MoSTF

Well, I literally just finished a MoSTF that was successful. The team was great and so were the people. Here's what our team consisted of:

Person 1: Dark Armor Tanker
Person 2: Illusion/Empathy Controller
Person 3: Illusion/Radiation Controller
Person 4: A Kin Defender
Person 5: Storm/Dark Defender
Person 6: Radiation/Sonic Defender
Person 7: A Dark Defender
Person 8: Force Field/Dark Defender

It was amazing. The hardest thing we had was the tree. Everything else was smooth as butter, including LR himself. In fact, the FFer Detention Field the red tower while we took out the blue and we finish the blue one so quickly that we had to wait 10-15 seconds to actually be able to take on the red tower.

Thanks to all of those that were apart of it, giving my Stormy Darkness his MoSTF and being my first successful MoSTF. Had to reset twice due to the tree, but the third time was the charm and we killed it. We switched a Blaster for the Illusion/Rad and the FFer alted from his Rad. So really, we just switched a Blaster for a FF and we were golden.

Support: We win.

Very nice team for an STF. But yeah the tree is in my experience the most likely place to fail an Mo Run. You can't taunt the tree and unless oyu've got a couple of tanks/scrappers/khelds who can clear the front side vines on their own quickly enough there is a good chance of losing a squishy.

PS. Was it on Virtue? If so I bet I know who the tank was .

EDIT: On the subject of support heavy teams rocking. I was on an all defender ITF a few days ago. It was amazingly easy although the almost unplayable lag in the last two missions made it a lot less fun. We actually managed to hit the hard cap (175%) for defense due to having three trappers, a force fielder and a cold domination.

Congratulations on your first MoSTF win there Stormy! Always nice to get the first one under your belt.

There's a reason why they call it 'easy mode' when you have nothing but defenders and trollers on the team along with the tank and there's nothing wrong with that heh heh.

As much as some people knock them, the most useful I've ever felt on my Stormy was on the STF. Recluse's neverending hordes of Banes kept killing us when we tried dropping him... so we pulled him on top of a tower and just used Hurricane to push them all to the ground. Worked like a charm.

Agreed. When the STF first came out, I was pretty glad that the fight was set up in such a way that powers like hurricane could fill a unique role.

I don't recall if they were spawning before he was damaged or not, but they were spawning like crazy once we started fighting him for real. That's when we pulled out the Hurricane trick.

I haven't been on an STF where he hasn't spawned banes. I always try to have support heavy teams for STFs, so there's usually at least one of those toggles on him.

I'm not sure I understand why he'd summon banes before he became damaged, either. Something in that quote doesn't add up.

For what it's worth, I'll run down the typical Recluse fight.

I taunt Recluse and run to the green tower so I have a heal target while my team goes after the blue tower. I tell teammates to put any and all debuffs on the towers to help them drop faster. No banes at this point.

Blue, red, and orange towers are down, I lead recluse to the middle of the stage while the team brings down the green tower. Since the orange tower is down, Recluse becomes my heal target. At this point, my damage aura is ticking away at him. Still no banes.

With all four towers down, we turn all attention the the worthless bag of HP. Somewhere around 10% health banes start to show up, toggle debuffs or not.

If there's a way to prevent the banes from spawning entirely, I sure as hell don't know it.

What was so hard about the tree? I always like to come at it from just passed the left side, range kill some towards the front, work around the back then do the front. Clockwise from 5 mins past 9 onwards. Gratz anyway.

Recluse begins summoning banes once he is below a certain health threshold. The reason for the conflicting reports may be because the STF version behaves differently than the Recluse that shows up in missions.

That's funny.