Amygdala

I am also from Champion and often help new players with the game. There are several other players on the server that enjoy helping new players.

As SteelDominator said, the best way to connect with people on Champion is through global channels. Head over to the Champion forums, check out our Event Calendar, Global Channel Directory or introduce yourself.

If you decide to choose a server other than Champion but have questions about the game, send me a tell @Amygdala and I will be happy to help out.

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Great events! Thanks for hosting.

I'm not asking people to stand behind me. I'm just asking them to not go past me (move up as I move up to my location and not further.) Perhaps this is a source of confusion.

Regardless, you should be at a distance where, if you're using 80ft attacks as instructed, they should be firing. If someone moves a couple feet ahead of me to get in range, that's fine, but the person who got too close was almost in melee with the bombs. That is too close.

As to where I was standing, I used a character specifically with standard 80ft attacks that didn't have Cardiac or anything slotted that would affect range. I usually try to stand a couple feet closer than max range to allow others to move up, like you suggested. I vaguely recall someone saying they fired off Clarion with a boost range component. I'm almost wondering if that threw people off near the end as it wore off.

Thanks for the feedback so far. Rest assured there will be other attempts. I may even run a few impromptu ones.

I wouldn't ask you to transfer a character just for this. I'd bring the Snipe myself.

Also, quite a few people who were on the league last night read the forums.

I will try this in the future.

This could be the reason. Sure, I asked people to click on me for the entire thing and ignore the group at the end, but whether or not that actually happened is debatable. If people had actually been targeting through me they would not have lost target. Since I use a targeting macro, the group at the end provides no interference.

You highlighted the pros and cons of each method well. I definitely have a preference, but I also have the badges. So in the end, it's not my badge at risk. If people who actually need the badges would rather sit in the large prep room idle for the time it takes to snipe the bombs in the hallway, I would be willing to try it.

Next time I'll make sure you're there!

In all seriousness, we should have gotten the "bomb badge" this past run. We had more than enough ranged damage.

We failed in the "hallway of doom". First, there was someone rushing ahead of me getting too close to the bombs. This cannot happen. Being in close proximity to a bomb is what sets off the timer. This is why we use attacks that are 80ft in range and slowly move up as a group. Doing this usually only sets off the timer on the bomb we're attacking. Second, people seemingly just stopped attacking at the second to last bomb and it took more than 10 seconds to take it out. I'm still not 100% sure why this happened. We seemed to be taking out the rest with ease and then the damage just dropped. If anyone could shed some light on why this occurred, it would be appreciated.

There have been some suggestions to use Snipe for this hallway. While this method is seemingly more "secure", I really really dislike having to ask for people to bring specific powers. I have used the strategy with 80ft ranged attacks (since those are far more common) many times and most of the times it succeeds. Where it fails is when people aren't following instructions and either run up too close, have pets out, etc. Either that or we just don't have the ranged damage (definitely not the case last night).

So before I schedule another run, I'd like to hear which method would people prefer? Waiting possibly a long time for Snipers to take care of the bombs in the hallway or keep trying the way we have been?

Thanks in advance for your feedback.

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This can be true depending on which channels you join. We have heavily moderated channels that are focused on game play without additional chatter and we have unmoderated channels that are a lot more social. So it really depends on which environment you prefer.

Hami raids.

Now it's official.

In that case, please read Ashcraft's The Newcomer's Guide to Champion Drama.