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http://uk.boards.cityofheroes.com/showfl...e=0&fpart=1

.... kinda colides

I'll bring my level 22.9 scrapper who will be in range by then, to this TF.

I thought we were doing some good side alting got a few good ideas for alts as well...

Can count on me for alting (heroic side, right? My new PvP SG needs the prestige). Will be there at 8:45pm though

As for RSF, Wednsday might not be as good for me, but seeing as last week only myself and the leader showed up, count me in for this. Let me know what I need to do beforehand.

Raid? Can do, let me know.

Also, trollers among us are invited to: http://forums.guysrealm.be/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2095 4th SS, Saturday, 3:30pm Kickoff, heroic side and Union Overlord event only.

OMG! HE DIDNT! DOOOOOOOOOOOOM

Coston, now you have no excuses why not fight my troller at level 50

Well done buddy, long overdue and well deservered.

Oki, see you theusday.

Well lets hope i'm not too late, but anyway, I have to disagree with Shnyet on a few minor things:

The slotting on the shields can be diverted to the forms,

Also, take Quasar and slot it and unchained essence HEAVILY.

In nova, you could use the 3tohitbuff and 1acc in the attacks, the endredux isn't really needed IMO.

I for one did slot the dwarf for endred (or endmod, can't remember which), but only in the later levels. This let me stay on a fight for much longer without losing any endurance.

I'd slot another dmg into the pet, and change one acc to recharge. If you find it misses alot, change it to 2acc 3dmg 1rech. The 3dmg will help you a lot, and 2rech will give you 2 pets out almost all the time.

Eclipse uses alive enemies. I use it with the dwarf mire first so only needed one 1acc. However, 3 recharge are a MUST. Can't stretch this enough

Slot the dwarf's heal with one more heal enhancement.

Can't remember how I slotted stygian circle, it's in my guide, but still, the one there is my personal favorite.

I would be very interested in doing this with Double Control. let us know when

Hey Globey, I don't have what you are looking for, BUT I do have a damage/range one if you'd agree to trade me for one of the acc/mez...

Hey DB, if start time is 12(midday), I'll get my Controller in, Double Control, Earth/Rad/Primal.

Having just dinged 45 with my energy/dark armour brute, i want to try out the RSF so let me know when i can join you guys.

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... then you could tp foe him back while the recharge of teleport is debuffed below the floor..

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Yeah... TP (self) has 0 recharge and will recharge automaticly...

And even then, sorry to disappoint you, nothing will stop him from getting close to you and fire away 2 hits and kill you with all that fury gained from the hencemen...

I will

Well, if we are already at story telling, here is my Double Origin story i've written lately...

"Doubs' Unfortunate Tale"

