I will be there
Just going to sort costume now, will be there with Devidose.
And thrice-cursed be the extended double exp weekend, I will probably wake up just in time for the raid. (Coming with War as planned)
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You guys got room for a level 50 triform peacebringer? If so, which team would be best, blasting possibly?
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So we're gathering at 7, but where? :s
Hive's gate at EDEN.
And I thik it is at 19:15 UK time.
Having got myself to 49 on Double XP weekend (and only 2 bars away from 50), you can rest assured that I'll be there! My first Hami raid!
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My friend and SG mate Britania will be there Claws\regen Lvl 49 scrapper wil most prob be there too.
Union
Ebola EngEng Lvl 50 Blst
Maelstrome DrkDrk Lvl 50 Scrp
SRobo-tron RoboTraps Lvl 47 MM
Flaming Radium FireRad 35 Controller
Just wanna say thanks too all, was a nice try. Never seen so many Mitos :P
OK, so we didn't succed. Let no one put any blame on the leaders, it's a hard job herding players so it's not their fault that we didn't make it. If you go for it again Babs I will enter the raid without hesitation.
Thanks also to Raziel. and Tera Storm that sorted the Holding team and my team of Holding Blasters (with one Controller as an Honorary Blaster) respectivly. All other team leaders that I don't know about as well, a big thank you for all your work.
Black Light, Electricity/Devices Blaster at Union
White Knight, Illusion/Radiation Controller at Union
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Might be worth holding off the hami raids until I8 hits. Mind you, I think numbers will be flagging worse than they are now so that might not help much either.
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Might be worth holding off the hami raids until I8 hits. Mind you, I think numbers will be flagging worse than they are now so that might not help much either.
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Why I8? 
The problem wasn't lack of people either.
Seems to be a common theme to your posts recently.
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Might be worth holding off the hami raids until I8 hits. Mind you, I think numbers will be flagging worse than they are now so that might not help much either.
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Why I8? The problem wasn't lack of people either.
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no .. we had plenty of people.. more than enough..
hell we even got hami down to 22115 HP even tho he spawned his Mitos. and we STILL had him undercontaintment... we simply lost holds over time.. and in the end cudn't regain it..
was a valiant effort and was a lot of fun, i think. we proved it could be done, and the plan needs a lil tweak in places to make sure we can cope with such eventualties like today.
here's a pic i managed to take slightly before crunch time. Hami Raid
*please excuse anything bad on there.. it was a busy raid*
The real problem is the devs forcing us to find their way of doing it, without so much as a hint in the right direction... all we know is there are groups of swarms over certain hills, cave doors that don't activate, a disused Portal Corp facility with non-working doors, and walls of GMs... and anything else I may have missed out... There must be SOMETHING there that seriously de-buffs him, but what that is...
it was so hard to get pa in the right place, dont see why the devs did this.
I think when the healing blanket was in place the PA weren't necessary. It just added to the lag, which stopped the controllers ability to hold. Spamming heals also added to the lag, but its necessary when you don't clear the Mitos.
Black lights right! - no blame on the organisation of it at all! - but would this (our latest experience of it) not be a good time to put our concerns about it to the development team. Would this not be a good time and opportunity to take Hamidon back to the drawing board both artistic/concept-wise and how the servers can manage it.
I have done Hami about 2-3 times before and everytime it has lagged so chronically it has impacted badly on the enjoyment!... even with the completely plain costumes we did it with last time.......it was just terrible, just throwing an idea out there!, any ideas how Hami could be re-vamped? artistic/concept wise? or and how things could be improved technically?
My 2 cents
Hami isnt a problem, he isnt hard to kill just annoying and can be tedious if things dont go right. Hes killed nightly on most US servers using the old kill all mitos, everyone hit him once then hold him to death.
Heal blanket is fine in theory but the server is not up to the job of processing all of the imformation which is why powers take 5 mins to activate. There were too many firing heals.
Not clearing mitos is too advanced a tactic for inexperienced hami raiders which the majority were. I would only attempt a heal blanket with a dedicated Hami squad who all knew what they were doing.
In my opinion end drain is key and they could do it with a heal blanket strategy (with less people) kins, elecs and the like end draining and applying -recovery means hami cant do jack, no attacks, no mito spawns at 50% so who the hell cares if hes held or not. There are some US sgs who farmed Hami to death using end drain and this was before the advantage we now have of end drain being a % as opposed to a set number.
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Might be worth holding off the hami raids until I8 hits. Mind you, I think numbers will be flagging worse than they are now so that might not help much either.
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Why I8? The problem wasn't lack of people either.
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Well I8 lets us server hop - which will be nice.
I thought the problem was not quite enough holds all the way through? Would this not be solved by more controllers?
BTW - I agree that there must be an as yet undiscovered way to do hami over. The dev's managed with 24 characters.
What stats do we have for hami so far? E.g. resitance to toxic known? Hold resistance known? Knockback resistance known? Etc...etc.
@Sweet Chilli
I know it's a daft question, and probably already covered, but according to the devs, Hami can now attack through hold. Are we absolutely certain he can't spawn mitos through hold too?
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Are we absolutely certain he can't spawn mitos through hold too?
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Yes, or US servers wouldn't be beating him, which they are. A mito spawn pretty much = game over, no matter your server population.
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I thought the problem was not quite enough holds all the way through? Would this not be solved by more controllers?
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I think we had enough controllers, the problem was the lag and it stopped the holds from firing off quickly. Also halfway through there were shouts on Broadcast for the controllers to keep using the holds (possibly because they had stopped).
count me in with Power Doll