~Master of the BAF - Saturday, October 29~

A Mr E-Man & Dr Turgenev Co-Production

Featuring Mr E-Man

Mission: Master of the Behavioral Adjustment Facility Trial
Contact: League Team-Up Teleporter
Location: Meet in Pocket D

Date & Time: Saturday, October 29 @ 10:30PM Eastern / 7:30PM Pacific

Level Range: 50

Villains: Praetorians, Imperial Defense Force

Arch-Villain(s)/Hero(es)/Elite Bosses: Nightstar (x2), Siege (x2)

Current Team Roster:

1: Mr E-Man: Inv/SS Tanker
2: Megpie: TBA
3: Marvel: TBA
4: Duneman: TBA
5: Luna de Nocturne: DB/Reg Scrapper
6: Dr Turgenev: Ill/Storm Controller
7: Myrdinn: TBA
8: Post: TBA (maybe)
9: Captain Power: Eng/Eng Blaster
10: Sevenpenny: Kat/WP Scrapper
11: Inferna Inanis: Fire/Kin Controller
12: Miss Heavenly: TBA
13: Blue Bullet2.2: Kat/Reg Scrapper
14: Oblivo: Fire/MM Blaster
15: Swift: MA/Reg Scrapper
16: Dynexus: Ill/FF Controller
17: Firestarter 2012: Fire/Eng Blaster (maybe)
18: Black Knight Kallen: ???/??? Brute
19: Customs: Elec/Elec Tanker
20: Intrinsic: Fire/Fire Dominator

Alternates:

Aza: TBA (maybe)



Incarnate Trial Info & Stats:

• This Trial requires a 12-24-person league to start & each member must be Level 50 & have his/her Alpha Slot Unlocked & Slotted
• 1 missions (5 phases)
• Badge(s): Behavior Adjuster & Master of the BAF (no guarantees :smirk: ) for earning the following badges:

1. Not On My Watch: No Mindwashed Prisoners can escape
2. Alarm Raiser: Do not disable a Guard Tower using the controls at its base
3. Gotta Keep 'Em Separated: Defeat Siege & Nightstar at their initial spawn points
4. Strong & Pretty: Defeat Siege & Nightstar while none of their reinforcements are alive

• Rewards: Incarnate Threads, Psychic Incarnate Experience, Empyrean Merits, Astral Merits
• This TF is open to both Heroes & Villains
• We will be doing this in two back-to-back runs splitting out the Gotta Keep 'Em Separated & the Strong & Pretty badges

Signing up with Dr. Turgenev (Illusion/Storm) for this run.

For anyone who hasn't run this before, please review this strategy guide for the mechanics of the Trial as a whole:

http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Behavi...Trial/Strategy

Some notes for general consideration on badge work:

1. There are four badges total to qualify for Master status. Two of these (Not on My Watch and Alarm Raiser) can be done easily, and at any time. In fact, most players are SO used to doing them for the extra astral merit that this shouldn't even be a goal for the runs, as you can get them whenever (and probably already have it if you've run BAFs before).

2. The two naughty badges are "Gotta Keep 'Em Separated" and "Strong & Pretty". The former requires rooting Siege and NS at their initial spawn spots, and keeping them there the whole trial. The latter requires killing the two AVs when ALL other support mobs are dead.

"Separated" and "S&P" really should be done separately, with each run focusing on one of these badges.

Besides having the right mix of +2/3 level shifted players with damage/debuff for AV takedowns, we'll need at least two tank types for each trial run (one for each AV), and 3 teams. The tanks should be able to take the AV-sized damage bursts AND know when to break off if they're too close to being Sequestered.

Quote:

Sequestering - Nightstar and Siege have a special attack they do during this trial called sequestering. Basically, if you gain too much of Nightstar or Siege's "attention" while you are fighting them, they will give you warnings, and then sequester you if you don't heed their warnings. You will see warnings for you in red letters, and a ring will appear around your character for each warning. You can also see warnings for others in white letters. If you gain a third ring, you will be "sequestered", i.e. unresistably held, for a fairly long duration. Even worse, the hold is a targeted AoE centered on you, so if you are careless you may cause other people to be sequestered at the same time you are. The key point is this: if you get a second warning, back off and kill adds until the rings fade.

