Amygdala

Silas' thread about music made me think of a thread from a long time ago about having theme songs for your toons. I'm curious to see what you all picked.

For Amygdala (Kinetics/Energy Defender) I have 2 songs that remind me of her. The first being Breathe by Prodigy. I've always thought that song sounds like the Kinetic powers. Second song being Cowboys From Hell by Pantera, since she is a pretty savage little cowgirl, or so I like to think. (Starts counting down to Silas jumping in here with a "If only she was a Corruptor, then she'd be savage.")

Let me know what you guys picked!

A quick explanation of what happened:

We decided to try something new based on what we saw happen a couple raids back. The Scrapper team kept dying and couldn't keep up while the ranged teams took out all the mitos. We thought that maybe we could get away with just taking out the greens and heading straight to Hami. I figured worst case scenario if it wasn't working out, we could always revert back to the old strategy, since all the team make-ups and jobs were virtually the same. It actually worked out pretty well until we had 2 sets of yellows and blues spawn on top of the original spawn, which was a problem that I wasn't anticipating at the time, and also made it near impossible to go back to the old strategy.

Ultimately, I should have investigated this further before testing it out, so I apologize to anyone that was put off by tonight's raid. We have been raiding successfully on a weekly basis for a year straight now, and most of the feedback I have received is that people would like to try new things, or faster ways of doings things to lessen the repetition of the raids, which was part of my motivation to give another method a go. Jobs like Emping for Hami taunt or Tanking/taunting in general seem to be less popular, which has led to less people bringing these ATs for some raids or at least vocalizing their frustration. However, it's difficult to accomplish a less formulaic or repetitive strategy given the confines of Hami itself. I'm well aware that there are other servers who do raids without TPing out, etc. I'm reluctant to adopt that kind of a strategy because we still have a lot of new raiders that show up and sometimes it takes a while for them to become accustomed to their roles. Especially when they're involved in aggro control, this can be problematic.

Anyways, this raid was more food for thought than anything else. Once again I apologize for not taking the double spawn into account ahead of time. We'll resume next week with our regularly scheduled Hami strat.

I'm not Nibs, but I definitely approve.

Welcome to the boards, Cam.

That's pretty savage. Nicely done you guys.

Thanks for hosting a great party, Stoned Templars!

Welcome to Champion, Hatch!

Welcome to the boards and thanks for the pics.

Congrats on the 1 year anniversary guys!

Sadly I won't be able to make the STF runs but I'll be there for the Hami raid for sure. Hmmm, what to wear?

That's some good **** right there.

I used to do a little hip hop back in the day, but mostly was a ballet dancer. It's been a while, so I'm pretty sure my skill is unrecognizable at this point.

Happy Birthday! All the best.

Nice work.

Very nice. Well done guys.

Congrats guys!

When I started CoH, it was the first MMO I had ever tried, so I wasn't a terribly social person online and overall, shy. That said, it was a big deal to add someone to my Friends list at the time. I still remember the name of the first person ever to be added to Friends, and that I was in the Hollows on a Frostfire team with him. He eventually graduated to Global Friends.

Nice thing is I still keep in touch with him when he logs on, even though it's not too often these days.

Needless to say, a lot has changed since then. I now lead an SG full of people I'm proud to call my friends. Funny how that happened.

Despite the lag, I still had fun.

Thanks for leading.

Congrats on the successful MSTF.