Hrm. Eden.

Ok, I just got myself invited into an Eden Trial, and while it went pretty smoothly on the whole, and we got our badge, all I can say was...it wasn't really fun.

How come? Because the size of the thing was so big, the only solution that most teams would want, is to herd. Luckily for this team, they had a fire tank along. Because these days, invul does not cut it in herding. DE, at any rate. DE, with a boatload of quartz eminators. = Pwn'ed Invul.

I was only semi-functional herder at best, relying heavily on unstoppable, and my timing of it isn't perfect yet, I kept misjudging how long before the crash and getting doubly pwned as a result.

Follow that with a Crystal Titan, and a not-very-competent timer, and I kept wiping, along with the SR scrapper. I'm still trying to decide whether I missed eating an ambrosia...or whether the Crystal Titan's footstomp thingy just one-shotted me through my pathetic def and resist in the first place. Three times I got stepped on and died. The fire tanker waltzed right through it.

Oh, and when we were tanking Quarry. His footstomp hit me for 300ish, he hit the fire tanker for 100, and the scrapper for like 600.

I dunno. Granted, my TI isn't quite superbuff'ed, but will 3 slotting it more get me on par with that fire's resists? Who knows.

I suppose I have to accept the fact that fire runs around with superior resists most of the time, and that the only time invul will outdo fire is for a 3 min unstoppable period, with all the drawbacks after that.

But I'm still not very cool about this herding deal. But if we don't herd, would any team really want to do a group by group thing through Eden Trial? Seriously? I don't know. The only thing that might do is, is to add a damage resist debuff eminator. :P That will also then dissuade fire and stone from herding.

Oh well. Been there, done that. Not terribly impressed with Eden Trial. I prefered Hess, more story to it. One day I must see if the Croatoa TF is as good.