Bottom line: You should know how to manage the ring warnings for ANY BAF run, but for how we'll be situated for each run, an AOE Hold on our gang will be a negative.

I'd say max out the total to about 18-20 instead of the full 24 if we can, to keep the spawn numbers lower and more manageable. (If we get more, fine, but if we hit lower for all the signees, we'd fare a bit better on the spawn counts.) Each tank team should dedicate to either one of the two AVs, with the third team dedicating to keeping the ambush mobs dead (they all spawn from the barracks Helipad area in the north). Four or five players should manage this, with the rest going to help with the AV kills.

Any suggestions, things to discuss? Chat it up here, I can amend any crap that I say.

@TURGENEV - Freedom Server / IRON / B.A.N.E / HORDE

Turg Fiction: Ghost in the Machine Acts III & IV coming 2012!
Turg Fiction: IX is now LIVE on Architect Entertainment!

ah what the heck....may as well jump back on the wagon....Sevenpenny as usual....

Im in but ill have to see what toon I don't have this on.

I'll be on my main this night. Luna de Nocturne: DB/Regen Scrapper

I'll Definitely be on CP for this one.

I'm in. Inferna Inanis Fire/Kin Controller

Turg did a great write up on this but I also want to say that having a lvl shifted toon is very important. These guys will be +3 and +4 if you are not and will kill you in a heartbeat.

The lvl 54 bosses that spawn at the helipad will kill even lvl 53 shifted players pretty easy so its hard no matter what but lvl shifts help a ton.

I don't know if anyone spends as much time in PD as I do but maybe we can do an Incarnate trial night and pick one to do once a week to help people get some lvl shifts and loot.

I will bring my Kat/Regen scrapper BlueBullet2.2 if you'll have me.

Im in for this; Oblivo Fire / MM Blaster

I can bring my tank but ill switch to something else if tanking duty is covered.

I'm in. Character's Swift, +3 MA/Regen scrapper.

May I please join?

Dynexus
50+3 - Illusion/FF Controller

I'll join with my brute, Black Knight Kallen.
Also, higher level shift is desirable, but it is possible to do it on a +1 incarnate as I had done on my other toons.
For Gotta Keep 'Em Separated, I suggest toons with higher lvl shifts or defense be placed on the NS team since they will be more exposed than the Siege team. The Siege team can use the building doorway to hide from the lasers. The NS team doesn't have as many places to hide.

Put me down for my Elec/Elec tank, E.

I'd like to bring my fire/fire dominator if you still have open spots. Level 50 +3, I've run BAF plenty of times on this character but I'm still missing the Gotta Keep 'Em Separated badge.

Just a reminder...

Nice, sounds good, im still in...

Whoohoo! MoBAF badge also netted the Voyager (for 1250) badge!

Thank you for letting me join, Mr E-Man!

Thank you for leading, Dr T!

Two runs, four badges, one Master. Superbly done by everyone. You guys make this easy. Thanks for coming out! Next up, Master LAMBDA!

@TURGENEV - Freedom Server / IRON / B.A.N.E / HORDE

Turg Fiction: Ghost in the Machine Acts III & IV coming 2012!
Turg Fiction: IX is now LIVE on Architect Entertainment!

Congrats everyone on back-to-back runs for the Master of BAF Badge!


Master of the BAF: 10/29/2011 - Success

The League:

Mr E-Man
Dr. Turgenev
Cracktooth
Dynexus
Emerald Scale
Ion Sky
Caitlin
Rez Brrracata
US Federal Agent
Scataloni Volt
Captain Power
PawPa
Big Mouth Moonz
LiL Miss Widow
Tania Trum
Luna de Nocturne
Black Knight Kallen
Tungsten Torpedo
Doc Novacaine
Swift (1st run only - mapserved entering the 2nd run)

Thanks for joining everyone & congrats to all!

Next weekend is my nephew's wedding, so I am not able to run anything, but will return in two weeks with a Master of Lambda Sector attempt if Turg is up for it. :smirk: