Shard-A-Thon 3 July 23-26, 2009

It's that time again, folks: time to prove your insanity, time to get those annoying shard badges, or just time to rack up a ton of merits! It is time for...

[u]Shard-A-Thon 3!![u]

First, I'd like to take a second to mourn the loss of gameamp.com... simply b/c they had some fairly decent shard guides. C'est la vie.

Moving right along: this version of the Shard-A-Thon will involve more of the original 6 Task Forces in the game. Also, I've decided to expand the event from 3 days to a fourth day, taking over Thursday the 23rd and running till Sunday the 26th. As in previous versions, folks can sign up for as few or as many as they'd like.

Let's take a look at our lineup, shall we?

[u]Thursday, July 23:[u]
Hess TF: 7:30pm eastern, 6:30pm central
Hess leads off, at just about an hour long when it's not run in the speed format, containing 19 merits. 25-30 for xp, Burkholder's Bane is the badge.

Synapse TF: 8:30pm eastern, 7:30 central
To finish off the first night (a nice, light night with no shards), we'll run Synapse. About 2.5 hours or so on average, Synapse has 57 merits, plus 2 for Babbage. Loads of clocks, you'll get the gearsmasher badge quickly here. 15-20 for xp, Synapse's Cohort is the badge.

Total for Thursday: 76 merits.

[u]Friday, July 24th:[u]
1st respec blue side: 7:30pm eastern, 6:30pm central
1st respec, fighting the Sky Raiders, ought to run just around an hour or 75 minutes. 27 merits, 24-33 for xp, with one of the Respec badges as your reward if you choose the respec.

Justin Augustine TF: 8:45pm eastern, 7:45pm central
Since the 1st respec may be 1.25 hours, a little bit of an odd time for the start of this one. Augustine is the Fed-Ex of the gaming world, as there's a grand total of 4 door missions in the entire TF, with the rest of the TF being varied grey hunts and fedexes, bringing the overall time to 1.5-2 hours. The good thing about this TF before the other shards is that you'll be able to map out the Chantry a bit more than you may already have. 44-50 for xp, 24 merits, Protector of Kindness badge.

Total for Friday: 51 merits.

[u]Saturday, July 25th:[u]
Quaterfield TF: 9am eastern, 8am central
I know folks, I know. Unlike all other TFs, this one will be run at heroic diff in an effort to help quicken the pace a bit. However, look at the bright side: you get to spend maybe 5 hours with me! (wait, that's not the bright side) Well... look at the shiny badge and merits. 111 merits, 40-44 for xp, Portal Smasher badge.

NOTE: if there is enough time after Q but before the next event (1.5 hours hopefully), I'd like to squeeze a Kahn in. 45-50 for xp, 20 merits, Column Breaker badge)

Sister Psyche TF: 4pm eastern, 3pm central
As we take a break from the ever beautiful, yet deadly shard, we move to the wondeful world of Freaks with Sister Psyche. About 2-3 hours or so, 50 merits, 20-25 for xp, Sister Psyche's Comrade badge.

Faathim the Kind-of-a-Jerk TF: 8pm eastern, 7pm central
As we wrap up the day, and hopefully after a short break, we're back at it in the Shard with the one schmuck who doesn't use a phone, smoke signals, or telepathy to get us his missions. We'll be running all over, including stops in such lavish places as the Chantry, the Storm Palace, and Atlas Park, with trips to both Death Stars, which will bring the time to about 3-5 hours, I would imagine. 73 merits, 44-50 for xp, Slayer of Madness badge. Come for the Shard, stay for the AVs! (Includes Baphomet, who gives his own badge, Demon Slayer)

Total for Saturday: 234 merits (254 if we get that Kahn in)

[u]Sunday, July 26th[u]
Citadel TF: 4pm eastern, 3pm central
As we come off the long Saturday, we start relatively late with a Citadel in the middle of the afternoon. As we slash through Nazis, Nazis, and more Nazis (in varying caves that look exactly the same), we'll at least get 40 merits. 2-3 hours, 25-30 for xp, Citadel's Assistant badge.

Sara Moore TF: 7pm eastern, 6pm central
And finally, to finish up Shard-A-Thon 3, we have the last Shard TF needed, and one of the better shards in the game. Close to the same time as Faathim at 3-5 hours or so, it's more Rularuu than Faathim though. Come prepared for an interesting fight. 40-50 for xp, 63 merits, Destroyer of Strength badge.

Total for Sunday: 103 merits.

Overall weekend Possible total: [u]464 merits[u] (or 484)
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So, who's up for some insanity?

1) Your times suck

2) You smell




I'll be crying in the corner.

I've already forgotten about most of you

I feel I should mention that these Task Forces are not meant to be similar to Des' Milk Runs, where you go as fast as you can and stealth stuff.

Apart from the Quaterfield (which has a metric ton of kill alls anyway), these task forces will be "slaughter-throughs"; basically, fight your way through the map to the target, and complete the mission. If we have an outdoor map, then we go stealthing/scouting around to complete.

Just an FYI.

