Keyes Island Trial

Well its that time again.....

You knew it would be coming with the drop of new badges.....

I will be running this trial everyday starting at about 2 pm EST until 5-6 pm EST, to get the new shinies. If you would like to join me please do so. Any AT is welcome.

In addition to the PuG's, I will be doing a scheduled run on Friday 7/1 at about 7-8 EST to try for all of them at once, whether I have them yet or not.

You can find me @Kotchie in global's.

I'll be there. 2pm EST should be my 3pm (GMT-3), unless timezones decided to switch around to hate on me.

I'll hook up with you, not today though. Besides, it's nice to get others to figure out the best way to grind this stuff.

My schedule is a bit up in the air Kotchie, but I know how to get a hold of you if I'm on

I'm hopeing that I can make one today.

I think the no deaths badge will be the hardest and have some good on the spot healers and have people shout out when hit. I think I will unlock and slot up rebirth since that will come in better use then barrier for this badge.

Another thing I did last night to speed up where you have to lead AM around is I had Darkest night on him (using my brute) and just flew him around with a occasional taunt and he stuck on me like glue and we had that part done very quickly.

I am POSITIVE there are going to be multiple tries at these badges, with different badges being the focus.

The no deaths badge will be challenging, but thats what its all about ;P

Once people are more comfortable with the trial, I am positive it will become easy. Look at BAF for an example. When it first came out everyone thought it was impossible, stopping the escapees was to hard. Now if you miss just one everyone gets upset. People routinely run it with 16 or less and do a great job.

It will all come together.

Hmm. Were you planning to do this today? I'm in Pocket D.

Of course, count me in. I have a few ideas on this trial based on my single (but informative - thanks, Myrdinn) run from last evening.

I may look you up now, in fact.

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I'm 7 for 8 on Keyes so far. Its getting faster but still have so many newbies running it that it takes longer than it should. The first run yesterday after server reset was a spectacular fail thanks to the 3 scrappers who screamed "KILL IT" as soon as Antimatter showed up LOL.

I rather enjoy this trial actually. Moreso than LAM at least. There's a bit more of a strategic approach you can take with this one as long as you have team members willing to play certain roles (PUG's won't do this often). It reminds me of a mini-Hami raid from that perspective, but here you have Battery teams, Warworks teams, Tauntbot/Healer teams, etc. With the right teams who know and play their roles, this could become almost as fast to run as the BAF I think.

Ok first set of trials..got Anti-Anti Matter badge..one piece to the puzzle complete.

I do agree that the trial will get easier with time and practice and a sound strategy is developed. To much new right now I think.

For those who did not join us, I am trying again tommorrow..same times.

Thanks to everyone who did join...second one was a touch rough...but stuff will get smoothed out.

Friday is still the "Run for the Gold" run where we try all at once....Hope to see you guys there. (If time is a big conflict PLEASE let me know)

How long does it take to run this trial?

I've been having so many problems with disconnects/lag that I stopped running the trials and have focused on filling out my Alpha slots(shards) on all of toons. I was told they issued a patch for the disconnect problems on large trials this week so I would like try to this to at least once see.

Also, how large must the team be to run this? Are you doing the League max?

This is a great trial. I ran tonight with 24. It took us about an hour and 15 min for our successful run. I did get a disconnect. Nothing has changed in that area. I did get to play with Dr. G too and we had a good team that listened...a rare thing.

Resident X - Today I will be trying to run this with the minimum..12 people. Smaller league may be more co-ordination. We will see how it goes.

This trial isnt not hard just to finish, just tedious. Going to try for any badge that pops up. Bunker buster, Avoids the Green Stuff, And Loves a Challenge we will try for any and all just to see if the smaller league is the key.

Regardless of todays or tommorrows outcome, Friday evening will still be the "Golden Day" for a strong run. The days leading up to are just practice/tweaking/shaking out the cobwebs runs to see what works and what does not.

That's funny you said a 12 minimium run, last night was my first run so I was just happy to see new content but I understand your point about tedious. We had 24 but I think 4 or 5 of us actually got all the glowies and temp powers. Good luck today.

I may be on Friday night. Will you do more than 1 run?

I'll post my status tomorrow morning.

I'll be there today to get what I can.

Kotchie, are you out there? We're in Pocket D waiting for you.

How did it go?

I got a new strategy to try tonight. Tried it this morning and it sort of worked (and I have a definite feeling it will work swimmingly), but the team was a little unfamiliar with exactly what we were doing in the trial itself..let alone a detailed plan of action for a badge. Still got a complete out of it, so wasnt a total loss.

Kotchie,

Which badges do you have now?

I only have the completed one. Can we try to hit maybe 1 - 3 of these badges today? Maybe Anti-Matter, Bunker Buster and green stuff?

EDIT: Nevermind, I found your other posts today.

Alrighty folks..... MoKeyes achieved......that is all.

Grats.