Saving the Reactor Core from the Freakshow

Annzilla and a few good friends ran the level 34+ hero respecification trial tonight! The trial, also known as a "respec" trial is a series of instanced mission with the last mission being a trip to the Reactor Core in Terra Volta. Its a unique map and its pretty darn neat!

For characters that have not run the trial before, upon completion, it awards the character a chance to respec their powers. What this means is that you can choose different powers in your primary, secondary, ancillary, and epic power pools, as well as being able to slot them differently.

Almost to the reactor core. Dashing through the halls.

The respec trial for any first timers is very exciting. Like I said, there is a new unique map that you do not see anywhere else as well as very interesting and engaging gameplay during the core itself.

There are 3 different respec trials with different enemy groups for different level ranges. The bad guys spawn at doors on the top platform surrounding the reactor core. Their objective is to attack and destroy the core and the heroes' objective is to protect the core from the attacks! There is about 10 waves of spawns to face down to successfully complete the trial. In between the spawns, the squishy heroes need to get protection from the radiation in the form of a red bubble while they are in the core or else they lose Damage over Time. The sturdier heroes, like Tankers and Scrappers can do without it because their regeneration outpaces the DoT in the reactor room.

I remember my first time running it, it was some heart pumping fun! But then again, it was crazy hard back then since the devs seemed to have rushed the trial release where testing was inadequate and the difficulty was not scaled correctly. After actually completing it through many failed tries, it was my first feeling of real satisfaction with the game.

Nowadays, the respec trial is not too difficult and you do not have to build the "perfect team" in order to succeed. In fact, any decently coordinated team can beat this trial with ease.

The team kicking butt and protecting the core. I'm the Stone Tanker with the brown, poopy looking stuff around my feet.

But after running it a bazillion times throughout the years, it does get rather predictable and tedious. To spice things up, I have this personal challenge that I create and try to beat. For the level 34+ respec trial, I try to shoot around the 1 hour and 30 minute time limit. It's just a fun little thing to do to keep it interesting.

In the end of this trial run, as expected in a "who's who" team of kick ass heroes, we obviously kicked ass with a Respecification Trial successfully run in under 1 hour and 15 minutes!

Manganese Hero, Polar Vengance, Annzilla, Jane Flame, HardKore