Based on my work schedule, AND my sister's wedding....I won't be able to help much. The Sara Moore TF falls into my availability tho'....so if you can't find enough folks...I'd be happy to help out.

Thursday, Saturday and Sunday i'm down for!

Friday I will be at a tool concert, so boo but yay!

I'm in for Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday events.

I have to bow out of Friday's events or I'd never hear the end of it.

Put me down as tentative for Thursday's runs if there is still room (for a scrapper). Not sure if I'll be around for the remainder.

I think, I'll make the greek coffee to keep u all awake

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I think, I'll make the greek coffee to keep u all awake

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If it's anything like other greek things......it'll shock most awake indeed.

I've already forgotten about most of you

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I think, I'll make the greek coffee to keep u all awake

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If it's anything like other greek things......it'll shock most awake indeed.

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I'll spike it with some metaxa 7 star

Roster as it stands:

Thursday
Hess:
1. DC - tank
2. ohloh
3. Ham
4. Des
5. EB - scrapper
6. FMP
7. MMP
8. El Corvo

Synapse:
1. DC - tank
2. ohloh
3. Ham (maybe)
4. Des
5. EB - scrapper
6. MMP
7. El Corvo
8.

Friday
1st respec:
1. DC - tank
2. Ham
3. FMP
4. El Corvo
5.
6.
7.
8.

Augustine:
1. DC - tank
2. Ham
3. El Corvo
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

Saturday
Quaterfield:
1. DC - tank
2. ohloh
3. Ham
4. Des
5. Thess - blaster
6. El Corvo
7.
8.

Sister Psyche:
1. DC - tank
2. ohloh
3. Ham
4. Des
5. Thess - WS (maybe)
6. El Corvo
7.
8.

Faathim:
1. DC - tank
2. ohloh
3. Ham
4. Des
5.
6.
7.
8.

Sunday
Citadel:
1. DC - tank
2. ohloh
3. Ham
4. Des
5.
6.
7.
8.

Sara Moore:
1. DC - tank
2. Jade Claw
3. ohloh
4. Ham
5. Des
6. El Corvo
7.
8.

Still have plenty of spots for any interested. Less than a week to go.

Hess and Skyspec please.

I'm gonna try to make Doc Q on my blaster. She needs at least one of the other Shard TFs, but I can't remember which right now. May be able to make Sister Psyche on my warshade too.

I'll take a spot on the two Thursday TF's

I should be good for everything but Faathim and Citadel, which Ive already done

Can you please also put me down as tentative (work@6PM Saturday and 1AM Sunday) for Saturday and Sunday events on a scrapper. Thanks

If there's still space put me down for Dr. Q. on a scrapper. He's still the last accomplishment badge he needs (just remembered that).

Roster as it stands:

Thursday
Hess:
1. DC - tank
2. Ham
3. Des
4. EB - scrapper
5. FMP
6. MMP
7. El Corvo
8.

Synapse:
1. DC - tank
2. Ham (maybe)
3. Des
4. EB - scrapper
5. MMP
6.
7.
8.

Friday
1st respec:
1. DC - tank
2. Ham
3. FMP
4. El Corvo
5. MMP
6.
7.
8.

Augustine:
1. DC - tank
2. Ham
3. El Corvo
4. SnakeRogers - scrapper
5.
6.
7.
8.

Saturday
Quaterfield:
1. DC - tank
2. Ham
3. Des
4. Thess - blaster
5. El Corvo
6. EB (maybe) - scrapper
7. Vanum
8.

Sister Psyche:
1. DC - tank
2. Ham
3. Des
4. Thess - WS (maybe)
5. El Corvo
6. EB (maybe) - scrapper
7.
8.

Faathim:
1. DC - tank
2. Ham
3. Des
4. EB (maybe) - scrapper
5. SnakeRogers - scrapper
6.
7.
8.

Sunday
Citadel:
1. DC - tank
2. Ham
3. Des
4. EB (maybe) - scrapper
5.
6.
7.
8.

Sara Moore:
1. DC - tank
2. Jade Claw
3. Ham
4. Des
5. El Corvo
6. EB (maybe) - scrapper
7. SnakeRogers - scrapper
8.


I'll try to form up maybe 5-10 minutes early. If I don't know your global, I'll page you off of either VF or one of the VBs, or you can show up at the TF contact.

Best of luck to us all.

By the way; I want to run these on my DM/SR scrapper project (currently 46), he needs around 2000 merits (Really wish they were transferable) to be completed.

I'm down for the Friday respec.

I can bring anything [my healer is at 36, so i can't do shards with him] to any of the TFs, i'll bring any toon that's needed!

Count me in for the following:

Augustine on Friday at 8:45 pm
Faathim on Saturday at 8 pm
Sara Moore on Sunday at 7 pm

I'll be bringing my lvl 50 scrapper, Ms Pris.

Okay, ran a Synapse last Sunday, so go ahead and take me off that list please.

That's the only change

Due to a very serious and troubling incident that happened today, I must cancel my reservations for the TFs this weekend. I'm not even sure the next time I will be on.

I apologize about this.

Hope all is well with you Ohloh