Darkness Superteam on Justice

As I was reponding, Starry Night gave the short version above me.

Longer version:

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Originally Posted by JayboH why not wait until blasters get dark sets and (dominators?) in a couple of months?

We considered this in our discussions during running nights and decided against waiting. We have a 3-5 month turn-around on superteams. Knowing this, we didn't want to wait up to 4 months or more before the next team (started working out next team details in early July). Once we decided to hold the next team before I21's launch, we then held our vote for what it would be, and Dark won out; the vote was held after the proliferation announcement, so the voters could take that into account.

The same argument could also be made to wait for the new sets: Time Manipulation, Beam Rifle, and Street Justice. Perhaps one or more of those will be well designed base a superteam around, or fit into another theme (we've already added a Time / Grav / Kin concept to our list for future voting).

This way, with our turn around rate, you'll probably see an announcement for our next superteam near-about late November to early January. This should also give time enough for our devs to clear up any major bugs that get found after the new and proliferated sets go live.

Also of note is this detail from the announcement:

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Originally Posted by arafel Yes, Masterminds were left off the list of allowed powersets/archetypes. As were Warshades (the Negative Energy-based attacks could be argued as "dark"). This was an intentional decision to try to narrow down an already wide-open theme of "darkness".

While we won't turn down anybody that wants to join, no matter how late into the current group, as arafel points out, this theme is already wide open as it is. Considering the original superteams were exclusively single-set (all Trick Arrow, all Traps, etc.) adding another AT steps away from our current theme further. Nonetheless, if one of our members throws together a Dark Blaster alt on Justice and we don't happen to be running a TF too high that night, we probably wouldn't refuse it on an occasional basis.

Count me in, I already have a 30 something dark/dark that I love to death over on Justice that mimics my favorite Star Trek DS9 character: Garak.

While we have attention in this thread, anybody interested in our group doesn't have to wait until we get the Darkness themed team running. If you have a high-ish character on Justice already, we've still been running on the regular schedule for many months now: Friday and Sunday at 8 P.M. (Eastern) / 5 P.M. (Pacific).

A few of our group are still running their most recent superteamer 50s (the gun-themed ones), some have moved to former themed characters (I've been running my /stone brute from our /earth team), and we even run the occasional alt that isn't from a previous superteam at all.

Lately we've been running Lambda's, whatever the Weekly Strike Target is, end-game TFs for Alpha slot components, the occasional +4 ITF, whatever we're in the mood for.

If anybody wants to stop by and run with us, just /chan_join Justice Superteamers and we'll organize up at the scheduled times. We'll also use our channel to fill for I-Trials and TFs during the week that we join / run off schedule.

People have been guessing it might be darkness themed or dark illusion, but nothing has been announced.

I've run a few doms over the years, and I had trouble getting into the playstyle. Despite this, my Fire/Fire perma-dom is still one of my favorite characters, and actually my most advanced Incarnate.

The major difference is that he's got perma-dom. He was poster-boy squishy / weak right up until I spent hundreds of millions of inf to keep his dom up at all times. The permanent mez protection and +mag to mezzes so they can lock down whole spawns (including bosses) from the start are complete game changers for doms. The free full end bar every couple minutes makes a big difference, too; I find myself forgetting that I have Consume more often than not. It's unfortunate that perma-dom requires such an investment.

After he pulled off enough recharge for perma-hasten as well he became unstoppable except vs. the nastiest spawns and mez-resistant targets (AVs).

Just because I look this doesn't mean she should call me old. I'm gonna throw that little brat in the cement pond.

I'm the opposite, I think controllers are my most hated AT, even though I put defenders at the top. Funny thing is, my main is a scrapper.

For what it is worth; my first 50 was a kin/dark defender. Of the AT present, the most i have played to 50 would have to be controller (plant/rad, ice/sonic, earth/kin, fire/kin, and one or two more that i can't remember). I do tend to favor support over the damage. But groups such as this have definately helped me break my original mind set and try new AT. On one of my saturday groups, i roled my first tanker. And i must say, there is a certain amount of satisfaction of going into a mob that only stands there and can only slowly, dwindle my health away. Granted i do have one or two def buffs, but still nice.