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Anyway, this isn't a guide to doing it with a plant dom. It's a guide to doing it with a mind dom

GUIDE TO THE LRSF SLEEP METHOD

This requires a mind dominator that has permadom. You need mass hypnosis and mesmerize, both well slotted for accuracy, sleep, and recharge. The kismet unique and tactics can help as well, but are not needed. You also want a brute on your team with taunt and a ranged single target attack. Make sure they do not have any procs in taunt. Furthermore, you want some sort of stealth. Super speed plus a stealth IO is what I use.

So, the heroes are situated on a platform. During the cutscene, Statesman will activate unstoppable. You must wait until unstoppable drops before doing anything. This usually takes about 2 minutes and you can tell by the aura around him. Everyone except you should be away from the platform. Once unstoppable drops, go right under the edge of the platform (with your stealths on). Do mass hypnosis by jumping up and activating it, so that it happens once you are back under the platform. If you miss anyone on this first try, just wait until mass hypnosis recharges. Do NOT use mesmerize yet. Keep trying mass hypnosis until it does not miss anyone.

Once you manage this, you will keep hitting mass hypnosis whenever it recharges. Use mesmerize on anyone that mass hypnosis misses, as quickly as you can. Use the jump method for mesmerize as well so that the heroes have no chance of hitting you. Tell the puller to pull. They should wait until right after a mass hypnosis, then taunt, and then use the single target ranged attack. The order in which they pull does not matter, as long as Numina is last. This is because, on occasion, if you pull Numina first, she will start clear minding heroes. I recommend pulling manticore first, as he is the only hero that has powers which can hit you below the platform. Be sure to stay away from the puller, as you don't want to be hit with any AOEs.


THINGS THAT PEOPLE DO WRONG

- pulling numina first
- not using a brute with taunt and a ranged single target attack. it can be done without, but you need to be extremely careful to not wake anyone else up and to keep aggro from the mind dom
- not using mesmerize the instant mass hypnosis misses someone
- using mesmerize before your first succesful mass hypnosis
- letting dom drop
- not doing mass hypnosis as soon as it recharges
- not waiting for statesman's unstoppable to drop
- not using some sort of stealth. it can be done without, but you need to be extremely careful about getting your first succesful mass hypnosis
- trying to use the sleep method after already screwing up. if you've screwed up, it can be salvaged, but it's often best just to let the mission reset by logging out

jakke, even a scrapper with max HP and great resist can be 2 shotted by Aeon. I would not invite you on a MSTF if you planned on trying to melee him with your blaster.

That's one of the things I constantly try to remind the team to do (not just blasters, everyone except the tank). In any other situation I don't care, but 1 death matters.

Apparently I'm an idiot. My apologies.

I read it. You never suggested killing it twice before engaging recluse or the towers.

The flier is on a timer. If you happen to kill it near the beginning of its timer, you will have plenty of time to kill the towers and recluse. If you catch it near the end of the timer, it will respawn as you are fighting the towers/recluse, and can easily kill one or more people. To avoid the possibility, we kill it once. Then we wait for it to respawn, and kill it again. That way we know we killed it right at the beginning of the timer.

Your guide takes too many risks, in my opinion. (particularly with the flier)
Our group always kills the flier twice before engaging recluse to be sure it is at the beginning of its timer.

Your order of tank squishiness amuses me.

When I used to play Star Wars: Jedi Knight 2, no one ever trash talked to me. I don't know if that's still the case, but it was nice back then when it came out.

Grinnz: I disagree. There are many competitive games that I enjoy, ones without trash talking because there is no chat in them or because the audience does not do so.

I wasn't trying to be self-interested, or anything. I was trying to contribute to the topic. :-(

What? I'm confused.

I don't PVP specifically because of trash talking.

Ghost Widow's strongest hold is mag 100. This means 7 clear minds on top of a tanker's normal mez protection is sufficient. However, if she stacks hold, you will need more. She has only stacked holds in 1 out of the 30 or so STFs I have been on.

Yeah, I agree that turning someone away because of AT is crappy. My friends and I have the benefit of having multiple toons we can play.

Didn't see this post. I made some suggestions in the other thread if you're curious.

I now hate the rikti. We had a perfect master of statesman task force run, except that in transit to the mission in Peregrine, a rikti dropship zapped 2 of our teammates.