New Wednesday night tf thread!

Thought the old one was getting a little stale and old, so I'd start a new one:

First tf coming up, Dr. Q. Date is going to be split across Wednesday 3/10/10, and Wednesday 3/17/10 (St. Patty's Day!). Meet up time for both dates will be 7 pm Central time.

We'll split it up so we don't all go insane, but it does mean you'll have to pick a character you don't mind parking for a week. I've done it in 3.5 hours before without too much trouble, but that might be a lot for some people to do all at once.

So, if you've never done it, or if you just want to do it again-come on out for the party!

Coming for St. Patty's might be tough for me...

But if I can make the 10th, I wouldn't mind bringing Eighth Ender (gravity/kinetics CTL) for some fun.

So we've got our Doc Q going...we managed to get 8 people, and we'll wrap it up next Wednesday (3/17/10) at 7 pm Central time.

We got fairly far along in it in just 2h5m of time...we paused at the 2nd mission back in Paragon. I believe we'll be able to complete in a combined time under 4 hours with minimal difficulty.

Thanks to all who showed up, and mark your calendars for the 2nd half!

We managed to complete the Doc Q-ready for it? Wait for it...

In 99h59m59s! Wewt for us! :^)

We hit a couple of hiccups in the 2nd half. Our 2 fire/kins weren't around (although one of them did come back for the last 1/4 of it, which was very helpful), and 1 scrapper (my buddy Mikey from Philly) was out due to his girl needing to go to the ER. Nothing TOO serious, just something managed to get in her eye (insert crass joke here) and she had to go get it looked at.

So, for about half of the 2nd half, we were a 5 man group with zero support and not much damage, attempting to hit groups of Rularuu and Nemesis that were set for 8. Eep!

But hey, we got it done-then a bunch of us went off to take part in UltraTroll's St. Patty's Moonfire Race (which we had delayed considerably while we finished Doc Q-sorry, UT!).

Overall, it went...okay. Not horrible, but I do think splitting it may have been a mistake. I think I'll try to stick to tf's for the next couple of weeks that can be done in one reasonable sitting (see next post for next tf!).

Next Wednesday, 3/24/10, Eden Trial (not SpeEden, just having fun and taking it as it goes). 7 pm Central time, be there or...well, or don't be there, but you'll miss out on some fun. :^)

Well I think I will do this.

Either bring my Willpower/Energy Tank or my Fire/Kin. Thinking my Fire/Kin.

I can join for the Eden Trial. I will bring my empathy/electric defender Syndralina

I will try and do this...hope this computer hold out that long (or my new one comes in faster than expected?)

I will bring Sidhe my Katana/regen Scrapper I think it is one of the few Trials/TF she does not have...

Shameless bump-still planning on running the Eden trial tonight at 7 pm Central time. Hope to see y'all out there!

Im in (pending any trips to the ER) I'll bring my mind/ff troller Mitochondria Eve or johnny if we need damage

I'll bring whatever we're in need of, got a miriad of toons 38+ to join it.

So we had a pretty straightforward Eden trial. It went nice and smooth-so smooth, that we decided to run a Cavern Trial afterwards.

Uh, here's where I showed my inner doofus.

First, I managed to exclude Magenta from the team. I truly, truly didn't mean to-I get all sorts of confuzzled in this game with globals vs. individual toon names. That, and trying to handle text chat messages while I was also on Skype, and I just plain blew it. I'm really, really, REALLY sorry, Magenta!

Then, while we were on the trial, I managed to forget that the batches of guys respawn. We were happily killing away, killing killing killing, when someone mentions "Oh, they're probably going to respawn." I kind of went 'buh? They respawn?' </e facepalm>

So, we rallied, finished it up without TOO much difficulty. Our only problem was poor Maya Redhand's character-she took the brunt a few times down one hallway, and died valiantly. But we did finish.

So then-next Wednesday....what should we run? I'm thinking we go for the Sewer Trial to see if we can hack it. I'll check on the wiki to see if a 50 can start it, though-I didn't realize until yesterday that there was a bug with that for the Eden trial. Anyway, why don't we plan on a Sewer Trial next Wednesday, 3/31/10, at 7 pm Central. C'mon out and watch me be a doofus! :^)

Wife and I have Ventrilo we could use that for the Sewer Trial.

I would definately give a sewer trial a run. Only tried it once and we had a couple folks that didnt grasp the concept of team work till much too late...I haven't been back since.

The only time I attempted the Sewer Trial we failed big time and I have not been back sence, Papa I think we might have had a few of the same people cordinated team work was not something that worked well.

Anyway I am in as long as we use Vent I have found that we have to have a voice chat for this Trial only because the end takes sooo much cordination. That is my two cents.

I agree on the coordination thing for the Sewer Trial. I goofed on coordination of the Cavern Trial, but we could overcome it and still get through it. Not sure we could do the same on the Sewer one.

I'm up for trying to use Vent-I'm generally not good at comms while gaming, but I'd be willing to give it a go. Might just need everyone to be a little patient with me at the start while we get it up and going.

But I think it could be fun-I've been reading the Wiki on it to refresh my memory of the correct tactics to use. Sounds like a team of 8 is really pretty necessary, as well as some strong damage dealers to take the shield generators down quickly in unison. I can provide a damage dealer, and I bet MikeyD can, too. A couple of support toons that can port/rez would probably be useful, if anyone has them.

So holler out if you can be there, and what you plan on bringing to the paaaaaaar-tay! :^)

O-yea! Count me in for this puppy! Never did this one so vent is a good call. Guess ill bring my spines/dark for the AOE damage

Can bring my Stoner Tank to keep everybody nice and alive, or really anything else we'd need (Damage, Kin, Therm, Emp, Cold Dom, TA, WP Tank) all also 40+.

All I have above lvl 38 Blue side is 2 Blasters and a scrapper....so I guess I am bringing damage.

I might be running a little late on Wednesday. They moved the staff meeting from Monday to Wednesday. I should be home an hour before we start but if my pricipal gets long winded it could be a bit.

Shameless bump-still doing this tonight, we'll attempt to use Vent to coordinate the activities at each of the shield generators.

So, c'mon out and have some fun smacking aliens and transdimensional blobs! 7 pm Central time!

umm I thought we were doing the sewer? Or did this change to do the MS?

Yay us, wewt wewt, we did it!

Well, sort of. Our first attempt met with Epic Phail. Poor Ultratroll just could NOT stay alive, we took forever to figure out how to attack the tentacles and live, and we ended up quitting with 18 mins left to reform and give it another go.

On the 2nd go around, however, we changed up the team makeup a bit, picked up an 8th person, and generally did MUCH better. I want to thank the original people for hanging in there, and the second team addition people for helping make that run so much more successful.

On to littler and easier things-we've been bashing our heads in a bit the last few weeks...2 part Doc Q's, Sewer Trials, Eden Trials, Cavern Trials. Next Wednesday, 4/7/10, I propose we do a MEGADAMAGE MANTICORE.

What's a megadamage manticore, you ask? Easy. You are only allowed to bring a damage dealer. Basically, anything that kills...everything. Might be a fire/kin, might be a spines/wp scrap, might be a fire/fire blaster. We are looking to get sheer damage overkill in every conceivable way. We don't need no steenkin' support, hombre! I think it could be fun, and a good stress reliever over the last couple of weeks' tougher hauls. So come on out and KILL EVERYTHING!