What Constitues Speed/Shardy/XP/Streamroll?

So I inherited the forming of an ITF today and it was originally being advertised as a Shardy/XP run. So that's how I continued to advertise it.

Now my question is, what exactly constitutes a "style" of run?

From my perspective:

Speedy = Hop from Objective to Objective, doing only what's needed - least amount of time possible.

Shardy/XP/Steamroll/Regular = Kill mostly what's in the way, don't go terribly out of your way to get additional mobs. Generally spending an hour or so on a run.

Kill Everything In Sight = Pretty much self explanatory. Could take hours+.

The reason I ask, we were about 25min into the run after the second mission, and I mentioned that I didn't want to clear the map (Nictus spawn map) and that after the last cyst was down, we'd clear the ambush, then move on. Someone passed a comment and I genuinely felt bad that the run may have been mis-advertised.

I mean, all in all, we spent an hour on the ITF, killed most of what was on the maps, and I think (hope) that everyone enjoyed themselves.

I'm just curious as to what other think when the above are advertised and what they translate to.

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the groups I'm in with my SG usually kill all ambushes along with the cysts for a shard run, but otherwise, sounds like you had it.

In my experience it means defeat everything that gets in your way or even looks at you funny, but don't bother hunting down everything on the map. So any enemies that have the good sense to not get in the way and stay out of sight are fine.

It's not a Shard/XP run unless someone pulls the fort rooftop mobs down onto your team while they're fighting the mobs below

I don't advertise a TF as speed unless I know that either I alone or my friends on the TF and I can handle all of the objectives at maximum speed regardless of what anyone else is doing. To put it another way, it is inherently apparent when one is on a speed TF if one knows what speeding that TF means. Ergo anyone who is on an ITF that is already twenty five minutes long should know that it is a "shardy TF" prima facie. QED. Carpe diem.

If the issue was that your teammate assumed it'd be over quicker and was hoping to hurry it up because she had to be somewhere, well, that's understandable too, if not necessarily correct from the overall team perspective.

another one for kill everything between you and the objectives= shard/xp run. which is my preferred method of doing an ITF

On the server I play on, I only know three styles, although once in a rare while I may have heard another name for a couple of them:

Speed, aka Stealth: Multiple people with +50 or greater Stealth(PvE) and [Assemble the Team] run from objective to objective, teleporting the team to any objectives that a tanker can't solo. Any objectives that a tanker can solo, the tanker runs ahead and solos while the rest of the team does whatever they want, maybe goofs around with the first couple of spawns for lack of anything better to do.

Steamroll: Minimum-distance path through all objectives, killing anything that gets in the way, ignoring anything that isn't.

Shard, aka XP: Treat every mission as if the objectives included "Defeat all."

Of the three, I usually prefer Steamroll. Less finicky, everybody gets to participate, less dull, good rewards. (Exception: I absolutely do like to stealth most of Virgil Tarikoss's strike force. 8-person spawns of Circle of Thorns is way too much mez and way, way too much debuff to be facing for most level 15-20 teams. And by the end of Synapse, virtually everybody is stealthing from exhaustion and boredom; even teams that promised each other they were going for maximum XP stealth those last couple of missions.)

Thankfully the game is designed such that you can go at your own pace and more importantly you can change your mind about the pace at any time.

For me it depends on what character I'm playing and how bored the group is.

Every once in a while, when your inspiration bars are all full and you want to actually use them, you can pull a second group, run behind a corner to group them up in one spot, and use ALL THE INSPIRATIONS and go to town. I personally hand-toss the reds to my minions because it just wouldn't be dramatic if I used a macro to do it, I use all sorts of aoe powers and I leap right into fights because the game just wouldn't be fun if I didn't take risks.

Glad that I can. Certain other MMO's just flat out suck at presenting challenges.

Speed - Minimum required, 30+/- minute run.
XP/Shard/Drop - At least including ambushes.