If I'm on, have an elec/kin troller for this.
It's true. This game is NOT rocket surgery. - BillZBubba
Hello, everyone! You're talking to the plant!
This week's run of Loyalist Praetoria went swimmingly well, and had a good turnout. People shot from level 5 to 11-12 in the 3 or so hours that I ran, and were (with few exceptions) relatively immune to team wipes. Combined with the patch that weakened some of the earlier foes, this may make the next run more fun for those seeking to level quickly.
I'd like to give a big shout out to
ms. fingerbang
Natural Focus
MrWhiskeyTangoFoxtrot
Demon Maestro
Miss Arranged
forte solus
for their participation.
This week - we'll continue! Starting in the level 12 range, we'll continue the Loyalist arc! Bring your true followers of Emperor Cole, and show the citizens what loyalty rewards you with!
My 50's
Plantatia, DyNaMique, Sentai Silhouette, Patchworx, Blaze Usagi, Enjoy the Violence, Miya Li, Faraday's Angel
I brought my DOM (Earth/Mental) instead of my buffer and had a fun time 
.
This time Ill bring my Buffer as a different tactic.
Will work on getting him to level 12 by Friday.
Cheers Plant
Hello, Australia.
This week was rather annoying. Not because of actions by you, mind you. For some reason, I was removed as a member of Australia! This made gathering the horde rather difficult to say the least, and while we did have an impressive turnout this week - the most at one point was 7 people - it was difficult to get a large team rolling for maximum fun (and xp profit!)
However, I digress. We started at level 12, and by the time we finished another arc in Imperial City, I had reached level 16! This goes to show you that the power of a large group is impressive, especially if you want to go through the lower levels safely in Praetoria.
I'd like to thank
Demon Maestro
Charged Impulse
Captain OINK
Jesor
Army of Indice
Ms. Fingerbang
Kid Flash
for their assistance in this week's endeavours.
I'm finding Praetoria more and more interesting as you advance in power in the game. Although the reward merits are unusually low - can ANYONE name a Praetorian arc that grants more than 3 merits? - the team dynamics are definitely different, and present a new challenge for play.
So, let's keep rolling! This Friday, I will be running a Loyalist arc team again. Level 16 is my starting point, and my current contact is Ivy. Join me this Friday for one last romp through Praetoria!
Week after that .... I think it's time for a shift.
My 50's
Plantatia, DyNaMique, Sentai Silhouette, Patchworx, Blaze Usagi, Enjoy the Violence, Miya Li, Faraday's Angel
Welcome, Antipodes! You're talking to the plant!
Friday was another good Going Rogue Loyalist run, only slightly marred by a bug where the contact vanished from the screen, so I had to log and come back just to finish the arc and get the next mish! This destroyed any speed we had, and limited our leveling.
I would, however, like to thank
Ayaa
Demon Maestro
Ms. Fingerbang
Army of Indice
...
I am so sorry - I will need to update this when I can - I've lost the names!! Sorry!!!!
As for this week, it's time for FNV to do some heroism.
...
No, I haven't lost my mind. It's time to turn heroes into villains! I will be logging on with one of my heroes who I want to turn villainous, and invite you to do the same. The goal will be to have heroes drop to at least vigilantes within the month! Let's just see who comes to the Dark Side!!
VILLAINY!!!!
My 50's
Plantatia, DyNaMique, Sentai Silhouette, Patchworx, Blaze Usagi, Enjoy the Violence, Miya Li, Faraday's Angel
Im bringing my level 24 Scrapper (Claws/Inv) to the dark side.
His feral nature is too strong to resist for much longer.
His lips part revelaing long fangs when arrogant people are nearby.
His claws extend of their own violition and the urge to sink them into the persons fleshy tender spots too exquisit to ignore.
A dark chuckle escapes his lips when he thinks about the blood flowing down his claws dripping to the thirsty earth.
Hello, Antipodes! You're talking to the plant!
The tip mission run to turn heroes to villainy was ... mostly successful. While the team was large, and the mission rolled by quickly, the selection at the end - a mistake, mind you - left us with but 2 missions done towards villainy, and a level 52 Malta mission. Well, at least we know we can roll over things quickly when we need to turn to villainy!
I'd like to thank
Divine Ranger
Miss Interpreted
Widow Trashgirl (A widow already a hero! WOW!!)
