Redoubtable

An excellent run, despite the little hiccup on the first attempt. If someone's going to die then the first mission is the time to do it.

I'm probably not going to make it next Wednesday, so good luck with Barracuda. The danger's a little more back-loaded in that one, but if you can get a similarly good set of players/characters then I could see a first-time success.

I was more or less joking, but I read that as being one prize per in-game global name (in my case, @Redoubt and @Redoubt2).

Might be worth clarifying that before someone goes rules-lawyer.

If some people don't get to work on the redside prizes I'm seriously going to claim one with my second account. Don't make me be cheesy, people!

Awesome!

Name: Cortez the Killer
Global Name: @Redoubt
Present Claimed: Redside Present 3
Clue Answer: The Templar Stronghold.
Link to Clue Answer Photo: http://members.iinet.net.au/~kthack/CoX/answer.jpg

Was tempted to hold out for the 500 mill, but I don't want to push my luck.

I'm always up for a Master run, availabilty permitting.

I'll even promise not to bring my Stalker.

If it makes you feel any better, there was no outage last night. :P

Incidentally, I'm packing for my trip tonight, so I'll probably be a little late(r).

I would say that trolling and harassment only qualify as rational egoism if one's aptitude for rational thought is extremely poor. Or you're really sociopathic and get a lot of pleasure from making others' lives difficult.

I can confirm that Energy Drain is enough to keep you going on a DM/EA, I'd probably think about dropping Conserve Power for Overload and slotting it with Recharge/Health IOs for when you want to really maximise your survivability.

This is kind of a general question, but how important is it to get the Neg def to the softcap?

I was playing around with a build for my old DM/EA yesterday, and (from memory) my neg defense was still sub-40 with everything else softcapped (except Psi), presumably because my raw Energy def is much higher and didn't require much in the way of set boosts. I can't check it in Mid's right now, but I'm guessing that the above build must be over the Energy softcap by quite a bit if Neg is at the cap.

Not only am I staying, I'm shifting as many characters as possible to Justice from my previous home on Victory.

I've been progressively moving my characters from Victory to Justice for the last year, and this is going to save me a fair bit of money.

Good choice, my primary Brute is SS/Elec/Mu, and he powers through +2/8 Rikti missions without a scratch. With Hasten and some +recharge you can turn on Lightning Field, run into the middle of the group and just cycle Electrifying Fences > Foot Stomp > Ball Lightning until everything's dead (which won't take long). I only need to pause for the Rage crash every couple of minutes, and I just use that as an opportunity to top up my end with Power Sink and re-apply the Immobilise (which doesn't do massive damage anyway).

I gather that Soul is a popular patron choice because negative energy does extra damage to Rikti, but I'm sticking with Mu because it has an AoE immobilise, which cuts down on runners without requiring me to jump out of the middle of the spawn to line it up. Without the Immobilise, I'd expect that more time would be spent mopping up single targets that ran out of Foot Stomp's range than would be saved by doing a little more damage with the Patron AoE. It probably doesn't make that much difference, really.

I know of two Australian RP groups that run each week on Justice: the Extraordinary 8 on Wednesdays for heroes, and Doctor Universe Notorious College of Evil (DUNCE) on Sundays for villains. More information on both can be found on the X8's forums: http://z8.invisionfree.com/Extraordinary8/

Incidentally, I'd strongly recommend that you join the Australia global channel if you haven't already, as the MotD usually has information about events in the Australian/NZ timezones.

Stalkers are good against Night Widows. :P

It's definitely been a major improvement over the original plan for the revised maintenance times, and knowing that we'll only have a maximum of two maintenance days in a given week is a definite boon. The fact that we'll soon have a regular event on every non-maintenance night except Saturday is a pretty good indication that the reliability of the schedule is having a positive effect on the Oceanic community, too.

The 9pm outages during winter won't be ideal, but the extra night should go a long way towards offsetting that. All in all, thumbs up from me.