No problem blue. We couldn't make it past Ghost Widow.
Funny thing is that since they have announced this Weekly Strike Force, I have yet to have a successful STF. Which is kind of starnge as there was never a problem in the past.
Quote:
I missed my goal of doing the target TF once each day on my badger - when will you be around, Ny? Maybe we could get one put together for you.
|
Originally Posted by Nylonus
No problem blue. We couldn't make it past Ghost Widow.
Funny thing is that since they have announced this Weekly Strike Force, I have yet to have a successful STF. Which is kind of starnge as there was never a problem in the past. |
I have only one word to say to you and those like you Blue.............
SPOOOOOOOOOON!
I hear you Ny, and also Sooner, my goal was one a day as well; however I have managed 6 and failed 2.
I think a lot of the fails are a result (and this is not an insult to others) lack of experience. These are hard task forces to begin with and when you through in badges/and/or players wanting all the new stuff they become harder.
The teams I failed with did have to do with the difficulty of the task force; 2 people quit, One being a tank. And the 2nd one was when we couldn't beat the Hero mob in RSF so we decided to go get some shivians and were all booted from team at same time. I guess you cannot do this anymore. The other 3 were really, really rough but I did learn how to hold LR all by my scrapper self 
.
Well tommorow is another day and another WSP so hopefully it's an easier one.
Hey guys! I've done the STF 13 times since last Tuesday and only two failed.. and that was on the portion where you take out the towers. Every one of them managed to get past GW and the other AVs.
Ghost Widow is, by far, the toughest of them but the biggest thing to remember is stay away from her if your not melee. Aside from the Tank everyone should try to be behind or off to the side of her since those god awful heals she has only work on anything directly in front of her. IF you have anyone that can hold her it makes life even easier. A good debuffer is a definate plus but that sort of goes without saying on a TF that features 17 or 18 AVs.
She did get tougher and at one point Castle had her SO tough everyone was failing but it is possible ... Just keep trying and STAY away from her as much as possible 
�We�re always the good guys. In D&D, we�re lawful good. In City of Heroes we�re the heroes. In Grand Theft Auto we pay the prostitutes promptly and never hit them with a bat.� � Leonard
�Those women are prostitutes? You said they were raising money for stem cell research!� � Sheldon
Quote:
Yeah...if I was only there, for that little more damage. |
Originally Posted by Nylonus
No problem blue. We couldn't make it past Ghost Widow.
Funny thing is that since they have announced this Weekly Strike Force, I have yet to have a successful STF. Which is kind of starnge as there was never a problem in the past. |
We could have done it I think for sure.Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Jerikko
I have only one word to say to you and those like you Blue.............
SPOOOOOOOOOON! |
Fortunately I've ran it alot and wasn't really needing it. Just sucks when you get wife aggro...even more so when she doesn't know you're still playing even though she's under the impression you've canceled the subscription.
But hopefully won't happen again. Still feel bad for it now.
Blazing Blue 50 fire/fire Blast, BlueStarr 50 PB, BlueSt 50 stone/ss Tank, Purple Pummaler 50 bs/regen Scrap, Green Puritan 50 emp/nrg Def, Raging Red 50 ice/cold Cor,WhiteLightning 50 ill/storm Cont, GrayMatter 44 WS,Green Marauder 24 nrg/stone Brute,Dark Blue Blaze 26 fire/fire Cor,etc
Quote:
Thanks Sooner. Not sure if I will be ingame tonight. And shouldn't they announce a new Weekly tomorrow?|
Originally Posted by Sooner
I missed my goal of doing the target TF once each day on my badger - when will you be around, Ny? Maybe we could get one put together for you.
|
I am just kind of venting that it seems that my success rate is well nil. But yet a LRSF with Stalemate (a self proclaimed Recluse Strike Foce n00b) went rather smoothly.
I am also not so much a fan of "if you want X you need to do Y" Where the Y you need the "right" team build. It kind of harkens back to the old "leave open a pity slot for a Stalker." I also hope that it never becomes a point of "No Incarnate, no team."
Quote:
I'm sure there are some who will be like that. |
Originally Posted by Nylonus
T...I also hope that it never becomes a point of "No Incarnate, no team."
|
I'm also sure that the majority of the good people of Protector will not.
For myself, I promise I won't.
With the exception of the TFs that require you to be incarnate (apex and tin mage). Even for those, as long as the majority of the team is incarnate, one person who isn't yet isn't a game breaker.
Quote:
For both the STF and RSF about the only thing you really "must" have is debuff - x2 really - but there are lots of ways to cover that. Otherwise, both are possible to complete with a wide variety of ATs, builds, and levels game experience.|
Originally Posted by Nylonus
I am also not so much a fan of "if you want X you need to do Y" Where the Y you need the "right" team build. It kind of harkens back to the old "leave open a pity slot for a Stalker." I also hope that it never becomes a point of "No Incarnate, no team."
|
As for you last comment, nothing ingame that existed before the Incarnate system demands Incarnate levels to succeed, and anyone who says otherwise doesn't know what they are talking about. So, I suppose it would be a good thing to maintain as much distance between you and them anyway.
I suspect the upcoming Incarnate Trials and other arcs and/or TFs will have built in Incarnate requirements not unlike Apex and Tin Mage, but that only makes sense really.
Anybody tries to tell me I have to be an Incarnate to join their [insert high level TF name here] and they can pack it up their [censored].
