Energizing_Ion

Other random question:


How long did it take you in the final fight to take him down? The full 15 (?) minutes or more like 10?

Ah Beast Wars...I finished watching Season 2 and Season 3 on DVD after my jaw surgery...good times, good times.


As others have said, such a great story/series.


Dinobot (to Prime): "Then we'll do this the ol' fashioned way..." *flicks hand*..."BRUTALLY!"



And yes, Code of Hero is just awesome...get some manly size man tears some times when I watch that particular episode


I didn't know about the episode that was "canned"...the one about Rattrap finding Dinobot's memories/data and putting it into TM2 Dinobot. That would have been a good episode.


I do think Season 3 could have had at least 2-4 more episodes to further explain a thing or two (like the above one that got canned).


For example, we never actually see Megatron putting the "real" Megatron's spark back into his body...



Edit:


Oh and I thought in the first episode where X (Rampage) is shown Optimus tells (Cheetor?) about the history of it and how he was against it....but the council kept going.

Am I wrong?

Hooray for hyperbole!

I finally got to see The Avengers for the 2nd time yesterday (first time seeing it for my dad).


Feels weird because one of the prequel Star Wars movies (I think III) I saw 3 times, once with co-workers, once w/ my dad and then once w/ my brother (one of those, "we can't all get together, so let's just see it individually" ).


By the third time I was like, "ugh....this 2 hour movie is loooongg..."

Love The Avengers movie but don't like seeing movies by myself...

Unfortunately no more itrials for me at the moment. With me back to work, back to the "if I feel like playing around 10:30/11pm EST I'll login" mode


Edit:


Until the weekends that is

Congratulations


Stuck on completing it on a regular basis atm. I did 5 successful runs in a row and then after that, now it's hard to complete it on a regular basis. heh



Have you guys gotten the 8 min badge yet?

What I don't care for is this:

Why isn't there a Combat Medic in the DreamSpace hospital that sells inspirations like all of the other iTrials?


Just annoying

Enhancement storage increases for 50% off (or more!).

Just another thing I've noticed in the last two Mag. runs I've been a part of.


The last two runs, when we were fighting Black Swan it took us 3 portal/rift spawns to take her down; we never beat Tyrant (came close, one time got him down to 17/100).

The times we've beaten Tyrant? We've taken Black Swan down after 1 portal/rift spawn (2 at most).


So maybe if the damage isn't high enough (or not enough debuffs) for Black Swan, you may not be able to defeat Tyrant. *shrugs*

Like I said, I'm not saying to abandon ship if you take 3+ portal spawns during the BS fight but....just something to think of/take note.

In one trial I was a part of I was keeping track of the level shifts and then a thought came to me.

What if the lightning that comes down only targets those that are +9?


So as we were going along, I was not getting the level shifts (for whatever reason) and was never a direct target of the AoE lightning attack.


Then I was at +7 for level shifts (not +9, again, for whatever reason) and was targeted.


I'm pretty sure I was later targeted when I had only +3 level shifts so...I don't think it's anything but....maybe?

Just throwing 2 inf. out there

I'll repost what I did in that thread here just in case it helps anyone:


Oh and to the OP, I've led about 7 or so Mag. iTrials and 5 (6?) were successful.

I know for sure one time we were trying for the "Hard Way" badge but I waited too long to cancel the badge attempt and by the time I said, "just use temps to kill the lights" it was too late and we failed.

Few key things:

1.) Have a leader that communicates what to do/when to do it.
2.) Make sure there is enough debuff/buff and (ranged) damage toons


To expound upon things a bit...


# 1: This is pretty much common for any "new" iTrial (and any itrial that's still requires more thought than "hit him (ie. anything past BAF and Lambda)."

Having a leader say, "MOVE" when the "air starts to crackle" at the Tyrant fight and "Lights in 5 seconds" when the Connections to the Well are about to come up is key.

I guess for some people they don't move unless they are told to do so (not even then sometimes ). They don't see "air crackle" message and just stand there.

They don't pay attention to the iTrial UI saying, "Connection to the well comes up in x seconds."

Why? Too much information? Beyond that, who knows.


One of the leagues I was leading (doing the Mag. iTrial) we were fighting Tyrant and going on for a good 10 mins and looked like we were about to fail (had about 2-3 mins left). Someone in the league that was also in a global channel I was a part of said, "why are we failing?" type of question.

Someone else said, "leader not leading" (paraphrased). It was true I wasn't saying, "move" and "lights in 5 seconds"....by that time it was the 6th or so Mag itrial I ran in a row (back to back) and frankly was tired of saying, "MOVE" and "lights!" every 5-20 seconds.

I thought the league I was in (most of the players were "good" players that I at least knew casually) so I was expecting "more" from them I guess.

Anyways, the one player that asked, "why are we failing?" in the global channel started to say, "move" and "lights" and somehow we beat Tyrant.

So just having that person saying, "move" and "lights in 5!" helps out....just like in the Keyes iTrial telling when the Oblit. beam is coming, etc.


