Sewers trial Wed May 3rd 7pm BST

I'm planning to do Sewers trial this wednesday at 7 UK time. I'll take my peacebringer and there's a tanker spot reserved for Hibernal Flea, but the rest are up for grabs. Sign up to give Hydra a much needed lesson!

About the trial

I've never done this myself but the level range is 38-40 and I understand someone with invisibility and recall friend would be really useful.

i want in with my tank
luc sr

i wont be at home before 7:30 -8:00

i will try and get there with me level 50 stone tanker but where will we be meeting ??

The killing 150 Rikti should be ok . i have heard that if we fail and restert it and we have killed the 150 rikti then we dont have to do it again with should be a time saver

Awww, I'd love to do the Sewer Trial, but I'll not be online 'til late on Wednesday, if at all.

done it a few times and TS helps alot. GL as its the hardest trail there is imo. Wish there was more like it

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Awww, I'd love to do the Sewer Trial, but I'll not be online 'til late on Wednesday, if at all.

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Well, there's always possibility that we will fail, in which case I'm up for a retry.

Having read more about this and talked with some people, it seems that the level range is soft and there is no autoexemp, so that complicates things a bit. Technically, anyone level 36-50 can enter as long as we have a level 38-40 to start it, however the temp power weapons will only spawn for people in the right level range and of course the high levels will need an exemp for others to get XP.

We're doing this for the fun, challenge and experience so everyone needs to either be in or slightly above the level range, or exemplared/sidekicked. I hear it's very good XP so should help us all get out of the late 30s funk. Any higher levels are still extremely welcome though, provided we can get an exemplar spot for you guys. Does anyone know if the level range of enemies is fixed or does it depend on team level or reputation? This seems to be a bit strange beast among task forces and trials.

We'll meet at Infernal in FF to sort the team out. Global me at @Idris if you have any questions.

Oooo, looking forwards to this....

We have

Trill Stranger ( level 38 Pb , Idris )
Hibernal Flea ( level 38 Ice/SS tank, Unthing )
Luc Sr ( level 50 Inv/Stone tank, Primaxi )
C0rp0ral Punishment ( level 50 Stone tank, C0rp0ral_Punish )

Not a very balanced team so far. Any more damage dealers want in. We could also do with more support toons.

I'd be up for the sewer trial if there's room. Tornado Tex lvl 50 grav/storm troller.

Currently lvl 37, I have a bubble and a half to do this evening. If I can do it I'll come along - Claws/Regen.

Electronuts, a lvl50 grav/emp signed up as well. We need more people in the level range.. anyone? Ideally blasters because we seem very defense heavy at the moment.

like i said, if we can sort out exemps/sks I'll join with lady earth.. if you are short of firepower i can always bring nef in

if theres room for a troller zeno lvl 38 ill/rad

Deluge 38 elec/Nrg Blaster, if there is space

Got another signup, Logie lvl45 Mind/emp troller. And here I thought blasters and scrappers were the most common ATs..

If everybody who signed up comes, we won't have room for all unless we can get even more to join and make two teams. I also can't go with the order of posting because to be honest I don't think we can make it with three tankers and three controllers since this trial is about defeating things in a very narrow time window. I think the best thing to do is just to meet up at Infernal and see what we have and try to get a team for everyone. Del, you're definitely in as we need blasters and Stage, it looks bad for Lady as everyone seems to be either level 38 or 50, however I might take you up on the Nef offer.

I've only done this one once and it was with a team which was well organised. I've just been doing some research and it seems that the Hydra is only damage by particle beams and thermite cannons.

As these temp powers only work for people in the level range it is important we have exemps set up correctly.

From reading up on it this is what we need to do:-

1. clear 150 Rikti in Abandoned Sewers, the leader then goes back to the contact and gets the mission location.

2. Everyone gets to the mission location ( recall friend would be useful here ). We then all enter.

3. Either
a) Clear the Rikti spawns down to the shaft picking up weapons* on the way.
or
b) Stealth to the weapons* and tp everyone in turn to them. When all weapons are collected go to the cistern at the bottom. This needs someone with grant invisibility and someone else with recall frieng and stealth/invisibility.

4. When at the Cistern clear the Rikti at the generator avoiding the tentacles and the Hydra in the middle. After that clear the Kraken near that generator. Repeat for all 4 generators, stay away from the Hydra and tenctacles. Do not kill the generators.

5. Clear the tentacles. Don't aggro the hydra.

6. Split into 4 teams of roughly equal damage. Destroy the generators simulataneously.

7. The shield on the Hydra should go down. Regroup and attack it using the temp power weapons. Use pets to tank.

8. When the shields go down we will need to clear Rikti near the generators again and then repeat 6 and 7.

9. Large Rikti groups will teleport in when the Hydra hits 50% and 25%. These must be dealt with ASAP as a team wipe will take too long to recover from. So the tankers need to sort them out.

We need to make sure that we have enough weapons as they are the only thing that can kill the Hydra.

I hit lvl 38 with my claws/regen scrapper last night so I'll be there.

most important one is the particle cannon, the thermite only hurts its tentacles iirc

hmm I might be able to come along, if so I'll meet at infernal.

Nice work! About stealthing, won't there be drones since this is Rikti? Sadly, I've respecced out of Grant Invisibility, but maybe killamonjaro has Group Invisibility?

I'm worried about levels, mainly. If it spawns at fixed level 42, we might be in for some hurt.

IIRC Hydra Origin enhancements are given out as level 40s always, so I expect that the trial is aimed for level 40s.

What difficulty are we doing this on?

I'd be inclined to be on Heroic since I've never done it before and don't really know what to expect, except that it's supposed to be a challenge.

Are trials even affected by reputation?

i did the hydra once or twice and we didn't destrored the generators, we just used 2 controllers to hold the hydra wile the rest of us shoots 'm with the guns and 1 tank taunted the hydra

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i did the hydra once or twice and we didn't destrored the generators, we just used 2 controllers to hold the hydra wile the rest of us shoots 'm with the guns and 1 tank taunted the hydra

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Does the shield drop while the hydra is held? That's interesting to know.

I'd love to bring Tech along for this... This Trial has been a shadow of a badge on him for sooo long . I might try to turn up on time, to see if there is room still.

Another thought. I heard if you SK the toons with guns to the 50s, the spawns ignore/cant do jack all to them while the hydra goes down. It seems that a lot will be in it for the XP rather than just the badge though, which is fair enough.

Yet another thought... This trial is a regular mission, not a TF group, so if you wanted, you could quit team in mission and invite a whole new group in... might help with the spawns, and I believe that everyone would get the badge at the end, and end xp too.

Shrug.

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Another thought. I heard if you SK the toons with guns to the 50s, the spawns ignore/cant do jack all to them while the hydra goes down. It seems that a lot will be in it for the XP rather than just the badge though, which is fair enough.

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Don't forgot the Hydra-O enhancement! I don't want to miss out on that. Sidekicking up to 50 might mean I don't get it ( perhaps, I don't know ) as they have been messing about with the enehancement level drops recently.