NuclearMedicine

Originally Posted by Jade Ivy

Thanks for the replies! I also think it's a good armor, having leveled 2 inv brutes. I gave him an example build, but it seems he ignored it. I'm not quite sure what he has actually picked, but I do know that he selected hover instead of combat jumping (which was in my sample build) so that he can get fly.
He hovers in a fight and has a tendency to just rush in. Case in point, in a cave where we approach a T intersection from the south, and 3 mobs along the corridor like so:
M1--M2--M3
....|
....|
......US

He attacks the center mob, M2 and mobs M1 and M3 come over. Him and my dom are faceplanted within seconds.

Since he's F2P, he can't use any crafted IOs, just the regular TOs, DOs and SOs. Thanks for the sample build kanga! I'll try to show it to him and if he'll give it a try, we'll do a respec trial so he can modify the build.

Originally Posted by Sailboat

Deceased: One "hardcore" (a playstyle in which a single defeat = death/deletion or at the very least, transfer to a non-hardcore SG) Stone/Stone Tanker, level 50, pre-Incarnate (has shards but had not made an Alpha power yet). Decedent had numerous set IOs.

Location: The body was found in the offices of the Paragon Caper tabloid newspaper, surrounded by level 51 Malta corpses.

Known Suspects: Marks on the body implicate Malta operatives and are consistent with the modus operandi of a rogue super known as Blast Furnace (see attached rap sheet).

Scenario: Decedent was known to be operating in the pre-granite armors -- all of them -- at the defense soft cap against smashing, lethal, energy, negative, and psi damage, although only moderate defense against Blast Furnace's fire (20%). Also known to be Tough. At the time of death, the body did not appear to have employed Earth's Embrace or Granite Armor.

A witness to the scene, a Dark Melee/Shield Scrapper, described what happened.

"[Decedent] teleported into the spawn of Malta next to Blast Furnace, and taunted. Then he attempted to use his Fault power to stun them and knock them down, but it did not work -- he appeared to be immediately held. Before realizing this, he tried to activate Earth's Embrace to heal himself, but it also did not work, and he realized he was held.

He made two attempts to "break free" from this hold, but neither seemed to "take" -- apparently he was ready to be Inspired but the Inspiration never actually took place. Instead he tried to turn into granite -- maybe he assumed he'd found the proper inspiration?*

Anyway, I lived through the whole fight myself, despite not being a Tanker."

Questions for the class: What happened here? Is a x8 spawn of +1 Malta likely to hold a Stone Tanker using Rooted with a single alpha strike? Our records do not indicate any prior experience of this happening. Was this a simple case of really bad luck causing defense to fail spectacularly? Or is there something more sinister going on? *dun dun DUHHHN*

*clicked twice on the breakfrees and then moved on to fruitlessly trying to activate Granite and some heal inspirations, not realizing that clicking on the BFs hadn't had any effect like actually USING them.

Originally Posted by Rangle M. Down

Uhm... someone needs to fix the calendar on the TankerTuesday website. It's showing the Champion and Justice dates linked to the 7th and 14th of each month, instead of the first and second Tuesdays of each month.

Originally Posted by Jade Ivy

I recommended inv armor for my f2p friend's tank. He seems to be dying a lot. I feel that I may have made a mistake with my suggestion.
so far, I told him to get tough and weave. If anyone has other advice to improve survival, please let me know.

Originally Posted by Acemace

Yea that's an unexpected gem Hyper, I'm going to link to it in my sig and actually war boss had the idea last month of getting a thread stickied about the tt event the history/when/where etc maybe that and the site link could go into one thread that could be used for everything related it, I'm pretty sure Zwill would sticky it.

Originally Posted by Big_King

Of course he did. Nice work.

I did some advertising while doing my weekly day job swap last night. Hollered out in broadcast and on some Justice channels. I got us on the JfA MotD. I couldn't get any Mod response for JU so continue to give them a tell if anyone else gets on. I fielded a couple follow up questions.

To anyone checking out the thread who has not teamed up with us before, the core group of the Justice Superteamers are a fun group of mature gamers who are very casual friendly. As you can read above, we go out of our way to make sure everyone is able to participate and having fun. Team and channel chat always makes me laugh. New players are welcome. Come out on Friday and have some fun!

Originally Posted by Hyperstrike

That'd be me.

Originally Posted by Aett_Thorn

If that's the case, then wasn't the Mod's action actually the deviant action, and everyone else, who was posting randomly to get the thread deleted, acting in-line with the thread?