It is time. All Control B.A.F. Trial

After a couple of weeks off for RL stuff and lack of shards in sub 50 TFs (pre i20) it's time celebrate Issue 20 Controller/Dominator style! This week we'll be doing the All Control Behavioral Adjustment Facility.

If you need to read up on it: try here. Or here.

This will kind of be new territory for us, so I'd really like everyone to consider this run a learning experience, as we'll probably be trying out some different strategies to suit an "all control" experience on the trials. Since the BAF is the more straight forward of the two, I figure it's a good place to start. The "capture the flag" portion with the uncontrollable mobs will likely prove the most "interesting" for us and I think that portion of the trial will really be where our damage-y dominator cousins will really shine.

Sign ups as always are first come first serve. While I'd love to have a full roster, we'll work with whatever number we get (win or lose) to start working on some strategies for the future.

Who: Incarnate Controllers and Dominators
When: Saturday April 9
Time: 1 pm EST/12 noon CST/11 am MST/10 am PST
Where: Pocket D at DJ Zero

1. Mental- Flash Frozen Jen (Ill/Cold)
2. RosaQuartz- Physics Lass (Grav/Storm)
3. ultrawatt- Confused Caucasiafro (Mind/Fire)
4. Mr. Draconis- Mysterious Cowboy (Grav/Storm)
5. Mrs. Draconis- Make Believe Hero (Ill/Rad)
6. BBT (And possibly team Jupiter if need be)
7. Celtic Coder- Celtic Thermal (Fire/Kin)
8. Captain Cog- Rock of Ages (Earth/Rad)
9. MrsMartian- Royal Violet (Fire/Emp)
10. Whiskey Rain- Sandstone (Fire/Thermal)
11. Blood Beret- Mystic Freak
12. Kay- Magical Nova (Grav/Rad)
(more added as needed)

Reserves-

Physics Lass (Grav/Storm)

You really are going to need the full 24 for that.

Yeah, gonna need 24 ppl.
It's the freakin BAF, it hates control. Either way, ill join on Confused Caucasiafro. Mind/fire dom.


Edit: to my knowagle Slow and KB also dont work on commandos

Well, it sounds like Siphon speed from kinetics might actually affect cammandos as well. Guess we will have to find out. I cant wait.


Just hope i got interface unlocked on my dom by then.

We'll both be there Mental, I'll be on my Grav/Storm and she'll bring her Illusion/Rad. See you Saturday!

<Sigh> Most likely, I will be on Kid Taxi duty at that time. My daughter takes an acting class from 12-2 PM.

Id love to but I have a bbq I must attend for a cancer walk I signed up for in memory of my cousin who passed 2 weekends ago, she was 32

NEXT TIME!

I can always bring BBT, and depending on how much space is left, there is always Team Jupiter, which is one Fire/Rad controller and four Ice/Rad...wait, crap, still need to unlock incarnates with them o.o

Hmm, may be I can get them all their incarnate stuff before Caturday o.o

I can be there with Rock of Ages. earth/rad

Please add @MrsMartian on Royal Violet, Fire/Emp.

Thanks RosaQuarts. If anyone else has a controller/dom friend that isn't a forum goer that would like to participate please feel free to let me know here on their behalf.

I'm going to be working on some macro's/binds for the trial, if anyone has suggestions for important points to be made on the trial, please let me know. (Do it through PM though please, I'd like to keep this more about sign ups and not clogged with a lot of discussion)

Also we will have more of an extended strategy talk before we get started. Success and failure of these things seems to be tied directly to people knowing what to do and their leaders communicating it to them. So we'll probably take a few extra minutes to line things out.

*CRIES*

Le sigh. I will be driving post a 20 mile bike ride with the boy scouts to a soccer game that we are gonna be late for.

ONE of these days..i'm going to get on one of these again...

Looks like you need more Doms, to damage the Boss/Lts on the runner phase.

I'll try to make it, Put me down... Mystic Freak.

Me! Me! Me! Pick Me!

Magical Nova. Grav+Rad Troller.

Please add Jean-Paul Sartre to the list (50 fire/kin troller)

Let me just say that the Guadian Controller and Dominator community is pure Awesomesauce! We had a full league (extra thanks to BBT and Team Jupiter) and did an incredible job completing the Trial quickly. The escapee portion went super smoothly with only 6 commandos making it out of the facility. Four of them in the last few seconds when I think everyone relaxed a bit after seeing we'd make it ok. We made sure and had a couple of dominators per spawn point to mop up any commandos that made it past the intial assault and I'm really happy with how things went.

Too many people to write down, so if you were there, here's your thank you! After the run we had people swap out to their toons/ATs of choice, but we were still control heavy and managed a run without an escapee getting by us (yay badge!) and did another swap out run after that. In fact I think there is still a group going now. Awesome work all!

Be on the lookout for our next ACIToAH (All Control Incarnate Trial of Awesome Hawtness)!!!

Woo! Next time I try this, I will run four of the accounts on the main machine, and one on the laptop. Hopefully that will cut down on the choppy play for me. I was worried a couple times about map server disconnects, and it seems when the BAF trial ends, there is some huge lag spike or memory leak that kills all my sessions like clockwork.

I will have to experiment more, I don't want my multiple accounts to be a hindrance to the league if I keep disconnecting at certain points. I am just glad I made it through the first two runs alright ^_^ Thanks to every one for indulging my multiple personalities! And thanks to all my pets for contributing while I was lagged out o.0

Wish I'd seen this on Friday; if you guys run this again next week I should be able to join.