GravitonX_EU

Nice one Rooks mate

Peeps can anyone who reads this and is interested spread the word about the thread.. still not enough names on here and the date is drawing ever closer.. this is a momentous event fo sure!!

Even just grab sum random n00bz they can go in with the pet stream.. its all gud lol :P

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Also offerin my expertise in organizing/leading hami raids before if needed, tho I'm not up for fulltime organizing cause RL is already consuming enough time .

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That would be great Nefarious, and will get u invite to Hami channel ASAP.. send tell to @graviton-x or @graviton-x 2

Note to others.. please spread the word.. we need as many peeps to fill out the template on here as possible for numbers calculation.. team forming etc..

Hi Charger we will need more info.. such as powersets.. addictional usefull pool powers, SG name etc// Plz use the template..

Just a quick note to any homeless villains out there.. UD are always looking for new like minded peeps to join our crew.. We luv gud laughs and crazy banter.. Gud Teams.. TF's.. PVP arena events it's all gud as long as we're having fun as we dont take ourselves too seriously

if ur interested checkout our website www.udsg.co.uk and drop us a message in the open guest area of our forum

Obviously a cheap date then :P

Rofl Max.. i hope that guy was paid well too

Col. dont forget that not all the brutes need taunt because of 2 teams of brutes with approx 10 brutes btween and only about 7 yellow mito's i think.. there will be overlap and we also need brutes to kick the [censored] out of them.. which can also grab their attention

i suggest that "non-controlable" pets are not used for this event as this could cause a tremendous issue with loopy pet running throught teams dragging AOE aggro with it.. Standard MM pets will need to be used.. Controllable easy to dismiss and utterly expendable.

The pets will just need to be sent into the core of the hami do get as much aggro throw as then as possible once th MM's have set up the stream.. which will mean keeping there pets in the hami.. re-summoning and sending back in as soon as possbile.. they well not need to be equiped just summoned and sent in to die.. the pet stream indicate a constant pet presence in the hami which the MM's will have to keep up for the duriation of the raid.. apart from at each bloom where the teams will need to re-group - buff up - start pet stream again and go in again

On the note of Brutes with fly.. temp flight powers will be more than adequate to help reach higher Mito

Here is the plan of tactics i suggest we take.. this is from a successfull post I9 villain hami raid on US servers..

Hamidon Raid Strategy: Villain-side Adaptations

Teams and Team Instructions

Mastermind Pet Stream
6 Masterminds and 2 Kinetics (no EOE's required)

The team should set up behind a rock pillar near the north outcrop area, and as close to Hamidon as possible. Nobody on the team should be exposed to direct line of sight to Hamidon or the mitos, as they will have agro transferred to them and be within range of the Hami/mito blasts, drawing them to the team (also don't recall any pets back to the rock for the same reason).

When the signal is given for the pet stream to start, Masterminds will summon their pets, starting with minions, and send them in to attack Hamidon. They should try to keep up a constant stream of pets heading into the goo. To do this, they should alternate and stagger their summons among them, taking turns but keeping the stream constant. After a minute or so, the stream should be spread enough that there are always pets heading into the goo. With the help of the kinetics Speed Boosting, minions should recharge in roughly 20 secs, lieutenants in 40 secs, and bosses in 60 secs. No upgrade buffs need be applied; the purpose is to distract Hami and whatever else they can before they die.



Brute Agro Squad
2 teams of: 3-5 brutes and 3 support heal/rez/buffers (brutes will need EOE's: 2+ each x 4 blooms, 48 minimum raid total)

Each team will be in charge of controlling the agro from 3 yellow mitos. The teams should set up on opposite sides of Hamidon (the east main staging area, and opposite on the west side of hami). Communication between the brute team leaders, and among their own brutes, is essential! Each brute must know precisely which mito they are responsible for. Recommend that the team leaders decide which 2 mitos are their 'center' ones, and assign brutes to center, right and left from that. If setting up at the east and west rock outcroppings it is quite easy to locate these two 'center' mitos, as they are the ones directly in front of the area. Each mito should also assigned a buffer to look after the health and status resist buffs of the brutes attacking it. Extra brutes should be assigned around to the mitos to help kill them. Two brutes on a yellow should have no problem SMASHing it down. Note: Brutes with any form of flight are highly preferred.

On their start signal, the brutes will eat an EOE and rush to their assigned yellow mitos and engage them. The supporters will follow the brutes at a distance, keeping them healed and spammed with stacked mez resist. The support AT's need to remain outside of the aoe splash effect of the mito attack, but within range of their powers. Brutes can assist with this by keeping to the outside edge of the goo and remaining as stationary as possible while attacking. When a yellow mito is killed, move to the next nearest one and help to kill it as well.



