Discussion: Issue 19: Strike Pack is live!

The Strike Pack is epic. That is all.

I've done the STF more times today than I have in the last six months. This seems to be intended.

Given that the Strike Pack/i19.5 contains no playable content and only system stuff, can we wait until i20 to decide if the Rare and Very Rare boosts were meant to be soloable or not? Just like Ultra Mode was ready before Going Rogue and released accordingly, it could be the Rare and Very Rare boosts plus the Target of the Week were ready but the (hypothetical) soloable method/content for "Notice of the Well" and "Favor of the Well" isn't ready/finished yet.

Sorry if this has been asked before, but when the other slots are released, will the level shifts stack? o.0

Don't forget that by the time the STF comes around again as the WST, a lot of people will be +1 by then.

Originally I liked this idea, but now in practice I don't. When I saw lots of people waiting in IP, some for half an hour, I knew immediately this was not going to be fun at all. It caused too much competition for other archetypes that teams need, like Tanks and some kind of debuffer. And for those particular TFs, you need a balanced team. Not a specific powersets, but diverse ATs.

When I did finally get into a group for an STF. Things were going well, we managed to defeat the patrons, then Recluse wiped us out. We just could never get that window of time to drop the red tower and losing our tank prior to that mish did not help. So someone drops, and the rest of the team has 2.5 hours wasted. So tonight, I hate you Devs, I really frakking hate you this evening. I'm passing on this week's WTF, and the acronym truly suits it.

You played a Task Force that pretty much requires a tank for the final encounter.

The tank quit before the final encounter, and you cannot survive.

The devs are to blame...

You logical train has flown off the tracks somewhere.

Scroll down in the create window. There's more than one recipe for it.

WTF anecdote time. I assembled a team with friends to do STF, and we finished in 48 minutes with three deaths without a tanker. Meanwhile, another team that was forming before we had started was still one short twenty minutes after we finished.

On Virtue, the boat in Independence Port has been as crowded as full raid zones, with horrible lag and people/pets blocking mission entrances. Sometimes there'd be Ouro portals dropped on mission doors, making it impossible to enter. I'm not sure if it was griefers or just people being slow.

So far i did enjoy the STF I did yesterday on Union, three defenders, two controllers, one brute and a tank. Aside a few deaths everything went rather smoothly especially Recluse went particularly well with no deaths at all. And this was on a PUG. Yes we were lucky, but it can de done.

My only gripe is that you can get only one notice of the well a week per char (considering i'm suffering from altitis) so my 10 level 50's need to do the WTF every week to get all the notices. It is gonna take a long time for me to get to the very rare on all these chars. And more slots are on the way. I game regurarly but not all the time (gotta work, eat and sleep as well sometimes! ANd I do have a social life) and there are players who have more level 50's slotted with the Alpha slot!

So i can see that the people complaining about the game getting too grindy as a valid point even if you succeed doing all the WTF's at the first go.

But someone did make a point that we might be able to earn more Notices of the well another way when I20 comes out. So IF that happens I am reserving my judgement.

And when do we get the information on the next booster (the long awaited animal pack)?

Well, the way I see it, or I should say, the way I play it, (having 1 main and 23 alts, and that’s just Infinity), Incarnate is for my one main, the end. Just like all the badges, temp powers, etc… is main only. Maybe if I actually get another character to L50 I’ll consider a common or uncommon, but, really, especially with 10 slots of incarnates, each to Very Rare, plus whatever comes after incarnates… I’m saying… I have ONE superman. Everyone else is a Robin type. But that’s just me.

Now, an anecdote… I do not, Not, NOT like to group. But, I wanted the +1 shift, so I sucked it up and did a LRSF. 1 was a warm body that joined only so we could have 8, then dropped. So that’s 7 people. 3 Tankers. 1 Brute. 1 Scrapper. 1 Defender. 1 Controller. (And yes, if it wasn’t for the Brute, it was almost an “all hero archetype” LRSF, which I found funny a little).

First few missions, we went all our separate ways, being tank heavy, doing our own thing, taking out objectives. Deaths for the 2 squishier people were common, but they actually didn’t mind as they went “exploring”. Many had never done this SF before, so we didn’t mind waiting for them to rez. Hey, it’s their game too.

I did comment that when that Malta talked about “varmints” I was like “Who are we fighting? Elmer Fudd?” and the Bugs Bunny jokes came fast.

We messed up the pull and got all the Vindicators at once. I think the scrapper died once and the squishies died, like, 4+ times each, but we pulled through. Then came the final mission against the Phalanx itself. No sleep. No confuse. Peg one off, they all came and killed us.

But, by the time we regrouped, Numina still had some damage on her. So we did it again. And died. And again. And died. But her Hp was slowly dwindling. By the time she was at half, a kind soul in the group dropped all 3 nukes, a Shivan, and a Vanguard Heavy, killing her before we wiped.

That was the snowball effect. Next pass? Killed another. Next pass? Another. Soon, we were able to take the last 3 at once, killed all but Statesman. Our group then did their respective battle cries, and I went “Well, as the Malta would say, KILL THE WABBIT.” A few people didn’t attack for a while, which they said they were laughing their head off, sort of in a “you had to be there” and, we were all REALLY tired because it was almost a 4 hour SF for us. But Statesman dropped. And nothing. We panicked, knowing about the glitch for Rare Slots (someone had one and didn’t remove it, saying he’d never had a problem). Then we noticed one lone longbow. “Someone kill that [Expletive Deleted due to board rules]” Kill. Dead. Ding. Notice of the well.

I know LRSF vets are likely rolling their eyes at the zerg tactics, but hey, we do what we can with what little SF skills / exp I've got, and, it got done. No finesse, but done.

Now, I tend to be VERY negative on the boards, and in life, but I had to share the above because, I surprised myself by enjoying myself tonight, instead of it being a slog. Would it have been different if we failed? Hate to say probably. But I thought I’d share a success story from a (mostly) soloer. And here’s to +1 level, Blue 50s, and a good night’s sleep. Night all.

Meanwhile, having your Rare equipped and attempting to run any TF/SF will result in "Lost connection to mapserver". I stopped trying to run a LGTF with it on after the 4th rollback (that's what it causes, you DC and then it rolls back as in, Shivans spent are back, HVAS spent are back and so forth). Guessing this wasn't an occurrence during the beta testing?

Okay... please note that I am not Trolling this thread. I would like a genuine answer from a solo player to the following question.


If you play solo and don't team (and more to the point, are annoyed that you HAVE to, even though they have already said that when i20 drops there are other ways to get the Tier 3 and 4 powers) then what's the problem? Without a team, there is no one to have to keep up with, and therefore no reason to rush to get the rare and very rare enhancements. I guess I don't understand why people are mad that they can't keep up with the team players when they are highly unlikely to ever really see/talk to/fight with them...

Or am I missing somehing on this one?

Oh, and I'd like to say for the record that I must have gotten pretty damn lucky over the years with PUG's, because I've never seen 90% of the stuff in this thread.

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...hlight=pug%27s