Dr. Arcana
Toasty Boy
Critical Attack
Miss Elect
Dark Barb Embrace
Falamere
for your participation and helping us turn each other - my bubble defender included - toward villainy!
This Friday, more of the same!!
VILLAINY!!!!
My 50's
Plantatia, DyNaMique, Sentai Silhouette, Patchworx, Blaze Usagi, Enjoy the Violence, Miya Li, Faraday's Angel
That last Malta mish took - man I dont even want to GUESS at the time to complete.
It was a lesson in death and not to get too used to the performance of your more powerful toons. My 24 scrapper died almost every mob (making a dent in the HP and Death badges).
Cant wait for more though as Critical Attacks wants to turn to the red side... (first stop GR).
Hello, Antipodes! You're talking to the plant!
The tip mission run to turn heroes to villainy was ... significantly better than last week. We got not only one team 5 points closer to villainy, we got a second team 3 points closer to villainy!
I'd like to thank
Critical Attack
Dr. Arcana
Miss Interpreted
Electra Statica
Electro Phobic
Emerald Weapon
Plasmacore
Dark Barb Embrace
Ebon Dfender
Howitzer Shell
for their participation.
I think one more run should get at least one toon per person closer to villainy with an alignment mission! Let's see what we can do!
Villainy!!!
My 50's
Plantatia, DyNaMique, Sentai Silhouette, Patchworx, Blaze Usagi, Enjoy the Violence, Miya Li, Faraday's Angel
ACK!!!
I sincerely apologize, everyone.
I was not able to run yesterday's event...
...because I overloaded the building's computer server with my off-hour downloading of Transformers TV shows!!
Seriously embarrassed, folks.
I hope you were able to game well in my 24-hour absence.
See you next week (promise! I'm almost done downloading!!)
Plantatia
My 50's
Plantatia, DyNaMique, Sentai Silhouette, Patchworx, Blaze Usagi, Enjoy the Violence, Miya Li, Faraday's Angel
Hello, everybody! You're talking to the plant!
Hey, thanks to your efforts, one of my toons FINALLY got from hero to Vigilante! Huzzah! Part of the way to VILLAINY!!!! BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!
(Channeling Brian Blessed!)
I'd like to thank
Toasty Boy
2wook
Electro Phobia
Sh0ck1n
Freeze-a-Burn
for their participation.
Next week ...
...see the ITF thread!!
My 50's
Plantatia, DyNaMique, Sentai Silhouette, Patchworx, Blaze Usagi, Enjoy the Violence, Miya Li, Faraday's Angel
Hello, everyone! You're talking to the plant!
Looks like the Hallowe'en event is coming, so this Friday we will go pounding on some doors to demand food from the peasantry of the Rogue Isles! Isn't being a villain fun?
See you there!
My 50's
Plantatia, DyNaMique, Sentai Silhouette, Patchworx, Blaze Usagi, Enjoy the Violence, Miya Li, Faraday's Angel
Hello, everyone! You're talking to the plant!!
This Friday, we demanded sweet food of the peasantry of the Rogue Isles, only to discover to our horror that half of the peasantry were, in fact, monsters in disguise!! We violently earned our candy, and proceeded to protect - or steal - the Malleus Mundi. In all, a blast!
I'd like to thank the following people for devastating the hidden monster populace of the Rogue Isles...
Miss Arranged
Wall of Indice
Fireblight
Mr. Thistle
Lorien's Curse
Asymptope Man
Sa'Kage
Barbie's Nightmare
Earth Hippie
Mis Chief
Kaerg
Indice
Keri Hades
Lup - Sol
Dual Indice
Jock Strap
Eyespick
for their participation.
This Friday (the 29th), I think one more run will do. If only so that I can actually get a treat when I open a door!! Seriously, 3 hours, ONE TREAT!!!
November is gonna be a TF month!!!
My 50's
Plantatia, DyNaMique, Sentai Silhouette, Patchworx, Blaze Usagi, Enjoy the Violence, Miya Li, Faraday's Angel
Sorry all but after the 5th mapserve kick tonight I just couldn't be bothered logging back in again. GL all!
Hello, everyone! You're talking to the plant!
This week, we continued our ToT teaming, and had a HUGE number of toons roll out for one last chance at tip mishes and all SORTS of delicious delicious XP.
