Lost_samurai_EU

judging by recent actions, we can lend you a couple of scraps and tanks to use as shields, but fraid we need all the others mate

i figured it was yellow and black due to being mainly scrappers and tanks, who are those respective AT colours

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P.S : Youve missed defender epic : dominate again!!! hehe

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*looks around, chloroforms cherry and drags her off*
There is no dominate, you heard nothing

we have 2-3 months, no matter what thats still a good bit of time

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I'll be there with my Controller, Flamin' Nora, no prizes for guessing the primary, although I'll probably be a bit late next week. I will definitely make the holding stage.

Just a couple of suggestions if you don't mind:

It is extremely helpful in the holding stage to have a couple of bubblers running Big Bubble with the main group. It doesn't add majorly to the lag and it makes a noticable difference to the speed of clearance.

Using the raid channel to have only a limited number of people on there talking seems to be a good idea, as it's the only channel which can't be spammed by everyone, it would make sense to me to keep non-raid related chatter off there - it defeats the object of muting most people if it's going to be used to chat to friends.

Finally, when we pulled aggro in the holding stage people were getting thrown around something 'orrible. It'd be an idea if that happens again, particularly when he's below 50% health, to get everyone who has it to put acrobatics or hover on until the Tanker regains the aggro. There may be a small amount of lag, but losing the hold on him while sitting on our [censored] would probably be worse.

Thanks for organising another raid.

Wyx.

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Problem was our ham itank had gone AFK, with auto tuant on, so naturally once hami dissapeared the aggro was gone and we had to pull in our backup tank quickly, after that it went well enough aside from the troublemankers

heh lotsa people getting damage ranges me included

would be interested in an acc/dam for it, but i highly doubt anyone wants that offer

Once again Hamidon was defeated, and once again were not gonna leave him be.

If you plan on coming please sign here with your name, AT, powersets and any relevant info.

Firstly anyone coming please make sure you have a Hami raid cossie, these help to reduce the lagg greatly. I believe the layout was tightchest and legs, smooth/bare full on gloves and boots and a tech helm, all one colour.
scrappers-yellow
blasters-red
defenders-blue (empaths-green)
controllers-Purple
tanks-Black
PBs White
WS-black/purple
If you have a hold please add a purple stripe to your costume.
Some of these may be wrong, i need to find the guide for em. This is the best costume for creating as little lag as possible. If you really cant afford to change a cossie please wear one with as little detail as possible, No auras or capes, these cause massive lag during raids

Here’s the info for the raid in just over a weeks time.
Also those that haven’t already please read Read the guide Here
by Archy, Xanthus and friends, tyvm to them .

PA team-Paragon girl
Taunt team-Dark Blazes, Curing catz
Clearing team-streekz
Holders-Raziel
Perimeter-Tsuminju

Well there’s the assigned positions I’ve made so far for teams, the PA team are phantom army droppers and kins. Taunt team is the Hami tank, gilga or MD with emps to keep em healed, one to many so those that want can help with the healing blanket.
The mito team is for the clearing phase, all those not needed for another team just follow streakz and attack his target when the mito clear phase begins.
The hold teams should be compromised of anyone with a hold, or speedboost/accelerate metabolism.

Also do not use any defence/dmg res toggles in the Hive, Hami and co do untyped unavoidable damage so toggles apart from mez protection are useless and just cause lag.

To review the raid, firstly we’ll meet at the Hive entrance in Eden, there everyone gets into teams, those in the PA and taunt teams get together then, everyone else can make their own for now. We enter and go to cowards hill, near hamidon, if you’re unsure where follow everyone else .

Most important rule is not to aggro or attack hamidon, second is not to draw GMs into Hami, Do not under any circumstance attack/taunt or use any power on hamidon.

At this point the PA team move into position, and once we have the go ahead follow streakz and clear them mitos . Our hami tank team will enter once we’ve got a big enough space or if we reckon there is a wide enough coverage of PA, so less chance of hami being aggroed.

