4 Man STF (A Champion tale)


BlackAmaranth

 

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Well, after a longtime of wanting to do it, our SG finally decided to try our luck on a 4 man STF that we'd been planning to do, and have tried once a while back to no avail.

Our party included:

Storm/Rad fender
Spines/SR scrap
Fire/storm troller (me)
EM/fire tank

Friday 05/22 we started hoarding fillers at around 10PM and started at 10:15, we blew through all the way to the last mission with no deaths. When we got to the last mish thats when the real fun was about to begin.

We we're screwing around with the patrons in a way, and at one point got all 4 on us with a careless pull, but humorously enough managed to keep fighting for like 5 minutes before having to pull back.

Fighting the patrons one on one was no problem, other than Ghost Widow and her lolmezprotect hold we cleared them fairly quickly. The Flier wasn't even mentionable, we had Group Fly so that made it go quicker. Then we got to Recluse, and there was the problem of the towers of course.

At first we killed the orange tower, (now that I think about it maybe we shoulda gone for the blue first to make our job easier), LR seemed alot less aggressive at first, after a bit of trouble we got the blue tower down, the red was easy. But when we started fighting the last tower a surgeon managed to heal the first tower we'd killed nearby.

So after a little rough patch we downed all the towers and started whaling on LR , all was going well until we got him down to his "oh crap" ambush. At that point we had some difficulty, we couldn't seem to get him down past that point because he was going down a wee bit too slow and one of us would often die, and create a domino affect. If a squishie we're to go down, the tank would go down, and it would all go to crap. We we're out of insps, so we tried restocking, trying diff strategies, darned racknad spawns.

We tried a strategy of having our defender (Moru'las) go around tapping some of the enemies while both storms tryed to keep the tank and SR scrapper alive so our DPS didn't suffer. This plan could have worked, but LR kept getting lucky shots in our scrapper, so we decided we'd try a shivan or two.

In the end, we had pulled out 3 shivans and an amy as well, mostly just to make it go faster, but also just to be safe for when LR pulled out his annoying little helpers. At that point it was getting fairly late and we wanted to get it done. The final battle lasted roughly 10 minutes and we finally got the buttmunch. We had finished with a little over 5 hours work, we actually didn't have the shivans at first so we wen't back to Bloody Bay to collect some.

So yeah, while everyone on the team was fairly IO'd out for general PvE purposes none of us we're specifically "built" for the STF by no means really. Our strategies we're somewhat preplanned but never set in stone till the task needed to be done, this has always been a personal challenge that we've been wanting to do. Now that we've successfully done this and a 4 man RSF, we're quite happy.

/4manSTF


 

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Thank you for sharing this. I had been wondering the last few days how it went for you guys. Good to see you guys pulled it through. Interesting to find out you could go get shivans while still in a TF, I thought that would be considered a contact that you wouldn't be able to talk to while in a tf.


 

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Nah, you can get Hyper Phase, Shivans all that stuff while in AE mode or TF mode. They're special contacts.

GJ King.


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Niiiice.
But, you really want the 1337 Title?
Do a 4 Man MoSTF!
I'll personally send each of you a Celebratory Sombrero if you pull it off!


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Niiiice.
But, you really want the 1337 Title?
Do a 4 Man MoSTF!
I'll personally send each of you a Celebratory Sombrero if you pull it off!


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I don't think it'll be possible with our current team makeup. LR is just a bit too much of a pain to deal with.


 

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Nicely done!

You got me motivated to try this with my SG. Think we'll be bringing 4 trollers tho...

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Well we did take down Recluse without any deaths in the end, I think we could do MoSTF if we tried (Would be really hard when he has all his towers up, but I think we might have taken out the first tower without deaths?).


 

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The majority of our deaths on the tf we're lucky hits to the SR scrapper thru his def (the scrapper was almost always in AoE range), and then of course just about anything that got thru our more than capped def and got a hold of a squishy could have gone bad.

2 lucky hits (or a nasty DoT not dealt with) made any attempt go down hill from that point. Usually 2 02s was enough to keep us alive, the problem was the storms had to be quick about it.

Soooo yea, if we we're super careful, and tried to not rely on luck as much as possible, I guess it could be done.


 

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That was incredible. Way to go.


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Very nicely done. Love the track you used on the video. One of my favorite bands


 

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Very nicely done. Love the track you used on the video. One of my favorite bands

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It was either that or... That...

It was all I had on me. And I thought it somewhat fit the epicness.


 

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HMMM lol congratz maybe my maths off but 1 defender 2 storm toons a tank and a scrapper = 5 toons but hey cg


 

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HMMM lol congratz maybe my maths off but 1 defender 2 storm toons a tank and a scrapper = 5 toons but hey cg

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Math's off. The Defender is one of the Storms.


 

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We tried a strategy of having our defender (Moru'las) go around tapping some of the enemies while both storms tryed to keep the tank and SR scrapper alive so our DPS didn't suffer. stll seams like 5 to me, tell the truth who was the 5th


 

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Yeah I guess I kinda worded that bad, meant to say that Moru'las (the storm defender) went around tapping enemies while also keeping up heals as well.

Both storms kept feeding heals to whomever needed it. Moru'las was just the one hopping around with the Hurri and tapping the rachnads.


 

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This is a case for CSI: Paragon. Starring Detective, Elf Stalker, Nibblez and Ping.

Det: Allright, team, we need to put together the pieces here and find our fifth man. Nibz, what do we have from Forensics?

Nibz: The post on the boards was unclear on whether or not there even was a 5th team member, but the youtube video DOES show only four members on the team.

Ping: They could have had their fifth member log out for the video, or-

Elf: eye seen da youtube thing and it aint reel lol LR pvps wai gooder thin that and he wasnt even use his pvp billed lol

Ping: Umm, that wasn't a-

Elf: case solved lol somone made there costum 2 look lyk recluse and they faught in grandvill.

Ping: You can't PvP in-

Elf: what's wrong wit u mang? What's youre major malfunction you aint a team player? its an idea

Nibz: I....think it was a misunderstanding in the post, honestly.

Detective: Hmm...there's only one way to be sure. TO THE DEFUSERMOBILE! *Cue dramatic music*


 

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This is a case for CSI: Paragon. Starring Detective, Elf Stalker, Nibblez and Ping.

Det: Allright, team, we need to put together the pieces here and find our fifth man. Nibz, what do we have from Forensics?

Nibz: The post on the boards was unclear on whether or not there even was a 5th team member, but the youtube video DOES show only four members on the team.

Ping: They could have had their fifth member log out for the video, or-

Elf: eye seen da youtube thing and it aint reel lol LR pvps wai gooder thin that and he wasnt even use his pvp billed lol

Ping: Umm, that wasn't a-

Elf: case solved lol somone made there costum 2 look lyk recluse and they faught in grandvill.

Ping: You can't PvP in-

Elf: what's wrong wit u mang? What's youre major malfunction you aint a team player? its an idea

Nibz: I....think it was a misunderstanding in the post, honestly.

Detective: Hmm...there's only one way to be sure. TO THE DEFUSERMOBILE! *Cue dramatic music*

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hahahahah i was in need of a good laugh


 

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Another theory is I'm so good I count as 2 ppl >_>...