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Yes, ran it this week, and it must be started by someone in the range.

I've now seen this happen in missions with Wyvern as well. With them it seems even worse. Watched as two Wyvern turned on a third and then a patrol of 2 walked in and the two remaining from the first spawn and the patrol battled it out until only a single Wyvern was left standing.

Could be the same bug. Have not noticed the patrol thing in Legacy Chain missions, but then I haven't seen any patrols run into other spawns in those missions that I can remember.

There is a channel for this on Virtue. You must be invited. If you join you cannot use the channel to plan the best time for hunting other players. Joining means that you are also willing to police the channel, reporting anyone in the channel that attacks other channel members during a planned event.

You can be invited by sending a message @jh2. Channel is just starting so not many members and it may take us a while to build up enough to be of any real use, after this initial invitations it will be up to member to invite others that they trust.

All we can do is try it and see what happens.

Didn't see this reported, but I may have missed it.

I've just started doing some villain missions though Ourborus with my ex-hero.

In all the missions with Legacy Chain, as soon as I enter the room they turn on each other. Have not done it in a big group, just solo, so I don't know if that has anything to do with it. At any rate, if there are 3 in the group, two will turn and attack the 3rd.

I should also note that I am usually invisible when I enter the room.

I find it a little comical, but I'm sure it should not be happening. Unless there as been a civil war within their ranks that I haven't heard about.

I hate to be completely dense, but someone has to explain something to me.

Everything I read about Reichsman in the Barracuda SF says that he becomes invulnerable at 50% and stays that way until he hits 80% unless you have a MM or a defender with the temp power the ends it sooner.

I did this again tonight, and on what I was told here was on another team that did not have either of these AT's but I figured I go with it and see what happened. Our damage and debuffing were both very good. According to some, it is completely possible this way.

I have a power analyzer temp and I opened it up on Reichs as the battle began. As soon as he reached ecactly 50% he became invulnerable. This power of his is based on his HP % and not on time. He remained this way until he reached exactly 80% health when we were once again able to damage him.

This did not happen 3 times as I've read in other threads, this happened a total of 9 times. People started to talk about quitting about the 5th time, and by 9 they'd had enough.

So, here is my question. If it is physically impossible to get him below 50% without stopping him from staying invulnerable and the only way that you can stop him from staying invulnerable is with the temp power given to either a MM or a Defender, how can you beat him without one of these AT's on the team?

Please explain in detail so that I can pass this tidbit of information on to the next team that tries it? Since I'm obviously such a bad player and others are obviously so much better and smarter than I am, please help me to learn to be a better player. What is it that I'm missing? How do you manage to get him below 50% and not have him go invulnerable on you?

What is it called when a player joins you on a task/strike force and then disappears for the sole purpose of making your life more difficult or basically making it impossible for you to complete said task force?

Let's, for example, say that you join Barracuda Strike Force, and you really need a de-buffer and the MM on the team says, "Hey I have a friend..."

Next thing you know, barely into mission one, said MM and his friend both disappear, never to be seen again. Oh well, we'll try it anyway and see what happens, not realizing that we are doomed. That in the last mission it is only a MM gets the temp power to inhibit the AVs invulnerability and without a dubuffer there is very little chance of overcoming his damage resistance.

What a frackin wasted evening...

The real question is, is there anything that I can do the next time something like this happens to cause said players as much grief as they caused the team? Granted, I will never try to complete this particular SF if it happens again, but still...

Not only should the TF/SF tell you how many players is required, but when specific ATs are required in the mix to have a prayer of completing it, that information should be plainly and easily available. There is nothing at all like starting something and wasting hours only to find out that you didn't have a chance from the very beginning.

The subject of this tread is Soloability and End Game. I've been thinking about that and here is what I believe.

I believe that tying character advancement to group activity is a mistake. Notice that I did not say team activity, I'm talking about any time it requires more than one person to complete a task whether or not those people are on a team or how many teams are required. I am also not talking about all group activity, only group activity that MUST be completed to advance a characters abilities. Especially if it requires large groups or more than a single team. In the end this will drive away that portion of the community that do not want to do things in groups and that portion of the community that find it difficult or impossible, for whatever reason, to join large group events. Those that find they have been blocked off from advancement, that run into that wall, they WILL leave.

Not only is group activity now required for advancement, but completion of the most difficult content in the game with a group is required, some of which cannot be completed without specific strategies that require specific ATs or possibly even specific team makeups, something that should never have been designed into the game to begin with. After this weeks stupidity that is called the "WTF", and I think the devs named it perfectly, because that is my opinion exactly, here's what I believe. I believe that more groups will fail to complete the tasks than will succeed. I believe that this will cause additional frustration and this WILL cause people to leave. How many times do you think people will attempt something before they will simply give up and find something less frustrating to do.

If they are effectively walled off from advancement they are not going to stick around.

After watching and reading these boards I also believe that CoX has a larger community of people that like to "solo" than we might think. People that may even join groups sometimes but that spend the majority of their time, for whatever reason, playing alone.

Currently I am taking a "let's see what happens" stance, but if CoX continues down the path it is currently on I will be one of those that finds something less frustrating to fill my leisure time.

For anyone having a problem getting on a team because the leader is looking for a specific AT or power set, avoid that team. Quite frankly if I see "STF Forming pst with AT and ....." I ignore them. I'm there to have fun, not to stand stand around for an hour while the leader puts together what he/she thinks is the bet possible team.

Look for "STF Room for X"

I have never been on a team that required specific AT until maybe the last 1 or 2 places if we are glaringly short on something, like we might want a tank or a brute on the STF and have not found one yet. Yes, sometimes these teams fail, who cares. Most of the time we've always found a way to finish successfully.

However, I do have to say that the new TFs, (you know, Apex and Tin Mage) have done more to promote the "We need specific ATs" than any other TF in the game so far. I've done it 4 times and the team has given up 3 of those. While fun, it seems the BM fight is well beyond the abilities of most of the people I've done this with. .... so much for them "promoting a game that is easy to participate in for everyone"

But it's a villain alignment mission. Some of them seem a bit villainous, but only a bit. They seem more like vigilante missions than villain missions.

I'm playing a Vigilante right now and doing Villain tip missions (level 50). Is it just me or do these missions seem almost heroic in nature?

Stop a serial killer...? Don't remember the others. But they do not seem villainous to me.