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Great run we just had. The only thing that could slow us down was sok's incompetence, but even that wasn't enough to delay us for long =P
1:40 w/ no failed missions
good work all =]]
next week is Barracuda SF

Interesting idea.

Ignoring balance ..
Why would you use a flash grenade at your feet (pbaoe) =P
I would think it would be a targeted aoe
And how many pepper sprays have you seen that are aoe's? I think its more single target in reality. It shoots out like a hose, not like a mister.
Maybe the control set could get a fire hose instead =]]

It looks like you're running out of power trays o.O

Sorry I couldn't make it to this one. I was all set to play, but my gf's cousin's came and I had to be social for a change. hehe. hope everything went well and our leader returned to once again guide us to victory o.O

Indeed, great turnout. I got thrust into leading melee team 2, which i didn't expect to fill up but it did. Not only that, but we embarassed melee team 1 by being too awesome for our own good =P. Jk
thx to all the raid organizers. trying to lead just my small team made me realized how much work goes into it. really appreciate it

only thing that was kinda sad was that we hit the cap for the map and 2 people in spike team 2 dc'ed during the end of the raid, and only 1 of them was able to make it back into abyss 1, but if having too many people was our biggest problem, i'd say in we're in pretty good shape =]]

Apologize for the delay as well.
Team 2 finished in just over 2 hours =P
We were far from the perfect team, but it was a lot of fun face planting in front of everyone =]]
Pics will be posted when I can get back onto the coh machine.

We seem to be lacking a cohesive leader though. Where is gothess o.O

I dont know if I'll be able to make it this week. My gf's cousin is getting married so I'm not sure how long the process will take.
On the plus side, there should be an open bar =]]

I hope so. It wasn't quite the same without you =P
One thing that did remain the same though.

I died the normal amount.

So now we know that you have no effect on my ability to stay alive.

Silver Mantis Strike Force!
We had a great run of this even those we missed 2 regulars, but had the return of the legendary "Demon Shell". 2:02:xx time even with a detour in cap to take out Deathsurge. On the last mission we stuck together and swiftly prevailed against the giant robotship in an epic fight for victory. As icing on the cake, we managed to take out Scrapyarder after the end for a few quick extra merits and a shiny badge.

I'm terrible at screenies, and I couldn't figure out how Gothess usually gets the team pics up, but here they are.


Members: (excuse my poor memory =[[)
Sheriff John Brown (dp/?dark corruptor)
Demon Shell (dp/dark corruptor)
Tech tonic (stalker)
Lady Revenge (mind/psi dominator)
Yasepo Shu (rad/thermal corruptor)
Lady K<something> (nin/nin stalker)
Oberst (thugs/?pain Mastermind)
Arwyn Serac (ice/thorn dominator)


These are some screenies from last week from the great Tarikoss SF race
Completion time: 1:47:xx




Strike Force Renault is up next week. Hopefully, Gothess will be back to her normal cheery self and lead us in the fight to poke a Leviathan in the eye.

Hmm... I didn't realize that the screenies didn't capture completion time or the team list name or that you can't upload pics here =/

Anyways, Strike Force Tripp Breaker (aka team win) finished in 1:47:xx

Tripp Breaker
Luke Rage
Mk 3
Oberst
Arwyn Serac
Yasepo Shu
Mr. Hawk

Once I can find a place to upload my SS. i'll put it up.
What was your time goth =P

btw. it was kinda fun and cool that we had enough for two teams. If we have that again, we should definitely have an actual race =]]

From the one team pic I can see, was the raid 75+% corruptors?
Not that it matters or takes away from the feat, but just wondering.

I forgot that my gf's labtop hadn't patched yet, so from 3-3:45 i was patching =[[. hehe at least it was a quick run. I don't really have any love for the outdoor maps, so this SF is definitely not my favorite. And the last person didn't always rub me the right way either. But I did like the differences in the arc from the hero side. Looking forward to starting the cycle again.

So it seems like everyone's concensus is that having AS demoralize not work on a target it kills, was a design/balance decision, which among other things... encourages tactical thinking. Furthermore, any change to it (i.e., making a PBaoe fear around the player), would be robbing the player of a meaningful decision, and be frowned upon by those who replied otherwise.

I'm okay with that, but I just wanted to make sure I understood what was being said. If that is the case, I'll deal with it, but that makes me a sad panda =[[

It is a tactical decision, true, but only because of the incentive structure. Which I am trying to argue is flawed =/

(talking pve here) When the stalker is not taking out a healer/buffer, but focusing on the tank to get off an AS, I feel like it is pidgeon holing the stalker into a pure DPS role, instead of a surgical striker.

I'm not seeing why this should be a decision for me. If it wasn't for demoralize, I would definitely take out the support targets. With demoralize, I'm deciding between support and tank. It seems as if the powers design is incentivizing tank targetting.

Why? I would buy the argument that it is a bonus for tough enemies, but I feel like that wasn't the design. I feel like it was to add some team benefit for an otherwise solo centric class.

So the target is casting demoralize? Around itself?
Why not just have the stalker cast demoralize around itself?
Conceptually, wouldn't that make more sense?

Can anyone explain to me how demoralize works?
Specifically, why it doesn't work if your AS kills the target?

Sad face. Me and the gf are going to try some tea place @ 3 in SF so probably won't be able to make it to this one unless you guys end up starting late =P

I was looking at this too the other day for the same reason. As far as I can tell, it has the same stats (recharge/mag/duration) as mass hypnosis, but like muon said, the set lacks the backup of mesmerize. I forget where, but somewhere else I believe that the activation time is not as good as Mass hypnosis which was supposedly a problem (doesn't make it impossible, just harder). I've never done it before, but I thought AV's had more protection than mag from domination. I was under the impression that it took more than 1 application of the mez.

In any case, when I get my dom up to those levels, I'm very interested in trying this out. Let us know how it works out for you. When I do run it, I plan to bring another dom to help, so it may not be an issue, but I'd still like to know.

tbh, I don't like binding forward (or any direction key) to use a power. More than once I've had the following scenario:

Positioning myself in the center of a mob
Queued up a nuke
Final adjust to position or getting ready to retreat
the "auto cast" power that has been binded to my positioning key replaces my queue'ed up nuke.
Me wondering what happened to my nuke as I wax the floor with my face =/

I bind my "auto cast" power to my tab key.
/bind "tab" "target_enemy_next$$powexec_name <name>"
I also use the "ctrl+tab" to get an extra auto cast
/bind "ctrl+tab" "target_enemy_near$$powexec_name <name>"

Sad face. I wasn't able to make it. I was hoping that I could get back from LA in time, but no dice =/
Id be up to do this again (err.. once) since I missed this. but I can also move on to the next SF if people want to move on.