James_Donner
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Thanks again to everyone who made it out to a great raid.
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fixed. &@9pm
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Reminder that the next Hamidon Raid is Feb. 23 @9pm Eastern
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Well I can give you at least 8 who got it on multiple toons. The error was server side and it was just dumb luck for the people who got it. We just happened to be running Khan speed runs atm so we were resetting every 20 min. I got it twice on 3 of mine. Only had the shards to craft the ultra rare on 1. The rest will just have an extra when I eventually get enough drops. The double reward merits were nice though.
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No, pretty much anyone playing last Tuesday before 5pm eastern and who had the stockpile of shards should be running around with the badge.
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We actually started right on time last night and did two runs. Didn't really feel like it ran that late. We are scheduling them at 9PM EST so west coast people can have a chance as well.
And yes they will get faster. I would love to run them more than once a week but I think the server needs to learn how to do them efficiently first. I'm also open to doing them redside but we'll have to move our raid toons to Vig. status first. If your interested in getting more involved in the process just hit me up in game. -
Thanks to everyone who came out to help us with Hamidon. We took Hami down twice and had a great time.
We'll be running our next raid on Feb 23rd at 9pm. Hope to see you all there. -
Since i19's release I have been experiencing total system crashes when dual boxing. The system would just shut off completely. When I reboot everything seems fine. Since i19.5 the crashes have expanded to when I am running a single instance. So far it only happened during the final Recluse and Kahn TF boss fights. I think the issue is related to my graphics card. I can tell a huge difference in my graphics cards volume, its just running louder. I am thinking I need a new card but I'd like to rule out any known driver or game related issues. I am unable to replicate the crash in any other game. Hope someone has a clue whats going on and can help me out.
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My search fu is week so could someone please help me out and explain how/if the level shift impacts the defense soft cap? Since we could potentially earn additional level shifts with each incarnate slot how much benefit might we see in the future?
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Quote:YesOriginally Posted by Mindscythe
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Quote:Since We all had so much fun with TA, Jagged Legion is planning on hosting a Hamidon Raid on Wed Feb 9th @9pm Eastern. We have several experienced raiders who have volunteered to lead teams and help coordinate things. Our hope is for a reasonable turnout so we can start teaching people just how fun the new raiding style can be. Plus I can't wait to see what some level shifted scrappers do to the yellows.Originally Posted by Wulfman
A raid can be done any time someone wants to step up and lead one. The basics of the strategy we use to lead public raids are posted on these forums for anyone to use. The problem is that most people that don't raid on a regular basis don't want the hastle of trying to organize one...they want to just go and participate.
I would encourage everyone to read TA hamidon guide. Its an easy read and gives an excellent outline of the current strategy.
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For once I am actually excited about a Dev decision. I think the WTF is a great idea and will help people get used to finding TF teams. I've haven't seen so many people running TFs on pinnacle in years.
I also hope they decide to remove a few from the rotation. Some like the Caverns, Katie, Hess, Eden, Sewers and the Shard TFs, just don't have a Red counterpart. A part of me does hope they slip in Moonfire and Mender Silos.
I Wish they would revamp the Shadow Shard. Make it co-op. Add some light bridges, those jump jets just suck. Clear the fog of war and rework the TFs so they never leave the Zones. There is some great content out there that is just such a pain to access that relatively few ever bother. -
Soloists. "These changes aren't for you."
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We all had a blast and look forward to doing it again soon. Thanks for taking the lead on an excellent public raid.
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Awesome! A Booster Pack with costume pieces we already have! Alright, Yeah! Amazing use of development resources. Are you sure you can spare the time to put this together? I mean, someone is gonna have to skip a coffee break or something crazy like that!
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DM/Shield/Blaze
Its everything anyone could ever want in a scrapper. Awesome single target dps. Insane AOE with soul drain +shield charge +fire ball. Softcap Def and just enough resist help in a pinch. Can't go wrong with either the Cardiac Radial or the Spiritual Radial.
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Check to make sure you didn't change your personal setting to No Bosses.
