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Yeah, seemed like caught some Virtue Disease(tm) with sporadic lag issues last night. There was one point where both E-Man and Caliburst dropped simultaneously, and they had a small difficulty getting back in. There were a few points (especially towards the end, but always during high congestion areas like the crystal mish) where I saw mobs stall for about five seconds, then go in superspeed to catch up. At the end, I lost KB entry for about a minute after Rommy went down.

Some strategy suggestions I have:

Mission One: For time consideration, you can suicide Penelope Yin to "fail" the mish but continue the TF. This entails stealthing to the Rikti prison chamber where Yin's being kept, and then walking her into a group of nearby Rikti. Beware the Clockwork ambushes during this period.

Mission Two: Again for time consideration, you can have a stealth TPer bring the team to each point where you encounter the Riders, form up, then tackle the group, all the way to the end. Remember, The "Famine: Rider" must always die first - his debuffs are sick.

Mission Three: Suiciding the captive sisters Glacia and Infernia isn't just a time saver, but a societal gift for keeping the Chattersome Duo off our Earth. Same rules apply as with mish 1: Stealth around until the "Free X captive" updates your navigation compass, free them, then get 'em killed. Beware the Rikti ambushes that are triggered with each captive.

Mission Four: The Weakened Hamidon is fairly straightforward, except for the current (as of 5/23/10) MAG 50 mez resistance of the green mitochondria, which effectively requires a high hold capacity on the team (controllers, dominators, blast/defenders with hold attacks, etc). Make sure that a tank is successfully drawing aggro from the nucleus as you finish the mitos off, or the Hami will begin attacking the player who did last damage on the mitos. Judicious use of EoE (Essence of the Earth) inspirations is a great way of avoiding "oops" moments like what I just outlined.

Mission Five: Again, stealthable to the final room, where your three objectives are located (2 AV kills, 4 generator destructions). Staying together is critical; you can get easily swamped in this room if you're not careful. One tactic is to take on the Rikti AV Hro'Dtohz, then the Honoree who is spawned when Hro'Dtohz is around 25% health, then take out the generators quickly while avoiding ambushes and general Rikti aggro. You can also go in reverse and wipe the room of Rikti mobs to minimize general aggro, pop the generators, then the AVs. How you work this out depends on your team build and general capacity for rapid damage output (to bring the AVs and generators down in a minimum of time).

Count me in. I'll bring what's needed to get the TF won, but barring any needs, I'll bring Supreme Soviet, bots/traps MM.

One solid point to bring up is to be consistent with your team. Attitude goes a long way in transforming a frusteating failure into a wry learning experience. Invite people who add to the experience (powers, tactics and social competence) instead of a minmax OCD type who'l ragequit if things go sour. These runs should be "fun" even as they'te challenging.

Consistency is important too. When a team does the run a few times, they'll naturally gravitate into their roles, which can make a difference between someone playing their roomie's 50 and someone who wears their toon like a second skin.

Also, check out E-Man's Master posts for a good format. Some classes help more than others,but don't lock yourself into a class war.

I'll get my groove on for this. Jonna Hex: Demon/Thermal MM, please.

*ding*

Got the badge last night. 1h41s. Badgewh#*@ team of 7 controllers and one tank (except for one player, these were all our badge toons...). Two runs because the first one had a single death after the green mito phase, and we all were juiced on how easy it otherwise went with our particular makeup.

This ain't an endorsement for the current green mito difficulty, but yeah, it can be done. IMO, I'd rather wait 'til the green mito nerf for my next run.

GL to everyone! See my thread on Freedom for details!

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