Plant Superteam

Things are progressing swimmingly for our cadre of gardeners. The vast majority of us hit Level 20 this week, and we are now turning our sights to heroside. If you missed this week, please go on ahead and work to get your alts up to Level 20. Head over to heroside/Talos Island at your earliest opportunity.

As all of you travel to heroside, keep an eye out for a tell for me. I've created us a Supergroup--Garden State--and will be inviting you as I spot you online. I'm also editing the original post for this, just to flag our milestone travel over to Talos and the creation of our SG.

Happy gardening!

I was 20 minutes late, played for 2 hrs, and left early. I don't know how long you guys went, but I was at 16 when I ducked out.

I'm at 18 now after being on some pugs.

One thing I never did with my superteam-only fire/rad controller is play her with non-superteams, or I did, but she didn't hold up well. Granted, on my gardener I have over half my slots endurance reduction, but I can function, and, really, there are times I wonder if people realize that I saved all of us with that excellent confuse we have.

I'm not be on next Saturday as I have a canoe trip. Once I get over to blueside I'll send you an email or tel for the SG invite.

My biggest challenge is playing a dominator, though it's not unlike the way a superteamed f/rad plays.

Had fun. Look forward to next gardening party.

Woot. Just got to Talos.

We had another great week, fellow gardeners. Our SG, Garden State, is growing fast. This week, we took down the Midnighter arc (in anticipation of that ITF someday) and then undertook Positron Part I. Even exemped down to 15, and without our shiny new SO slotting, we sailed to the last mission, saved the trapped heroes, and fought our way through waves and waves of Circle of Thorns. After breaching City Hall, we spotted our duplicates guarding Azaria's kidnapper. With a desperate cry of "Vines!", all of our duplicates were seized simultaneously...and then quickly dispatched. Azaria's kidnappers soon followed.

We'll be playing again next week--2:00 PM Eastern, Saturday July 23. Most of us are somewhere between Levels 24-26. Again, so long as you're blue side, you can join at any level. And we'll be playing sporadically in the interim, per usual.

Just an FYI, fellow gardeners: I won't be in attendance this Saturday due to work matters. Nearly everyone that's been playing semi-regularly/regularly with us is now in the SG, so it shouldn't be difficult to get an invite on Saturday without me there. If you aren't, though, @Loupy (El Arbusto) will be running things in my absence, so direct a note to him and you should be okay. Happy Hunting!

PS: Our ranks continue to swell, and one of our greenthumbs is working on a base for our group. More to come on that later.

Most of us are now in the 20s-30s. We'll be playing again next Saturday, but in the meantime, I'm planning on running a Posi Part II tonight with my alt for the SG. We'll launch sometime between 6-7 PM Eastern. All who are level 11 or above are welcome. And if you have a plant alt that's not a member of our SG, you can join as well, space permitting.

I'd like to check this out a bit. I've got a Plant/Rad troller at around 30 that could hop in from time to time. I added you on global just a bit ago.

I'll approve the add when I get home, Death, and welcome to the team! If your alt is unencumbered, I'll invite to the SG as well.

I may check this out, I need a name....

Scataloni The Landscaper

I like it lol :P

Our horticultarists valiantly accepted the challenge of saving Paragon's dam. With just FOUR of us (our Spines scrapper had a nasty disconnect right before we faced off against Dr. Vahzilok, and Sacred had an emergency draw her away), we took down Dr. Vahzilok and his cronies. The good Doctor put up a valiant fight, but with two Plant/Rads painting him with debuffs, and two dominators (Plant/Fire and Plant/Elec) pelting him with attacks, Vahz didn't stand a chance. He vollied a few threatening shots at us, but our three spirit trees quickly replenished our strength.

As for next time, I'm going to lead a Synapse TF this coming Wednesday. We'll gather at 7:30 PM Eastern or so. Level 15 minimum required to join. As usual, all are welcome. If you indicate that you'll be joining here, I'll save you a spot until 8 PM Eastern or so; otherwise first come first serve!

I don't know that I'll be able to make it to Synapse on Wednesday, but I'll try. Don't worry about holding a spot for me if I'm not already on by 7:30.

