[Isolators] Weekly SG, Wednesdays, etc

Yep, First Ward is 20.

Team MP(s) started with... ugh, Paragonwiki needs update, I can't find the new i21 contact names... Started with the first guy in Atlas. It was quite a challenge keeping 6 people sync'ed through that contact, with all the fedexes and street sweeps and missions that were in "side rooms", for lack of a better term, on the Atlas map.

We then ran through the next contact, Sondra?. Much the same types of problems. These contacts are really designed for solo play. At least she had a couple of instanced missions that we could do shared completion on.

We then took a break from the contacts and ran through Death from Below. Picked up 2 from the queue and ran through the trial at 8. That got us to level 9/10.

Isolators teams reorganized at this point. We lost one and picked up a couple. We ran through Wincott and Flux in the Hollows, topping off the night with Frostfire. I took advantage of MG's cheating and used his missions as they were higher level which effectively made them +1 for most of us.

The cuter MP made a suggestion that we try out creating a League next week which should make for better team reorg and Isolator-wide communication. Each team can be off on different missions while in a league. I have seen this in action a few times. It's pretty cool.

Finished off the night around level 13/14.

League sounds fine to me if it works well. I like that new Sewer Trial. It's focused and has a good enough story for it, and makes a nice way to race through those early levels if you choose. Those new arcs are pretty good in AP, though. They seem to have lowered the spawn rate or something on some of those hunt missions, though... they were up every 30 seconds or so in Beta, and we had nothing new in over two minutes at one point.

I had fun running through The Hollows again. It's been awhile thanks to Praetoria, and Frostfire is always nostalgic to me. I love that map.

Definitely hope we can hit Faultline next week. It's a good zone as well that I haven't hit much since Going Rogue landed.

Liking Grav/Time so far. Propel is as goofily fun as I remember it being, and Time has some neat looking effects. Still working on the look of mine to get as close to the Union Jack's red and blue as I can.

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Does anyone have suggestions for a Time/NRG defender build? I've been away so long, and have no knowledge of the new power sets, that I don't really know what to take.

I've tried to look up */NRG defender guides on the forum but all the links were dead. One thing I read about Time Manipulation is that you'll want to take all the powers, are they all that good?

I'm not into invention enhancements beyond the basic ones I can (maybe) make and any drops I get, so keep that in mind.

Thanks.

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We should have waited till this week


As I was saying the entire time!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I've already forgotten about most of you

You can just roll up a new Street Justice toon for Isos if you want, Voo.

NancY: I think the reason people say you should take all of Time's powers is because of the way they stack. Some powers put special effects on mobs (e.g. Delayed) that cause other powers to be more effective. I think this is true of the buffs as well.

I'm planning on taking the whole set myself.

I'll be taking all the Time powers too. DF is going to get slotted with procs.

Well I was considering switching my claws brute out for a Street Justice Brute, but I would want to keep playing the Street Justice brute even without Isos so I think there would be a problem. I could do two Street Justice brutes at once, but it seems a little excessive.

I don't about anyone else, but I am loving my Beam/Time toon... I'm spreading more Disintegration than [OFF COLOR JOKE REDACTED].

I'm loving Ice/Time Control so far too. Perhaps can be seen by the fact I've played to the end both nights so far .... hitting bed close to 4am, which is a bit late even for me.

Team MPs started off with Julius the Troll in the Hollows. By the time we completed his arc, we were 15/16 and had outleveled the Hollows content. We went to Faultline, upped our difficulty to +1, and went through Jim Temblor and Penelope Yin's arcs. As we weren't quite 20 we couldn't start on Doc Delilah, so we ran 2 radio missions (and dropped a 3rd). We then finished up the night with a Skyway safeguard run.

We finished off the night around level 19-20.

I'm enjoying my Time/Fire defender quite a bit. So far I've gotten everything from Time as it became available except the single target debuff and the single target Hold.

Distortion Field + Rain of Fire + Fireball = win!

Team Hamster ran though some of the Hollows and Faultline, then a round of newspaper.

Calling it level 20 for the targetting of the level.

Going into the new zone next week.

I'm loving the new AoE style of speed boost... I really like /kin toons, but have them all shelved because the old SB buff was a PIA to work with. I'm thinking I should have done a corruptor though, as the damage output of this defender is kinda sad right now... Hoping fulcrum will improve things dramaticaly.