This moment was foreseen. Foreseen, indeed, by an old prophet long ago, and he knew this, as well as the prophet who had long foreseen this. He waited for this moment for months, years even. Long, stretching months of waiting, pondering, research, time and relationships with beloved ones which were all sacrificed for normal life. "Wasted", he thought in retrospect, because in the end, the result was so different from what he had anticipated...
It was a cold evening. You know, one of those cold, frosty even, autumn nights. Only this wasn't one of those nights. Something was different this time around, and although this night was foreseen long ago, this still surprised him, the amount of power he could easily manipulate. The wind hurled itself toward the windows of the hut, as if it was unnatural, as if it could think. "No", he thought. "This isn't possible. Unimaginable. How can the wind think?" He then realized that "the wind isn't thinking. It is forced at the windows of this small, neglected hut." If people were to walk on the street outside, stepping into the radius of the hut, they would suddenly feel the cold wind bursting their face, threatening to rip it to pieces. And the cold wind wasn't all. The place was heavily raining. It was so cold that surprisingly, small fire earth cubes burst from thin, cold air, hurling about, threatening to kill.
The small and neglected hut was isolated, and yet there was no one near the house. No one looking, no one walking down the street. The place itself was unnatural. The busy street normally swamped by visitors, tourists, inhabitants, was now completely empty from every being known to mankind.
But he knew. He was told that at this day, June 12, at 20:59, the clocks would not change to the next hour, but instead, it will continue to count upwards. It would count upwards in a rapid pace, within moments, until it will reach 20:76. At this short time, it was told that a time warp will pull away all those present in the hut, into the past. 15 minutes into the past, where all life has already been drained away by the dark forces, and then…
The people not present in the hut, however, won't notice any change in the space-time continuum. It will be, in fact, only in this separated, dark and dead world, that the cold yet fiery storm, blizzard even, will exist.
And then, when the old, dusty clock on the wall reached 20:77, a man walked in the hut like there is nothing unnatural outside. He was wearing a black and gold cloak on his back, and a brown cane held tight with his left hand. It was the look of a magician, shown on children's cartoon movies, such as Aladdin.
The magician, named Kal'terun, broke the silence with a very rusty voice, saying "Hello, Dave Doubs."
The man, not surprised at all, responded with a younger voice, as if he was an adolescent, "I have been expecting you."
"Your powers truly are one of a kind. My prophet taught you well of cloaking protection. Only a remarkable man could ever summon such a cold storm and gale this place, while holding this hut in place in a different, dead world", Kal'terun said, and continued after a moment with the same, hollow voice: "I will keep my end of the barging, as agreed, if I will be promised a way out of this place fast enough."
"Of course. Once we complete this ritual, the place, I expect, will merge once more with the real world, and you, my old friend, will return safe and sound." Doubs said. "Do you have the jewel?"
"I do indeed. Once we put this jewel on your belt, and say the words of the ritual, this will be completed."
"I am not doing this in order to fulfill your prophet, you know. I am doing this for the safety of my family, my friends. In a short time, I found out that I could control everything known to be. Fire and ice as one can be constructed to build a giant, powerful sword that can cut through diamond easily. I can lift people just by thinking about it, choking a crowd of people, almost killing them in one hand shake. I can use kinetics energy and manipulate both to my willing, enveloping beings with dirt, immobilizing them. I can use my mind to rip a person to tw..."
"And this is why you are doing this. To save those you love," the magician said. "Once we perform the ritual, your powers will all be striped away from you, for ever. Are you sure you want to continue?"
"Yes. Just give me the jewel".
And then, when Dave Doubs touched the jewel, the entire room changed.

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"So, are we ready to do this?" asked the Big, Ugly ice tanker named "Jummy Bear".
"Ready!" said his teammates.
"Not ready!!!" Said the youngest one. "I still don't understand the plan."
Star Jewel sighed and repeated the plan once more, "Look Frogue", was the nickname of the youngest, "The red bubble will protect you from radiation, while we kick those skiff's butts. As long as we use the Coolant Belts to repair the reactor core from damage, everything will be ok."
"And the sky raiders will come in waves, about 10. So we will have enough time to heal and revive if something goes back", said the oldest one called Okton, and Jiaozy followed him with his wisdom words. "Okton00b is right! Just kill the Sky Skiffs and we will be alright."
"Ok, let's go in." said the big ice cube.
Then Frogue opened the door. Maybe it happened because he was the youngest of them all, Jiaozy thought later, but what happened afterwards was nothing short of all hell braking loose. Jiaozy could identify the big round hall of the reactor core, but inside they didn't face any sky raider, but Clones. Identical clones, wearing the same simple clothes Dave wore at his meeting at the dead world. They were all surprised, but it was Frogue that would make the first move. His hands turned red, and he was lifting up the air, focusing his entire strength at his fists, ready to burst them at the one closest to him.
The one in front of him, however, was faster than Frogue. He lift his right arm up, aiming at the floor beneath Frogue's jumping body. Dirt burst up from the ground, although they were a few floors up, and wrapped up Frogue's body, who said "let me go". His fists were now buried in the rock which was slowly crushing his lungs, and they took out the focused strike out. The remaining of the rock was now scattered around the room.
"What is going on here", said the men around the room, each one echoing the one next to him. They all said it in the same time, and the same young voice.
"They all look the same", thought Jummy Bear just when one of the clones started to attack. His arm was up in the air, and his body suddenly lifts up in a perfect move. He landed quickly behind Frogue, and his punch now sparked lightning blue, and fists of electricity quickly landed on a Porter's head.
"This is so cool," said Frogue. "Let's do this again!"
The clones now all looked up at Frogue. The one closest to him, who could control the earth, said "This wasn't supposed to happen! What went wrong?"
Another one said "I don't know. Maybe I was too powerful for the magician's amulet; he didn't even say the incantation!"
"What do you think about this, Jiaozy?" whispered Star Jewel quietly, and got an answer of "I don't know. They don't seem as if they will hurt us though."
Frogue, though, had something else to think about. His hands turned red again and he pushed back the one with electric fists away from him, toward the reactor core. "I don't like them".
The clones were surprised by this move, and were all looking up at Frogue again. He now bent over, as if his stomach was hurting. The one closest to him knew what this was all about, and lift his arm once more. This time, his hand was glowing green ("perhaps a side-effect from the reactor core", thought Okton), and within seconds Frogue began to glow red and green. He now really felt sick, and tried to hurl a blast toward the leader, but he missed. His fist was now glowing again, and he was focusing his powers, lifting up in the air. The leader used both his hands this time, made them glow green, and moved his arms downward, quickly and swiftly, to summon another field, just when Frogue's fists landed on the leader's head. The leader ducked, and he wasn't seemed to be hurt at all. A different clone now emerged from the back, landed in front of the leader, and focused. Frogue and Star Jewel couldn't move their hands and feet, and they were now moving backwards from the new clone.
"Stop this, Luminos." Said Okton. The last think he noticed about the clones was that although they all looked exactly the same, they all had a shining Jewel on their belt. It was positioned at the same place, but each jewel had a different color.
Luminos jumped from the back of the group, nodding. "In a second." He jumped quickly right in the middle of the crowd, and his body was now glowing from electricity. All at once, the clones stopped. The weird green fields stopped working, and Star Jewel could now move again and take care of the fainted Frogue. With a swift move, Luminos released an EM-Pulse, and the clones all fell down, fainted as well.
"What’s your name?" asked the tanker.
"Dave…..Doubs…"

