~Monday Night Horde - Mothership Raid! - Monday May 9th~

I think I'll be there. (I know, I say this a lot.) Gun Father (DP/Fire Blaster), I think. I haven't rolled him in a while.

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I hope I can make this, but I may have to work late Monday night.

I'll be there for that. I've been looking forward to tackling a RWZMSR with Leagues. It's one raid that TK's Forcefields are REALLY useful on. Too bad the thousands and thousands of VG merits aren't really much use afterwards.

ill be bringing 7p as usual

10PM eastern?

Hmm. Mind an additional team of fire/rads?

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I'd like to join Luna:

Cyber-Wraithe lv50 fire/dev Blaster

Thanks and see you guys at 10 tonite.

REMINDER! This is TONIGHT! Looks like we're going to have a great turn out. I'm not super fond of calling out the pylons, does anyone want to volunteer for that duty?

We're going to be doing this as a League. So make sure you have league chat in your box, so you can keep up with the nuttiness.

Meet in Point du Hoc in Rikti War Zone 2. With this many signed up, we should be able to spawn a Second Warzone if it doesn't already exist.

A Note to my usual team leaders: Since we're doing this as a league, I won't be sending out team lists this week. I'll just try my best to get everyone in the league and get the teams as balanced as I can with what we have.

i would love to join this . I will be there with Justtice SS/inv tanker

I should be able to make this. On the issue of lag, the last Hami I was on had no lag from league chat, so the conclusion was that it was the use of certain Incarnate powers that causes the lag.

Okay. Had a decent run tonight. Unfortunately one of my guys brain-farted and hadn't gotten the Vanguard badge. And we'd made time for another player to do it already...

Anyhoo, we nabbed about 550 Vanguard Merits off the raid. Not the personal best I've ever done, but not bad at all.

On these raids, it's VERY possible to clear the bowl before the next respawn. And we were.
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When that happens, the aggro-grabbers want to head up out of the bowl to the bomb lanes to pick up some of the groups of enemies out there. Then lead them back to the bowl. As few as three durable aggro grabbers can boost a raid's VM output by 50-150 VMs this way.

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It's been a while since I did one of these.

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Originally Posted by Hyperstrike we nabbed about 550 Vanguard Merits off the raid. Not the personal best I've ever done, but not bad at all. On these raids, it's VERY possible to clear the bowl before the next respawn. And we were. \ When that happens, the aggro-grabbers want to head up out of the bowl to the bomb lanes to pick up some of the groups of enemies out there. Then lead them back to the bowl. As few as three durable aggro grabbers can boost a raid's VM output by 50-150 VMs this way.

I usually used my tank on these and spent the entire time pulling stuff into the middle, but I reserve Monday nights for my current "Horde" toon (which hit 50 tonight!), so I spent more time dying instead. haha.

Like you said, the more Rikti coming in, the more merits available. Back in the day, me and a few other regulars were getting into the 800s easily. I was surprised that with all the new AoE powers that we didn't get that much tonight, but a handful of people kept disconnecting and/or complaining of lag, so that probably had a bit to do with it too.

Either way, it was fun to do it again! Hit 590 Merits, and stuck around for a second round for a total of about 1050 for the night. I spent a lot of time coming back from hospital and lost out on at least 100 or so (compared to teammates). Other people hit about 1300 for the night. Nice job everybody!

Aye, much fun was had by all. Thanks again for hosting!

Thank you all to everyone that joined last night. It was a little laggy the first run, but not the second. Both runs we had about 4 teams of 6-8 people. Even if it was a little laggy, it was really fun having all the teams in League chat. It was also easier to keep track of people who dropped and rebalance the teams on the fly when we had drops.

Thank you to TK Kid and Dr. Turg for being raid leaders last night. I was getting swamped with tells and adding people back who where getting DC'd. I really, *really* appreciate your all's help!

Like others have said, it wasn't the best raid out there, but I hope you all had fun.

Next Monday night will be a return to our regular Strike Force schedule with a Barracuda run.

Also check out the forums for a post regarding the next set of events for the Monday Night runs. They are coming up in about a month, and it's time for us to start talking about who is still going to be joining us and who will not be.

Thanks again for joining everyone!