Kailure

We used Praetoria earlier tonight. That's three extra zones for you to fit your heroes and villains into.

Edit: 6 if you want to go in the tunnels, but that's even more out of the way than usual.

My ion judgement had a light and dark option.

Okay?

Lambda Sector can be started with a normal team of 8 people. As for whether or not it can actually be completed, I haven't tried it very many times or even finished it once, but the only time I came incredibly close to finishing it we had eight.

It's very likely that you'll get the 2.5m required to convert before 10 shards anyway, assuming they're all from drops and you didn't just break down one of those things from the weekly strike target. Even better if you find a rare piece of salvage.

Just had my first BAF that crashed and burned. Despite most of the team living only as long as a full tray of purples lasts and constantly running back from the hospital, we managed to get to the last encounter. Simply couldn't keep up with the adds and kill the AVs at the same time.

I'm having a lot more fun than just doing normal radio missions or hero tips. In BAF, anyway. I've only done 5 Lamdba Sectors, and they all got to the end. Four didn't do so well because of the second to last part. Some were uncoordinated, others were just poor efforts by people afraid to use inspirations, despite passing by an infinite source of them every time they run back from death. The last one we got all the portals down right off the bat, but the adds from the crate drop offs were more than enough to overwelm us. Weird, I know. Still had a lot of fun on that last attempt, though.

I like the BAF a lot better, and I think future trials should be modeled after this one rather than Lambda. Those merits you get for killing the AVs are a great source of threads while in Lambda you need to do perfect on the second-to-last phase in order to get those merits.

The prisoner escape phase is unique and fairly lenient. Only gotten a perfect score on that once, but never had a group fail on this part.

I've been keeping my score, and unless I miscounted I'm at a whopping 12 BAF runs. Put off quite a bit of work to do them, which I'm about to return to after this post. Out of those, 8 were successes. Out of those successes, 6 had one of the final bosses die too early and rez. Out of those, 3 had half the group get sequestered right after one of them died.

My only gripe is with people who are obsessively negative. People who don't listen tend to pay attention after getting shot through the head by a tower, but people with bad attitudes will complain about the towers even after we beat the trial. It's a little disheartening, to be honest.

Thanks to all the random groups in Virtue I've been thrown into and the devs for the amazing experience. It was a blast. I'm going to go pass out somewhere, now.

EDIT: Oh, I forgot to add! I think the sabotage phase of Lambda Sector could use more starting time than five minutes. In my (though, admittedly limited) experience, groups will either steamroll it and have more than enough time or will end up with 2-3 temps.

Yeah, I'd consider myself incredibly lucky if I got ten shards in drops before 2.5m inf.

That is one wacky texture pack you've got there. I love it.

Back in the day when COV was new, I ran with a static group and we'd always pass the same type of inspiration to the same person. I always got the reds and, when fighting AVs, the purples.

It's pretty amazing how plentiful they drop when you're solo, but it's even more amazing when you're fighting more enemies and killing them faster and eight people have empty slots to catch the drops with.

Those were the days :<

You sound like a control freak.

The primary reason I took Muscles was because my pets would benefit from it as well. I'm finding it easy to stack tons of recharge bonuses on my Crab Spider, and along with those comes enough recovery to hopefully not need cardiac once I finish slotting out.

There's a lot of amazing powers in this game that you can do quite well without. That's just the nature of City of Heroes.

I'd still strongly recommend Venom Grenade.

Honestly, I'd choose based on their name and the little note they set that you can see in the search window. And their info if they're close by.

It's a little shallow, but it's a better experience for everyone on the team if I don't invite someone who never talks or if I don't invite someone who's incredibly rude.

Of course there's no way to properly judge people at a first glance based on these things, but if you're unsure, there's always a fallback.

Take the scrapper.

Blasters aren't 'ranged'. They're 'damage'.

And melee attacks are a lot of damage.