.

I've seen 2 groups running incarnate trials on Freedom even at late hours from 1AM-6AM EST.

Primetime there is usually 4 groups running. If you go into pocket D and its empty, just wait a few minutes and a team will return. The other way to get something going of course is to just run one yourself, you'll be amazed how much tell spam you get if you say, "Forming X, pst"


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Servers with larger populations will likely run more trials overall.

However, a followup question should be "which" trials are being run?

I've noted on Freedom, lots of BAF and Lambda and not a lot else.



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preferably with a lot of players around the same region where I live so it's not so laggy.
Along with tanstaafl's comment, all of the servers are located in the same building so that has no bearing either.


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Like the OP I also live on the West Coast and cannot play till 10 PM local. Which greatly lowers my ability to participate in the Incarnate trials on my servers. When things were still shiny it was not a problem but now days its pretty slow.

I have tried team building when I just need to get that last few threads but 45 minutes seems to be the average team building time required when successful.

While I like the i content and feel it brings some fun and expanding TF missions. I also feel a barrier to entry in this content. Frustration. This end game content system only really works if people on all servers are regularly running this content. The solo route has been filling the holes in some of my Incarnate builds but my grind O meter cannot handle the magnitude of time and repetition required to make the same progress as one BAF.

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Is the concept of cross-server teaming dead in the water, or still on the horizon?
None of the above. To my knowledge, it has been mentioned rarely and very, very briefly (recently in this survey, question 12ish in a dropdown: https://www.research.net/s/pummit2012), but outside of that, as far as we know, it's nothing more than a possible concept that may or may not be in the future.

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I have exactly the same problem noted here, and I can't help but think we could continually run iTrials if we could form leagues with a few from several servers.
No doubt. I think it's all technical hurdles though. Cross server iTrials would be win/win in all corners.


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Various people run them on Champion every night. Thul Sorapa(sp?), Artic Keeper (he spells it incorrectly by choice), Jitsurei, Amygdala just to name a few...
This is true. And they're 99% successful.


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I am a west coast player and have played on freedom, virtue and exalted. Freedom is your best bet, since it has more west coast, hawaiian, euro, & aussie players than virtue and exalted. While waiting for the league to fill, I sometimes chat with the other players. The chat with euro players can be quite interesting. Google translate is my friend


 

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We on Guardian run Lambda and BAF on a daily basis. Depending on the crowd we do Keyes too. MoM, TPN, DD and UG are ran less, but still at least once, twice or more times a week, it all depends on the crowd and what people want.

We normally start running trials at about 4pm till..well.. when most people are gone.

We form in DA, since that way we can see what level shift people are.



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Interesting. I live on the West Coast (southern California) and oddly ran into the opposite problem! It seems like everyone STARTS doing iTrials as I am logging for the night! (I usually play after work in the evenings from about 4 Pacific til about 8 Pacific and as I'm logging for the night is when I tend to see them forming!)

This got frustrating enough that I actually moved a character I really wanted to Incarnate over to another server. My main server is Victory...it got interesting when I used a Server Transfer Token...and noticed Freedom and Virtue were NOT on the list of possible places to relocate my toon. I don't have any characters on those two servers so that was very odd to me. I wasn't sure if this was the Dev's way of trying to keep those servers from becoming overpopulated...or...???

I can say, though, that Justice tends to be pretty active in terms of iTrials. More-so than Victory anyway. I'd love for that to change...

I'm thinking that once i23 hits, people are going to be making mad dashes to get their Hybrid slots opened and slotted so we'll probably see an increase in iTrials. That's a major hope of mine, anyway!


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...it got interesting when I used a Server Transfer Token...and noticed Freedom and Virtue were NOT on the list of possible places to relocate my toon. ...
Scroll down. The transfer screen doesn't have enough space to list all of the servers.


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