Blind_Minotaur

Great work w0lf, really appreciate all the effort you put into making the vid. Now I just have to wait till I get home to watch it with sound.

Oh and about the happy slapping incident:

Please note no Heroes were harmed in the making of this film

Woot! lvl 50

Blind Minataur - Superstrength/Energy Aura/Leviathon

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OK, team 1 for the early run is

Kinslayer - lvl 47 Fire/Thermal Corruptor
Dark Merchant - lvl 46 Stalker
Lord Torment - lvl 50 Robo/FF MM
Blind Minatuar - lvl 49 SS/Inv Brute (to confirm)
Spider Smasher - lvl 50 Nrg/Nrg Brute
Broken Echo - lvl 48 Stalker
Aphotica - lvl 50 Ice/Dark Corruptor
Jadis - lvl 48 ice/ice Dom

A nice well balanced team there.

See you all around 10.00 on Saturday

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Kinslayer, in your first post you said the sf will start at 11:00, but in this one you say 10:00. Which is it?

Picked up a full compliment of nukes and shivans last night so im ready to go

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OK, team 1 for the early run is

Kinslayer - lvl 47 Fire/Thermal Corruptor
Dark Merchant - lvl 46 Stalker
Lord Torment - lvl 50 Robo/FF MM
Blind Minatuar - lvl 49 SS/Inv Brute (to confirm)
Spider Smasher - lvl 50 Nrg/Nrg Brute
Broken Echo - lvl 48 Stalker
Aphotica - lvl 50 Ice/Dark Corruptor
Jadis - lvl 48 ice/ice Dom

A nice well balanced team there.

See you all around 10.00 on Saturday

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I confirmed in an earlier post. I will be in the team for saturday. See you all at 10:00.

I'm stocking up on Nukes and Shivans tonight if anyone is about (not able to play Friday).

OK. I wanted to confirm that I will be online on saturday and will be able to play for as long as it takes. Looking forward to it already

I would like to be able to join. @Blind Minataur lvl 49 SS/NRG Brute. Not 100% sure I will be online on saturday but I can confirm this by tomorrow.

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The passives are of limited use. Even 3 slotted with SO's they only give about 11% resit which isn't much use really.


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Out of the two I would drop the energy passive (not that common). You might find you need conserve power as I've heard stone melee is very end hungry (no experience personally with stone melee though).

Awesome work so far Wolf, I'm very impressed

I'm guessing you're still waiting for .Dr Deaths clip? No plans to get Dr Infernum in the vid?

It's a shame that you can't get it all on the same file. How about editing it some more? Maybe shorten the amount of time spent showing each person?

But very impressed so far and can't wait to see the final version.

Is it worth posting this "known-issue" somewhere else so that more people will be aware of it, especially as its not confined to base raids and could happen to anyone in any instanced mission?

I'm sorry to hear about you losing your badges Black Jon. I took part in the raid (for the Violators) and died a few times (once during defending and twice during attacking). I didn't check my badges after but I will do tonight. I will also ask my VG to check theirs. It's such a shame that they can't get raids right as they have so much potential.

Again I'm sorry about the loss of the badges, it really sucks.

Not many people will chamion Energy Aura secondary for Brutes but I have to say I've found it excellent for PvP (only tonight managed to get 19 kills in a base raid). Its a defense set so you will take quite a lot of damage when your hit but you can get such high defense this isn't often. With conserve power and end drain you never run out of stamina as well as being able to play as a sapper. Was able to comfortable take out tankers in RV the other night by teaming with another player with end drain, they cant fight back without stamina. And of course the jewel in the crown is Overload, this is quiet simply god-mode for PvP.

Energy Aura is a late bloomer but don't let anyone tell you it cant cut it in PvP.

Erm, am I missing something here? Brutes don't have taunt as their inherent, do they? They have fury. Or do they have taunt in their attacks as inherent too? That's pretty unfair to the Tankers out there if that's the case (which I'm pretty sure it's not). But Brutes can play at being Tankers by picking up Taunt, and slotting moves that have taunt as a secondary efect with taunt enhancements.

I've got to say that I had great fun. Lag was a bit of an issue though. It even looked like the villains we're winning at one point, until too many villains dropped out and more and more heroes kept arriving. Just wish that more people realised that we were supposed to be fighting for the hotspots

Still, i didn't mind getting a pasting, it's always impressive when that many people get together. And a big thanks to Kitestsu for organising the villains, even if we didn't win

Out of interest, are teams going to be organised before the event or are we just going to form them as and when people turn up on Saturday?

I played my SS/NRG Brute without stamina for quiet a while. You will be relying heavily on Energy Drain, Conserve Power and Overload. I found myself alternating Conserve Power and Overload (my end bar hardly goes down wehn using either) and using end drain as and when necessary. End drain works so much better in large groups (do you mostly team or solo?). Maybe consider more slots on End drain as you will be relying on this a lot, another recharge reduction and/or End Mod?

In the end I did get fed up playing without stamina and respecced into it by the way.

That's what i'm interested in. Is smoke a viable de-buffer?

I have a few questions about Smoke and wondered if anyone knew the answers. Does the -acc and -per of smoke stack? Is it worth slotting smoke with acc debuffs? How does smoke work in PvP as NPC's do not notice you if you use it. Does this also apply in PvP? Thanks for any help

I'll be there unless there is some sort of freak occurence in RL. @Blind Minataur - And I can be there with either Blind Minataur lvl 40 SS/NRG Brute (who can actually PvP) or Battle Leopard lvl 32 NRG/Kin Corruptor. See you next saturday!

I still need to do this TF and will be happy to lend a hoof to the cause

Cool, looks like we have a full team now I'll be playing as one of my alts before 3:00pm, so send me a tell @Blind Minataur when you are ready to start.

Am I right in thinking that the minimum number for the respec is four?

Oh and shadowfane, do you think it will be worth running a mission or two as a team before we do the respec, just so we can have a chance to get used to each other. I have had experience with trying to do this TF with PUGS with some horrid results.

I would like to tell the story of my illusion/storm troller (Phantasmogoria - currently lvl 29). His story in a nutshell is that he is a ghost, so I felt obliged to take superior invisibility, even though this particular power doesnt seem a popular choice. How glad am I that I chose this. This power is always on. By using this I can always take the alpha strike in teams. It allows me to stand in the middle of a mob, release PA, hit Flash, drop my freezing rain on them and then concentrate on locking down any stray enemies with blind, if they aren't all dead after that SI will keep you alive if that +2 boss tries to stomp on your head. The defense boost you gain using SI is significant and has kept me alive many times. Why is this great power so often overlooked? Having kin as a secondary to illusion will be great when I7 hits, which if I'm correct in my understanding, will allow the pets to benefit from the buffs (can only imagine PA + Phantasm + Fulcrum Shift!!)

Blind Minataur signing up, lvl 39 Brute. 3pm is great for me but i'm also flexible on the time. Been dying to do the 2nd respec for ages