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Wow! Grats to Prism! I see he's now lvl 30!
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Thanks! I'm feeling the rush to level... a strange compulsion to reach level 32.
I'll stay under 31 until this weekend, tho, so we can do Bastion's TF if we want.
I love Prism's new build. He solos really well, so much so that I gave him a bump in difficulty to tenacious (this way I also end up battling bosses). Right now the big issue is upgrading enhancements and finding ones for Radiation Infection (am I blind or are there no DO/SO enhancements for defence debuff and to hit debuff?)
Lately, what I've been doing is to solo some missisons with my seek on. I've now done the respec a couple of times and that SO at the end is a nice reward... plus the TF is usually worth a few bubbles.
No idea on what Prism'll do for a third costume. I've been thinking of declaring the second costume a classic and repeating it in black.
I was working on Star on the test server to see about respecing him. I think that I can respec stamina in for him. In the repsec i gave up crushing field and rad infection and tp, but one of the things that I did was to take enverting field instead.
In your opinion, would you say that post stamina that enverting field is a better deal than rad?
As for the dos and sos for defense buff and to hit, what you have to do is work a contact until they give you access to the sos and or dos ...
Oops. Now that Prism is 30, all he has to do is do the science contact mish and then he can get all the SOs that he'll need ...
Any idea hwere the team would be meeting tomorrow? I'm thinking of doing Star's respec live and then testing out his post stamina build. The only bad thing is that I'll wind up losing TP, but I think I can still manage to keep mutate ...
*sigh*
I wish I had some money to get Star some decent DOs ... 8-(
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I'm still getting a feel for Rad Infection and Enervating Field. EF is more powerful unslotted, but eats tons of END and doesn't accept any useful enhancements. RI can be 6-slotted, though I'm not sure if I'll be able to do that. (How would you slot RI... all to hit debuffs, all defense debuffs or a split?)
Played with auras this morning one test... wow there's some cool possibility there.
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Yeah there are some cool choices. Didn't think to look if they had added any along with the new issue. I'll have to take a look.
Condo & Grev are both ready to do the Calvin Scott TF, Bastion and Condo & Tas want to do the respec mish as well. Calvin Scott isn't supposed to be too long and the respec isn't either so we could try one of them tonight if everyone else is interested.
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My initial thought was to use it as a split, but now I'm thinking that I'd want to make Rad out to be a tohit debuff ... enverting field is much more of a defense debuff.
EF is such a powerful tool ... I did the Eden Trial with Blue twice and a door that took my first team half an hour to take down was taken down by the second team in about 5-10 minutes. It is the ultimate defense debuff.
Andrew is 25, I think. I'd like to try the respec mish just for the fun of it.
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BTW, Yikes! did I say Prism could solo easily? That was before I fought a tenacious mob of Devouring Earth and Freaks. (In the end I used a strategy where I summon PA and then pull foes to me and my army.)
quote:Originally posted by Vee: Yeah there are some cool choices. Didn't think to look if they had added any along with the new issue. I'll have to take a look.
Hm, there are a lot of new options, so maybe some were new. I played on the test to avoid losing any INF, so I may have seen the big list...
quote:Condo & Grev are both ready to do the Calvin Scott TF, Bastion and Condo & Tas want to do the respec mish as well. Calvin Scott isn't supposed to be too long and the respec isn't either so we could try one of them tonight if everyone else is interested.
Perhaps a respec? I'm always happy to get another SO. It may be too early for Calvin Scott... his range is 30 - 36, IIRC and that may be painful with 30s. Maybe we can try for Bastion on Sat/Sun (it looks long) and Calvin the following weekend?
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I'm posting to the Triumph board that I'm gonna be looking to do the Cavern of Transcendence this weekend. Anyone got characters 14+ on Triumph that wants to join that?
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I've got something smack-dab in the middle of the afternoon today, but I'm open for Bastion and/or anything else there might be time for tomorrow. We could also do Hess again so Mysa has a chance to do it and maybe just Ninja our way through the appropriate missions so it goes a bit faster.
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From: Standing beside you in Ferndale, MI | Registered: Aug 2003
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Well, what can I say about this weekend? Nightmarish comes to mind but even that may not relay exactly what it was like.
Grev, Prism, and Condo got together on Saturday and decided to attempt the respec mission. Pickin's were slim for others willing to participate but we were able to put together a team of eight. It included a Peacebringer and a Warshade, the three of us and three other heroes who's ATs I can't recall at the moment. I DO recall that we didn't have enough healing or damage dealing. We failed that mission, had three members drop and then failed the second attempt as well. Each time we made it to what seemed to be the final wave only to be overrun by numbers and had everyone killed.
By the end of the night I was up to 68K in debt and I think Prism and Grev were not far behind that total. The two of them did yeomans work in healing but neother of them is a true healer and we had no "Mysa" there to help keep everyone alive. Conversely, it seemed Condo was our best damage dealer and he couldn't keep up with wave after wave. (They were coming from 2-3 doors at a time unlike other times I've done this mission before when you dealt with distinct waves and had time to take a breath.)
Yesterday, I ventured on to CoH only to find Prism already logged in and giving the respec mish another, albeit unsuccessful, try. He said he'd be willing to try again and as we were discussing it both Grev and Scottybones logged in and joined us. It took quite a while to recruit enough people for the team and we ended up with an odd assortment this time as well. Condo (lvl 31 blaster), Grev (lvl 30 dark defender), Prism (lvl 30 illusion/rad controller, 88 (Scotty's lvl 32 earth controller), a level 24 electric blaster, a lvl 29 storm controller, a lvl 27 bubbler, and a lvl 25 ?
Unfortunately by the time we got a full team together and started on the first mish, Scotty had to go AFK for a while so we didn't have use of his pet "Rocky" during the missions. We actually did very well throughout the early part of the TF but again got overrun by the final wave.
So we decided to give it one more shot. We wanted to find a bit more damage so we disbanded and restarted. The level 25 blaster quit and Scotty still wasn't back so we added two scrappers, a lvl 24 and a lvl 28.
Now this sounded like a much better team to deal with that final wave but...
the level 24 scrapper immediately began having connection problems and kept dropping and taking a while to come back. And even worse, the lvl 28 scrapper was a certifiable pain in the ass who knew more than anyone what we needed to do. Of course he was always wrong but insisted he wasn't and caused more than a few deaths because of it.
Finally we made it into the reactor core and then things finally settled down some. The level 24 scrapper managed to participate in some of that and we managed to finally complete the mission and earn the repecs. *breath of relief*
By the end Condo logged off with 75,649 in debt. I think Grev and Prism were both in the 66-69K range as well.
This is a mission I actually enjoy doing but I will be leery of doing it with anyone other than people I know and trust. It is a manageable mission if well planned and done as a team that works together instead of just doing whatever you want and causing everyone problems. Think I'll only do it with you guys from now on.
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The big problem with our respec attempts was the difficulty slider. Once we got everyone at heroic before starting that went fine. IMO the difficulty slider had an interface problem... it says heroic but the difficulties actually stack. We went from teams of +2, +3 and +4s to -1, evens, +1 and +2s. Unfortunately, if you check after the TF has started it says "heroic" and looks okay.
quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: Well I deactivated my account today. I still have a couple months of credit since they won't allow me to transfer the time over to Caroline.
The game just holds no interest for me anymore. Must be my AAADD.
Sorry to hear about that, Scott. We're gonna miss teaming with you.
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Absolutely, but if you're not enjoying it anymore there is no reason to keep paying for an account.
Of course, if I run out of slots I might buy it off you
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