Shardtober 09: Dr. Quaterfield Oct.3-4

The time to battle shadows is now...



Hola, Champion server! Shardtober begins this month with yet another run of the Dr. Q Task Force, starting off in zone FireBase Zulu!

The rules:
1) Full 8-player team is needed to start. Given the number of door missions with Simu-click glowys, you need at least 4 players to finish. We heartily encourage all 8 to finish, however...

2) We know full well Dr. Q is the longest TF in the game. Most door missions out of all of them, a good number involving you to run back and forth between FBZ and the rest of Paragon City. Hopefully, a) Ouroborous portals will ease transport and b) Base transports can help as well. Still, you're facing at best a 5-6 hour TF at the fastest (anyone reporting a 2-hour Dr. Q will be eyeballed until confessing their true time).

3) Team balance is a must: the villain sets you are facing are hard to aggro-control without Tankers and hard to survive without Defenders and Controllers handling buffs and hard to put down without Blasters and Scrappers dealing damage. Kheld builds also can join this as long as they complement well (that means tips, you Warshades!).

4) Travel powers used to require at least one teammate with Fly/Teleport + Recall Friend. With temp Jetpacks now sold in all shard realms, this is optional (but still helpful).

5) Despite the length, Dr. Q TFs can now be done well within a day. Just plan ahead to keep up to 6-7 hours free to ensure a good finish.

As such, this means getting sign-up sheets going. Two days this weekend, obviously: one run for those who can play Saturday, one run for Sunday. I will like to host the Sunday (10/4) morning/afternoon run, and I would like to have someone volunteer to host the Saturday (10/3) starting at your best available time. Personally, I'd suggest starting as early as possible, around 11 am EST (that's New Yawk time for those of you in Founder Falls).

Sign-ups begin on the next thread post below. Enjoy, and let's run a great Shardtober this year!

Sign-up sheets begin here.

Where: Firebase Zulu, at Dr. Q contact just inside the military base, to your right as you come through the portal.
Levels required: Levels 40 - 44 for normal play, with autoexemping all those over 44. Note: you can now get XP even exemped until Level 50 itself.
Team needed: Full count of 8 to even start. 4 Players need to finish to cover all simuclick mission goals throughout the TF.
Villain sets: Rularuu, Circle of Thorns, Crey, Nemesis, time (it's a long TF!)
Length: 22 Missions (at least 7 Defeat Alls officially. Unofficially: stealthing Rularuu and Nemesis missions will be extremely difficult)

For the Saturday 10/3 Dr. Q TF, please let me have a volunteer for team leader. Danke.
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For the Sunday 10/4 TF, I will host. For now. >:-)
I would like the start time at 11 am EST (8 am Pacific) as best option. Thanks.
1) @Witty Librarian - I am hoping to bring my original, the one and only Wittylibrarian (50 Energy Blaster) back out for this Shardtober run.
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Please add and update as needed.
These are, by the way, one team each day at the least. If we get more than 8 people interested, we can see about having more than one team running. Let's try to get the first teams filled well before this Friday!

Someone should put together some oddball teams for this. Like an all-defender team or some such.

Hmm...

War Admiral and myself are totally down for this.. we are PST tho and thats a lil early of a start time for us.

Maybe we could start a later team? Like say.. 11 am pst? Or maybe even in the late afternoon area? like say.. 5 pm? Which if I think about it, that may be better for the people i typically play with. Either way, I'll do whatever works best.

lemme know.

I'm up for a 10/3 run, any time, early start is good.
Artorios Rex, lvl 50 scrapper

ok witty..

I have 3 of us willing to run/lead 1 starting at 5 pm pst.


Shardtober + Octoberfest + Dr Q ='s all kinds of crazy fun.


1. Cherry
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3. Jonnie Neutron
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Yey Shardtober! I am a fan. I will not be around this week (family dinner) or next week (yey Ren Faire), but I'd love to get on the teams for Augustine and Faathim. Especially Faathim, since I missed that TF last year.

Hope everyone has a good run of Dr. Q this weekend.

By the way, Witty, love the motivational posters for Shardtober. Very cute.

You can add Orion Zidane, @Orion Zidane, to the team of 3 for whatever day that is on. Really need that badge and destroyer of strength when that comes along.

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im willing to lead / host the SATURDAY 5pm pst / 8pm est DR Q

I was saying sorry because I didnt make it clear the 1st time i posted.


(edited) gets the feeling slacker is messing with me.

I can move the Sunday Dr. Q TF to a later time... Is 1 pm EST (10 am Pacific) or 2 pm EST (11 am PST) a better start time?

2pm EDT on Sunday sounds good to me.
@ArtoriosRex, scrapper

Cherry, what are you doing starting a TF at a time when I can make it?

Of course, I have tickets to the /snootyvoice, theatre /end that night so I can't make it after all. (Which would explain why they're starting the TF at a time when you could normally make it.)

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2. War Admiral
3. Jonnie Neutron
4. @nicebuffs - ff/dark def
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6 @Orion Zidane , Kat/Regen Scrap
7. @Fanged Knight
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