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Single target damage only while taking down the pylons, just ignore the rikti, they will run in and help with mitos. Once the pylons are down all your melee should attack the yellows, have them all attack the same one and go clockwise. While they work on the yellows the rest of the team should take down the blues with ranged damage. Again, have one person as the targeter and work clockwise. Once the yellow and blues are down the entire team works on greens, again with a single targeter. Gather the leftover rikti and attack hami. Stack holds on hami while you kill him.
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My opinion.
Your overcompensating for End in the wrong places and leaving a lot of cheap +rech,+def, +damage and end on the table.
I had a friend do the same with his ss/sr. His problem was that he had to much recharge and not enough end reduc in the powers he found himself spamming (knockout blow and footstomp) and overstacking his Rage. H would constantly find himself with no end and popping blues as he tried to steamroll with the group. He had to modify both his build and his play.
Personal opinion but I think your just wasting inf with the PVP ios in the passives. 3 Slot them with LOTG's and your toggles with 5 red fortunes. I'd also loose Taunt, or at least use the slots else where. Play the brute like a scrapper, not a tank.
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Quote:Agreed, Katie was fun to use and abuse but I don't mind steamrolling out of another map. Just Att the team to her and steamroll back to the door. Thats what, 5-10 tops.Originally Posted by Master-Blade
Not for nothing, but not everybody plays this game based on (Rewards/Time).
Not changing the merits was an oversight, yes.. but killing the TF, no.
If you want the merits changed start a thread about new average times for TFs. Just don't be upset if this burns some of the heavily run favorite. Personally I would just say eh and enjoy it for the fun quick TF that it still is. -
why would a lead out for the 2nd mission kill the TF? I would be more upset that a the change was not included in the patch notes. If it was I missed it.
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Quote:Nothing you are referencing here has much to do with IO's. Your talking about strategies that people use to manipulate the mechanics of the TF. Prime example; Katie Hannon TF, Run this TF with a dark/* def and an cold/ice def. The ability to A. know the exact spawn point of the witch mob B. drop a tarpatch +sleet +any rain power and the apply tohit debuff -def -res and -regen to Mary and this tf goes from 30-45 min down to 15-20. Add in melee AOE, 1 stealth character with ATT and it just gets faster. No IO's or fancy builds or anything. People were doing speed runs of katie, eden and the sewers long before IO's and now the tactics learned LONG ago are just reapplied. Don't blame IO's for players who expose weaknesses in the games design.Originally Posted by Mega_Jamie
Your missunderstanding what your quoting...
What they are saying is that if the Devs datamine specific things their results will get squiffed by min/maxers. For example they datamine TF/Arc times to determine merits rewards.
If 1000 teams complete a specific TF 4 hours. but 100 teams complete it in 15 minutes.
Then the results arnt too squiffed, average runtime is about 3.65 hours. But if those 100 teams each decide to farm the TF 10 times because its soo easy. then your average runtime for that TF drops considerably. to 2 hours.
Now all they have to do is heavily farm that TF at a rate of 15 minutes a go more readily than casual players who know it will take them 4 hours to run it will do it in. And you've got a steadily decreasing time in the TF.
Look at the Crystal Titan (Eden) TF. 4 hours time limit and then it fails, do the Devs count failed attempts in their calculations? possible when it is timed, but also likely not. Why? well the whole TF gives a lousy 7 reward merits.
Why because you can do it in under 25 minutes with a half decent team that knows what they are doing.
This can and will also be applied to how tough enemies should be. if a large enough (while still being minority) proportion of the playerbase trivialise enemies (softcap at 45% on squishies, perma PA etc etc) then you will find more enemies with defence debuffs, or massive tohit. Or recharge Debuffs, or taunt resistance. -
I've found that a Fire/Dark Corrupter is always a force to be reckoned with. You get fire damage plus -resist from tarpatch and lots of -tohit to keep you safe. As an extra bonus you get a great AOE stun that also does -regen.
Cold/Cold is nasty on either a Corr and a defender and there really is nothing better than a soul drained blizzard for killing everything in the room. -
Where do people keep finding these horrible teams? I run into belligerent players from time to time and I've heard lots of stories but I just don't see this actually happening very much.
However I will add that the team that wanted no melee on their LGTF and turned away Beef Cake was just totally incomprehensible to me. I want the best players I can get regardless of what they are playing at the time. 99% of the time thats all you really need. -
fire or dark