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A Servant of Arachnos Accolade - a series of 7 SFs that you run where in addition to rewards you can pick up Arachnos costume pieces. Maybe have the accolade do something different - a 10% across the board movement increase for example. Maybe running them all gets you temp powers that will help out with the LRSF ( and maybe something similar blue side for the Stateman TF )
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This is something that is badly needed red-side, IMO. The SF/TF balance is seriously out of whack. Excluding the Lady Grey TF, which both sides have access to, we have this:
5 TFs for redside, 14 TFs for blueside
3 trails (all respec) for redside, 6 trails for blueside.
No SFs in the 10-15, 30-35, and 40-45 range redside. (They do have the respec trail from 24-33, 34-43, and 44-50 -- as well as the LGTF which is still bugged at 35-50 -- but that's it.)
There is at least two badge arts for the redside equilavent of the Freedom Phalanx TFs. We get the "III" badge when defeating the LRSF and at one time we got the bugged "V" badge when completing Black Scorpion's patron arc.
The solution is obvious. Give redside their own version of the Freedom Phalanx TFs, complete with the accompaying accolade and unlockable costume pieces. (To balance this out blueside, give heroes the same accolade -- let's say +5% HP and +5% End -- for getting Spider Smasher, Fire Marshal, Bomb Squad, PPD Deputy, Security Expert, Interceptor, and Villain Disruptor [the Safeguard badges plus the Arachnos hunt badge].)
I am unsure who the contacts for the CoV "Phalanx" SFs should be. One idea is to take the 4 AVs from the 2nd mission of STF (Viridian and the other 3), Dr. Aeon, and Arbritier Sands and make them into the 6 contacts.
My other suggestion is to mirror the Freedom Phalanx TFs with their evil counterpartners -- the Praetorians. We can make a issue dedicated to this and say that the Praetorians successfully entered the CoH-verse and have decided to ally with Lord Recluse (while plotting his overthrow, natch!) The Praetorians would mirror their Freedom Phalanx counterpart in the Rogue Islands. So we'd get the Anti-Matter SF from 10-15, the Neuron SF from 15-20, the Mother Mayhem SF from 20-25, the Seige SF from 25-30, the Chimera SF from 30-35, and the Diabolique SF from 35-40.
The badge art for those would be the I, II, III, IV, V, and VI artwork that we have already seen in use with the badge for completing LRSF. The LRSF itself would get a new badge art along the line of what we have from the 4 current non-LRSF SFs in CoV, obviously. Probably something with the arachnos symbol.
Whether we use the Praetorians or the 6 STF AVs, we still have a gap in the 40-45 range. I'd suggest using Barracuda in that spot, as she is the lone "Lt of LR's minions" to not have her own SF. Ice Mistrail and Silver Mantis both have their own SF. Wretch doesn't ... but it wouldn't make any sense for Wretch to have a SF for storyline purposes anyway. That leaves Barracuda.
That's what I'd suggest anyway. Redside really needs more SFs, and this would immediately give them 7 more SFs and help balance out the indifference a little bit. Of course they'd still need a couple of interesting trails as well, but baby steps.
