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thats what i thought as well... ah well better petition it then..

battle drones: Timmy, Bob and Lulu (still thinking of better names :P)

protector bots: Bubble & Bobble, just little tribute to one of greatest games ever (sometimes I also rename em to Wiz & Liz )

assault bot: T-800, but might change that later

till need em on my shade as well

for those still in the dark bout meeting requirements but not able to do the raid, heres a piece of text from the official site:

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The Cathedral of Pain

This trial is only available for a period of time every 60 days. Up to 24 members of your supergroup at a time can take part in the trial. If your group succeeds you will bring back an Item of Power.

You can repeat the trial 10 times when it is available. However, once you have 5 Items of Power you cannot place any more in your base.

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of course that doesnt solve the bug bout having to sell bout whole of your base and replacing it :P

remember, PA is your friend vs psychic clock king / psychic babbage

as for me, I was pretty satisfied with getting my ill/ff controller up to 50. Damage output at lower lvls wasnt that grand but i tended to be a team controller at lower lvls (didnt pick spec wounds till lvl 30 or so lol). Now with ED your damage output is reduced so if you want a decent damage output, you should indeed pick rad or kin as 2ndary. The way I survived with ill/ff was like I said I teamed alot pre-30s. After I got phantasm, I would just bubble him up alot (deflection shield, insulation shield, disp bubble - god how i love thee - ) and let him do most of my work. AFAIK ill/ff is a good team build but not too good in solo especially at lower lvls because you just cant give a very high damage output. The disp bubble however (slotted as much as you can with ED :P), maybe in combination with force bubble at later lvls, can keep you alive pretty well even when aggro is suddenly transferred to you.

I got mine slotted with 3x confuse, 1x acc (SO of course). With hasten, the recharge time is fast enough to be able to stack (like said before, the activation/animation time is quite long and in that time it already recharges). Must say I never had that much trouble confusing Nemesis unless they got vengeance kicked off. Must say that the higher lvl I got, the less confuse I used. Most of times cause me or my team was able to kill a mob fast enough by just locking them down with everything I got (PA, spec terror, blind and the occasional flash). What I do find deceive handy for, although you need patience, is to confuse AVs. Confuse the AV (most of times takes me 5-10 attempts) let him kill his guards so its easier to take him out. If I solo, I just keep casting deceive to keep it stacked, after he then kills his guards I make sure he still is deceived. Then you can go on and stack holds on him without him attacking you in the meantime. If I team, after he killed the guards its the all out attack of course .

nerva archipelago, contact called "sparcetriel" (or some other witty wordplay on respec trial)

hm, you sure you only need the explo badges to unlock the beacon? Because in CoV got all the mercy island, port oakes and cap au diable (including sweet tooth) explo badges in SG mode, yet only got the port oakes beacon in return. The same in CoH, got all the explo badges in sg mode of striga, hollows and boomtown (just to test it) but only got the boomtown beacon. Maybe you can only unlock 1 beacon per person?

if im correct the controller holds have a higher mag than the epic holds. So not the mag 1 you suggest. Also the controls stack for a few secs so you dont need to refresh the 300 each second. If that calculation were correct it means we couldnt ever have beaten hami even pre-ed cause afaik there werent/arent 100 45-50 controllers online at the same time on union

ill try to make it but cant promise im able to due to RL stuff

just checked out the US boards to see if they have taken them down since ED, alas i have to say even they havent managed to tackle him yet. According to rough calculations they made, you need bout 30-35 controllers grouped with alot of epic holders to actually have a CHANCE of holding him. So unless we get a a whole lotta controllers I think we need to revise the old plans and think of new ones. Next raid (25/11, check other topic) I got a couple of other tactics lined up to test if holding doesnt work, so hope everybody there is up for trying out new techniques and hopefully its able to beat him again once and for all. Got some other tactics as well, but it depends on a question which i doubt people will have an answer on.. but does hamidon spawn mitos for every hero EACH time he hits 50%, or is it like with most trigger lvls that a special event is triggered when he hits 50% once and gets beaten within a set amount of time?

there are 2 possibilities where you can mainly battle jack and eochai.. eochai spawns in the cornfields SW of the town, while Jack spawns on a throne in the SE forest. They then head to the far north of the map to engage in a fight to the death (yes they actually hurt each other like most monsters in the croatoa). Bout cabalist, if you ever are short of a man, send me a tell (though i have to admit im mainly doing cov, but i got hero pm enabled so ill receive the pm even when coving)

another power that helps with holding is Power Boost (not an accolade)

with ED 6slotting holds dont cut it anymore. Its best to maxslot it with 4, and 2 others (recharge or acc) without seeing too much a difference. I'd even say that 3 will cut it. Just look at numbers (presuming you use SOs..):
3 SO - 95%
4 SO - 100%
5 SO - 105%
6 SO - 110%

It's also not only bout the duration, if you got long duration but cant spam em fast enough it has no effect anyway. You need a good balance in spamming them as well as holding them. So therefore i'd say a 3/3 or 4/2 in hold/recharge would be sufficient for hami. (if you wanna know, i got mine slotted 4/2)

dont worry hobo, got some alternatives for the PA drop team (as experimented last raid )

bout the geas of kind ones: its the accolade you get for getting every croatoa badge apart from the history badge. So that means every "kill 333 monster" badge, Jack in Irons badge, Eochai badge, Sally badge (need to slay her twice for it), Cabalist (for doing the TF) and every exploration badge. If people wanna do the TF but need a contact, or need any other help getting the badges send me an ingame mail and ill see if I can help in any way (got the TF contact). For what it does, it boosts your accuracy, end recovery and recharge rate but cuts on your defense. However seeing defense aint a big issue fighting hami anyway, it basically means you get to spam your holds faster and more accurate

its an idea, but it will be hard to combine if you have both a hold and a rez power therefore it aint necessary

Forgot to include this while posting (doh!) so thought I'd better include it.

