The Ideal Team for Master Level Badges

With the new Badges for Master TF/SFs coming out, I'm curious as to what your ideal 8 person team would look like for each of the new Badge TF/SFs.


Master of Reichsman Strike Force
- 8 person Villian Team

Master of Reichsman Task Force
- 8 person Hero Team

Master of Imperious Task Force
- 8 person Combined Team

Stone Tank/Brute
Force Fielder
Empath/Thermal
Sniper
Heavy debuffer like Rad/Cold/Sonic

If you have both a Thermal and a Sonic/Cold then you can even do without the bubbler.

Then anything else to make up the numbers (Though I would say you need a stalker on the MoRSF).

A team like that should see you through pretty much anything.

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For ITF I'd try and get a second melee type so that you can pull the healing Nictus away from Rommy. It's not required but it does make it easier. MoITF is probably the easiest of the Master badges by a long shot.

Now the interesting one would be Master of Dr Q TF. I think with that one the primary problem would be player fatigue.

I'd say:

Villains: 8 Corrupters
Heroes: 6 Defenders, 1 Blaster, 1 Scrapper (or 8 defenders, but it'll take longer..)
Combined: 8 Corrupters

If you're running MoRSF, swap in 1 permadom for one of the corrupters or defenders. They'll have to be able to permanently hold a 54 Statesman - for MoRSF even a /stone tank buffed by 7 corrupters is a liability because 2 hits can result in a kill.

Why? Well, assuming a moderate amount of player skill, minions and lieuts are trivial easy and bosses are an annoyance only in large numbers. The only question is how you're going to take down the AVs, and the KISS answer is massive debuffs combined with extreme firepower.

My dream team is 2 /colds, 2 /thermals, 2 /kins, 1 /rad and 1 /sonic. Primary doesn't matter in the least.

I don't think up dream teams. I basically think that if you can't devise a way of achieving anything with any team then you are still learning.

Then I think that team work is essential and if players can't get things right despite trying then, they may want to change their slots a bit better, or adapt the build to have the power they skipped, that allows for better flexibility, with other team dynamics.

You can get things done more than one way but some people simply stick to the one method like glue. Why I don't know.

I certainly don't like to value people over what they chose at the powerset selection screen.

The ideal team is 8 people who know how to play and communicate.

A tank of some kind. A debuffer of some kind. Some one with some sort of heal (doesn't have to be a "healer")

Personally I like the combination of a tank and a Thermal. Thermal covers buffer, debuffer, and healer all at once. Add a Rad/Sonic or something for help with AVs and fill the rest of the team with whatever.

For villainside, just replace tank with brute, and Rad/Sonic with Sonic/Rad (because it will be a corruptor instead of defender)

With enough debuffs and buffs you don't even need a tank or brute to hold agro, but it does make things a little smoother sometimes.

You can achieve the Master badges with any team makeup, the only reason people put together specific teams is it is a little easier and everyone knows their role from the start. Or because they're of the mistaken belief that that is the only team that can do it.

Me, Tark, Hobo and Rat.

If you can finish something at all, you can finish it without deaths if you're careful enough and/or given enough attempts, unless the only way you won was with vengeance/fallout. That is (should be?) common sense.

The hardest part in a specific MSTF/MLRSF setup (i.e., all scrappers) is gathering enough players with the right AT, a good internet connexion and the ability to login during the same time period. It's already hard enough to organize a normal allscrapper or allblaster STF/RSF, claiming the lack of public proof that a blaster or scrapper MSTF/MLRSF has been done proves it isn't possible is ludicrous.

If you can provide me with 7 people who have loads of influence and blasters/scrappers they are willing to respec to my desire, I'll make it happen

The problem really is getting 7 people like that together. I know maybe 2 people in that situation.

Get psi damage. Both Cimerorians and Reichsman are more vulnerable to that than other damage types.

Other than that, make sure you get players who help keep the team safe and productive and you'll be golden.

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Team full of people you know that play their characters effectively. Seriously, that's all you need. It might make a bit more difference on something like the STF where you need to be able to take down multiple AVs and then Recluse, but people I know have done sub-1-hour MoSTF runs while still leaving one or more of Recluse's towers up.

I'm going to weigh in on the "any combination of highly competent players can accomplish x"... I've been on teams that I thought had no prayer of completing an STF due to AT's and powersets and managed a MoSTF run. I've also been on dream teams with an ideal selection of AT's and powersets that couldn't fight their way out of a paper bag.

While I haven't run an all-blaster MoSTF I wouldn't be surprised to see someone manage it. I've run a couple of all-controller STF's; our best run had I believe 5 deaths total so I can easily see that being possible with practice and tighter coordination.

My only try at an all-scrapper STF was shortly after it went live; we had massive problems mainly due to the fact that everyone was playing a regen and spike damage was dropping us. All-scrapper with Shield scrappers? I don't see any reason why not, everyone should have well over 100% defense with all the grant cover's stacked and massive damage output.