~HWfRV: Imperious TF - Wednesday, March 16~

From my post:

This is going to be a non-speed run – pretty much clearing the majority of the mobs as we go

So, if you are looking for a speed run - I'm not your man either.

Woot! I am down with that, don't like the speed runs particularly with
my squishy brute or my squishies in general. Should we go for a master run?

:Smirk: Yeah I saw that after I posted my comment lol. I'm not confident enough to lead an Master of Team for this, but I do guarantee lots of death and mayhem! =) And hopefully shards!

Ahhhh, you shoulda said something about wanting to watch it. I didn't know. I just didn't want the whole team rushing the platform while I was trying to break Romy. =)

Thanks to: Captain Power, Ex Iferis, Sevenpenny, Caliburst, Bluman, Storm Claud, and Psilox for a great team. I didn't write down the specifics, but I think we finished in 1:36 with around 42 deaths.

The way I ran it is about how we run it on an MO attempt CP:

Mission 1: Stick together, let the tank/brute grab aggro, free the chics . Once outside, fly straight up, let the brute/tank grab aggro, clear the side of the platform closest too us. Don't go past the center portion, otherwise it tends to aggro the novas and dwarfs. Free the yappy priestess, exit as soon as you can.

Mission 2: Stick together, take down the cyst crystals LAST. Watch out for pets exploding the crystals too soon. Watch that squishies stay away from the crystals. Grab the ambushes before moving on.

Mission 3: This one is really up to the team leader how they want to run it. I've been on teams with E where we've run it several different ways. I'm not sure which method he's going to use on the Mo. What I did last night was have everyone fly to the computer first in an attempt to stop ambushes chasing us around the map. On an MO attempt, we stop and take down the robots at each wave. Since last night was not an MO, and I like chaos I had us push thru. I've seen the computer get taken down many time without bothering to fight the robots. We were just a little too low damage for that. Depending on what kind of heals and buffs we have, we sometimes stand up near the computer (like last night). But sometimes the squishies stay back to the side while fighting. Again, just listen to what E has to say on how it wants to run it. Then I had the AV's pulled down to us, and we took them down. I then had us go back to the bridge. This is probably where E will have us fight the Generals at.

Mission 4: Again, it's open to how Eman wants us to fight it. Usually we clear the first bridge like we did last night. Then someone will go and attempt to break Romy before someone else aggros him too soon. We usually do it early in the mission just in case. Then the team either fights Romy and clears rooftops, or they clear the bridge up to the left to the platform (what we did last night) and then takes down Romy. I like that method because it avoids the laggy rooftops. It's slower, but more Bosses and EB's for shard drops, and less extreme lag.

Now this is my understanding on how to break Romy. Again, you should probably have MB instruct you further, cause he is the king of it. I've only attempted it 3 times and so far I've been successful each time. But I always doubt myself when I try it =P

One person goes to the hill in front of Romy. As soon as they are close enough, the cut scene triggers. Once the cut scene ends, that person goes up to Romy, and whaps him with a single target attack and then backs off. Avoid taunts and AoE attacks. Basically this breaks his Nictus from following him around. Now you have to be careful when you go to attack him again that you pull him down from the stairs with a single target attack. I've seen the nictus kind of get reattached to him when people have used taunts and AoE attacks to pull him. If he is broken, his pets will stay on the stairs. Be careful to keep Romy in line of site of his pets when he is defeated. That way he can use them to Rez. If he is out of line of site of them, you'll have to take the pets down yourself, and that can suck! Last night Romy disappeared for a good half minute after the cut scene and I got a little worried that it didn't work right. But he was broken when we finally got back to him. When fighting Romy, get out of line of site of him when he rezzes if you are squishy. My favorite method is to back down the stairs. That way I can see him jump up in the air after he rezzes, but he doesn't stun me.

Hope that helps CP =)

Actually I usually use an AoE attack (if I have one) when I break Romy - this avoids the problem of Romy "not being there" to target.

The one thing I've found to be useful is to wait a half-second after the cut-scene ends before jumping in...just about every time I've gone in too quickly, he doesn't break. This is especially true if you are using SS for travel.

I would get out of LoS of Romy even if you are not squishy when he rezzes - that stun lasts quite a while - I got stunned on the first rez last night on my brute.

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Anyway - it was a good run last night - we actually fought our way up the hill in the first mission & spawned the ambushes to get some extra drops for everyone.

I neglected to take a screenshot, so I have no stats (we decided to fight all of the EBs in the last mission after we finished up...just for fun).

Next Wednesday we are back to the Shadow Shard for Justin Augustine's - The Saga of Faathim Task Force

And, as announced last night, this week's Master of... attempt(s) will be back-to-back (maybe even -to-back) MoITFs - I will have the post up in just a bit.

Thanks for joining everyone - it was a fun night as always!