What do you think is the best 8 man team for PvE

Photon_Ranger · 05-20-2009 09:18 AM

I want to know what everyone thinks would be the best 8 man team build (for either side) that can basically run from lvl 1 to lvl 50 and beyond with ease. Here's a team I've had a lot of success with

1. Stone/ SS Tank
2. Willpower/ Dual Blades Tank
3. Empathy/ Archery Defender
4. Fire/ Kinetic Controller
5. Archery/ Mental Blaster
6. Spines/ Fire Scrapper
7. Fire/ Energy Blaster
8. Radiation/ Radiation Defender

Prof_Backfire · 05-20-2009 09:23 AM

8 of Anything/Anything Anything, to be honest.

A well played 8 man team will demolish pretty much everything in the game.

Hedgefund · 05-20-2009 09:39 AM

You want to talk "best"? Load up on buffs/debuffs. Solid control too. Me, I'd go 1-2 kins and 6-7 sets with at least 22% Resistance debuff. The rest is details.

No "best" team would have two tanks, that's for sure. I wouldn't even have one on my "best" team.

Queen_Luna · 05-20-2009 09:41 AM

Good memories running with Tribal and Company.
Team Teleporting, AMing, and Blasting.
How many did it take to take us down in Recluse?

Some not so die hard players still hit the big 50 in short period of time.

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Forbin_Project · 05-20-2009 09:45 AM

8 people that get along with eachother. If they can't work together they are doomed to fail. AT's are irrelevant.

Knight Jolt · 05-20-2009 10:01 AM

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8 people that get along with eachother. If they can't work together they are doomed to fail. AT's are irrelevant.

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Yeah, it's definitely more about people being on the same page (playing well together) than which combo of ATs you have.

Red Valkyrja · 05-20-2009 10:12 AM

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8 people that get along with eachother. If they can't work together they are doomed to fail. AT's are irrelevant.

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This.

And what Prof Backfire said. I've heard tales of an 8-man Kin team that's just... WOW/sick/Devastating/*your uberword here*

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Kinrad · 05-20-2009 10:23 AM

8 Controllers, 8 Defenders, or 4 of each.
Nothing moves, everything dies.

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BlackBellatrix · 05-20-2009 10:26 AM

I think 8 Kins would be overkill. 2 Fulcrum Shifts are usually enough to cap +Damage and you'd be maxed out on recharge after 6 SBs stacked. Would still be a lot of fun.

8 Rads, however... Pure awesome.

Red Valkyrja · 05-20-2009 10:35 AM

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I think 8 Kins would be overkill. 2 Fulcrum Shifts are usually enough to cap +Damage and you'd be maxed out on recharge after 6 SBs stacked. Would still be a lot of fun.

8 Rads, however... Pure awesome.

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No such thing as 'overkill'. }:>

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Sardan · 05-20-2009 10:46 AM

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I think 8 Kins would be overkill. 2 Fulcrum Shifts are usually enough to cap +Damage and you'd be maxed out on recharge after 6 SBs stacked. Would still be a lot of fun.

8 Rads, however... Pure awesome.

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No such thing as 'overkill'. }:>

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I'm a big Kin fan, but I believe TopDoc once posted numbers to show how game-breaking a team of 8 Fire/Rad controllers are when he was putting together one of his super teams. Taking away one of them and putting in a Kin only dropped the numbers. Basically you cap damage, ToHit, and recharge with 8 stacked AMs. The team runs Hotfeet and Choking Cloud. You team teleport into spawns and everything is held in a couple of seconds and then melts. The process gets a little faster once you add 24 Fire Imps but it's brutal even before then.

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Funetik_Spelur · 05-20-2009 04:19 PM

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I think 8 Kins would be overkill. 2 Fulcrum Shifts are usually enough to cap +Damage and you'd be maxed out on recharge after 6 SBs stacked. Would still be a lot of fun.

8 Rads, however... Pure awesome.

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We proved this last night

http://www.flickr.com/photos/3859945...7618517876010/

That was at level 20...

Edit: To clarify, this is a team of 8 fire/radiation controllers.

Bookkeeper_Jay · 05-20-2009 06:31 PM

Red Side?

8 Masterminds.

That's basically the game turned into mush.

