Cathedral of Pain attempt!

My wife and I will take two of the damage spots, we each have a blaster to bring.

Curses! Foiled by Eastern time once again! If only it was 7:30 PM PST like I thought when I misread it the first time. And I was hoping to bring some Rad or Kinetic love too : p

One of these days, I should see about getting Team Jupiter in on an attempt >_>

Sign me up Vix. I'll be bringing SS along for the badging goodness. Energy/Energy Blaster.

Update:

No I won't be able to make this. *cries*

Dang, I really wanted in on this.

//Jack

My team is looking pretty unstoppable so far.

And for the record, it's @mousedroid

I don't know if the space makes a difference, but I suspect it might.

I have a team name for you @mousedroid:

Team TBD

See you all on Friday!

OK all, I've updated the teams again. We just need a few more debuffers. Also, anyone else that shows interest I will put you down on a reserve list. We all KNOW how real life can SOMETIMES get in the way of game play.

Now, I will need to ask ONE of you to join our SG just for the trial. None of the other SG members are available that night and we need someone to lead a team so that the 3rd team can get into the base. Please let me know if you are willing to alt SG's for an hour!

This is looking great so far and im really looking forward to the attempt! I will post the stratgedy that Busta & I came up with before hand so hopefully everyone will be on board prior to Fri night. You will understand our want of 4 tanks than! =)

I wanna come...

Alas, I will be trapped at work

Hopefully next time...

Doh! My fantasy football draft is at this time, otherwise I'd be all over this. Good luck!

I have a scrapper that I would like to bring and a friends empathy defender. Possibly my wifes dark corruptor or defender if she isn't busy. Also I can join your Sg for the attempt. Also, have nukes and shivans.

Good luck!

P.S. HVAs are better than Shivans for this.

VERY IMPORTANT!!!

You must be a FULL ON HERO, or a Hero that is VIGLANTE to be able to do this trial. The reason is for SG base access. Please keep that in mind! For our wonderfull villan friends yes you MUST COMMIT to doing GOOD! Or have been a full on Hero and back to Viglante on your way back to the dark side.

We have a full 24 for the trial now.. AWESOME. I will still be keeping up an "injured reserves" list in case of no shows. I also plan to advertise on the Level 50 if we need more help.

I have wavered a bit on the exact makeup to include the last few people who wanted in. I did it by time stamps on posts and private messages I got on the forums. Damage is Damage and tho not as many debuffers...we seem to have a lot. I am bailing on my main to bring a 3D for the debuffs and howling twilight.

Armitage, THANK YOU for joining the SG to get the 3rd team in!

I'll post the game plan later today!

LOL, NO DUAL boxing allowed!!! This is hard enough... (except for BBT cause well they are amazing and can play 5 toons better than a lot of people play one!)

Those are people who posted they are coming AND bringing somone along.

Dash Bleu is now fully decked out with 1 each of the 3 flavors of Warburg warheads, a Shivan Shard, and an HVAS. Any other temp powers he should get before Friday?

--Chris

GAME PLAN!!

1: Everyone stays with their team!
2: Everyone follows instructions, especially WHEN to attack.
3: HAVE FUN!

THESE 3 elements are the MOST important parts that will lead to our success.

4: Zone into FB zulu.
Team 1 will gather at DOOM Obelisk
Team 2 will gather at WOE Obelisk
Team 3 will gather at DESPAIR Obelisk

5: Coordinated attack, all 3 obelisks must be taken down within 30 seconds of each other. First time the shields are down, beat your obelisk down to 30% health. NOTE: it is very VERY important that we all attack the baddies at about the same time, so that the shields drop at the same time. Refer to number 2! =)

6: Once we get access to the Cathedral of pain everyone will enter but not move.

7: We must kill the mobs under each "Cube" to get the AV's shield to drop.

8: Team 2 & 3 each have a tank. The first time the shields drop and everyone goes after the AV the tanks MUST stay under the Cubes to taunt the mobs when they respawn.

9: Team 2 will take the Center Cube from the entrance. Team 3 will take the Right Cube from the entrance

10: Team 1 will take the Left Cube from the entrance. This team will have 2 jobs. FIRST the Stone tank (Ulli) with tank support (emp defender) will be responsible for taunting the AV while all the other teams take on the mobs. The 2nd tank and the remainder of the team will attack the Cube. Again, first time the shields drop the 2nd tank stays back at the Cube to taunt the mobs at respawn.

11: Shields drop for 1 min, as soon as the shields go back up ALL SQUISHIES MUST go to the sides, hopefully to avoid the AV's AOE mass casualty attack.

12: Repeat attack of baddies at Cubes until AV's shield drops again and full on attack on the AV.

I think we have a lot of debuffs and damage. We CAN do this, the KEY is to follow the FIRST 3 RULES of the game plan!

See everyone Tomorrow night!

I know your strategy calls for only 3 tanks, which you've got. However, if there's a spot open that you could use Shadow for, and I can make it, I could add my name into the hat.

Shadow is a Fire Aura/Ice Melee/Pyre Mastery Lvl 50. I'd say that his purple build puts him as a high medium support tank. His mitigation works well alongside a stronger lead tank.

Shadow Stranger: Actually I do want Ulli for taunting the AV. My last attempt the AV went around and attacked the teams as they were attacking the baddies on the cubes. Made for a LOT of dying.

Shadow Ravenwolf: YOU ARE IN! Sinner Saint is still Rogue and can't complete his transformation back to hero in time. =(

See everyone later.

T- 2 1/2 hours...

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We came, we tried, we lost.

Had a great time last night. To bad we did not win it. Some things that we learned.

1: Having a taunt tank on the AV cut down on the deaths, a LOT.
2: Having tanks on each team that were responsible for taunting the baddies at respawn helped a lot.
3: Helping other teams clear their baddies once your teams assigned cube got us a lot more shots at the AV.
4: We need more debuffs.
5: Having the global chat channel was HUGE for constant communication! Much better than broadcast and request.

We did a pretty fast job taking down the obelisks, GREAT when you consider we did this raid with no one on a voice server, including the leaders.

I also wanted to thank everyone for their patience in getting the trial started.

Thanks for coming everyone and we will try it again..SOON!!!

sounded like a lot of fun. i need to try one of those.