Assault Teams
Everyone else at the raid in balanced teams of damage and support (no EOE's required)

Special attention should be given to having enough Dominators, as the first targets are the green mitos which must be held to kill (mag 100!). Flight and Group Flight for the teams is a bonus. Dark Miasma AT's are also desired for Fear resists. Stalkers should avoid trying to AS and use their biggest normal attacks with crits instead. Masterminds in the assault teams should refrain from summoning pets at this time, as they can interfere with the pet streams trying to hold Hami agro.

The assault teams all follow a single raid targeter, who will engage the green mitos first. Green mitos have a force field which must first be dropped by applying holds to it. Dominators should use Domination as soon as it's available! Everyone else with a hold should be using it. Once held and the green's field is dropped, damage will quickly kill it, and the targeter will move on to the next green. When all greens are down, clear the blues. Spam healing aoe's, and keep any aoe buffs on (Shadow Fall, bubbles, etc).




Strategy

It is highly recommended that the raid leader conduct the raid from a 'spotter' location above Hamidon. Looking down like this on the action really helps to get an idea how the raid is progressing and when to issue instructions.

The raid leader will announce the start of the mito phase by telling the MM Pet team to begin sending their pets at Hamidon (staggered as described above). The raid leader will watch as this takes shape, and once stable (ie there is a constant presence of pets inside the goo) will announce the start of the buffing cycle and attack phases in Request channel:

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MASTERMIND PETS ARE STABLE!
MITO ATTACK BEGINNING IN 1 MINUTE…BEGIN BUFFING YOUR TEAMS (STACK MEZ RESISTS, ETC)!
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30 SECONDS...BRUTE SQUADS GET READY!
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20 SECONDS...BRUTE SQUADS ENGAGE YELLOW MITOS NOW!!!
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10 SECONDS...ASSAULT TEAMS READY!
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0...ASSAULT TEAMS FOLLOW THE TARGET IN...GO!!!




It is very important to make sure at each phase that the proper dynamic is working. MM pet stream must be stable before sending in brutes. Brutes must be stable and holding the yellow mitos' attention while remaining alive before sending in the assault teams. If the pets are all dead, or if the brutes have lost a single yellow mito agro, don't proceed with the next phase. Abort and reset...it'll save you time in the long run.

With the MM pets keeping Hamidon agro and loose mitos on them, brutes keeping the attention of the yellow mitos and SMASHing them down, and the assault teams killing off the healing greens, the mitos should be overwhelmed in just a few minutes. Once the mitos are all down, everyone will turn their attention to Hamidon.

At this point, the raiders should move to Hami to kill it. Keep to the opposite side of the group of MM pets to avoid splash damage. A taunt squad of brutes can also move to the side to help draw off Hami blasts away from the rest of the attackers.

When Hami nears the mito bloom percentages (75%, 50%, 25% once each), a recaller from each team (preferably with rez) should return to the east staging area and be ready to pull their team out to rez and regroup. Get everyone back up and into position for the next mito run.


Issues Remaining

The key to successfully pulling this off is a well-run set of Brute teams. They must know their jobs, and their support must keep them going, to allow the rest of the raid to succeed. Brutes are taking the brunt of the assault, and the success of the raid is anchored on them. Unlike the hero-side though, there are not two types of teams that need strict coordination (tankers and scrappers). The Mastermind pet stream is relatively cheap and easy to maintain compared to the tank team. But lack of empathy buffs available on villains means brutes are in a more tenuous position. Better and faster recovery between blooms is another area that needs attention. Even hero-side, regrouping and recovery is a big time-sink to the raid.

I wud also like to add that possibly moveing approx 6 brutes to aggro the blues once the yellows are down may be a good idea.. and of course stalker may not be a good addition but that only an idea

I'm continuing to muse over the guides that can be found to find a proven strategy to work round.. So strategy is "Still" being formulated...

One main thing we need to think about is tryin to limit the amount of zone leavers.. as wen we hit the max limit if one of the peeps that has been fighting Hami and a valid member of a team leaves the zone, there is the chance sumone could pop in and "have a look" thus causing that team member to not be re-admitted.

Hello peeps decided to start another thread so we dont clutter up the Hamidon Raid thread..

This is to announce Farms and schedule times etc

UD will be farming for the EoE insps tomorrow night a 8pm GMT so that we can stock up on them for the raid.. people are welcome to join us and also post anytime they are running their own Abyss farms

Abyss Farm - 8pm GMT Wendesday 2nd July

Ok everyone... This seems to be going ahead

Union Hamidon Raid *Sunday 3rd August*

Time between 2 - 5pm GMT *unconfrimed as yet*

People interested can you please post using the following template

Global handle/name - (*)
Supergroup - (*)
Vilains available (plz include name/AT + tp etc) - (*)
Hamidon Raid Channel member - (yes/no)

This is so we can pool interested people and slot them into specific teams

Plz send tell to @Graviton-x for invite to Hamidon raid channel

We will start farming for EoE insps in the abyss over the next couple of weeks which will be announced over Hamidon Raid channel..

