Drop Ships

A few hints for your dropship raid:

1) DEBUFFERS! You may not be able to slow those suckers down, but every bit helps.
2) Everyone should have Flight and/or Hover... Group Fly is semi-manageable, but only as reliable as the slowest person, and everyone else targets and follows that individual. Otherwise, start running bank missions now to get Raptor packs.
3) Any build is viable - we had every archetype there. But you wanna have FAST recharging stuff, and a TRAY full of blues.
4) Unless your team sticks together, running end-eating stuff like Tactics may not be useful, so you might be better off without them.

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

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any idea how many teams you had?

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How long ago was your raid? If i remember correctly on the release of i13 the Rikti Ships were made invincible, the only way you could shoot one down was with a team on TEST Server.

I soooo wanted to get my team to take them out but i saw the notice regarding the ships.

Samuraiko filmed a few takedowns when we were on TEST for i14, there might be beautiful footage of me (i was the black catgirl with red outfit) flying through a ship and surviving only to be blasted by the one coming behind it (so much for phase shift), i spiralled to my doom in not so humble fashion. Never try to solo one of these

Yes Samuraiko i should have listened to you

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They're not invincible, as shown by Michelle's video.

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"Champion (the Community Server... or GTFO) is like a small town where everyone knows each other's names, for better or worse." -kojirodensetsu.
"If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail." - Maslow's Hammer

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Isn't that of Freedom clearing a bunch of zones of Dropships, Michelle?

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Nope, that was Virtue. But it's definite proof that dropships can be taken down, and rather efficiently in fact, if you know the flight paths of the dropships. I think they're currently up on ParagonWiki or something.

As the video shows, we took down 41 dropships in just about an hour.

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

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I'm pretty sure that's the same hour of dropship battling that I was a part of a while back.
I'm sorry to see all the threads form back then were wiped, there was a bunch of good RP postings about that night.

It was awesome watching those things go down.

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Otherwise, start running bank missions now to get Raptor packs.

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Don't forget about the raptor pack vendor in the Shadow Shard.
I'm pretty sure it's level 40 to get in there, but you can buy the raptor pack repeatedly for 10k inf, or sit in the zone for day job time to get a Traveller's Flight pack which can hold up to a 30 minute charge - based on day job time.

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If it's a villain dropship party, you can go to Grandville at any time and buy raptor packs, so it's even easier...now if we could only get the numbers.

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Loose --> not tight.
Lose --> Did not win, misplace, cannot find, subtract.
One extra 'o' makes a big difference.

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any idea how many teams you had?

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We weren't FILLING zones until we got to Peregrine Island, so I'd guess we started with at least six or seven full teams, and were all the way up to 100 players chasing these things by the time we were doing the Peregrine Island stuff.

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How long ago was your raid? If i remember correctly on the release of i13 the Rikti Ships were made invincible, the only way you could shoot one down was with a team on TEST Server.

I soooo wanted to get my team to take them out but i saw the notice regarding the ships.

Samuraiko filmed a few takedowns when we were on TEST for i14, there might be beautiful footage of me (i was the black catgirl with red outfit) flying through a ship and surviving only to be blasted by the one coming behind it (so much for phase shift), i spiralled to my doom in not so humble fashion. Never try to solo one of these

Yes Samuraiko i should have listened to you

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November 21, 2008 (give or take a day, but that's when this was posted to YouTube initially).

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

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sigh..

i was already kinda planning this as an event?

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sigh..

i was already kinda planning this as an event?



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Ok deleted it. I didn't intend on stepping on your toes. I took from your post that you were inquiring if it could be done, not that you were planning on actually running it. Again, I appologize. Lets just say when something intrigues me that the doooo-ettt planner in me takes over. :-)

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Sorry but i wish people would not just say i am wronge, but would at least check out things first!

Samuraiko published the Dropship video approximately 3 weeks before i13 went live and that was when i saw the warning the devs were making the dropships invulnerable!

I will try to find the exact post and confirm but you can try to take the dropship but i recommend you guys peruse the forums first to make sure you can still do it! I have not heard of a group doing it since i13!

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I said they got buffed, not invulnerable.

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"Champion (the Community Server... or GTFO) is like a small town where everyone knows each other's names, for better or worse." -kojirodensetsu.
"If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail." - Maslow's Hammer

Im currently doing the research on this and talking to a few people... I wont set us all up for failure.

I have some great people willing to be team leads and assist as much as possible.. I think it will be a pretty kick [censored] event.

As soon as the last few ducks are in place, I will post the event time and details.

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may i lead a team paweeeeease

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I dont care if it is impossible Im still up for it.

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Don't ever let it be said when an impossible task was presented, there was no Pingu to dive in head first!
I'll bring my Debuffer!
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Ill be bringing my blaster, should have him IOd out by then...

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"Don't unravel them-- your ears were meant to be that way."
-Steve Aylett

I'm down, those things are always killin' me.. Time to return the favor.

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God, you people are such rock stars!

Thanks for positive interest! I should have the details posted by the end of the day.

(this post isnt directed towards ^ that person alone, i just hit reply)

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I'm happy to get on board for this.

Got the following to help:

Stone/Energy Tanker
Rad/Rad Defender
Emp/Rad Defender
Electricity/Energy Blaster
Mind/Kin Controller

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Let me know whats up when you can please Cherry!

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*grins*

I might tag along to film it. If I can get my videographer character on Champion to at least lvl 14 for Flight (not that fond of Raptor packs when trying to fly and film).

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

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