Capa_Devans

Had the prepatch - large download - when I logged out earlier.

I have the badge already thanks to a successful run of yours and Vix's so I really don't mind bringing whatever:

Inv/SS tank (has done this before)
Spines/fire scrapper (done it before)
Fire/Elec Blaster
Ill/Sonic controller
Mind/ff controller

I also have a dark dark def at 48

Will bring whatever just let me know.

I have the badge already thanks to a successful run of yours and Vix's so I really don't mind bringing whatever:

DB/WP stalker (handy for low damage teams to take out the obelisk fast)
Thug/dark MM
Crab Veat with pets
Rad/rad corr
Mind/ice permadom
Fire/kin corr

I've got a fire/dark corr at 43 that I could kick to 45 but probably no higher than that.

My suggestion - and I will bring whatever - is the VEAT but let me know what you need.

Slightly off topic - I got MoLR on my mind dom last night so that's my main and my dom within a few days and today ...

Another sucessful MoCuda this morning. The lucky winners were:
Capa - tank
Prof malice - mm
Vivixen - thermal
Kay Nova - Emp
Living Inferno - blaster
Sinnersaint - blaster
Armeros - blaster

Really appreciate you all coming along. No major scary moments from these guys even with three blasters. Special nod to Living who was up at 6am for this. Glad it was worth it!

Sorry again to Dash - I couldn't see you so I grabbed alts at about 10 past and we'd started about 5 mins after that. I hate timezones.

Next up Master of Lord Recluse SF - provisionally Monday 10am EST
1) Capa - mind dom or tank or something else
2) Willow - emp
3) Viv - brute or thermal
4) Malice - brute or MM or mind dom
5) Amp - sonic?
6) Anne - dark dark
7) waiting for tell back
8) Kay Nova - FF MM

Alts:


Anyone is welcome even if you haven't done the TF before. I do plenty of instructions. The only thing I ask is know your char and please be patient. These are safe as possible Master runs not speed runs. We get quicker each time but allow 3-4 hours. Patience is really rewarded at the end of a MoLR.

Yay pretty colours!

Raining tonight here but hopefully it will be fine tomorrow (when most of the displays are held) and Sunday.

*Boom!* *ckshhhhhh*

I've heard playing in the nude in airport wifi areas increases purple drop rates.

*waits*

I just got MoLR on Capa.

So yell if you need a Perma Mind Dom for LR. If I'm around/awake/wanted, I'll help.

Capa got MoLR today!!!!

Ok guys, I'm not really thrilled with this team make up. So I would like to run two MoCuda's one Saturday NOON EST and then one Sunday 10 am EST.

I've sent tells to a couple of people asking if they'd like to move to Sunday run because I know they have timezone problems. If anyone has a major preference can they let me know please?

Guys signed up for one/both runs:
Capa - probably tanking (on a tank not my main)
Living - blaster
Dash no Chris scrapper
Hell Bob - MM
Arm - blaster
Anne - stalker
Kay - emp
Prof Mal - MM or dom
Viv - Brute or thermal

10 am EST Saturday 6th November

MoCuda

1) Capa - probably tanking (on a tank not my main)
2) Living - blaster
3) Dash no Chris scrapper
4) Hell Bob - MM
5) Arm - blaster
6) Anne - stalker
7) Kay - emp
8) reserved for buffage/shields preferably thermal

I'm also looking to start MoLRs now that my mind dom is fully setted.

10 am EST Saturday 6th November

MoCuda

1) Capa - probably tanking (on a tank not my main)
2) Living - blaster
3) Dash no Chris scrapper
4) MM - preferably traps
5) Arm - blaster
6) Anne - stalker
7) reserved for buffage
8) reserved for buffage

Alts:

Let me know if you can make that and bear in mind it isn't this Saturday it's next.

EDIT:
Added a few confirmation, we're horrid short of buffage and either a MM or tank.

