Stryph

But I still feel destiny calling.

I'd call this the case of Wrong Time - Right Place Syndrome. Just because by and by you normally don't encounter these folks, doesn't mean they're not out there.

Not to mention this was update week. Let folks get their fix of the first week rush at the new update and things will slowly return to normal.

Nope they still go on. Days seem to change, I think they're Thursdays now, used to be Mondays. Shimmer Strike, if you ever see her around, often times hosts them herself.

My understanding so far is as long as you treat the mobs considerably, they'll follow you just about anywhere on the map. Gotta handle them like Rom at the end of the ITF if you're pulling him to the grass, don't just run off expecting them to stay interested when you're a few miles out.

As for their range minimum for the badge? Well safe to say tennis courts don't cut it, fight them on the grass outside of their spawn points; that's fine but you need a few running turret gun controls if you want to cull the threat.

Just did Lambda with a team of eight and beat it. Not sure how much time we had to spare because when I went to check the window was updated. Either way, the original hand picked leader switched leadership to me since I opened my big mouth. We had a lot of DPS going but it didn't look promising; not until we actually went into the warehouse and labs.

I split the team into two:

Team 1:
Tank (KM/Invul)
Widow
Stalker (me)
Warshade
(forget the last two classes, I want to say another dominator and scrapper but can't remember after that fiasco )

Team 2:
Tank (SS/Stone)
SoA (Crab)
Mastermind (Demons/healer)

Team 1 -> Assault labs and zerg containers
Team 2 -> Assault Warehouse and zerg crates


We managed to keep the time up by an average of three minutes and when containers were destroyed Team one reconnected with Team 2 for elimination of the rest of the crates. From there on in, we just chased Mar down after portals were shut down. Everybody was on top of their grenade tossing.

Very well done... G-F-G
That makes it 1-2/10 (I count the one the other day when the servers were shut down, so unfair T_T)

-Nanashi Takayashi

So either I grab Barrier or get Reflective Tier 2 on the right (I forget it's title name) which can deal fire damage. Hmmm decisions decisions.

Well everybody's primary concern are those cannons. Because fighting them at their spawn puts you in range of the cannons, that's why pulling to Tennis courts work - most of the time. Grant it I did ask, which nobody answered, how many targets can the guns focus on. I think their damage is unresistable, like Nanoswarms from BM, but they do deal fairly small amounts allowing a good healer to keep you alive.

It's possible never the less but then you also have to kill the two at the same time when you take out Siege. Not sure on the specifics of why, I always assumed Nightstar would get some hefty bonus much like Minx during Tin Mage's trial.

Maintenance is to be expected, but it'd be nicer if the manner was done in a consistent fashion; since the bringing down of a server is a conscious decision.

Anybody else currently getting auto logged out on the forums?

They look cool but it wont let me edit their colors just yet. I click apply but when I go out to use it the colors are set to default. Is there some kind of trick to them?


Aside from that performance wise they kind of blow for the content you're supposed to use them for. It's nice to see numbers on level 50s that rival the good ole days of 5-6slotting Golden Butterfly with damage enhancements, but other than that use them in a trial and they're a puny average 200-300 damage.

EDIT:

You can still treat the trials like any normal TF as long as you have the resilience and damage to compensate.

I think the primary issue is the queue system, where I'd say about 7 out of 10 PUGs in new content tend to fail. People queue up and then decline or leave, which cripples your chances. But like Voodoo said, knowing what happens ahead of time and how to move with the flow rather than being left behind also strengthens your chances. We just followed Marauder around wailing on him but that was because there weren't any reinforcements to worry about by then, we knew the primary concern were his portal and we had that covered from the get go.

Wow had Marauder down to 10 and then get forcefully disconnected. Nice job -_-

Conclusion to ME2 time!