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"Yes, I remember that day JumJum. The day it all began. There are now clones of me. Doubles. Wandering about in Paragon City."
"But you are the original one, Doubs."
"And that is why the others, my clones, are named 'Double'."
"I sure would like to see you before the transformation."
"No you wouldn't. It doesn't matter now. All my powers, my abilities, are split between my doubles." Said Dave.
"If you'd had the chance to unite once more, would you?" asked JumJum.
"That, my friend, is a story for another time…"

@Double
Double Control - lvl 50 Earth/Rad/Primal

*5 minutes later*

[Fatal Error Occoured, activating BSoD to annoy the user]
User: NOOOOOO!!!!

Anyways, formatting tommorow.

For the ice mistral guys last night:

My PC suffered a fatal error followed by the Blue Screen of Death (BSoD). Was unable to reboot the PC after the second time (And that took hours alone). Disk Read Error, Plus unrecoverable files from the C: causing me to almost destroy my HDD using a Hammer, after even a windows installation didn't work.
So sorry I bailed out last night.

PS. The PC is alright now using the old installation and no files lost at all (so far, knock on wood). The problem? One *big* inside-fan didn't work resolting in high tempature and dust, caused my PC to malefunction. Wierd - could have fixed it alone last night.

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I'm taking bets on how long it takes me to get to level 15... I'm thinking 3-6 months? Any Bets welcome... will pay 100k Inf to who ever gets it

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I'll bet - by sunday, when I get back from vacation. Don't fill in my spots yet guys!

They spawn Eminators.

it's pointless guys, unlikely you will find anything...

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It's kind of interesting how everytime we do a Hami raid we always end up trying to find an easier way.

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But has anyone TRIED the ideas suggested?

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A couple of times, yes.

There were several expedition to find the secrets of the GMs, doors, the factory. Nothing is there.

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Well, although we got bested, we must remember two things:

a) It's not the fault of any of the leaders who were in the secret leading room. We did our best to make sure everyone was doing their best, and I thank babel for orginizing such an event.
b) In the past, we used the fact that hamidon didn't attack while held. This time, this was no longer a possibility since it can now attack through holds, even when held. So we used the next best thing - containment. What we didn't take into account is the fact that containment also does double damage for immobilized enemies. Either Hamidon is inherently immobilized (so everyone would see double damage log, can anyone confirm this isn't the case?), or he got immobolized half way through (which did happen, I saw some tenacles, ice, earth immobilize animations under hamidon). This led us to believe he wasn't held, but it was too late to fall back as everyone was losing hope and there wasn't enough time to set everyone in place again.