Also UK clocks changed this weekend and I THINK USA clocks change next weekend. So expect Capa Confusion of the highest order.

But if you are in SG mode the inf is lower than if you were not:

Info from the wiki

I've been saying for a while about 10 days before your Thanksgiving (whichever Tuesday that is).

We have the Halloween and Rikti Events at the moment and coming up shortly.

Releasing i19 immediately before the Thanksgiving holiday is a monumentally dumb plan; something goes wrong and everyone is off shoving turkey down them. Hence my suggestion of the 7-10 day gap to give the major faux pas a time to emerge and - I hope - be sorted.

Like others, a varied mix.

I have at least three chars whose only changes were adding a cape and changing a hair colour marginally. (Lighting in the tailors/facemakers - PLEASE.)

I have a few others who were designed to and are evolving through their costumes: a rad/rad who is slowly losing limbs and a robot/human that is looking more human.

Most of my others have undergone dramatic changes. My main bears no resemblance to her first costume except her third eye and white hair. I have a scrapper that sailed close to the deletion wind because she started off with red fishnets. Now she looks mean, the way she was supposed to. (Fun fact she wanted to move to the Rogue Isles when she was created well over two years ago. )

Sometimes I get attached to a costume and think 'this is it'. I have maybe 10 chars like that right now. I tried getting a 'dressed for bear' costume on my main but it wasn't working for me, so I doubt she will ever change again. The same idea worked great on my main hero - a blaster. No longer does she look like she's out for dinner but to kill bad guys.

I do admit to trying to make one type of costume for a char, end up with something else which doesn't suit them but I like so I save it. (Thanks to whoever came up with that idea; no longer do I have to put this on scraps of paper.)

For me the char creator is just another part of playing. I don't want to kill something or I know I'm going to be afk a lot .... base editor or costume creator are my friends.

Excuse me, I need to go finish that folley in the garden of my blue base so I can build a garage for the fliers.

My condolences on the loss of your friend. My best wishes for the coming weeks and months. A sudden and unexpected bereavement is stunning, I know from experience.

There's no way everyone is going to be pleased. Scale them back and people miss them, leave them very frequent and people get tired of them.

Personally I do think they are a bit much at the moment and could be scaled back a little without any major loss to enjoyment.

Couple of points that makes me say that:
* These Events can be down right painful on lowbies - especially the Rikti lazer of insta-death
* The Zombies cheat - I hadn't even manged to zone out of Oro yesterday and I'd been hit by one of them and don't get me started about being hit at the BM while standing behind the Vendor under the canopy
* Trying to Mission TP out of the rear end of IP with constant interruptions - I had to resort to a jetpack to hover above the Zombies (As a side really need to fix it so team mates zoning don't interrupt base/mission/ww/bm tps)
* Interrupting normal playing - Last night someone suggested a Numina TF which I need for TFC. Given the events I thought "nah". Hunts aren't fun at the best of times and combined with the Events it is just painful as the TF comes to a halt until the Event is over. Yesterday morning I was in the Hollows with the Troll hunt mission but no Trolls. I must have been too low to even open doors so I couldn't ToT. My friend hit a few doors but we'd rather get on with the Troll hunting.

It is great to see that ToT is zone-level-appropriate. Although the old "I'm hitting as many doors as possible and not dealing with my aggro" groups are in full force this year. I'd love to see the door aggro focus solely on the door opener no matter how far they run or even zone.

Don't get me wrong, on balance I like the Events but it's easy to get tired. I didn't try for one present last xmas because I was sick of it the previous year.

But while there are people who have been in game five years, some have never seen this Event. It is a shame if old-timers are so tired of it that the new guys don't get a chance to experience the Banner teams/badges etc because there isn't the numbers to take part.

My main is a DB/WP stalker and I've no idea why the DB stalker set would be considered gimped. The combos are different to brute/scrapper and tanks see here but I admit I prefer the Stalker versions. YMMV.

