The long wait may be over.. but did they wait too long? (opinions??)

No I am not referring to Issue 23 which I have done ome testing on Beta and am looking foreard to but more specifically Incarnate powers.

I did an inventory the other day just to see how I will be set once 23 hits and I open my Hybrid slot running 4-5 Magi trial.

I currenty have 16 characters that can slot a hybrid power with a Tier 4 as soon as they earn enough IXP to open the power. All of these 16 characters rurrently have tier 4s in all of the other incarnate powers and each has two additional destiny powers slotted to tier 3... I like to have Clarion, Barrier and reborth available to assist with whatever is needed on a run.

I have another 6 character that can lot a Hybrid power with a Tier 3 as fast as they open Hybrid. Like the ones about all their current powers are tier 4 and thy too have the addition tier 3 destiny powers.

Finaly I have a 23 character that can slot a tier 2 in the hybrid power slot as soon as it opens. That characte also has all teir 4s in each power currently available.. the only difference is that haracter has no added destiny powers .. just the one slotted to t4.

Now let me clarify that I have been to the Astral and Empyrean stores and have every emote, aura and costume piece I desire. There were a few I skipped but not many. And I have also used some Astrals to purchase the ATO enhancers for certain characters that were low on reward merits.

My point is once I-23 hits I will start running Magi trials until my eyes bleed and then ... POOF as fast as the slot opens the majority of my characters will hav it fillwed to its highest level.

I think they may have done better by having an issue 22.5 and releasing Hybrid then and given us yet another to work on once 23 hits (supposedly next week). There will be the typical SURGE of players when the issue hits and as soon as all the badges are acquired, all the charactrs have powers slotted and whatever else.. there will be a drop off once again.

I know they want to use the trials and the powers as a way to entice us to stick around but let's be honest.. I actually took more than a full month off from running any trials at all while I leveled a Brute and Stalker to 50 using Staff Weapos and a MasterMind to 50 using Beast Mastery. I currenly have a corruptor at 43 that utilizes the new Dark powers and that will be my next 50 level to start the incarnate trials. So it not like I simply have done nothing else BUT run trials since they started. I play on virtue and for MONTHS it was easy to find just about any trial day or night and aside from the Underground most take no more than 30-40 minutes to complete. Heck I have seen it take longer to recruit a league than it did to complete the trial. I have aslo seen a definate decline in the number of trials being run up until a week or so ago. Once players discovered that 1) hybrid would use the same salvage as the current trials drop and 2) Issue 23 was very close to release Things picked up a leaders are now actually advertising.. " Get your salvage now and be ready when Hybrid goes live!"

NO this i NOT a plea for yet another TYPE of salvage PLEASE NO but I think if we had Hybrid to work towards a while back we wouldn't have so many players all ready to slot Hybrid to the max and be bored to teas again as fast as its released.


Okay that's my ramblings so what do any of you think? Look forward to the replies and please don't hurt each other [keep the flame wars to a minimum its only a hypothetical question) lol

Did they wait too long? Possibly. For one slot? To me, that only compounds it.

Then again, I don't actually worry all that much about the incarnate stuff. *shrug* it's just... *waves hands* over there somewhere, I rarely bother with it. I do, however, feel a bit of concern over the possibility that, whenever I *do* feel like running it (or getting another 50, since I did over the weekend and have several 40+ characters ready to go,) people are going to be too busy in the upper end trials to want to run the lower (and conversely see the lower-tier Incanrates as undesirable to bring along.)

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I tell you, it's just in time. I finally managed to craft the last T4 two weeks ago, so I'm all set for some new ways to grow my main. Still a little lonely without primal clockwork to go with the name - maybe it's time for another optional Lore update they can slap together?

Or rather than implementing new salvage, maybe they could add T5s to each option?

Edit: All attempts to be pelted with rotten tomatoes aside, the Hybrid slot is unique enough that I'd hope people would expand to slot multiple versions on a single character. If they get the courage to bump up the Support slot some more then each option will be worth getting on a single character. It's even more versatile than Destiny, which is saying something.

I have a feeling we won't be seeing trials stop just because someone reaches one level of T4 Hybrid. That'd be denying your character a vast array of power - the slot that most embodies the "grow sideways" power of the incarnate system to date.

Naaa. Not everyone has saved up hundreds and hundreds of EMPs/Astrals/Threads to convert and make the Hybrid slot.

I know I haven't.

Congratulations. "20 t4ed incarnates"

"In about 3 hours we'd run every trial" is most definately not all of us. That is a dedicated group that someone would be lucky to fall in with.

At least everyone will be forced to run the Magisterium iTrial until they get it down pat so that PuGs can speed it for the Astrals and Empyreans used to buy Purples and PvP IOs.

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On the contrary, being as there's still probably not enough content to get the current slots completed without repeating content, I'd say they didn't wait long enough.

I have 6 50's ... all of which are t3 on everything and a few t4'd. When Hybrid comes out I am not sure if I will be getting it on all my toons....I will test it out on my main and see if I like it. But yes..due to the long duration between powers...once unlocked I would have enough components on every toon to tier 3 them easily.

I think they should have released Judgment/Lore together... waited 3-4 months and then done Interface/Destiny...instead of all 4 at once.

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