Once all the mitos have been cleared everyone is to go up to hamidon and brawl him once, make sure it hits no other powers to be used, this is to ensure everyone will get a hami O while also preventing the aggro being taken off our hami tank. Then the Hold phase begins. For this phase only the following powers are to be used (special thanks to Archy, Xanthus and friends for the info taken from their guide, here and throughtout post.)

No dark servant cos its twilight grasp will cause to much lag

-Tankers: not worth it becuase of guantlet
-Blasters: Tesla Cage, Freeze Ray, Bitter Freeze Ray, Shocking Grasp, Freezing Touch, Shocking Bolt, Char, Cryo Freeze Ray.
-Defenders: Petryfing Gaze, Choking Cloud, EM Pulse, Ice Arrow, Tesla Cage, Telekinesis.
-Scrappers: not worth the lagg.
-Warshades: Gravity Well.
-Peacebringers: Incandescent Strike.
-Controllers: Fossilize, Volcanic Gasses, Char, Cinders, Gravity Distortion, Gravity Distortion Field, Singularity(3 slots for Hold Duration, no matter the others), Block of Ice, Glacier, Blind, Flash, Dominate, Telekinesis(whatever slotting you have), Total Domination, Choking Cloud, EM Pulse, Ice Arrow.

In addition to this, the only buffs which should be used really are AM and Speed Boost for the +rechg so that holds can be stacked. People need to understand that spamming immobs and heals, leaving auras/shields on, using pets (other than Singularity and maybe Dark Servant), or just using random powers (like Fulcrum) is totally useless and counter-productive since it increases the lag to the point where we can't see if Hami is held.

I'll appoint someone in charge for this, so once this phase begins please listen to them
NO ATTACKING HAMI, only holds during this phase.
Anyone without a hold or recharge boost will have to sit on cowards hill and wait,no scrapper or tankers, even with holds in this phase unless we are desperate due to the lagg. As long as you brawled him you'll still get Hami O though.

Lets show him what for chaps

Well done all (except a few who know who they are)
Another victory for Union
Next raid will be on the 26th at 7PM GMT
yes im aware of the double exp, but wanna see how it goes by numbers if we try it weekly, if we can manage it when most people will be on different toons then its a good sign, if we can't ah well

any who can come are welcome

Hami Muffins anyone?

brilliant one mate, gives some of us dmaage types somethign to do while assissting the raid in our own way, should be good tommorow

it was cryo kid who was afk dead under hami for the union raid wasn't it. lazy leecher

now now lets not get into server bashing, lord knows their causing enough problems as it is without us damaging em

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The "healer" thing is silly, Empath's get 3 heals, 1 Res and 5 Buffs.

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Thank you
It amazes me how many people are fixed on empaths being healers, we have 5 buffs ok, even the 3 heals we have can be classed as health buffs.
Im soroley tempted to play to the image of the enxt person who calls my empath a healer and refuse to use anything other than my 3 heals.

Im also annoyed at how often people say good healing, whether its me or another empath its not like we really deserve it. my job is to keep the team going, i shouldnt be thanked for it considering im not thanking the tank everytime he draws aggro, the scrapper for each kill or the blaster each time he dies for the team.

it wasn't that chaotic, sure the mito clearers seperated at a few points..
and some noob taunted hami during brawl phase and faceplanted a few of us..
and then there was the GM...

Look we'll be fine ok

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Ill be there with Newt - Empath with Telekinesis hold, it will be my first but Ill read all the guides before hand

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ty, always helps if people have read the guide

me plus you, plus their team leader who is my bro. it wasn't easy
it was very unessecary since we had 2 teams of healers anyway

It's amazing what people will forget when focussing on new powers they wanted, that and PLers are thick

i will do everything in my and every other heroes power to make it happen Xanthus

course there will be, for anyone who respeced out their hold for some random reason, wouldn't be the first time i've seen it. and for those who are just so terrible their hlds miss Hami.
btw you get your own private brawl phase irradiator, dont worry we'll remove everyone so no one can interrupt it either, just you and hami

yea, they just got lost on the way to the copter

here it is, the guide

You'll be back
Until then Best of Luck in the Hell we call Real Life

my plan is based mainly on the Hami guide in the defiant heroes section, i'll post a link when i find it

yup, nice to see this coming together, looks better planned than my raid lol