Amygdala

Hard to believe, eh? I'm somanly.

As for the career in ballet, it ended promptly when I was told the Sugar Plum Fairy could not have a beard. Something about pirouettes and whiplash. So I ragequit like a boss.

Welcome to the game, BlueMyth! I also play on the Champion server. Please feel free to send me a tell @Amygdala if you'd like some company or have any questions.

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Hope to see you around!

You should have gotten both.

Check for Pain Killer under Accomplishments. Master Thief/Power Liberator is under PvP.

You get the Pain Killer badge for completing the trial and either the Master Thief (for villains/rogues) or Power Liberator (for heroes/vigilantes) badge for taking the temp power.

Oops, my apologies. Misread that part.

Sweet, thanks.

I agree. The new avatar is very nice.

Thanks. I figured I'd miss a line somewhere.

From what I understand, -Regen debuffs are resisted twice. Once due to the Purple Patch (which makes your powers 48% effective as their original value when used against an enemy +4 to you) and then resisted again due to his 87% Resistance (as shown in the Power Analyzer).

By looking at the screen shot (and confirming by experimenting on another AV) it appears that the numbers in red that show up in the Power Analyzer only take into consideration his resistance due to the Purple Patch when applying the debuff to base Regen.

So as an example, take one of the Twilight Grasps which is -50% Regen:

-0.5(0.48) = -0.24
-0.24 (0.42%/sec) = -0.1008%/sec

Take Envenomed Dagger, which does -250% Regen:

-2.5(0.48) = -1.2
-1.2 (0.42%/sec) = -0.504%/sec

The Power Analyzer seems to round to 2 decimal places, so those numbers are reflected in the screen shot above.

So if the total amount of -Regen debuff was -3.8%/sec from the screen shot, that number only accounts for whatever was applied to base Regen after the Purple Patch was taken into consideration.

Therefore, after taking into account his 87% resistance, it should follow that:

-3.8%/sec (1-0.87) = -0.494
Total Regen - Regen Debuff = 0.78%/sec - 0.494%/sec = 0.286%/sec

However, this wasn't happening in the screen shot. Puzzled, I investigated this further. I figured something might be up with one of the Temp Powers. Envenomed Dagger was fine, but when I brought an HVAS with me, Plasma Blast showed up as a negative number (red number) under the total Regen, but the total Regen number hadn't changed. After a few seconds it did, but then it bounced back. So it is likely that Plasma Blast is not reliably showing up in the total Regen number, and you took your screen shot at a time where it wasn't appearing to affect it.

So going back to the screen shot, Plasma Blast accounts for -2%/sec of the -3.8%/sec total. If we discount it, that leaves -1.8%/sec. If you multiply -1.8%/sec by (1-0.87), you get -0.234%/sec, which is what you said the difference ended up being. Then 0.78%/sec - 0.23%/sec = 0.55%/sec (as seen in the screen shot).

I've seen the AV's Regen go right to zero, so I know it is possible to floor it. What was likely happening is that there appeared to be a floor because of the Plasma Blasts that weren't being taken into account in your total number.

Ah, I missed what you were saying first time I read your post. Interesting idea.

PS Congrats to Union for their recent victory vs the HurRAWRicane.

Thank you for the feedback and additional notes!

I had also taken some measurements of my own with regards to shield down time, and it appears to be 45s flat. I had also read an earlier post of yours confirming the same observation.

The reason that we had decided to assign each team to a cube was not to affect the window of time the shield was down, but to clear the spawns faster so those intervals were closer together, allowing less time for the AV to regenerate. We had tried to go cube to cube in earlier runs, but found that, as you mentioned, the mobs would spot you from across the room and start flying around. In the end it took us longer to clear them simply because more had to be chased down. We found that having each team go directly to their Willforge kept the spawns together and lead to a faster defeat.

Though, at the end of the day, it's about what works for you and your teams. I'm a firm believer that there's not only one correct way to do something. There are obvious benefits to not splitting up the 3 teams, since that enables buffs to overlap more, and there's something to be said for focused fire from 24 people on a spawn vs 8. But like I said, it just didn't pan out for us when we had tried it like that due to spawn movement.

If the issue of the AV attacking through his shield has indeed been fixed, then each team taking on a spawn should be even easier, especially if groups had no trouble with the obelisks (since that's a fairly good indicator of how the teams handle the spawns separately).

I very much appreciate the observations, though. If anything, at some point I'd like to add a troubleshooting section to the guide discussing common issues and how to overcome them, including alternate approaches. So if the method you described works out, I will be happy to create a link to it. I recently checked out the Union forums and it sounds like some great progress is being made, so I will keep checking back.

This. All this talk of excessive organization and planning is on par with anything that is new. I remember when the earlier Hami raids were being run, the form up itself could take hours. Then the raid itself could take hours. Now, the form up and the actual raid take minutes. A Hami raid is far more complex than a CoP is, requires more people which means even more organization, the attendees often vary from raid to raid, and yet, look at how efficiently they are run now.

Successful PuG CoPs are already happening in under 20 mins, some in under 10. And that is with, as StratoNexus said, a large proportion of people who are inexperienced with the trial.

I should have added this to the strat.

1. Get Horus a pony.
2. He will be so excited, he will 'nuke' all over the AV. (Nukes of the Horus variety were not disabled in the latest patch).
3. Profit.