I'd like to thank ALL of the following for their participation:
Heteropoda Venotoria
Bright Princess
Fireblight
Pink Patrol
Mac the Ax
Lup - Sol
Pure Bane
Hells Redeemer
Show Me The Money
Asymptope Man
Electra Statica
Twilights Ruin
Hard Nite
Death Crackle
Lactrodectus Maetans
Incorrigible
No brain no pain
<gasps, exhausted>
Well, as promised, this month will be SF month. And I'd like to get the ball rolling by announcing the whole month's schedule!!
5th - Renault SF (Sharkhead), level 25 minimum
12th - Ice Mistral SF (St. Martial), level 35 minimum
19th - Treespec (Nerva) (all 3 respec trials - 24, 34 and 44 minimum These WILL NOT be speed runs).
26 - Barracuda SF (Gravndville), 45 minimum
VILLAINY!!!!
My 50's
Plantatia, DyNaMique, Sentai Silhouette, Patchworx, Blaze Usagi, Enjoy the Violence, Miya Li, Faraday's Angel
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This week, we had a Renault SF (25-30) that went...relatively well. My toon was extremely stealthy, so ghosting to the end of missions and dealing with the big bad was not a hassle. Although we still had a high death count - one non-granite-capable stone tank (due to being powered down) and 3 ranged toons made it a high death count but a violently simple run of the last 2 AVs in the waterspout room. To paraphrase:
"What do we do?"
"...shoot the twits until they stop twitching."
And helping out in the shooting of the twits?
Mis chief
Lampona
Wall of Indice
Oh well. Guess others had holidays.
Next week, Ice Mistral SF. This one is needed for accoldaes, and is a level 35 minimum. It can be done quickly (i.e. under 90 minutes) if we want, so I won't tie anyone up with a long TF if I can.
Villainy!!
My 50's
Plantatia, DyNaMique, Sentai Silhouette, Patchworx, Blaze Usagi, Enjoy the Violence, Miya Li, Faraday's Angel
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This week, villainy had declared that the Circle of Thorns had somehow gotten too big for thier magical britches, and were in need of a trimming. Aiding Ice Mistral in said trimming were
Barbie's Nightmare
Frost Nereid
Lup - Sol
Wall of Indice
Miss Arrange
Blue Rondo
Count Daedrem
as we stormed our way through to the end and put a SEVERE beating on the Magus and his merry minions. It certainly helped that suring the large melee, several of us leveled - or had leveled just prior to starting the fight. The net result was 3 brutes pounding many holes into one robed idiot. Huzzah!
See you next week!
Villainy!
My 50's
Plantatia, DyNaMique, Sentai Silhouette, Patchworx, Blaze Usagi, Enjoy the Violence, Miya Li, Faraday's Angel
Hello Everyone! You're talking to the plant!
This week was a wonderful run of the villain respecification trials - aka, the 'treespec'. Since running one by itself is boring - and since a team looking for fast merits can do all three in under an hour - we ran at a slower pace to help others get familiar with the trial, and how we get things done.
And the XP. Can't forget the xp.
I would like to thank the following participants
Miss Arrange
Sintrix
Lup - Sol
Mr. Thistle
Kaerg
Show Me The Money
Sazerac
for turning 2 hours of work, including a relatively slow pace, into 44 good merits and minimal fuss.
We then went on to aid others with theirCimerora arc (as best we could - apparantly you can't invite new members to your team if your alignment differs once someone has gone into a mission). Therefore, honourable mention goes to
Barbie's Nightmare
Count Daedren
for their work.
OK. That's all for now, see you on Friday!
VILLAINY!!
My 50's
Plantatia, DyNaMique, Sentai Silhouette, Patchworx, Blaze Usagi, Enjoy the Violence, Miya Li, Faraday's Angel
Hello, everyone! You're STILL talking to the plant!
Well, this week was a good learning experience of a Barracuda SF. We learned several useful things:
1) Bring a stalker. Stalker with the temp power on the last mission shuts off the infinite ambushes, increasing the chance you will live to finish the SF.
2) One of each AT is pretty much a must. All the different ATs get useful powers versus someone Lord Recluse can't beat. That should be a hint.
3) Make sure that all your players have a good connection. Dropping connections repeatedly is pretty much a sign that if you are the only player of that AT, you WON'T win.
Alas, point 3 reared its ugly head when our only MM kept dropping - the MM can shut off Reichsmann's phasing, making taking out his <200,000 health infinitely easier.
So, I would like to thank all of the following for their assistance in this manner - and apologize that we did not get it complete.
