Cathedral of Pain

Dan,

I am usually available at the times you mentioned and am willing to offer my SG as a home base. I'll need a few people to join to lead the teams.

My SG consists of me, Lucas, Alchemist, Diamond Dragoon, our alts, and 100 people that don't play anymore. So I'll need plenty of volunteers.

I don't like to dictate what powers to bring, but we will need some aggro control, some DPS, and some buff/debuff on each team. It would be absolutely awesome to have 3 dark defenders or converted corrupters as they provide a lot of protection against psi and can debuff those insanely accurate eyeballs to a reasonable amount. But really, we can find a place and a purpose for anything.

In terms of temp powers, they are certainly nice to have. In order of importance I would say the Vanguard Heavy (HVAs), Bio Nuke, Chem Nuke, Psi bomb, Envenomed dagger, and Shivans -- in that order.

There are only two parts to this trial: 1) coordination on the pylons, and 2) overcoming the regen and HP of the AV between rularu spawns.

The first one comes down to everyone listening and paying attention and having balanced teams. It can be incredibly easy or frustratingly difficult if you lack either balance or coordination.

The second part is a little trickier. While there are lots of ways to overcome regen and even more ways to add DPS, the teams that fail do so because they let the rularu spawns ambush them and overtake them. Again, the team needs to be coordinated and quick on their feet to switch targets from the AV to the spawns.

Good tanks and controllers will lock them down, good buffers will keep everyone in tip-top shape, and good players will prioritize and demolish their targets.

Luckily, I find that Justice has a lot of smart, attentive players. If we have enough interest, I may run them on a regular basis to help everyone have the experience and get the badge. After rikti raids might be a good time to have folks with merits to spend.

While having a team at the softcap is pretty damn excellent for just about anything, rularu mobs are one of the few things that can cut through that fairly easily. But it certainly helps and it never hurts to be at the soft cap. Given the choice between 3 widows and 3 dark miasma, I would chose dark for this.

Edited to add: I almost forgot that howling twilight is not only the worlds best rez, but it does a whopping -500 regen. Three darks, well slotted, could completly shut down that AV's crazy regen.

Heh, lucas.

Be out of town a lot this weekend, but I'd stick my head in if I saw an organized attempt going, have w/e. Dont think my cold def has the badge yet.

If you want to do this, I'll put up some prizes for the people who attend the raid.

I'm thinking that special prizes will go out to the person who lands the killing blow for:
A) Hami
B) U'Kon Gr'ai
C) Aspect of Rularuu round 1
D) Aspect of Rularuu round 2

Just need to pick a day and we can get Dan some badges, if not arms.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/...hand03.article

Double hand transplant from last week.

The CoP is already on. Check out the matinee this week.

My apologies to Pum.

Earlier I said I would prefer to have dark miasma over widows. While I still lean that way, I forgot that mind link is a 30% unenhanced resist to psy. I was only thinking about mind links defense and disregarded the resist.

Widows are definately an AT that can be extremely helpful for this trial.

DAMN IT!

I WANT to apologize!!

I think MoCoP should unlock nipple costume options.

*Secures character name: "Wardrobe Malfunction"*

Whew, flame war is over and I can post again. =P Like Pum said, at least the thread is still here, and on page one.

There's apparently a CoP going down Friday night at 9pm from the Channel of Pain that I'm going to try and get in on; I spent this week getting shivans and nukes for it, and hopefully I can show up early to get a spot. Depending how it goes I'd gladly run it more with another debuffing character, or stone tank. I have NEVER done this before, and a position of leadership for me, beyond a regular task force, is generally a bad idea anyway. But I'd love to do the triple threat idea, just need to know a day. Saturday or Sunday night for this weekend? It's sort of short notice already.

That wasn't a flame war in the least. At least none of what I said in this thread should be taken as an attack on anyone and I don't think Pum or Cai meant anything that way either, at least towards people in this thread.


(Someone is welcome to make the THIS is a flame war link).

Failed attempt tonight. Because of one understandable problem, and people being sheep. Open for options; I still have nukes and Shivans/HVAS ready.