Grats for the SF completion and Happy B-day Positron!
Happy Birthday, Posi. 
Too bad you got pwned by the villains today.
Who's grey to whom now....?
can't choose? that really blows. villains will never catch up with the heroes. 
I forgot to say this earlier, but Gratz on completing the SF. Great job putting the beat down on everyone while taking screenshots
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As opposed to as often as possible with Hami?
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No server defeats hamidon more than once a day. Some cant muster a proper raid but once or twice a week. You need that 75-150 heroes to get the proper mix and number of AT's to defeat him. Raids are cancelled due to lack of turnout as often as they are conducted at times.
For this SF you ONLY need 8 villains. Thats it. That means villains can easily throw down and get thier sHO every single day if they want. Heroes dont have that luxury as we are far far more dependent on other players at a raid. If we cant rack up that 30'ish controllers and a decent set of AM's, and a strong group to clear the mitos away the raid will fail.
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I'm not dissing anyone, but for a hami raid you really need only a handful of people that are really good to organize, a few more that are capable of following directions, and pray that not too many people that are completely brain dead show up to ruin things.
Before I7, Pinnacle was running daily raids (we have a lot of good people who can organize) and occassionaly a 3AM crew would come in for a second helping. Multiple weekends we've tried for twice or thrice a day raiding (though Hamidon always picked those days to have 16 hour spawn times.)
I've cut back because I've filled too many alts up with hami's in their tray while I'm getting another scrapper up to 47 to slot, not to mention I'm finally hitting the COV side of the fence again.
Bottomline, the 24 hour timer is a bit extreme. I would've went with 12 or 16 so people could hit it 3 times in one weekend.
They also need to make sure the timer is Absolutely Clear and Pointed out somewhere in the game. I can't imagine how "upset" I would be if I found out about the timer the hard way. To reveal it in this thread now is Not Good.
I can't express how much I would prefer a selection screen. Out of around 100 hami drops, I've gotten a single Ribo and that seems to be about the standard from the small group of people I compare notes with. In the meantime, a third of the drops consist of centrioles and lysomes, with perixomes following not far behind.
To spend this amount of effort and get the same kind of semi-random drops as from hamidon just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. since I'm not pvping with a villian, I can't see myself doing the SF more than once. It's just not worth the effort at all.
Finally some attention to Triumph!! Grats guys glad our server could be the first!!! Oh and Happy B-day Posi.
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This SF is not something that will fail due to lack of #'s. Matter of fact once the AV's regen are brought down a bit as stated by positron you can probably due this TF with 5 or 6 of the ideal powersets.
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For SG's that have more than 8 ppl, maybe, but for a lot of us, getting together enough people of the right AT's and right powersets wont be that easy. I shudder to think what it's going to be like with the average spastic-cant-follow-orders-let-alone-plan-ahead PuGs. At least with respec in CoH, we could just get 3 of us together and bring along any scrub...
Not to mention it takes 3x as long to do for all involved, instead of what happens with hami where half the ppl show up after he's held.
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Once every 24 hours versus once a week, Shall we do the math or are the numbers obvious?
Congrats on completeing this, a reward well earned.
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It's only once a week now because many, many heroes got all the HO's they could ever use months and months ago, and have no reason to raid anymore. Only takes a couple of weeks of trying to really get most of what you need... especially with SG help to run extra boxes and stand there for the freebies.
Gratz
Happy birthday Positron!
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To the best dev team ever: I enjoyed meeting you all at the Summits and best of luck in all your future endeavors.
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The Strike Force at least sounds more interesting then fighting Hammi at least. The should have a hero TF similiar like this, with the same awards....I rather not do the laggy kill Hami thing for the reward.
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Agreed 100% >.> Hammi was 'interesting' the one time I've gone to see him... but he's not been something I'm certain I want to do constantly.
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Thanks Positron i noticed the badge and thanks everyone for the grats. It is a fun challenging tf and gets very hard at the end, but overall i had fun.