Sintrix
Kaerg
Leighloo
Mr. Thistle
Mis Chief
Elasima Mulanda
This Friday, rumour is that I19 should be up and running. If so, Alpha slot. If not, PUG.
My 50's
Plantatia, DyNaMique, Sentai Silhouette, Patchworx, Blaze Usagi, Enjoy the Violence, Miya Li, Faraday's Angel
Hello, everyone! You're still talking to the plant!
This Friday, most people either were unable to connect, or were uninterested/unable in unlocking their incarnate powers. Thus, I can only thank
Hard Nite
Ride the Lightning
Asymptope Man
for coming out and getting their slots unlocked.
Since I've done small groups in the last while, and since there is a large majority of people who have a 50 and have unlocked their incarnate slot by now, there is a slight change in the format for the week. Wednesdays will be for Incarnate level material (TFs, SFs and Rikti Mothership raids), while Friday will be for PUGs and lower level villainy in general (i.e. Ice mistral and lower SFs or PUGs). So next Friday will be a PUG. Bring what you want, let's rip the Rogue Isles a new one!
My 50's
Plantatia, DyNaMique, Sentai Silhouette, Patchworx, Blaze Usagi, Enjoy the Violence, Miya Li, Faraday's Angel
Hello, everyone! You're still talking to the plant!
This week was strange - I got on at the usual time to discover that people were a) already in an ITF, and b) CLEARLY not interested in a PUG of any sort - the total silence on a channel with more than 20 members on at the time was a good hint.
SO, once the ITF was completed, a Statesman TF was run. I would like to report that
Miss Elect
Show Me The Money
Bushido-Brown
Mithreal Warrior
Shimmering Spirit
Coan-Teen
Blazebro
and I made short work of the TF. I retroactively called the ITF the villain event and called it a night.
Hopefully, this Friday will involve more people. Take care!
My 50's
Plantatia, DyNaMique, Sentai Silhouette, Patchworx, Blaze Usagi, Enjoy the Violence, Miya Li, Faraday's Angel
This was the 2nd time I was lead Tank on the STF and a change in tactic resluted in ZERO deaths for me as I kept Lord Recluse busy while the rest applied a DoS on the 4 towers.
Instead of running around in circles Taunting him which last time resulted in me getting 2 shotted even with 75%+ Def and 3000+HP (SD/ Tank) I instead hovered (Jet Pack) above him and in the middle of where he appears so he couldnt jump to get me or jump off the towers/pillars and just spammed Taunt.
His occational Ranged attack got me which wasnt a problem except for the -End it applies (something like -3.5/sec) which was a REAL pain as I normally dont carry a lot of Blues.
Still it was a much better run (for me) compared to last time and Ill be using that tactic from now on
Cheers to all.
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This week, we got a small group to run some level 50 (woot! Incarnate) Patron Arc mishes. This was a good chance to both gain incarnate shards and level lower level toons as a half-PUG. I'd like to thank
Leighloo (the holder of said arc)
Lupur
Miss Arrange
Spider's Herald
Black Nubis
for their participation.
As everyone is still going mental trying to get their incanate toons slotted - see the ITF thread for next week.
My 50's
Plantatia, DyNaMique, Sentai Silhouette, Patchworx, Blaze Usagi, Enjoy the Violence, Miya Li, Faraday's Angel
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This week was DEFINITELY interesting - we did a pick-up APEX TF! Yup, I just ran with whoever showed up and was willing to get their Incarnate on for some badges and fun!
First, we needed to help others get their incarnate (note: get the arc DONE). So a small team was formed, and I'd like to thank
Chaotic Leigh
DEFCON - 1
Gormach Ceasadh
for their teamwork.
As for the APEX - under 100 minutes, 102 deaths, 2 badges and a completion! SUPER thanks to
Mithral Warrior
Ashleigh Burn
Digital Meltdown
Lost Earth Lad
Lost Boy
Show Me The Money
Medeival Burn
for showing that Battle Maiden is no match for 8 randomly thrown together people - who can recover from death many, MANY times.
This week? I'm thinking something in the line of tip runs OR (if my defender has made it over to villainy) an arc run.
VILLAINY!!!!!
My 50's
Plantatia, DyNaMique, Sentai Silhouette, Patchworx, Blaze Usagi, Enjoy the Violence, Miya Li, Faraday's Angel
I have a lvl 8 or 9 scrapper that I am more than happy to bring on Friday night. Just hope I am able to get on this Friday.