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I'm not convinced that containment is a valid test. After all Hami doesn't move. Superdine crates don't move either and I'm pretty sure you get containment damage on them whether you hold them first or not. So I think he probably is perma-immobolised.

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My point exacly. relying on Containment damage rather then other things is just, fundemently, wrong.

@Kins,
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At the end of the day, this was Babels raid and all the calls were his to make, NO ONE ELSES, unless input was specifically asked for by previous raid/team leaders. Unless you had been a raid or team leader in the past, how much you had read on Hammi raids or how many successful ones you had been on in the past didn't mean squat, especially if you had never done one before but were suddenly full of your opinions on how it should be done. I refer you to my initial taunt team requirements before I had to withdraw from the raid.

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Exacly. It was our (leaders) fault for not informing the guys in the proper channels, but some of us were too busy working with 3 teams or more at a time (hold leader), going back and forth from and to the hive (me), and most of us were talking with about 5-6 different people at any given time.

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At the end of the day, if I had been on the raid, the only people who's opinions or instructions/orders would have held any weight for me would have been Jersey's, Jiaozy's, Babels and (...)

Were I to put a raid farming team together, I would have Jersey(raid leader), Jiaozy(taunt team leader), Double(rad team leader), and Stagefright(PA drop leader).

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Fact is, we were short on experienced players and raiders. Neither Jersey, Jiaozy or Stagefright (not blaming anyone here for that, though) didn't show up. We were a bunch of leaders talking in Leaders, and what was going on was nothing short of "experienced".
No one questioned babs' decisions - they were his own to make, we just helped as we could. Fact is, we were short on leaders and, IMO, the entire "leading" part of the raid was wrong since 7:18, where we realized we were missing 2 key leaders.

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To see other teams led by people who'd never even been in a 'core' team for a Hami raid and where the rest of the team was made up of people in the same situation was quite a big concern.

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Well, I started by leading the radiation team, but ended up giving that lead to Sparks, and I found myself leading a mix of rad, 4 kins and one forcefielder. Yes, we were, during the entire raid, as far as I can tell, 4 kinetics, 9 radiation emissions, and 2 forcefielders (one someone I was too lagging to see, and the other was picked up personally in the middle of the holding stage.

Next raid, i'll have much more to say about how leading should be done (heck, I might even start my own raid. Don't wait for it, though). Yes, only been to 4 raids (2 successful), and only had key roll in one (which we failed), but I have some better insight: Key Positions, such as team leaders, should be given to people with experience, and they should not decide to not show up. IMO, things should be made more complicated (more teams), in order to make a successful raid (for example, this time, a team of 3-5 force fielder that will spread around the groups in order to supply bubbles, more emphasis on kin teams, etc.)

Well, although we got bested, we must remember two things:

a) It's not the fault of any of the leaders who were in the secret leading room. We did our best to make sure everyone was doing their best, and I thank babel for orginizing such an event.
b) In the past, we used the fact that hamidon didn't attack while held. This time, this was no longer a possibility since it can now attack through holds, even when held. So we used the next best thing - containment. What we didn't take into account is the fact that containment also does double damage for immobilized enemies. Either Hamidon is inherently immobilized (so everyone would see double damage log, can anyone confirm this isn't the case?), or he got immobolized half way through (which did happen, I saw some tenacles, ice, earth immobilize animations under hamidon). This led us to believe he wasn't held, but it was too late to fall back as everyone was losing hope and there wasn't enough time to set everyone in place again.

Was fun, nontheless. thx babs.

Thank you all for showing up guys.

I know I didn't get a chance to lead you at battle, but I had to lead some other teams (thx for the kin/FF team guys). You did good...

everyone is welcome

Yes, but you're forgeting we are second to walk in the hive after the PA Drops. Then, it's the kin cell (kin, rad and tankers). Don't think the empaths or the "official r3zz0rs" will be in the blob at that point, so just in case