Costumes: everybody please wear a costume as simple as possible without auras or capes and follow this costume code depending on your AT:

Blasters - Red
Defenders - Blue
Empath defenders - Green
Scrappers - Yellow
Tankers - Black
Controllers - Pink
Kheldians - White

For the non-controllers, if you have a holding power please use H as chest detail.

Furthermore, if you are willing to do this but it sure will help.. if you still got an available respec as a non-controller, see if you can respec in a holding power (holds, not stun, immob, terror whatever) seeing we need all the holding power we can get.

Sorry for forgetting to mention that in first post

Right, so we might've not taken him down this time, we were outnumbered but got close. Getting close means it IS able to take him down. Alas we found out the hard way that the ED brought with it a harder time taking down hami and edited tactics. During the raid earlier today I had some various tactic discussions with other people and coming forth from that came the decision to let Hamidon know that us heroes cant be driven away THAT easy! Henceforth I call upon you, valiant heroes of Paragon City to challenge that blob for a new round and show him who's boss once and for all! The date as it is now is set to 25/11/05. However if people think its too short notice or a LOT of people cant make it, it can of course be changed. The main reason for doing it fast however is that some of us want to prove that even with a small amount of people it is able to have some jelly dessert. I regret to inform you that I cant disclose much of the plan yet seeing it is still worked upon. It will mainly be the already tested and successful hami plan, but seeing holds tend not be THAT effective anymore some tweaks are needed.
For those of you that know for sure they can make it, be sure to either post here, send me a pm or send me an ingame email. Also be sure to pass it on to all your friends that dont read the forums.

Of course it would be handy to get some details on the time right? The plan is to assemble at 6 pm GMT in eden at the hive gate. Then after forming teams etc I hope we can start the raid itself at 7 pm.

If you would like to lead a team, be sure to contact me with a PM or ingame email.

Hope you guys are up for the task at hand and show hami he aint welcome here.

PS For the new tactic it'd be great if (especially controllers) could get the Geas of Kind Ones accolade (and of course vanguard )

great job mag, really enjoyed myself there and even though we didnt manage to take down hami himself, we all worked well together, a victory on its own and we even got to clear all the mitos with everybody havin its part..
btw during that raid me n some others have been swapping ideas on how we might be able to beat him and I AM planning a new raid on him soon (check other topic )

Once again, thanks for the nice raid and I hope I can count on ya in the next one

PS A special thank you goes out to my fellow PA droppers and of course the hami tank team, couldnt have done it without you guys!

PPS Of course everybody else gets a thank you as well :P

btw that goldbrickers jetpack you get from mish will also disappear after you do that "deliver jetpack" mish even if you still have time remaining

Fallen Legends

Being the Nemesis of those dastardly do-gooders who have assembled in a supergroup called Legend, we are there to destroy everything they have built up.

In other words, the evil version of the CoH SG Legend. A fun bunch always open for new members. However we are an invite-only SG that will only toss invites if we know you aint a total moron We're a group of loons always out to have a laugh, and not really the massive powergamer. If you actually wanna join the bunch, be sure to give a shout to either Dr Robotico or Killer Blow

theres a basic reasoning..
SG Mode -> you fight for your SG, your costume resembles your SG and people who face you will face your SG, not you.. SG needs prestige, not inf so you gain prestige

non-SG Mode -> you fight good/evil for yourself, people when they see you, see your stunning looks rather than that of your SG, SGs dont need inf but you do..

meh i found out that at the lower part of the 30-50 drag you most of times get to bout 0 inf after spending money on enhances, however the higher you get the more "spare" inf you got and thus you CAN spend some time earning prestige for your SG. Also seeing higher lvls most of times have less trouble fighting higher lvl mobs, the prestige income will be bout the same, maybe slightly lower but certainly not 0, compared to full-on SG mode at the lowest lvls.

PS, yes i dont have numbers to prove that, since i dont have a guy from 1 to 50 within the release period of CoV/I6

tbh i only saw that mage in cap as SF contact.. got any exact loc on barracudda? thought it was part of the lvl 25 SF in sharkhead. O and btw, webbie aint really 100% cov compatible yet

aye i often had a fun time in BB with my villain.. enter zone, note your base is under attack, retaliate, rally some villains and run a counterattack at their base, pushing them back to the drones, get pushed back etc etc, rinse and repeat as needed. About the enhance nerf, well i think that when everybody gets to same lvl there SHOULD be some difference amongst the players to make some tougher than the rest, as soon as you got SO filled villains, theyll be same match vs heroes and you wont hear complains then do you? Sounds to me you just had some bad experiences