MBarUK

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If I can get Warhead in range, and if you think we'll be done by 5pm.

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Well, one of the info pages suggests about 3 hours, but it may be too close for comfort.

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sorry peeps for no show but had serious domestic problems ...to the point where i have now moved out and dont have a connection....so should be able to join u all in about 2 weeks....once again ...my apologies

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Absolutely no problem Bianca, given the circumstances, I think we can understand and sympathise.

With Positron still filled with disbelief at the almighty er ... might ... of Task Force Quark, MBar's whirlwind tour of the Phalanxers moves on to Synapse's Task Force and those nasty Clockwork things.

Task Force information here and here.

Sign-up below to reserve your place, or just turn up at Synapse at 2pm on Sun 19 Feb. Multiple teams (if needed) will be arranged then. Any questions, ask away.

Yup, grats to both teams on successful completion, with team 2 finishing a bit ahead of team 1.

The sun sets on the dastardly plans to destroy Paragon City Dam, foiled by Task Force Quark
(L to R) Yuki Kitano, yours truely, Shadow, Cedana, Arrowsmith, Lady Yatta

Synapse will have his sparky butt owned next week, same Bat-time, same Bat- er ... channel ... See the new thread here for info and to sign-up.

Ice Tanker? woo

1. MBar (Tanker)
2. Nurse Bianca, I assume (Defender)
3. Scarlet Stormer (Controller)
4. Private Gilliam (Blaster)
5. a Wamdue alt (Scrapper)
6. Night Wacher (Defender)
7. Cedana (Scrapper)
8. a Rock Eagle alt (Defender)
9. Atomic Arrow (Defender)
10. Shadow (WarShade, I assume)
11. Silent Edge (Scrapper)
12. Yuki Kitano (Scrapper)
13. Jah Frost (Tanker)
14. Arrowsmith (Defender)

Looks like we're gonna have two big teams running this.

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Sorry Mbar, but i'm going to have to pull out. NTL are having problems in the area and it doesn;t look like i'll be getting my net connection back till Tuesday

I have no idea what i'll do with myself!

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Another check in the column for "ntl are a pack of [censored]" then. Anyway, np Deluge.

Ok, so we have:

1. MBar (Tanker)
2. Nurse Bianca, I assume (Defender)
3. Scarlet Stormer (Controller)
4. Private Gilliam (Blaster)
5. a Wamdue alt (Scrapper)
6. Night Wacher (Defender)
7. Cedana (Scrapper)
8. a Rock Eagle alt (Defender)
9. Atomic Arrow (Defender)
10. Shadow (WarShade, I assume)
11. Silent Edge (Scrapper)

We'll sort a couple of balanced teams at the time.

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So, where do we meet up? At Positron?

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Yup.

And I see the date is wrong on this thread. I can't do it Saturday 11th as some might have thought, I meant to have Sunday 12th there , and thats when I'll be running it. Thanks for pointing that out in Game, Wacher.

Apologies if thats confused anyone, I could've sworn I had checked the date when starting the thread ...

You said you were waiting on my word about TS, therefore I was assuming you were waiting on that before confirming whether or not you were attending. Assuming you are for now.

No reply from Velinia yet regarding TS ...

and a very flimsy excuse for a bump up the topic list.

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Always up for a little TF, luv. I'll bring one of my lowbie alts. I'll bring Shadow. She still hasn't done this. Only lvl 12, but Khelds don't really worry about travels

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Heh, indeed.

1. MBar (Tanker)
2. Nexxus (Defender)
3. Nurse Bianca, I assume (Defender)
4. Scarlet Stormer (Controller)
5. Private Gilliam (Blaster)
6. a Wamdue alt (Scrapper)
7. Night Wacher (Defender)
8. Cedana (Scrapper)

9. a Rock Eagle alt (Defender)
10. Atomic Arrow (Defender)
11. Shadow (WarShade, I assume)

Sign-ups so far then:

1. MBar (Tanker)
2. Nexxus (Defender)
3. Nurse Bianca, I assume (Defender)
4. Scarlet Stormer (Controller)
5. Private Gilliam (Blaster)
6. a Wamdue alt (Scrapper)
7. Night Wacher (Defender)
8. Cedana (Scrapper)

9. a Rock Eagle alt (Defender)
10. Atomic Arrow (Defender)

The TF only requires a team of 3 to start and has no AV, so if you all want to do it, it'll not be hard to organise a couple teams.

So keep signing up, if you so wish.

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Edit: Oh, I just noticed that TS-thingy linky. Um, if that bloody thing is a requirement for this tf, you can find someone else then. Sorry.

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Oh, by no means is it a requirement. I know how you feel regarding TS.

Edit: And I know that with when others are using it, it can lead to neglect of those who aren't. I try to not do this myself, and hell, I'm not the chattiest of people anyway, whether its TS or the team channel.

Team so far then:

1. MBar (Tanker)
2. Nexxus (Defender)
3. Nurse Bianca, I assume (Defender)
4. Scarlet Stormer (Controller)
5. Private Gilliam (Blaster)
6. a Wamdue alt (Scrapper)

Good to have some of the old hands on board.

Edit: Oh, and a little reminder/introduction to TeamSpeak. Rather handy, it is.

