Wow o.o;
It never ceases to amaze me how often on 'random' rolls with a 5% chance that the game seems to get a favorable roll.
Heroes : Angrem (50 Stone tank), Exo Inferis (50 Fire blaster), Exo Proteus (50 ill/emp), IceVengance (50 cold defender)
Villains : AtomBomb (50 Rad/Kin corruptor), Aleks (50 SS/Inv brute), StoneLethal (50 EM/Stone brute), Davroz (50 Bots/Dark mastermind)
Can't forget our cheerleading squad.
@Menteur: God, it's almost as though the devs didn't -intend- this thing to be duoable!
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Well, the last attempt was just too close that I had to try another, but with a radically different setup.
I played the support role again this time. The cavalry in this case was Reikou, dark melee/ninjutsu stalker.
We didn't expect to have a third, but our good friend @Cosmic. who helped us start the SF offered to stay on team in case we wanted a hand down the line. She was offline or badging in PvP zones most of the time, and came in to help on fourth mission, when we were getting pretty demoralized. =D
Team setup: Irredeemable One (Night Widow, fire support) + Reikou (dark/nin stalker, cavalry), Kilava Eres (nin/TA MM, reinforcement)
Why such a loltacular pairing? The idea we wanted to try out was brute-forcing heroes without debuffs. The stalker would be the main damage dealer, and I would contribute some DPS while covering nin's weaknesses, such as tanking psi heroes and adding a defence buffer to nin's defence debuff resistance.
No shivans or heavies were used, not out of any principle but because we didn't have any. <_< >_>
We did not realistically expect to complete this, but my goal was to make it to the final mission, with a stretch goal of taking out Numina (and as many as we could drag down with us). We didn't quite meet our goal, as we had trouble separating the Vindicators and were getting pretty worn out. Then our third came in to help, and with some persistence, we took down the Vindicators. Mynx and Swan in one go, Luminary, Malaise, Valkyrie.
Anyway, made it to the last mission and called it pretty soon, as we were all getting sleepy and the heroes didn't want to be single-pulled. That said, if they were single-pulled, barring Statesman with his perma-dull pain/unstoppable gimmick, we probably could've finished this.
Some WTH moments:
- You activated the Demonic Aura power. The Demonic Aura has significantly boosted your Defense and Damage Resistance. Valkyrie HITS you! Flying Swords power had a 8.25% chance to hit and rolled a 1.14. Valkyrie hits you with Flying Swords for 1377.88 points of lethal damage and reduces your defense!
- Sister Psyche HITS you! Explosive Blast power had a 7.50% chance to hit and rolled a 7.01. Sister Psyche blasts you with a Explosive Blast for 301.74 points of smashing damage! Sister Psyche blasts you with a Explosive Blast for 241.39 points of energy damage! Sister Psyche HITS you! Power Blast power had a 7.50% chance to hit and rolled a 1.80. Sister Psyche blasts you with a Power Blast for 341.17 points of smashing damage! Sister Psyche blasts you with a Power Blast for 533.09 points of energy damage!
Sister Psyche or Sister Energy?
-[ROBOKiTTY]ROBOKiTTY: 80% health and yet to deal one point of damage.
[ROBOKiTTY]ROBOKiTTY: yeah, I know, he'll teleport-arrow-one-shot me right after I say that.
(And Manticore does exactly that two seconds later, leaving no logs. I survived it, at least.)
Obligatory pics.
Crimson on the floor.
http://euniana.kahlan.org/cox-duo-rsf1.jpg
Chasing Kronos to the rooftops, aggroing the entire map.
http://euniana.kahlan.org/cox-duo-rsf2.jpg
Numina + BAB.
http://euniana.kahlan.org/cox-duo-rsf3.jpg
Numina + Psyche + BAB.
http://euniana.kahlan.org/cox-duo-rsf4.jpg
BAB down.
http://euniana.kahlan.org/cox-duo-rsf5.jpg
Kilava to the rescue, taking out Ms. Liberty. Also pondering - how dark melee and widow training lit oil slicks.
http://euniana.kahlan.org/cox-duo-rsf6.jpg
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