Master of Cuda SF

It is a pretty easy SF right up to the final AV. I felt like I was in the Citadel TF rather than some crazy-difficult challenge.

Sadly it was about 4am for me when we reached Rieschman so I was well off my best. I practically fell asleep twice and on one occasion almost got sucker-punched, tee hee. Still, didn't die.

The two issues with Reischman seemed to be (1) his opening attack and first attack after a phase/hide in the machine hit extremely hard, and (2) debuffs are a must. We were basically hitting him with nothing but standard stuff, so it took an eternity for him to go down. A rad on the team would have really helped.

The ambushes were mind-numbing. Also, Reisch seems to be programmed with an odd quirk in both the KTF and BSF where on his final few HP he will cling to life like crazy while targetting random members of the team, which makes those last seconds extremely dangerous.

Excellent summary, Seldom. For what essentially amounted to a PuG masters run, it was remarkably successful, with many lessons learned. I would feel pretty confident going into it again after last night's experience.

I didn't realize that the ambushes were, in fact, finite. As said, patience here is the key. It's easy to get impatient, and the team to divide itself. So long as everybody stays in the tunnel, risk should be pretty well mitigated during the long ambush phase.

I'd recommend folks keep a few teir 3 inspirations in their e-mail box for relatively quick access. A couple purples and oranges towards the end when Reich's goes through a target-bouncing last ditch attack would probably be a good idea. He came straight at me right at the end and, but for a well-timed taunt from our tank, I would have probably been one-shot.

Anyways, it was fun. Should another attempt get rolling, I'd certainly be happy to join up again. Thanks again, all.

I wish I could go but I'm scheduled to work this Thurs which is normally not my shift

What does the fail-safe do anyways for Stalkers/Scrappers?

Let's try again on Thurs night this week? Pretty sure that doesn't clash with any of the planned Halloween events.

I almost can't be bothered to try again, after how boring the final fight turned out to be. Still, I would have fared better if it had been earlier in the day.

I might be able to attend this.

Blaster

I will let you by tomorrow wether or not, I can make it for the second run.


~MR

my vacation is over, has to be early early in the day or on a weekend.

good luck on thurs

Ice Ember

For blasting purposes, I can bring my PB again, who is built for blasting/DPS. Count me in.

On our last run, she got the GW temp power, which provides mitigation against Reich's endurance debuffs. I was using it actively on our tank and scrapper.

So far, we have four tentatively: a dom, a dom, a blaster, and a peacebringer.

I hate to say it, but if there isn't enough interest in this, it might be better to put it off for a weekend. ....And I daresay the coming weekend will be a bad time, with the Halloween parties and such.

We still could use: a defender/MM, (anti phase power) aggro management, and hopefully some punchy buffs/debuffs in there somewhere.

Okay, 'tis Thursday, and only half a roster is in.

Do we still wish to give this a try, doing 'evening of' recruitment, or shall we put this off for a better time?

IMO, would be best to have the team pre-built with the desired ATs (and, I both acknowledge, and appreciate the pity spot afforded my PB ). Perhaps we could push the date forward a few days. My schedule is pretty flexible.

Logged in but no one was forming at Barrcuda?

...This is now. If those who signed up can't make it, I might have to give spots away. I'll give you some slack, though.

Just a report on the outcome: no dice.
We had a good, clear run up to the end thanks to our very crunchy tank who knew what to do. Unfortunately, we violated our own rule: don't face the big bad with the hordes at once. We were only 6, and grouped a bit close, so the nazi lightning and masses got to us.

I would like to very much thank the tank who volunteered an directed stuff, as well as the 4 other folks who stepped up to bat.

*Siiiiiiiiiiigh.* Some day I'll get this right.

That sounds like it came really close. Sorry to hear it didn't quite work - I was too tired to play but will have more chances now since soon my UK clock go back an hour and that will mean 9pm EST is "only" 2am for me

Bah. Sorry to hear it didn't work out. I didn't log in, thinking things were going to wait a few days. Otherwise I would have happily joined. I'm still up for a run, if there's enough interest this weekend, or next week.

Me too

Okay, so we wanted to try again this week? Is tomorrow okay?

Proposed time: 7:00 central/8 EST (the 6/7 from last week seemed too early for most, but I'd still like to get thing rolling sooner rather that later)

Does this work for folks, or should we await the weekend?

Signups, for those interested:
1 Myself, on my dom again
2 ?
3 ?
4 ?
5 ?
6 ?
7 ?
8 ?

As per last time, the hardest thing to get is a defender/mastermind for the black scorpion temp power. A good player to take Reichsman's pounding to the face for 15-20 mins without a death would be good too.

Doing this again, we should do the tunnel strategy. Every single time I've done this, not doing so ended up with at least one body on the floor. I know some folks can do without it, but better safe than hours wasted, says I.

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