I will point out that if the leader of the league can have 6 people (dependable people if possible) singled out (in league chat for all to see) saying, "these 6 people are going to do the lights/sever the connections, everyone else stay on Tyrant."

Having those 6 people sorted out seems to help. That way when the leader says, "lights in 5!" not everyone is scrambling to look for lights; only 6 are moving away from Tyrant and the rest of the league is still fighting/hitting Tyrant.


Of course have some backup people in case one of those 6 die but...just in general that also seems to help.




# 2.: For all those people that complained about "the Minds of Mayhem iTrial hates melee people!", it seems this one hurts melee the most. I've been on a good 15+ itrials now (not counting the ones where we all decided just to farm the 250 mobs) and the 1-3 trials that I've failed seemed to either have:

a.) lack of communication
b.) were trying for a badge and didn't cut the attempt soon enough
c.) lack of damage


I'm not sure how to explain c. We had quite a few tankers/scrappers a couple of times...but were they doing damage or were they dying too much (or just running around/away from Tyrant)? Did we not have enough debuffs?


I can't answer it but it does seem to favor ranged toons that can do damage/debuff so....*shrugs*


Now I've rambled....


But I hope it helps!

Oh and to the OP, I've led about 7 or so Mag. iTrials and 5 (6?) were successful.

I know for sure one time we were trying for the "Hard Way" badge but I waited too long to cancel the badge attempt and by the time I said, "just use temps to kill the lights" it was too late and we failed.

Few key things:

1.) Have a leader that communicates what to do/when to do it.
2.) Make sure there is enough debuff/buff and (ranged) damage toons


To expound upon things a bit...


# 1: This is pretty much common for any "new" iTrial (and any itrial that's still requires more thought than "hit him (ie. anything past BAF and Lambda)."

Having a leader say, "MOVE" when the "air starts to crackle" at the Tyrant fight and "Lights in 5 seconds" when the Connections to the Well are about to come up is key.

I guess for some people they don't move unless they are told to do so (not even then sometimes ). They don't see "air crackle" message and just stand there.

They don't pay attention to the iTrial UI saying, "Connection to the well comes up in x seconds."

Why? Too much information? Beyond that, who knows.


One of the leagues I was leading (doing the Mag. iTrial) we were fighting Tyrant and going on for a good 10 mins and looked like we were about to fail (had about 2-3 mins left). Someone in the league that was also in a global channel I was a part of said, "why are we failing?" type of question.

Someone else said, "leader not leading" (paraphrased). It was true I wasn't saying, "move" and "lights in 5 seconds"....by that time it was the 6th or so Mag itrial I ran in a row (back to back) and frankly was tired of saying, "MOVE" and "lights!" every 5-20 seconds.

I thought the league I was in (most of the players were "good" players that I at least knew casually) so I was expecting "more" from them I guess.

Anyways, the one player that asked, "why are we failing?" in the global channel started to say, "move" and "lights" and somehow we beat Tyrant.

So just having that person saying, "move" and "lights in 5!" helps out....just like in the Keyes iTrial telling when the Oblit. beam is coming, etc.


I will point out that if the leader of the league can have 6 people (dependable people if possible) singled out (in league chat for all to see) saying, "these 6 people are going to do the lights/sever the connections, everyone else stay on Tyrant."

Having those 6 people sorted out seems to help. That way when the leader says, "lights in 5!" not everyone is scrambling to look for lights; only 6 are moving away from Tyrant and the rest of the league is still fighting/hitting Tyrant.


Of course have some backup people in case one of those 6 die but...just in general that also seems to help.




# 2.: For all those people that complained about "the Minds of Mayhem iTrial hates melee people!", it seems this one hurts melee the most. I've been on a good 15+ itrials now (not counting the ones where we all decided just to farm the 250 mobs) and the 1-3 trials that I've failed seemed to either have:

a.) lack of communication
b.) were trying for a badge and didn't cut the attempt soon enough
c.) lack of damage


I'm not sure how to explain c. We had quite a few tankers/scrappers a couple of times...but were they doing damage or were they dying too much (or just running around/away from Tyrant)? Did we not have enough debuffs?


I can't answer it but it does seem to favor ranged toons that can do damage/debuff so....*shrugs*


Now I've rambled....


But I hope it helps!

My main (EI, Kin/Rad Def.) chose the Support one. The left side of the tree I think...the one that gives 12% boosts at a 40 ft radius instead of the 8% boosts at an 80 ft radius.


Edit:


I think my Dark/Rad Corr. will be going the Assault: Doublehit tree/route. Either that or Support again...*shrugs*

Random ?:


When does the timer start for the 8 min. badge in the Mag. itrial? I think Arb. Hawk said when the portal opens in/from Dream Space....


But if that's the case, there is 20-30 seconds waiting for the 250 mob counter to come up....so really only have 7.5 mins yes?

Or does the timer start once the counter comes up?