Madame Pistacio

The server reset ate my email! Just kidding! (too soon, I know )

Anyways, sending my inf part back so you can add it back into the pot. I am keeping the PS though, I want it :P.

Thank you sending the prizes and for all of this Masque.

This is a really cool idea! Thank you for sharing with everyone.

This is my main:
Madame Pistacio

MP


Good luck to everyone!

~MP

I think you meant "left you FOR Virtue" ??!?

Good luck. Enjoy!

The tree does make it look like you will need two, but I wonder if they just set it up that way to make it save space and look pretty. Until it is written out in words... I'm not going to make the 2nd one of any set yet.

Does anyone else feel like Hamster is purposefully trying to confuse people by calling shards "merits" ?

An easy suggestion would be- "raids are always formed in RWZ2" that way you miss the "padded" numbers due to people tfing (since lgtf, tin and apex are super popular!) and playing cross-faction AE. However, since the 2nd instance will only spawn if there are too many people in the first, that's not a fail safe strategy.

I would suggest that if a 2nd RWZ spawns, you should just always plan on running two raids. Have 1 or 2 or 10 (:P) potential back up leaders who can lead the raid in whichever zone you did not make it in. This winds up getting more people involved total (even if each raid is slightly less full). For example, I know you had at least 6 full teams of 8 which is 48 people, my raid has at least 5 full teams which is 40. So at minimum, 88 people were raiding (my guess is it was probably more like 100) which is larger than one zone will ever allow. I am personally always for getting more people involved whenever possible. And if we can spawn 4 RWZ like some larger servers, then hell, I am all for it!

Great job tonight all!

Had a bit of trouble because we were missing 2 team leaders. But still done in less than an hour!

Winners for being in Black Leather Theme:
Lady Warcry- 2 piece Numina
Mind Map- Celerity +stealth
Vambrace- 100mill

We will be off for the next two weeks for Christmas and New Years.

When we resume the raid theme will be...


Bikini Beach!

My team practices at 9pm est on Tuesdays. Feel free to join us.

Got my Complete Collections in the mail. I had the preorder Going Rogue (from way back in like April). I wasn't sure if this code would work to give me an extra month (since I already had Going Rogue), but it did, so I am pleased

Just letting people know in case there is ever a sweet sale like this again so that they can take advantage of it.

For other people to get ideas for 3v3 line ups, I will post mine.

Arachnos
Soldier (specced as ranged bane)
Widow/Fortunata dual build (level 47 I think, can level if needed)

Blasters
Fire/Elec
Rad/Fire
Sonic/Fire
Arch/Dev

Brutes
Fire/Fire
Stone/Eng
Mace/SR

Controllers
Fire/Kin
Ill/Rad
Earth/Emp
Grav/Sonic (48 I think, can level if needed)
Earth/Cold
Ice/FF
Mind/Storm
Fire/TA
Plant/Therm
Mind/Kin

Corruptors
Dark/Cold
Fire/Kin
Rad/Rad
Elec/Pain

Defenders
Rad/Dark
Kin/Rad
Sonic/Ice
Cold/Sonic
Dark/Sonic
Storm/Dark
Traps/AR
TA/Arch
Rad/Psi
Sadly the Emp/Rad and FF/Psi are on other servers

Masterminds
Merc/Dark
Ninja/FF (48, can level to 50 if needed)

Scrappers
Claws/Ivn
MA/Invn
BS/SR
Spines/Regen

Stalkers
NB/Nin

Tankers
Stone/Eng
Shield/Elec
WP/Kin
Fire/Ice

Anything is possible with enough insps, nukes, shivans, or alternatively... really good players

13.5 to 13. 1/2 a point difference. Come on 5 extra points!!!!


Also... how ironic... 2 team leaders and 2 grav/tas with the best answers

And we were done in 50 minutes from the time we started killing monsters.

I was really pleased with the turnout!

Winners of the Western Wear theme:
Purple Saga- Regen Tissue +regen
Psychadelics- 100mill
Simon Trask- 50mill

The theme for next week:

Black Leather Raid!

Happy Birthday!!!! Now the big question... slots or power?

Did an impromptu one last night just to see how it would be.

Round 1- FAIL. Cleared barriers in two swipes (under 5 min) got the storm AV, could never dent him more than 1/6 of his health. Gave up after a while.

Round 2- SUCCESS. Had a little trouble clearing barriers (one team got a little over zealous and killed theirs during 1st swipe), but was still under 10 minutes. We got the red AV. He was killed within 4 rounds of clearing the spawns and shooting him in the face. We did also have more debuffers and a lot less melee on this run.

Findings:
-Purple AV sucks. Unless I have a really great mix of ATs/good listeners, the plan is to abort and restart (hoping to get the other AV). Unfortunately, it is too difficult to get people to stand far enough back (hurricane kills your range, but if you stand outside of it... you can hit if you are ranged damage), melee is basically just screwed.
-You can get a shard drop off of the AV when he dies, but it looks like nothing else. (I was hoping the no drops did not extend to shards)
-If you select the badge/item of power, you cannot also get the component. (sadly someone on their badge character selected the wrong one)
-More Rad does indeed equal more win.

I have a lot of fun coordinating this trial. And something Elegost posted recently got me thinking. What if we made a static team(well 3 teams). to run this trial. Everyone could sign up with 3-5 characters and we could do it on a certain day/time every week, and just mix the characters around for what we need.

Basically, if I was leading this, I would want it to be like 20-24 people that I know and trust. And since I assume not everyone would show up every time, the last few spots could go to people who need the badge. I would want to make an optimized team for this to make sure it is routinely successful.

Would there be interest in this at all? Or is it a waste of time and people would rather go get shards another way?