Cimerora TF - Shytes & Giggles, Laughter & Tears
By
Defcon_Kid,
Posted on: 2008-05-22 10:41 in Defiant (EU)
This is a great TF.
We had planned a manticore TF but when we all logged in to find i12 we decided to do a run on the new TF.
We went through all the missions to unlock the zone and ran around like headless chickens for a while till someone shouted 'TF contact here' 
There were quite a few shouts of 'OMG look at that' during the TF these included the Nova/Dwarf/Cyst mobs all over the 2nd mish (I think it was 2nd) & in the 2nd last or last a mob with 8 EB's (we were on heroic 
)
Our closest to a team wipe was the last AV where all of us died except 1 lucky survivor. We soon figured out to divide and conquer to defeat the AV. We took down two of the nictus balls. Then couldn't get the third away from Romulas. So we said f*** it & attacked Romulas. We killed him!! We cheered! He rezed! We sighed & said 'here we go again' The third nictus was gone. This must be how he rezed absorbing the nictus (guess). He died again & we cautiously celebrated.
All in all another amazing TF, well done all involved.
50's -
Scrappers - Xtream & Ouroboros Enforcer. Controllers - Vanguard Phoenix, Midnight Protector & Mythical Illusion. Tanks - Stone Cold Sober. Blasters - Ultimate Solution & Crey Prototype. Defenders - Lucifer - Bound. Peacebringers - Xtream Justice. Masterminds - Xtream Malfunction. SoA - Arachnid Lord
You were lucky Xtream, because in my 1st run half ot the team had gone or was afk, we were 1 brute, 1 tanker, 1 blaster and me (dark miasma/archery defender). It was near 4 a.m. when we gave up, after defeating Romulus 3 times (O.O?) and it was standing only a Nictus, which we couldn't defeat because it healed from us when closed range.
We sent tells to the rest of the team according to finish it the next day, and we did so, just doing the last mission again, he rezzed 3-4 times but being a full team we managed to finish. Our guess was the same as yours, he used the nictus to rez, but the fact is in our 2nd attempt we had separated him from the nictus, and he was able to rez anyway, a teammate suggested maybe he used us to rez himself, as we were near his corpse.
Proud Coleader of: Fuerza Letal (H), Liga de las Sombras (V), Legion del Fenix (H), Infernal Justice (H), and a happy member of GammaForce (H) and D.O.A. (V).
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Hi Xtream
I really enjoyed the TF on Tuesday evening. The large mobs of romans and loads of ambushes all adding to the chaos. The first time I saw the minataurs and cyclops I though very cool. The nictus buffed AV on the final mission is also a welcome challenge. This is currently my favourite TF and I think the Dev's should get a big pat on the back for producing it 
Due to the shear number of villains you fight it also seems to be pretty good for salvage drops (I got my second ever Hamidon Goo - yay) so I reckon this TF could become the farmers choice.
It also helped that we had a good mix of archetypes and a good bunch of players in our team (Dark Blasphemy, GullyTT, Clawd, Protector_X, Ultra-Star and ? sorry I can't remember 
) which was key to our success.
I'm away next week on holiday, but will organise the Manticore TF again to happen on the evening of Tuesday, 3rd June. Hopefully you can join the team again
I'd also like to try running this TF on a higher reputation. Heroic was good fun, but I reckon anything higher will be insane 
Out of interest has anyone completed this TF on a higher rep?
Ouch! That sounds nasty Defcon, nothing worse that ppl afk or d/cing during a TF & getting to the hard bit with half a team! Glad you completed it in the end though
Sarg. hope your going somewhere nice on the hols. Looking forward to my present when you get back . Yeah I'd be up for doing Manti when your back. I wouldn't mind running the new TF again too some night at either a higher rep or with lower chars. Let me know the plan m8.
50's -
Scrappers - Xtream & Ouroboros Enforcer. Controllers - Vanguard Phoenix, Midnight Protector & Mythical Illusion. Tanks - Stone Cold Sober. Blasters - Ultimate Solution & Crey Prototype. Defenders - Lucifer - Bound. Peacebringers - Xtream Justice. Masterminds - Xtream Malfunction. SoA - Arachnid Lord
Re a higher rep - because of several dc´s the star passed to me by mistake and guess who had not set their rep? So 4 hours later we completed on Invincible. Lots of blood sweat and tears but we got there.
