The only thing better than reading stories like this, is living it yourself. nothing makes you feel quite as grand as standing around after a glorious battle, and realizing you are the only one not eating pavement. blasters always tend to remind us why they are the kings of damage.
I love it. Special kudos to Protector X, that was quite a feat...
Whats so bad about soloing to 50? I can see your point though, it has been a while since i've had both the time, and reliable connection to team comfortably. I must find the time to oil my teaming muscles.
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Epic stuff and a great effort from Protector X for thinking out of the box and pulling it off and literally, a blast!
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Love it. Did it myself a few weeks back. Spent most of the time cackling maniacally that it actually worked.
HEFTY! HEFTY! HEFTY!
wimpy! wimpy! wimpy!
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Yup, was on that TF and ProtectorX really lived up to his name 
I felt a little bad myself in that i couldn't keep the tank alive when facing LR as i was the Kin/Ice Def
Funniest quote of the tf:
When the willpower/ss tank was asked why he didn't have taunt he promptly replied "My other tank has taunt"; lol
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Supes told me about this last night, and Riff I am hell of jealous for missing such an epic feat. Nicely done!!!!!
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Soloing to 50 as a tank, if you haven't played tanks before, makes it hard to be an effective tank in a team because you're not used to thinking about other players, aggro management, splash damage and the like. That's not to say that soloing to 50 makes you a bad tank, just that I can see why it could be problematic on a team, especially if you don't have taunt (and again, why would you if you've only ever soloed?).
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Originally Posted by Harry_Canyon
Whats so bad about soloing to 50?
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Because enemies that run away SUCK.
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Originally Posted by The_Spad_EU
especially if you don't have taunt (and again, why would you if you've only ever soloed?).
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Because enemies that run away SUCK.
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That STF was an eye opener for me as I was that tank on the STF and all I can do is apologize to the team as I dont team often and I felt that i let them down a lot.
ProtectorX did a fantastic job as did the rest of the team.
Needless to say since then I have changed the tank a bit and she now has what is needed for team play.
But to all the members of that STF thank you for bearing with me.
Breylorina
I just love the mental image of the team beating the towers down.
Teammate: I wonder where the blaster is right now.
*Cue comically huge BaySPLOSION!!!* from behind the big LR statue*
Teammate: Oh, there he is!
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Great job! And thanks for relaying the tale! I almost feel like I was there. 
No worries, The_Bear, it happens! Also, without some stumbling along the way, epic moments such as these would not occur.
I love it!
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and round up everyone that knows more than they do"-Dylan
and round up everyone that knows more than they do"-Dylan
yeah, that hover trick is nifty. We've been doing it for a while now whenever tank is fail or dced.
GJ!
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That STF was an eye opener for me as I was that tank on the STF and all I can do is apologize to the team as I dont team often and I felt that i let them down a lot.
ProtectorX did a fantastic job as did the rest of the team. Needless to say since then I have changed the tank a bit and she now has what is needed for team play. But to all the members of that STF thank you for bearing with me. Breylorina |
Hey Brey I hope you don't think I was pointing the finger at you in a "you suck" kinda way because that wasn't my intention at all.
It was a lot of fun and it was really only Recluse you'd not dealt with and we knew you'd never done it before so no worries. The point of the post was to share the good fun and happy outcome. As a blaster I'd never have managed that so please don't feel bad.
Next time you're up for a TF on that toon give us a shout!
Thelonious Monk
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The first time you tank an STF usually IS an eye-opening (Recluse shuts them for you after he knocks you down).|
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That STF was an eye opener for me as I was that tank on the STF and all I can do is apologize to the team as I dont team often and I felt that i let them down a lot.
ProtectorX did a fantastic job as did the rest of the team. Needless to say since then I have changed the tank a bit and she now has what is needed for team play. But to all the members of that STF thank you for bearing with me. Breylorina |
There's a few tricks to tanking him and if you're not familiar with them, it's really easy to feel REALLY squishy. Hell, even using standard strategy against him, I've had him spatter a stoner in Granite with appropriate levels of defense and resist on a string of lucky hits.
Don't take it too hard (wish I could take my own advice, it ticks me off to NO end), and next time work him over a bit in revenge.
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Scarlet, I knew you were not pointing a finger in "the you suck" way. its just that I felt so bad as 1) it took so long and 2) I felt so like a novice player. but it was fun and I enjoyed it a lot.
But most importantly I have taken on board taunt etc so maybe it will be better lol.
And I may well take you up on that offer of teaming again.
Brey
So last night we're on this STF.
We've got a nicely balanced team, a tank, I'm on my best troller Magma Mage (earth/thermal) we've a kin defender, a fire/rad troller and a couple of fire blasters and a an Arch/Dev blaster and we're on +1 so everything's cool.
I monkey as Ghost Widow comes into range thanks to Secondary Mutation but I've got SB on so I'm tearing around with Rocky my pet trying to keep up but I lose him and she goes down quick enough. The other 3 don't stand much of a chance.
We steamroller most stuff despite having a couple of novices on the side, but with our debuffs and dps not much gets to stand up to us.
Until we get to Lord Recluse.
Our tank is SS/Willpower so has no taunt and to compound matters hasn't ever done the TF, nor have they got their Incarnate slot, nor are they used to teaming having soloed to 50 (that's noteworthy in itself if you ask me) and is rusty.
So despite all our buffs, the tank squishes before even getting close to Recluse and anyone else (ie me mostly because I'm trying to support the tank from closish range) doesn't stand a chance once I'm in his aggro bubble. Neither me or the kin can get heals off quickly enough to mitigate his damage and the tank falls down.
We try several variations on a theme and get nowhere, and it's late at night (close to midnight) and a few people are muttering about "gotta work in the morning" and "we'll never do this" when suddenly one of the fire blasters pipes up in a classic Michael Caine moment with: "'Ang on lads, I've got an idea."
At this time we'd not even managed to take a single pylon down, so we're ready to try anything. So blaster (played by Protector X) says "I'll handle LR, you take the pylons.
I admit I was skeptical. I've played with this guy a lot and he's quite squishy but his damage output is good, but hey, it's that or nothing by this stage. So we go for it.
We take out the flyer (again) and then on his F7 we pile on the pylon. It goes down quick as you like. So does the next. And the 3rd. And LR is nowhere to be seen.
Occasionally I catch a glimpse of Mr Multi-Arms and some red and yellow flames streaking by but I'm mostly focused on taking the buff generators down and a lot of crowd control - the flyer comes back and a few Arachnos come to the party but without an AV to worry about they are soon toast. But we have to pause in our endeavours and win two more units of reward merit yay! when we take the flyer down again.
We take the fourth for good measure. We've come this far let's not blow it now it works and we see Protector doing a dance from above with Lord Recluse, spamming fireworks in his general direction. We buff up and get our AOE stuff out... I've got 3 that I lay down and the /Devs mines make a welcome addition and then the blaster leads Recluse into the middle of it where we hit him with everything. He lasts probably less than 2 minutes, out of the 2hours 22mins of the whole TF (of which the bulk was easily from the Recluse cut scene onwards.)
Epic stuff and a great effort from Protector X for thinking out of the box and pulling it off and literally, a blast!
Thelonious Monk