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Oversight centre, teleport rooms etc, since IMHO Teleports>Medbay.

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I would agree. I'd also want salvage or insp storage.

We'll sort out the global chat channel again tomorrow night. Looking forward to it!

My PB is called Ipalnemohuani, a name for the gods of creation in the ancient Aztec religion. That's all linked into her bio, a long-time dormant Aztec girl who bonded with a time/space-travelling Kheldian in ancient times. Hailed as a god-like being in her own time, she recently awoke in the modern world and doesn't understand a word anyone says to her. (I was looking for a Quetzacoatl/winged serpent kinda name to go with her appearance and found it after a little research into that.)

My WS is much more basic. She's called Manxome, after a hybrid word meaning cat-like/monstrous/fearsome from the poem Jabberwocky. She has catgirl-like features, as you probably guessed.

Cool! We meet up for a session 7pm-10pm on Monday nights and you're welcome to come along.

What is your Nin/Traps MM called? We'll keep an eye out for you on Monday.

Bah you!

The scrapper's on the back burner now, since the DW heroes team gets way too crowded in melee for me, the corruptor's also on hold until some DWs decide to be villains again - and the dom and other corruptor don't count, they're part of the weekly teams.

But you did forget my lowbie tank

I'll be on at the weekend too if you need a hand. Playing a lvl 17 Brute at the mo.

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The next regular team will be an all accrobat team in carnie gear, mark my words

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That'd have to be all MA too, definitely!

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I dont mind ghosting, I'm not sure I beleive people who say its leads to faster leveling though.

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Solo, it's definitely faster. But in larger teams you get more xp from the larger spawns so it's worth clearing out whole missions. Exactly where the line is, I don't know. It depends on the ATs involved really.

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Some good advice here, thanks a lot (I had no idea PFF didn't protect against Sleep).

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It's Dispersion Bubble that doesn't protect against Sleep (or KB), and if you get mezzed then the rest of the team loses their protection too. PFF's high defence will still help avoid geting mezzed though.

Good luck!

Synergy_X, as others have tried to point out, the act of summoning a FFG will automatically destroy any other FFG you control that is already in play.

What is trying to be explained is that there is no need for a "destory FFG" command, because such a process is automatic when the FFG is resummoned.

There is simply no need to right-click-Dismixx/right-click-X.

I hope that clears things up for you.

LOL. No.

There was talk a while ago of setting up a room full of mines... that might be fun.

EDIT: I suddenly remembered the plan to try the CaD SF at level 18! I figure if we can get the Goldbricker rocket pack requirements out of the way next week, we can try the SF the week after. How does that sound?

Good times. At times it was quite tricky to remain mobile while remaining inside the FFG bubbles and maneuvring around all those pets. It also caused me to die a couple of times when I left the bubbles' protection to fire off my short ranged attacks, because the fight was too far away from the group - the same thing happened with Ant and Meshep once or twice as well. With a bit of practise I'm sure we'll iron out all the creases though. For example, using the corners for pulling and setting traps should bring the enemy in much closer to us.

That's not to say I didn't have fun! At the moment we're working through Marshall Brass' story arc, since a few of us were offered that in place of the Goldbricker Rocket mission. Once the arc is done, I'm hoping Brass will relinquish the rocket mission, and not take us onto his 2nd arc.

Our next mission is the "Kidnap PTS Workmen" mission with all those Clockwork. That's where we'll pick things up next week.

Lots of dinging last night! Most of us dinged twice each, I think. The level range is 17 (Mea Culpa) to 18 (everyone else who showed up last night! ).

Also, we've banked about 480k Prestige now. What do folks want to do regarding a base? We could easilly set up one of those beginner bases now. I'm thinking we're probably going to havea Tech base - Arcane doesn't really fit with our theme. Discuss what decorative themes you'd like and what utilities you want to see in there as a priority.

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I have Acrobatics for KB protection on mine. I like it, but I like SJ for concept reasons anyway. There will be more options after issue 9 goes live though.

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Really? You mean inventions will carry defensive bonuses for KB and/or statuses in general?

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It will be possible to invent IOs that provide KB protection, as well as resistance (NOT protection) to some other mezzes.

10% unenhanced means about 15-6% with 3 SOs. So that's 120-8% for a full team. Fun! Is Maneuvres really necessary after that?

Give me a shout if you want to set a date for the hunt. I'd like to come along. It's faster to hunt in teams, especially if the prey is rare.

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Plus I should get my FFG tonight. Anyone know the defence rating on these things?

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I don't know the specific %, but I'm pretty certain that 8 of them is Enough%.

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BTW. Was thinking of soloing the gangbuster badge so we can do the fruit machine hidden contact months later :P

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Why solo it? We could probably obliterate that badge in no time as a team. 200 Marcone bosses between 8, that's 25 bosses each. From City Info Terminal:

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An 8 person team hunting throughout southern and northern Port Oakes is the best bet. ANY Family Boss that has an Info Text mentioning the Marcone Family will count towards this Badge.

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Well on trying to catch up to you guys, I've found Mea Culpa is not very good at soloing at level 15!

In the end I respecced slightly - dropped Triage Beacon for now (going to pick it up again post-SO) and took Beanbag instead - opened up Marshall Brass and left the catching up until tomorrow night.

I'm really looking forward to teaming tomorrow! We'll all meet round the Arbiter by the Port Oakes ferry in CaD for a 7pm start. See you then.

Grats!

Dammit, there's no way I have time to get involved in this too! I have a lvl 6 DM/Nin Stalker idling on my account as well...

Best of luck guys!

Nice to hear it MarquandDance

It should be very amusing to see what they make of a whole team of trappers in BB...

Rightio, I'll try and get to lvl 16 and unlock Brass for next week.

So what did I miss?

What level are you guys at now?

Our first SF attempt will be at level 18.

I hadn't thought about PvP. We'll definitely make the requisite trip to Bloody Bay for Shivan pets at some point, so we could have a go at the heroes while we're there I guess.

It should be possible, given enough stackings of confuse effects.

Power Boost will help this indirectly because the added duration means you can stack more Confusions (which has a tiny recharge anyway) into the duration of a single Mass Confusion.

Even then, you can expect to confuse a single AV/Hero, if they don't have their purple triangles up of course.

Your best bet is teaming with other confusion-using dominators (Mind or Plant), as this really ups the chances of pulling this off and makes things a lot of fun in general play.

Finally, bear in mind that Manticore has his own version of the Leadership pool powers, so the entire Freedom Phalanx have confusion protection until you take him down.

A good night last night. We reached level 14-15 and finished off Lunata's story arc, then moved into Cap Au Diable for paper missions. Sooo close to FFGs now...

Unfortunately because it's Easter, I won't be able to make it next week. No matter, I'll catch up to whatever level you reach in time for our next session together.

Remember to grab Dr Shelley Percy for your first CaD contact, as she's the one that leads to Marshall Brass, who we need for the Goldbricker Rocket temp power. Also I fully expect to come back to a team full of FFGs Have fun!

Domination + Power Boost + Mass Confusion will confuse Bosses in one application, but not Elite Bosses.

Power Boost doubles the duration of mezzing powers, not the magnitude. Domination is the only power in the game that doubles the magnitude of these powers.

Sorry to hear that Moondog At the end of the day though, it's all about what you have fun with.

Mercs hmm? Should fit well with the Assault Rifles, Thugs and Sonics already in our group... what a noisy bunch we are!