Multiple SG leaders notified and interested, a couple have already joined channel

thanks

A big gratz to ya all gud to see another SG making it into the top spots

I hate to say it and deflate things also.. but i have to agree with Nefarious here, double XP is for super lvl'in not debt fests..

U cant just wing this.. it's need to be fully planned and over a longer timeframe to make sure u get enough people as u will need to find 50+ people and make sure u have diverse AT's around.. As a recent attempt on Union shows u cant just run at this like a bull at a gate, no offence to the people who tried but there seemed to be no organisation apart from "come to abyss" Therefore it failed spectacularly which i new it would.. As there was no forum advertisement either.. Tbf tho they did give it their all

As i saw for the hero attempt on union i wud get people interested to say what AT types they could bring and formulate your proposed team from the replies.. for a future date in say a months time..

Fatal... i think u need to edit the date of that lol.. unless of course u got a time machine to brings us back to the 17th of June lol

Plus i posted a guide on our forums.. tis a kind of industry standard that is

Or u cud join us at Ultimate Darkness.. we all chilled and just up for gud times, gud laughs and gud teaming...

but gud luck to u if u've already been snapped up.. im to laid back to run onto game.. shouting "gimme gimme gimme"

Ciao bee--otches

Firstly.. i down with this.. i can bring Fire/Rad corr for buffs/rez.. or a kick [censored] Brute "Berserker-x"

Secondly i agree 100% that this need to be planned..

I suggest posting a date in a few weeks for this and gathering interested peeps who provide AT's they could bring to the event so u can tally and coordinate teams.

Ie..

Berserker-x - Lvl 50 Nrg/WP Brute Tanking/Agro/Melee damage
Gamma-x - Lvl 50 Fire/RAd Corr Debuff/weak heals/rez

AS u will need to co-ordinate teams for damage/agro/support etc will make it easier to know wat troops u have avail. Plus i suggest a meet up for all involved 1 hour before commencment to formulate teams for Farming the DE to spawn Hami..

I'm Sure i can gather more peeps from UD to join this event

Hey i have an Nrg/Willpower brute and tbh as slotting goes on ur toggles u wanna think regen not resist..

im at work so cant access mids but can advise

High pain tolerance - 6 slot 3 numinas 2 common heal io's and an Aegis status rez

Fast healing - 6 slot 3 numinas, miracle + rec, regen tissue + regan and common heal io

RTTC - 3 numinas 1 common heal io deflated ego special, dark watchers special.

also try and fit tough and weave in the build

Id agree with not taking Stun.. and not taking Barrage.

Plus i have Quick recovery and stamina at least 4 slotted with Performance shifter including the + end

Numina rec/regen + 3x numinas on health.

Works gud for me and the regen is sick

Ah i have tried once again to make sum heroes and i have a Psi/Nrg Blaster lvl 12.. I would like to make this guy more of a PVP build wat Mastery wud u suggest for PVP? i'll admit my noobishness on this an open this up for advise from more experienced sources

Yo Rooks any chance u guys may be organising one Villains side? lol..

Altho i have got a hero to my highest lvl one yet lvl 12!! he'll be a much use a chocolate fire guard :O

Also peeps we do a few PVP events here and there.. and also record some of these fo prosperity

http://files.filefront.com/UD+vs+The.../fileinfo.html

Hello to all Union Villains out there

Ultimate Darkness are now looking for new members to join our motley crew..

Players new and old are more than welcome, so if you are interested in an SG where the main rules are gud laughs, Gud teaming and more gud laughs you can either post on this thread ur global names or hunt out @Graviton-x, @agent or @Starscreamer and we'd be happy to welcome you onboard..

This sounds like a really cool idea mate I'll try my best to see if i can organise sum UD troops to come down for the event Hopefully there will be a gud turnout

wow!! that's great going. I'd just like to say Gratz.. plus i agree on the point made that if you pay to play a game you should be able to play it in whichever way you see fit.. PL or not.. once you have got ur first few toons to 50 i must say roaming round mercy does tend to lose it's "wow" factor :S

I must say i wish my VEAT was 50 already lol

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Sounds like a really nice bunch of people in this SG so good luck finding people =) I'd have a go at joining myself if it wasn't for the fact I'm level 9 and a total noobie to the game

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Or Alternatively contact myself @graviton-x or Agent aka Big Bad Dom @Agent. Peeps from all lvls and experience are more than welcome