SINISTER Wednesdays

I never even attempted the CoP last time it was live, it only remained around for less than a month.

I think the minimum level is 30 or 35, but I'd definitely want 50s for the first round. Villains and Rogues only, so I doubt your Tanker will want to come along, unless you're planning a change of alignment.

OK ill see what I can do with my Crab or Brute to get them as ready as possible.

I tried to make my Crab into a Team Buffer - ended up running around 7 toggles and could only fire off 2-3 attacks before running out of END (only about 15% IO'd) so will respec and try and make a Crabtank with buffs.

So thats my lunch break time allocated for the next few days (only get 30 mins for lunch).

Reminder, I'll be organizing a CoP attempt on Wednesday. This requires 24 villains or rogues (vigilantes and heroes can't enter the base to join us).

Last night we ran the Cathedral of Pain trial, with the full number of 24 players. We made it into the chamber, but failed to defeat the Aspect of Rularuu.

I had a lot of fun, and I think most other people did too. As with any raid, you can't expect to win it the first time, particularly with the 1 hour time limit. I'm sure that many of you will go on to succeed on other attempts.

As for me, I won't be running the Wednesday night event any more, so if anyone else wants to step up and do it, you're welcome to the job.

No worries about losing connection Mino, failure was more a lack of coordination than lack of people. I have to say that Masterminds are an unfortunate AT for the majority of end game content. The only thing Trial or SF I'm glad to see them in is the Treespec, because they make a great distraction for the Thorn Tree.

As for lack of rewards I completely agree, it's not a particularly good farming set up, so adding rewards wouldn't really break it.

I can at least say Ive tried the CoP but dont think ill do it again anytime soon.

I assumed at least they'd drop INSP to help during as I burned a lot of them trying to stay alive.
My Brute had soft-capped Melee and Ranged Def (46%+) with my AoE Def at 42% (need 2 more IO's to get to s/c) and I was faceplanting all the time.
Even when taking a medium Purple which put me WAY above s/c I got hit and hit hard.

I dont see how this is even possible without a lot of INSP use, but without getting new ones droped it needs someone to die to go and buy more for the rest of the team - being a courier - how fun.

Getting the Debt cap (440000xp worth) but not being able to work any of it off despite killing is a dumb way of doing this. Im 50 so dont care about loosing XP to debt but it would really piss me off it I was a level 49 and had to work through all that additional debt.

IF the trial is even doable (im sure it is you just need 3+ teams of 50's with IO's who have done the trial a few times before and where the teams are ideal [Buff + debuff + heal + dam + agro]) the end rewards had better be awesome. Imagine after doing all that and actually winning you get a level 50 Intangability recipe... Ive read the XP reward is quite large, which would mean a larger INF gain for level 50's, but often INF is not that much of a deal for level 50's.
None of my toons have EVER had more than 800 Mil (which is a lot) before cutting that down to 400 Mil buying recipes, and salvage and IO's. Most of my 50's have between 150-350 Mil but I dont do a lot of after 50 content as I suffer from a mild case of "alititis".

That being said (long story not-so-short?) the end rewards should at the least be a guaranteed Orange Recipe for all people who are present (on mission map - not neccessarily in the final room) and orange salvage with an increased chance for a purple.

Other level 50 TF/SF allow a chance for a Purple drop for every level 50 foe defeated. On an ITF for example where each foe is level 50 that is a LOT of chances. On the CoP there is 1 chance with a much higher risk... not very balanced.

With @lili having now left the game, Wednesdays now need something to do. This week I think @Plantatia will be organising a mothership raid on justice. Please bring a 50 if you can, but 35+ is the strict level limit.

There is a sort of vague idea of holding mothership raids every other week with something else in between, but interested in hearing opinions as to what we should do.

Ill bring either my 50 Tank (SD/Axe) or 50 Brute (DM/SR) for an additional team if we have the numbers.

Dont forget to bring your Jet Packs if you cant Fly/Jump/TP

Still don't have a 50 on Justice yet, but would love to join with my 45 plant/thorn dom. Look forward to running with you guys. Only done a mothership raid a couple of times on Victory. Timezone difference made it difficult, so fortnightly runs sounds good to me.

Last nights RWZ Mothership Raid didnt go ahead due to lack of numbers.
Instead Plant ran some of his level 50 RWZ missions.

Some of the team brought in lowbies and got some great xp.

We started at +1/x6 and ended up at +4/x6 and we were still steam-rolling with only an unfortunate death or two (not including the lowbies getting smacked by the Pylons between missions).

Next Wednesday Plant will be running a mid-high level 30's PuG (his toon will be level ~38).

Some good drops were received (Recipe and Salvage) and someone even got a Purple.

Thanks to all who turned up it was a very fun night

Hello, everyone! You're talking to the plant!

