Any ETA on alternate ways to get Hybrid xp?

On protector it's kinda scarce to get people to run the Mag's trial to unlock Hybrid now a days. And I have a bazillion 50s left to unlock it. So, any alternate ways to unlock Hybrid on route?

On route? yes.

ETA for it? No.

I would guess Issue 24 will have something, but until the announcement goes up and/or beta starts, that's purely a guess.

According to Major T (from the Protector forum)

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Originally Posted by Major_T Typically, the Magisterium trial is run most week nights at least twice out of DA. It is often the last trial run in the progression of trials with typical recruiting for a that trial will often occur between 9 to 9:30pm Eastern (6 to 6:30 Pacific). Most leagues start off with Lambda, BAF, Keyes, and TPN, before finishing the evening/night with one or two Magisterium trials. The trials are most often led by either Talbien or Huron, and occasionally I have lead them as well. On occasion (to shake up the monotony) an Underground, Mom, or DD will be run instead.

I'm usually not on in the evenings so I can't verify this, though.

I believe the more direct comment about it was in one of the coffee talks, which is why I'm not bothering to dig it up, too much video to search through.

I'm not questioning the addition of new content with new rewards. It's the "oh, you guys wanted a non-trial path? *shock, surprise*" only a single issue after they finally added a halfway-viable non-trial path for the previous content because of exactly the same player reaction.

We're getting a non-trial path for Hybrid eventually. Presumably, it will be new content. There is no game design principle that says it has to come after the league content.

Edit: Hell, at least last time you could work on things slowly with shards. It was horrible compared to trials, but it technically existed.

This was mentioned before, but I'll just emphasize that they did specifically say that they were adding more Incarnate content in I24, so we'll just have to wait and see whether that includes more sources of Advanced iExp.

For anyone wondering, I edited my post above several times; PRAF68 did not misquote me, he just hit the quote button before I was satisfied with my wording.

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Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU Not yet available means you get it later. Which is exactly the same as slower.

No, being unavailable is not the same as slower. If it's slower, I can do something. When the path doesn't exist, I can't do anything. Nothing I do allows me to make any progress towards earning Hybrid on my own. In terms of my satisfaction, these are worlds apart. One gives me a game to play, the other does not. As always, CoH is about the journey at least as much as the destination.

Also, it isn't a completely one-or-the-other thing. I don't mind the Magisterium trial. I've run Magisterium. Quite a lot. I have Hybrid unlocked on 6 characters. I am approaching the point where fighting IDF on the roads of Nova Praetoria causes me to reflexively cry and/or vomit uncontrollably. I want a way to finish unlocking the slot when I'm at 99% and most of the league called it a night after the last run; or to make some progress when I happen to be online at an odd hour and there aren't enough players to run any trial at all, certainly not the one with the most stringent requirements; or when I'm just not feeling social. Even just a second trial that gives advanced iXP would be a huge improvement, really, to at least cut down on the repetitiveness.

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Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU If the content can be soloed, it is solo content. If it can't be soloed, it will be QQed amount just as much as a trial, and is, therefore, pointless.

This is, again, not borne out by reality. Task forces remain popular to this day, as do teams for radios, regular contact missions, SSAs, etc. Yes, people also solo the solo content, and some people even solo the TFs (if we stretch the definition of "solo" a bit to allow TF padding), but teaming is alive and well, despite a vast abundance of alternatives (even, in some cases, more efficient ones).
People will team if they want to team, and clearly many do. Offering incentives (like faster progress) to team up is great, too. Saying "people don't want to team up, so we should make them team up anyway" is missing the point in a way that makes players unhappy AND loses revenue.

Not gonna comment on this again. Anything I say on this subject wouldn't come across as "nice" or polite and would likely just get modded into oblivion.

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Time is relative. A path that exists in the future still exists, and may well be quicker than a longer path that starts in the present.

And yes, teams still play content that can be soloed. But that doesn't stop it being solo content. Content designed for a group is different on a fundamental level.

This is me slowly preparing for my space adventure to the sun.

I'm going to stop posting on this topic. Dwelling on it like this has made me far more unhappy about it than Hybrid itself ever has. Suffice it to say, I am not particularly happy with the current situation for Hybrid, and I'm clearly far from alone. Citing specious game design principles at me certainly doesn't make me any happier with it.

Well look, the bottom line is that it sucks but the devs have made up their minds. Trials get first dibs on goodies, solo'able stuff comes after.

The -hope- at least is that it'll come closer together than the inception of the incarnate system to Dark Astoria. Ideally it'll be like one issue after the other but I wouldn't exactly bank on it.

Frankly though, Hybrid as a new shiny really isn't worth the fuss.