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Meant to edit and say Happy Birthday Positron 
but ran out of editting time.
Happy birthday Positron.
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Virtue;
Moon-kiss (44 tri-form warshade)
Scarlet Whisper (33 sonic/energy)
Ravenflight (41 archer/elec)
Meant to ask before but what was your Diff. setting?
Do you know if you run it on "Villianous" will you get EB versions of the AV/H's?
Thanx, and again Gratz!
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Jack Hawksmoor, The Authority.
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Do you know if you run it on "Villianous" will you get EB versions of the AV/H's?
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No. They will be Heroes.
Thank you guys for doing Triumph proud. Congrats on an awesome job!!!!!!!!!!! 
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All Ice Corruptors with double /Rad and one /Kin. I didn't think MMs could do it but the /Dark and the /FF probably kept the AVs from hitting.
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The team on Test that first got to the Phalanx had 5 MMs.
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So, once every 24 hours, and only 7 people to trade with? And the villains are supposed to compete with the heroes (who have had years to build up the HO's) in PvP?
Wow, I'm glad I really don't play the villain side that much, in terms of PvP characters anyhow. In spite of the fact that in many ways the game is more fun and better designed than the hero side, the glaring inequities are just stunning.
Why even bother to add PvP - and then make massive overhauls to powers because of it - if you're going to have such dramatic imbalances that no one actually wants to participate?
Happy B-day Posi...
Gratz!!!
I'm hoping that one day an EL/EL Brute will be able to contribute to a successful SF win...
Infinity
FreezeBurner 50 Blaster-Fire/Ice
Paragon Destructor 50 Brute-En/En
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NOTE: You can only earn the The Lord Recluse Strike Force reward once every *24 hours* This is by design to help prevent farming.
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Meh...kinda dumb. If peeps want to sit and run the TF 6 times a day, why not let them?
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This SF is not something that will fail due to lack of #'s. Matter of fact once the AV's regen are brought down a bit as stated by positron you can probably due this TF with 5 or 6 of the ideal powersets.
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For SG's that have more than 8 ppl, maybe, but for a lot of us, getting together enough people of the right AT's and right powersets wont be that easy. I shudder to think what it's going to be like with the average spastic-cant-follow-orders-let-alone-plan-ahead PuGs. At least with respec in CoH, we could just get 3 of us together and bring along any scrub...
Not to mention it takes 3x as long to do for all involved, instead of what happens with hami where half the ppl show up after he's held.
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This is exactly my main problem with this SF. A PUG for this SF will have to be almost perfect to complete this. It's not like hami since you only have a pool of 8 people with the required powers to do it.
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Meant to ask before but what was your Diff. setting?
Do you know if you run it on "Villianous" will you get EB versions of the AV/H's?
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We were set on villainous. All mob lvls were spawned at 49. First 4 Heroes spawned at L50 Hero. Next 5 at L53 Hero. Last 8 at L54 Hero. Even setting the mission for 1 person spawns L54 Heroes. So their levels are set.
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NOTE: You can only earn the The Lord Recluse Strike Force reward once every *24 hours* This is by design to help prevent farming.
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Per account or per character?
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Interesting.
Oh, and HAPPY BIRTHDAY POSITRON!
Character.
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Blazara Aura LVL 50 Fire/Psi Dom (with 125% recharge)
Flameboxer Aura LVL 50 SS/Fire Brute
Ice 'Em Aura LVL 50 Ice Tank
Darq Widow Fortune LVL 50 Fortunata (200% rech/Night Widow 192.5% rech)--thanks issue 19!
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NOTE: You can only earn the The Lord Recluse Strike Force reward once every *24 hours* This is by design to help prevent farming.
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Meh...kinda dumb. If peeps want to sit and run the TF 6 times a day, why not let them?
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Probably because Heroes need to wait for Hami to respawn?
Gratz!!!
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Congrats one and all!