This Wednesday will be a PuG again, and one of the hosts will be yours truly (Crystaline Rose) at level 38ish. Come one, come all!!

NEXT Wednesday (29th) will be a mothership raid! Please bring your 35 and ups for this one!

Thinking of bringing my 35/36 Defender (Dark/Dark) for the Vanguard Merits and XP .
If this proves too squishy ill swap to my 50 Brute or 50 Tank.

Wednesday we managed to get 2 full teams and absolutely DECIMATED the Rikti.
Team A got on average around 380-400 Vanguard Merits per member.
There were only a few deaths during the entire event (remember to yell out BOMB when planting one as they really do hurt lol).

Plantatia remebered AGAIN why he hates the Pylons (hahahaha).

From now on his nickname is "Plantatia Pylon" so remember to call him that in game when you see him.

Thanks to all who turned up for the event and sorry it took so long to form the 2 teams (around 30mins all up).

Hello, SINISTER. You're talking to the Plant!

This Wednesday, we're gonna run some PuG in RWZ at higher difficulties. Please bring whomever you like (I SUPPOSE you could bring a hero...but why?), and let's rip the Rikti a few new ones.

NEXT Wednesday, October 13th, RIKTI MOTHERSHIP RAID.

Tonight we ran a level 50 PuG in the RWZ.
Most of the team ran toons under 50 and PINGS were going off left, right and center .

Some lucky person also got a Purple.

Thanks to all who joined the team.


Reminder: Next week is a Rikti Mothership RAID. While any level is acceptible 35+ is recommended.


(PS: Plantatia Pylon made another appearance at the end of the night on his way back to the Vanguard Base )

I was wondering if in the near future we might be able to do a Lord Recluse Strike Force. I have never done one of these before (still quite new to red-side) and I need the Annihilator badge from killing the heroes, so I can get my Marshal accolade.

Actually there are quite a few Strike Forces I haven't done. I know the current motd on Aus Channel states that Wednesday is Strike Force night, so is that still the case?

Hay Mr Flibble,
that is a good idea and something we can definately arrange.
Also work on some of the various other Accolades.

Next week is the Halloween specials if I remember correctly so Plant and I will be looking at running teams for those limited time events.

Hi gang!

Seems nobody reported our running of the mothership raid last Wednesday.

We ran with a lot of lower-level people in an effort to boost them and get some experience in how to run the raid under their belts. And we did fairly well, all things considered. An average of 100 merits for a learning group is definitely a worthwhile bonus.

This upcoming Wednesday should be some Halloween events, so keep your eyes open!

Hi all,
tomorrow we are planning on running an Ice Mistral SF (level 35-40, 4 members+, 26 Merits from St Martial).

Its mainly a CoT.

For more details see ..here..

Hi all,
last nights Ice Mistral was completed in just over 2hrs and 2mins.

We would have had it done much sooner if:
1) We didnt get a stuck on a Kill All mission where the final enemy was stuck in the roof and no visible. GM's took around 25mins to reply and another 5 to resolve. We did try a Banner while waiting and got 2 of the 4 Banners down.

2) We needed to kill 50 CoT and were in Nerva but another Banner was in place so no mobs aroudn the map. The team agreed to do a Banner run while waiting instead of head to Cap. We got another 2 of the 4 Banners down.


Next Wednesday will be just before the Rikti Invasion so no Bomb hunts or Watchmen Accolcades (yet).

Options that look interesting are:
-Lord Recluse SF
This is also part of the Marshal Accolade.
The other parts can be done solo (exploration and defeat badges).

If we have time after there is another mission badge needed for the Accolade from Willy Wheeler (Cap) which we could do via FlashBack [level 16-19] (Defeat All Arachnos Personnel - arc is listed under Willy's arc, There's One Born Every Minute, which contains all of Willy's missions. This badge mission is the second mission in the Flashback arc

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- All SF
Start working on all the SF working from lowbie (Virgil Tarikoss = 15-20) up to the highest (Thus Spoke the Reichsman / LGSF / LRSF = 45-50).
This would obviously take place over a number of Wednesdays with an occational break in between (ie: Rikti Invasion - "had enough of TF want a Treespec" - etc).

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-Treespec

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Other suggestions?

Well I for one am very happy to do Lord Recluse SF or a Treespec (haven't done any of those either).

If we are looking for something else to do I have kept the final mission from Ambassador Kuhr'Rekt, where you have to defeat Valkyrie in 90 minutes. Don't think ther eis a badge or anything that goes with it, but missions suggests getting a team together and it is always fun taking out a Hero.

I may not have understood what is being released in i19, but I assume there will be a few Treespecs run after the release, so everyone can respec their toons.

I have read (but not confirmed) that due to the inherent Fitness there will be TWO respecs per toon allocated instead of the usual one.

That being said Treespecs can be heaps of fun and also some good XP if its not a speed run (not a fan of speed runs).