I rarely if ever Assassin Strike in the middle of a fight; the only exception being AVs because most other stuff doesn't live long enough to make it worth the effort.

I never use the Empower combo because a) it's hard to AS mid fight and b) I find the Sweep combo a more effective opener. It puts a cone of mobs on their backs mitigating any potential damage. By the time they're up, they're in the midst of 1000 cuts followed by being back on their rears. If I want +damage or +to hit (well acc) I can use insps. Again YMMV.

My attack pattern is start off with Build Up, Assassin Strike and Ablating Strike (Sweep combo). Follow up with Weaken combo, Ablate and then Vital Strike combo or Weaken Combo until the mobs are dead. I like to use Ablating in between each combo because I feel the -def debuff is useful. Plus I've got a couple of procs in mine.

Admittedly I scrap a lot with my stalker; the whole hit and run thing never appealed to me.

Personally I'd say try it and see. If you like it great, if not ... move on.

STF, LR and Khan are also the three I need on my main but I never stop running a Mo when I have it on my badger, so if anyone else needs the Cuda let me know and I'll see what I can do.

States is hard but easier than LR; the linked AVs in LR are brutal. I don't see why either is unrealistic with a good team, who know what they're doing and are prepared to have some patience. I know there are people on Guardian who fit that bill.

I really don't want to have to resort to the mind dom cheese on LR - I haven't used it on any of my other Mos. I detest the idea that the only way to do that is using one AT with one power set, but it likely to come to that and I know at least four people are building mind doms so we can swap in/out the dom for our badgers. At least that way we will have a good sized pool of reliable players with mind doms and we won't have to scrabble for one.

My mind dom isn't 50 or enhanced. I hate respecing and I don't see the point of enhancing her now and then redoing it with i19 not too far off. I have her build so I'm working on getting her to 50 and buying the (expensive *shudder*) sets she needs. I really do resent spending a load of money on a one trick pony for one SF. If you've seen my chars, you'll all know I'm a cheapskate.

An alternative idea Omega has was a load of Defenders and I had a chat with a few others about it. Not a bad idea; floor the mobs to hit and it doesn't matter how many AVs you get. Again I worry about excluding ATs.

So couple of questions to you all:
Who else would want to do a MoCuda? IE who did I miss on their badgers apart from kazzon who I know about.

What's best for MoKhan: weekday morning or weekend morning? I'll set one up. Shoot me a tell, pm or post.

Success:

My first lead, and solo tanking too. Again someone else who hadn't run it before was on team and we cracked it.

1) Capa - tank
2) Armeros - blaster
3) Willow - Emp
4) Jaffah - MM
5) Amp - ice sonic corr
6) Omega Shockwave - emp
7) Sinner - blaster
8) volt2 - scrapper

Many congratulations to everyone on their shiny and my thanks to everyone.

Special thanks to Mal & Viv for letting me crib on the last run which Mal lead. Also to Blood Beret for his PM'd crib sheet from some time ago - very helpful to remind me which mission was which.

EDIT:
Np Dash, we held 10mins then grabbed an alt. Sorry you missed a successful run.

Vixen; noted, thank you for posting and I hope we will be done so we can all join you.

Forgive the double post but in case someone sees this and not my tell: Vixen's CoP is 1pm Saturday. I wouldn't bet on us finishing before then. We might but I couldn't say for certain.

Let me know if you are still in on this run, I don't want to pull people off Vixen's CoP and will reschedule if necessary. But I would like to know ASAP so I can let people know.

I'd rather have scheduled maint than the 'oops it crashed' (like the market last night). However, the lack of communication irritates me.

Community reps exist and presumably SOMEONE at NC knows the servers are down or are going to be down? So say so.

I know the Halloween even is due to start but how hard is it to post "Sorry guys, with the Halloween Event starting, the two hour maint is going to over run tomorrow. We're not sure how long at this point but we will keep you updated as we know more".

And announcements need to come from USA support not EU support because every time they post "the servers are up", they aren't!