Grey Pilgrim

It's a fight that requires movement of melee ATs (well, probably), which is a good thing. If you want to sit there and take all her debuffs, some of which are patches or time based, you're welcome to it, but you'll be better off moving off.

On my Fire/Fire Tank, depending on how well her hits land (good old defense makes this random), I can usually get her down most of her health before it make sense to move out of a Freezing Rain patch. The worst time, I had to back off so I could have my powers recharge faster and get Healing Flames back.

My Scrapper that is still leveling has a harder time, but he's only in his 30s. He's fallen back on ranged attacks for some of the encounter when the damage gets too high.

Hey, didn't seem to go badly to me at all. Few defeats, of course, but never threw us off completely. Had fun and somehow had 9 shards drop for me, yikes!

Are you just suggesting a change to how buffs are registered, Dechs? Because debuffs already do add to aggro (for the targets affected). Taunts, etc., do overwhelm that aggro, but that's as it should be, I would say.

I wonder how easy a system would be to add aggro to buffs, however. As far as I know, debuffs only work on the targets affected: I'm not sure how you could get enemies to notice people healing or buffing in another way. I suppose it could be a variation on that one power Ghoul lieutenants can cast on you, which ups your threat rating (or is it how much aggro you generate?).

Not sure if it's strictly needed, or that worthwhile, though. People seem to have more issues activating their buffs than debuffs, anyway. I know it's what keeps me from using most sets that require repeated buff activation. I'd rather see a little more ingenuity over how mobs are aggroed, or have patrols alert nearby mobs, etc.

And some of that is already being done: the new Going Rogue missions have a lot of ambushes triggered by you completing an objective of some sort.

Well, weird. I kept having the issue, and figured I would reverify the files, and now things work for me. Not sure why that didn't work for others, though.

I think he's more difficult on a melee AT, as it's harder to deal with his bifurcations without range. I think I brute forced him and dropped a few bifurcations the first time I did it with my Fire/Fire Tank, but my other meleers had a harder time... I usually pulled him to the hallway for them, actually.

Teams can roast him easy, and my ranged types mostly have to worry about the damage he tosses out, not getting him low enough.

This is happening to me now with the new patch or whatever is happening today (Saturday), presumably with fixes to the Winter Event? Sometimes I get that message trying to get in to the server list, other times I can't get in to Victory or Champion.

And whenever I try to open City of Heroes again, it seems to re-DL a patch and apply it. Every time. Anyone know what the heck is going on?

Awww, shucks. I was going to try for one of these tonight before the Hami raid. Not sure if I'll get interest if people can do it tomorrow night, too. And you're more organized with this than I am.

Yup, I've been so confused when they keep adding to that level range: there is a LOT of stuff to do there (and some of the original arcs are actually pretty good), and we need more in the +30 game for sure, both sides. I'd also put in a plea to unattach contacts from doing newspaper missions redside, as I hate that requirement, but I'd still be yoked into doing them because of the accolade needs there.

Boy, I can't imagine why I prefer blueside, at all. Need to get my villains to Rogue status so they can run around and do other things when they want to.

I'm still rather amazed that the Metrodome collapsed like that. It's not like it hasn't made it through a lot of other blizzards and ice. I can recall a slight bit of the roof falling... in the late 80s or early 90s during a storm, but that's it.

Would depend on the day and time, I'd be up for this. I'm not sure having a group is going to be the wisest, given all the varying schedules people have, but whatever floats your boat!

Probably should be doable, though all the EBs and level 54 damage flying around would be challenging. Might be willing to try it if I can finish getting an alpha slot on my one Incarnate level Blaster that I want to run with currently.

Creepy. I'll hopefully be around this Saturday for the raid, especially since I missed out on this last Saturdays. I'll bring my Controller, since it sounds like it was needed? Can always switch to a Blaster or Tank if there is more need there.

Minnesota did indeed get plastered. The south side got ice before it as well (not to mention northern Iowa), meaning I was long delayed in getting back from my funeral on Saturday.

Twin Cities had the fifth biggest snowfall on record in a single day, something like 21 inches. Not as big as the Halloween blizzard (or the one in January the year after), but it was still nutty.

And ummm, oh yeah. I'm still here. I was here a year and a half ago and more, I guess.

I pretty much like to keep myself at the resist cap while the towers are up as well, besides defense at 75% while the blue tower is up. Even then, I've had the cheater drop my health like crazy: more than Healing Flames can keep up with. It's a good idea to give a tank support when they're facing a tower buffed Recluse (and by that I do mean heals... shields and such are nice, but he can and does land hard hits). Once the damage and accuracy ones are down, he's not so rough.

Need to go back and update my guide. Can't finish until they update mids for the Alpha slot, but I can at least chat things over, as there are a lot of new things for Fiery Aura and Fire/Fire types to think over.

What did we have more of on Saturday? I can bring a Blaster next week, or my Earth/Storm Controller. Not sure which would be more help.

I got it down for the last bit we were trying, and I think some of us did, but part of the problem was people just were not moving well, and our ranged damage died far too much. Before we had most of the swords and warriors under control, that made sense, but after... I'm not sure what the problem was. Nanite swarms are certainly annoying (and I would say a bit over the top), but they shouldn't have been neutering our damage output so much.

I would highly recommend anyone get used to jousting and not attacking in a long chain: we're probably going to see more encounters that require out of the box thinking, rather than a standard DPS slog (and that's not necessarily a bad thing, it's not entirely WoWish, as one teammate kept complaining).

After the initial issues after she came back, I did not have very many nanite swarms go after me, and I was able to time my taunts, damage (melee and ranged), as well as movement so I was hitting her a fair amount and not touching any swarms.

There is a decent guide to this TF in the guide section right now (by a fellow Victoryite!) that I would recommend reading. Pretty much covers all our issues: power patches that look like the nanite swarms should be recolored, extra tanks or melee should remove most of the swords and warriors, and how to not get caught in a swarm as you bring the hurt on Battle Maiden. If we had been able to adjust to that all as a group, we could have done it. I also forgot to mention using envenomed daggers: I noticed that we started adding on damage when I managed to use mine and we had more than just me attacking her.

Darn, wish my Dual Pistols Blaster was at 50, but he's 35. Guess I'll have to make western work for someone else, if I feel up for it next Saturday. It was fun joining in for the last 20 minutes, so thanks for letting me join in.

Cute. Reminds me of when we got a puppy when I was in 8th grade... she hid in a little crack between seats of our minivan, and when she got older, she could hardly fit her nose in there, heh.