Just checking in on this thread. Makes it easier for me to see. Greetings and welcome. To all who are interested in the SG, I'm on for a couple of hours everyday. My Global is Heavy Epsilon. Feel free to fling an in game email at me and I'll see about getting you on board. I figure this will relieve some of the recruitment pressure from Loupy and wtwall01.

Also, the base.... she is complete... for now. We can manage 4 more teleporter pods in the room we have now. If we want all 22 locations, we will need a larger base footprint. If you have any suggestions, send an email to my Global.

Funny story; I tried to run the first half of the Positron TF. We started out a team of 7. Two scrappers, a blaster, three Controllers (myself included), and a fantastic Tank. By the last mission, we were 5, the three controllers, one scrapper, and the tank. We suffered a team wipe during the ambush before you enter city hall causing the tank to rage quit. But the remaining 4 pressed on.

We easily dispatched the baddies in the lobbies through prodigious use of confuses and then got trampled by our shadow clones. Of which there were 5 the controllers, a scrapper and a tank. Upon out return from the hospital, we encountered a glitch in the game. The shadow villain of the tank, who had rage quit, was transformed into another copy of myself. The resulting mag of incoming confuses was too much for our little band and we had to abandon the TF.

It was, however, a valiant effort.

This week, we had a full team of horticultarists hop on for our Saturday run (four doms and four controllers). We decided to run Synapse. After tearing apart many, many clockwork, we faced off against Babbage, who immediately ran away from our flourishing garden. He didn't make it far, and--after a chase--he was dispatched. We then took on the Clockwork King, and he fell far more quickly. We're not sure, but we think we may have punched through the purple triangles, as he spent the entire fight held. (We took a screenshot with Synapse after, but my file didn't come out. If anyone else has a good shot, please post it.)

Most of us are inching into the 30s. Our next run will be Saturday, August 6, at 2:00 PM Eastern. We're eager to take on Sister Psyche, as that TF will not exemp us below creeper use. The record number of Creepers we've seen together have been five, and it's quite pretty, if not deadly.

As always, newcomers are welcome, they just have to be blueside on Freedom.

Not the best quality, but here's the shot I took.

Thanks for posting that, Death! Boy those flanking trees look nice. I wish mine was queued up, so we could have had a third in the center. Regardless, it looks great.

Hope to see you all next week!

Awesomeness, Death! Now I just have to get my tree, creepers, and flytrap.

This week, our brave gardeners took on the Sister Psyche TF. We had two dominators, myself and one newcomer, along with a gaggle of controllers. Sister Psyche was kind enough to exemp us to a level where the majority of us still had access to Creepers. For the first time, we got to see at least five, maybe six, Creeper fields going on at once. After our creepers and roots ripped apart clockwork after clockwork, we finally faced off against Clamor. Between the many, many, many debuffs from our controllers---plus the creepers and attacks from our dominators---Clamor quickly fell. (For those of you that have a good screenshot, please post it in the Controller forum; my shot didn't turn out well.)

Next week will probably be Citadel, presuming enough of us are at the right level!

I hope to get back into the loop of things here in a few days. I'm in the process of moving to a new place, and I'm without a computer right now.

I was happy I could make it for the Cit TF and even the night before was great, got in plenty of levels. On my way to catching up with the rest of the group here.

Irresponsible Creeper



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Our brave gardeners gathered TWICE this weekend for the double XP period. On our regular day, Saturday, we accepted Citadel's challenge to trim the ranks of the Council. Soldier after soldier fell to our weeds, and we finally tracked down Vandal. Most of us had Carrion Creepers by now, and a field of creepers began to rip Vandal apart. Surrounded by the glow of Spirit Trees---what a way to go---he was quickly dispatched. Here's another picture of the triumphant team:



On Sunday, we gathered six planters (along with a pickup Corrupter and Scrapper) to take down Mendor Lazarus's task force. No fewer than FIVE AVs were situated against us, but we prevailed. First Nosferatu fell to our roots, then Burkholder to our vines, and finally Requiem, Vandal, and Maestro to our creeper fields. (Nosferatu helped with that last one.) Here's a pic of the proud horticultarists, standing where those three tough AVs once stood:



Next week, we'll probably be on to Manticore. If too many people are below that level, though, we might fall back and do Ernesto Hess or Katie Hannon. All plant dom/cont newcomers (and melee types that have some link to plants; e.g. earth or spines) are welcome, you just have to be blueside on Freedom.