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Wouldn't mind doing this one with scarlet if there's still space.

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Yup.

So far, we've got:

1. MBar (Tanker)
2. a Deluge alt (Defender)
3. Nurse Bianca, I assume (Defender)
4. Scarlet Stormer (Controller)

Low on damage so far, I guess.

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Hey! My Fire/Dev, Ill/Rad, Fire/Ice, Spines/Regen, Kin/Elec, Mind/Storm & Ice/Kin all resent the implication!

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I meant teh Brute uber, of course.

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I remember reading something about the self damage by OG was cancelled out by the boosted health generation of Fitness/Health.

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I would imagine so. It's hardly massive to start with (Iwould hope).

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Also, I have energy melee and the disorient effects stack REALLY nicely. One of the main reasons I had for going /DA incidentally. (Dark Regen came as a very welcome surprise)

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So you're EM/DA? Oh noes, its teh uber!!!1111

Having now played Fire/DA and EM/Invuln Brutes rather a lot, I do like the sounds of EM/DA. But no, I have enough Brutes, especially with a Elec/Elec one coming too.

... Haven't I? ...

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Cound me in dude with my SL 12 Dark/Dark Defender

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Great, good to have you abroad.

I know its cheeky of me to ask, but could you try and get to 14 by Sunday? Travel powers ftw etc.

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is it maxed out with one SO dmg resist?
i slotted it not knowing. :/ i can always do a respec mish, but still.

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What, the Smashing / Lethal Resistance provided by Resilence? No, there's no chance of that. 3 Damage Resistance SO's are a good way to go though, in both Tough and Resilence.

If you mean the Stun protection provided by Resilence, nothing you slot in there will make a different to that. It's maxed as such from the moment you get it.

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OTOH, it's the only Resistance you'll get as a /regen.

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But at a cost of endurance.

Wait, why the hell am I talking about endurance problems in a Regen thead? Sorry, its been a long day ...

Get both Tough and Resilence.

Use the Follow, Luke.

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Take both and only run one at a time, depending on the situation and your needs?

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Next you'll be telling me to turn off Murky Cloud if there's little E/F/C damage flying about.

Don't worry I do, btw.

Yes, with no respecs left on Seethe its more a matter of which to take in addition to Death Shroud when we get access to 40+: Oppressive Gloom or Cloak of Fear.

Oppressive Gloom certainly warants testing on the Test Server at 41. And conceptually, I'd prefer it to CoF.

Right, it's about time MBar did some of these crazy TF thingies I've heard so much about. It may surprise some of you to learn that in whats nearly a year of play, MBar has done just one of the Freedom Phalanx's TFs.

I'll give you a minute to recover from the shear shock ...

Granted I've now done most of the trials and all but one of the Shard TF's, but yes, I've only done one of the main TF's, and I'm not telling which one, because I intend just do them all, in order, first to last, every Sunday until they're done.

So, I'm starting this Sunday at 2 p.m. with Mr. "That stuff's all grey to me, no XP" himself, Positron. Yes kids, he's obviously too business standing directly under some big guy's [censored] to go beat up some lvl 15 mobs.

TF info available here and here .

So sign-up below if you want in.

For those who don't know TFs (or Task Forces o_O) are a series of missions which in total require hours of play time. Don't sign up if you can't guarentee your attendance for at least 4 hours. It might be more than that, I honestly don't remember.

With me (and any other high level people who wish to attend) all slotted and SO'ed up, it should go smoothly. And because of at least me auto-exemping to the upper limit of the TF, I'd recommend anyone below 14 to give it a miss (spot the sneaky underhanded exculsion of those without travel powers there ).

Edit: damn, one post away from 500 ...

Christ, that went fast! Grats, Il!

Now, the other stuff.

Groups of 6-8 mobs when solo'ing should only be found outside of missions, i.e. street hunting etc., and even then, much more likely in the hazards zones such as Perez, which are by design much more dangerous than the relative safety of the non-hazard zones.

If you're finding actual missions too tough, maybe you've made the same mistake I did with the difficulty levels, as you mentioned. Your reputation reflects enemy number and level within door mission. Heroic is the easiest, Invincible the hardest. Don't go above Heroic until your late 20's or early 30's. The more powers, slots and SO's you get in your build, the better you cope, and these things only happen 20+.

Edit: an additional note about the difficulty levels.
Levels 1, 3 and 5 (Heroic, Rugged and Invincible) result simply in putting the enemies within the mission up one level for Rugged, up two for Invincible.
Levels 2 and 4 (something and Unyielding) put more mobs in the mission of the level of the difficulty one down from that one.
That's my general experience anyway.

This bind saves a lot of fuss for me personally. Not quite what you're looking but I'll get to that.

/bind q "target_enemy_near$$follow"

Whack that and you'll find the nearest foe and automatically move to within melee range of him. On the way, cue what move you want and when you get there, it'll fire off.

As for auto-follow when a power is used, hmmm:

/macro Name "powexec_name Power Name$$follow"
or
/bind Key "powexec_name Power Name$$follow"

Thats as close as you're gonna get AFIAK, but should work ok. But not a concept I'll be using any time soon.