Battlebabe · 05-20-2009 07:02 PM

An all defender team. Those are the best teams ever if there is a good mix of defenders on it.

Forbin_Project · 05-20-2009 08:28 PM

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Red Side?

8 Masterminds.

That's basically the game turned into mush.

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8 Thug MM's doing Gang War at the same time.

Inokis · 05-20-2009 08:31 PM

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Red Side?

8 Masterminds.

That's basically the game turned into mush.

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You beat me to it. I was just about to say 8 MMs all with varying powersets to complement the rest of the party. However 8 FF mms would be pretty snazzy, I don't think anyone would take any damage at all.

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magikwand · 05-21-2009 12:11 AM

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No "best" team would have two tanks, that's for sure. I wouldn't even have one on my "best" team.

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Amen. Load up on Fire/rad trollers and corruptors and call it a day.

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Nights_Dawn · 05-21-2009 12:19 AM

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Red Side?

8 Masterminds.

That's basically the game turned into mush.

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You beat me to it. I was just about to say 8 MMs all with varying powersets to complement the rest of the party. However 8 FF mms would be pretty snazzy, I don't think anyone would take any damage at all.

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Eight /FFs would be overkill as well, at least as far as defense goes. I think 2 maybe 3 FF is enough to cap defense on their own.

Plus FF doesn't provide any extra damage through buffs or debuffs, just defense.

Fulmens · 05-21-2009 05:21 AM

Basically, to the OP, there are a lot of ways to "Break the game". TopDoc's superteams do it very easily.

With eight semicompetent players it's difficult to NOT have a team that rampages through content.

The best team I've ever been on regularly- and it wasn't a Superteam as per TopDoc- was Noise Complaint. (Viva Las Vegas is our SG and we do "theme" groups sometimes. Right now we've got Viva Defiance!)

It went something like this:

Ice/Axe tank, me- forward observer. I would sort of lunge at a group of enemies and the artillery would come down on it. Running Assault.
Sonic/Archery defender - running Assault, keeping the Hula Hoops of Death on me (Sonic Dispersion? I don't remember what the power was called) and the Resistance Rings on the whole team.
Emp/Sonic defender. Ideally keeping Fortitude on me and touching up people's HP, but mostly throwing Sonic Blasts. Sonic/Electric blaster, running [say it with me!] Assault.
Sonic/Energy blaster with Tactics.
Broadword/Regen running Assault.
Warshade with Assault.
Katana/??? scrapper

The goal was "lots of Assault, lots of Sonic blasts, lots of damage in a really short period of time."

When all eight of us showed up, we were dropping Archvillains in thirty seconds. Repeatably.

Yeah, we would have done even better with a Rad or a Kin on the team, but even without those two "I Win" buttons, we won.

I'll let you know in a couple of weeks how "four blasters, a tank, a peacebringer and a scrapper" does. At level 25 it's fast and bloody.

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Prof_Backfire · 05-21-2009 06:13 AM

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Red Side?

8 Masterminds.

That's basically the game turned into mush.

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Liable to make your computer explode as well, mind you.

Dalantia · 05-21-2009 10:26 AM

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7. Someone I don't want to stab in the face
8. Someone I don't want to stab in the face

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IronYeti · 05-21-2009 10:53 AM

I'm guessing you like playing Masterminds and Illusion/Storm controllers, Zhao. Otherwise I'm not sure how you'd fill spots 2-8.

I team with the Repeat Offenders.

Percival · 05-21-2009 11:44 AM

I dont know about best, but 8 storm defenders with active hurricanes and spawning tornadoes in the the middle of an ITF would be fun to watch.

Zekiran_Immortal · 05-21-2009 12:00 PM

Played on an all-defender team, it was great. Played on an all KIN team, it was even more great. We did the STF with that, it was freaking awesome. In fact I think we had some video somewhere of it. Speed boost ahoy, buffing took a while but it was just insane.

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PipsyPowerPuff · 05-21-2009 01:46 PM

With eight people, it's hard to go wrong. Even eight tankers with endurance problems usually mow through missions with no issue, unless all eight of them have borked their build.

So really, just about any combination is good.

The one that I have found is hard, is four trollers, with four other people who are dishing out the knockback. Trollers are more powerful when the groups aren't scattered (For the most part.) All that knockback can seriously drop the damage being put into mobs.