Quote:
Recently had a successful STF with a very unorthodox team build...|
Originally Posted by Ice9_
For both the STF and RSF about the only thing you really "must" have is debuff - x2 really - but there are lots of ways to cover that. Otherwise, both are possible to complete with a wide variety of ATs, builds, and levels game experience.
|
1 tank
2 scrapper
1 stalker (me)
1 blaster
2 defenders (one FF/*, one Rad/*)
It was a bit rough at a few points but we succeeded. The Rad put toggles on Ghost Widow, and I stood back and used the Envenomed Dagger (debuff) and other ranged attacks like Dark Blast (debuff). So it seems that 2 debuffers (doesn't even have to be a debuffing AT) is key.
"Goodbye, Jean-Luc. I'm gonna miss you... you had such potential. But then again, all good things must come to an end..." -- Q
I believe I did three States and two Recluse. Won all of them, but not all of them were very smooth.
My favorite was the team with four Controllers, two Defenders, a Dominator, and a Corruptor. It was so messy, but watching Recluse run around loose with all four towers up and constantly missing everyone he's attacking is priceless (people died, but not consistently).
On the other hand, five Scrappers, a Tank, and two Defenders was horrible. That was a painful win.
My one philosophy in this game is this: If you plan ahead and use inspirations, any team can win any task. When people are willing to listen and stock up on inspirations, I've never seen a team lose.
I did one STF with 2 warshades, 2 tanks, 3 scrappers, and an MM. We had no issues. Now that many folks are level 51, the STF has become much easier.
I did bring along some big purples to help with the recluse fight.
5 STFs all succeeded and only one of those had any defenders,controllers, or corruptors. The other 4 were damage heavy, debuff light.
PRTECTR4EVR
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Major_T
Recently had a successful STF with a very unorthodox team build...
1 tank 2 scrapper 1 stalker (me) 1 blaster 2 defenders (one FF/*, one Rad/*) It was a bit rough at a few points but we succeeded. The Rad put toggles on Ghost Widow, and I stood back and used the Envenomed Dagger (debuff) and other ranged attacks like Dark Blast (debuff). So it seems that 2 debuffers (doesn't even have to be a debuffing AT) is key. |
I was on this one with T on my fire/shield scrapper - also threw out envenomed dagger whenever I could - GW actually seemed easier than I expected, although we did have a lot of def so most of us could stay in melee range, which helped. I think the hardest part was our tank had trouble holding LR aggro. The tank was doing the flying taunt method, since we didn't have enough buffs and/or healing, and kept loosing aggro. First time I have ever seen this, although I have only been on a couple of STF runs with tanks who did the flying taunt method.
We still managed - it just meant a few of us racked up points towards are debt badges :-)
Globals: @Midnight Mystique/@Magik13
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Sooner
I'm sure there are some who will be like that.
I'm also sure that the majority of the good people of Protector will not. For myself, I promise I won't. With the exception of the TFs that require you to be incarnate (apex and tin mage). Even for those, as long as the majority of the team is incarnate, one person who isn't yet isn't a game breaker. |
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Ice9_
Anybody tries to tell me I have to be an Incarnate to join their [insert high level TF name here] and they can pack it up their [censored].
|
Now...Apex and Tin Man TFs? Know nothing about them. I wonder if you will just have to be past the first incarnate thing where you are getting shards and stuff or full level shift? Won't like the full level shift requirement if so myself...will take me a loooong time to get that with as much as I'm able to play right now...
Blazing Blue 50 fire/fire Blast, BlueStarr 50 PB, BlueSt 50 stone/ss Tank, Purple Pummaler 50 bs/regen Scrap, Green Puritan 50 emp/nrg Def, Raging Red 50 ice/cold Cor,WhiteLightning 50 ill/storm Cont, GrayMatter 44 WS,Green Marauder 24 nrg/stone Brute,Dark Blue Blaze 26 fire/fire Cor,etc
Quote:
You just have to be able to get shards. You only have to have the alpha slot unlocked to run them, it doesn't have to be slotted.*|
Originally Posted by Blazing_Blue
Apex and Tin Man TFs?
... I wonder if you will just have to be past the first incarnate thing where you are getting shards and stuff or full level shift? |
* if it isn't slotted you are hit with a -4 level debuff on top of the existing level difference; the enemies are level 54.
"Goodbye, Jean-Luc. I'm gonna miss you... you had such potential. But then again, all good things must come to an end..." -- Q
Quote:
After all I'd heard about this SF, I was surprised we had such a mellow time with it, to be honest. Good, mature players FTW.|
Originally Posted by Nylonus
...I am just kind of venting that it seems that my success rate is well nil. But yet a LRSF with Stalemate (a self proclaimed Recluse Strike Foce n00b) went rather smoothly...
|
Not just me, but really half our team was running it for the first time, so the overall result was quite pleasant.
Makes me look forward to running it again in Master mode.
█ Players Guide to the Cities
Just wanted to say sorry to all that I was on the STF with and I had to flake out on. I really have never done that no matter what. Those who know me know that I'm usually one that stays on the mission even if there is just 3 of the 8 left. LOL Usually the one pushing. I sincerly apologize about that, and I hope that it never happens again.
Blazing Blue 50 fire/fire Blast, BlueStarr 50 PB, BlueSt 50 stone/ss Tank, Purple Pummaler 50 bs/regen Scrap, Green Puritan 50 emp/nrg Def, Raging Red 50 ice/cold Cor,WhiteLightning 50 ill/storm Cont, GrayMatter 44 WS,Green Marauder 24 nrg/stone Brute,Dark Blue Blaze 26 fire/fire Cor,etc