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Re a higher rep - because of several dc´s the star passed to me by mistake and guess who had not set their rep? So 4 hours later we completed on Invincible. Lots of blood sweat and tears but we got there.
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You can change your rep inbetween missions, y'know
Edit: But a massive well done regardless
A big gratz to you and your team for completing the TF on invincible! The AV at the end of the final mission must have been tuff
Yay, much better the 2nd time; this one I used a blaster in Defiant, and even having a major blue screen problem that rebooted my pc near the end, we managed to separate Romulus from the Nictus, defeated them and then him, and he didn't rez, it took us less than 2 hours to complete it!
Now I've completed it twice, it's time for me to run it another 6 times for my other 50s.
Proud Coleader of: Fuerza Letal (H), Liga de las Sombras (V), Legion del Fenix (H), Infernal Justice (H), and a happy member of GammaForce (H) and D.O.A. (V).
My alts: http://cit.cohtitan.com/profile/13494
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Due to the shear number of villains you fight it also seems to be pretty good for salvage drops (I got my second ever Hamidon Goo - yay) so I reckon this TF could become the farmers choice.
[/ QUOTE ]Know the feeling.... only ever seen 1 Soul Trapped Gem from a drop, and that was in March this year... 11 months after i11 began.
This TF sounds pretty awesome already, will have to make a conserted effort to have a go this weekend.
Main 50 & Badger Nine Claws Claws/Regen/Body
Other 50's Ph10x Brute Unjust Law Tanker Samantha Urai Scrapper Codename 1250 Scrapper
Cepheus Defender Nilus Scrapper Electro Field Blaster S.PONGE Tanker
Yesterday was a big day for us as a SG. Our lowbies grinded up the levels so we could reach level 35 to get into Cimerora and some of our vets went and got out the shelved 50's and we attempted a run on the new TF.
We didn't know what to expect as we didn't try it on the test server and it was frankly a very unorganized affair :P
We started as a team of 8:
1 x Invul tank
1 x WP Brute
1 x WP scrap
1 x Regen scrap
1 x Arch blaster
1 x Elec blaster
1 x PB
and me on my fire/kin
First we lost the elec blaster due to unforeseen circumstances in the 2nd mission, then our tank got the Twilight Bug on the 2nd last mission and could not get back into the mission. He hit the PD Teleporter without realizing the impact of a mixed hero/villain team and yes ... we were minus a tank.
Even though this was just a "scouting" party to see what we can expect from the TF we did go into it with the idea in our heads that we would like to finish it, or at least fail @ the last AV(s).
Well, our PB and Brute did some superior taunting against the huge mobs while the blaster and the two scrappers did a great job in killing things.
At the last AV we had our doubts about finishing the TF. After much debate we decided to split the Romulas from his "hover balls of irritation".
To do this we did the following:
1. The Brute will run in and taunt the whole group to below the "temple's" stairs on the left.
2. The PB would then get into Light Form and taunt Romulas up the stairs back to the main door of the temple
3. The rest of us would then storm Romulas and proceed to beat on him like a gang of teenagers robbing a elderly old man of his pension money
4. After killing the Rommie we had to run like girls again, back to town to get inspirations. Of course we could not get any because of the TF and we could not leave the Zone to get some in base and we were reliant on other heroes and villians to drop us each a tray full of lucky's.
5. We went back and smoked the remaining the "balls of irritation"
6. The Brute attacked the one of the left (from original reset position) and lured it away (this was the one with doing all the siphon heals)
7. The PB grabbed the one on the right and we all focused on killing it and proceeded to the one which was left in the middle and killed that.
8. We had to make a run back to town for our mates to drop us of some extra lucky's
9. All of us popped 4 lucky's each and procceeded to kick the purpley snot out the last one.
1 x Cimerora TF done ... 5 hours and 5 minutes.
All in all it was a great TF, and we had some great players on the team.
So thanks to Techno PB and Shield Breaker for dying to keep the rest of us alive with the taunts, for Uli and Muskovite for killing so gloriously and Celtic for being a very decent mentor and bailing me out of trouble a couple of times with agro gained by slapping -regen on the AV's and the holds.
All in all, a TF well done boys.
I would like to thank DJ and Xem for dropping off the inspirations we needed as well as the other "nameless" heroes who pitched in.
We are doing a run at it again sometime soon, this time properly planned for and not in the middle of the week.
The content is great, great looking zone, awesome enemies and a overall good story line.
Cheers