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With my Mind/Psi, Mass Hypnosis is my opener on every mob, unless I have Mass Confusion ready. MH recharges so fast and is great for neutering alphas. So long as you follow up with some harder controls before laying on AoE damage, you can turn a large alpha into several small, insignificant alphas in no time.

There is no way currently to set team size limits on your custom arcs.

The best you can do right now is mention clearly in your arc's Description text what size team the arc is designed for.

I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who participated in this team from the beginning. Members of our group have had some spectacular victories, from earning the MoSTF to raiding the Rikti mothership with only 13 heroes. In short it's been a huge success.

Now we've pretty much done it all, we've also talked briefly about what we can do next.

I did have a few ideas along those lines but unfortunately between my hectic schedule, the release of the Mission Architect (something I am looking forward to investing time in) and my Tuesday night team on top of that, I'm currently unable to invest the time in another theme team.

My sincerest apologies to those of you who were looking forward to the next theme and had picked out toons for it already. That theme is still the main contender for my next hero team, when I am finally free enough to initiate it (probably a few months down the road). I'll keep you posted on that.

Anyway, thanks and a big congrats to everyone who took part in this wonderfully effective team.

I found it well enough and arrived there 3-4 times, thanks to rubber banding lag...

Well, we'll see what numbers we have before venturing into RV.

I'll see folks at 7pm tonight, in whatever sadistic meeting spot Canine has chosen for his week off

Well we could always do something else next week instead and do RV the following week...

Okay, we may run a TF next monday.

I've been informed that since I couldn't make it on Mnoday, we'll be running the RV next week instead.

Thanks very much for waiting guys, I appreciate it. I look forward to Monday!

Okay, Issue 14 appears to have completely fecked my install folder. It is still downloading files and it's unlikely I'll be able to make it tonight.

Recluses Victory tonight, then champagne (perhaps).

Meet at 7, RV at 8.

EDIT: Crash, verifying. I'll be there as soon as I can.

EDIT: Okay wth? It's 'fixing' a file so I may be some time as it's downloading nearly 1GB! I hope to be on in time for 8pm. Don't wait.

I was thoroughly impressed by how well we did in that raid.

Cold Front has never had an issue with lone, powerful enemies so I think we all knew the Pylons would be the easy part.

The hard part was the massive number of Rikti on the ship (and for my Ice Tanker, the amount of psi damage that they chuck about).

However we managed brilliantly against those odds and once we got stuck in, it became clear that our goal was actually within our reach. We suffered a number of deaths, but nothing set us back and we took the ship just as a larger raid group would.

This was without a doubt one of my finest and fondest moments in CoX. Thanks to everyone involved and enjoy your merits!

I put the demo record archive on my own webspace, it can be downloaded from here (file size 2.2MB).

Yes it was! A successful RWZ Raid with just 13 heroes.

I'm very, very proud of this team right now. Seriously well done to all!

I took a couple of photos at the end: 1 2

Canine tried a demo record, if it worked out then he'll post it, plus more photos.

Next week, we'll have a 'wind-down' session with some AVs in Recluse's Victory. Meet at 7pm as usual, RV from 8pm.

I just crashed, great timing. Verifying and I'll brb...

Raid tonight!!

Meet at 7, raid at 8.

Thanks to all those who showed last night.

Next week:

RWZ Raid, starting at 8pm. Those who were on time this week have already picked up the Shivan temp power in preparation for this. If you don't have it already, I recommend bagging it in time for next week.

The start is at 8pm as the raid shouldn't take all that long and I don't want those who just can't make the normal 7pm start time to miss out.

Myself (and Li, no doubt) will be online for 7pm-ish as usual anyway. We'll still be running other missions etc before the raid.

Hopefully see you there!

Hmmm, ok then.

Congrats to all our regulars, since we're all level 50 now.

That means our chief objective is done, and now it's time to think about how we should go out with a bang.

Personally I was planning on having a team-only RWZ Raid as our grand finale. for this some Shivans will come in handy to maximise our survivability and reward in the final phase, so a strip to Bloody Bay is on the cards soon too.

It was also suggested we could go to RV and take out the suped-up AVs there.

There's also the prospect of a Hami Raid, but I think that's slightly beyond the grasp of 14 of even the bestest heroes.

So it's up to you guys really - what do you want to try first?

Well done on the Sewer Trial!

I'll be around tonight from 7pm-ish for more RWZ. See you then.

Very well done guys!

See you all tonight.

We had a good time. I was a bit late msyelf but fortunately Pirahna and Abyssal were looking after everyone by the time I got there.

First, we went via Ouroboros for the Spelunker badge. Then we finally finished my Hero's Hero arc by deposing a Tyrant. Then we completed my other long overdue arc - Crimson's World Wide Red - culminating with the dismantling of the Kronos Titan 2.0.

There was only one team worth of people this week, so it was quite quiet but still good fun.

The Cimerora arcs may be in order next week, or maybe RWZ (arcs).

It looks like I might be 15-20 minutes late tonight, apologies for that. I will show up and join the second team at some point.

I'll be around tonight, maybe I'll steal a free spot on the STF if there is one.

Otherwise, I'll captain Team Awesome and we'll be bullying Tyrant and then, maybe some RWZ or Cimerora stuff.

Going to be a little late - downloading the patch right now.

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Nope.

But I'm not telling. Time for Echo to learn how to look these things up for himself. He's a big boy now (allegedly :P )

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That's okay, I'll just ask Moondog how many he got after you all finish.

I probably can't commit to it this weekend. I'll captain the other team on Monday as usual instead.

How many merits is 33 missions worth, then?