Masterminds 8, Romulus 0

Yesterday afternoon, random banter on Virtue LFG Beta coalesced into Issen1 announcing that he really did want to put together an all-mastermind Imperious Task Force. It took a little while, and one false start followed by a relaunch so that we could make it a Master Of run...and then we kicked through everything. Total time was about 1:20, I think.

Lookit alla the green in da team (window):



A fairly typical moment:



The opening salvo against Romulus:



The team (with link to larger image):





Participants:

Riou Jinzouningen (leader)
Rose Alpha
Mistress Nyte
Combat Librarian
Beelzebub Bill
Jadis Addu
AmaheRe
Malaketh

We had...let's see. 4 robots, 1 thugs, 1 ninja, 1 necro, and 1 demons, if I'm recalling correctly. I don't remember everyone's secondaries, but we had enough bubbling that most of us were over 100% on major defenses most of the time.

It was a blast, and lag wasn't as bad as I was dreading. I look forward to doing it again.

(Crossposted to the Masterminds and Virtue forums.)

I bet you played the entire TF in 'aggressive' mode.

Its so nice being on 8-man teams were each member can buff, debuff, do damage, and even Tank. Its easy mode.

I saw this being formed last night and I knew I was going to be missing out.

You guys must have had a blast.

Is this gonna pick up with regularity? If so I'll be tempted to move my MM to Virtue.

I joined the Mastermind Channel, saved my characters name on Virtue in case I transfer and will monitor how much goes or doesnt go on.

Bah! This group was missing Mercs! I am not pleased!

Seriously though, good job!

Wow, all those seeker drones and photon grenades...

what? ... what?

Yeah I name saved a character on Virtue and looked in Channel Search and there was a MM channel with 600 members just 8 online.

I was the one going aggressively, enough to die while holding the stairs for most of the nictus ambush, only to succumb and destroy our Mo chance.

Fortunately we reformed and stomped everything afterwards. the Invincible Army of the Future easily bested Romulus, we even managed to separate him from the nictus and prevented him from rezzing at all.

You should assemble a team of 8 thug masterminds with burnout... That would've been epic even if it was for a few minutes.

My first character was a BS/SR scrapper and I've sorta taken that playstyle to every other character that I've ever played.

Sometimes it works, other times....I don't have any problems getting all my debt badges, though I do try to die somewhere where it won't cause a total wipe if it does happen.
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Man, that ITF was a riot. Had a good time not having to look after non-MMs.

<< Combat Librarian

I saw about this and I wish I could have gone.

But gratz! Looks like it was a blast!

As the one who started it, I have to admit I was inspired by the talk of Masterminds and Trials, and remember I once did an all-Dual Pistols ITF once as well, and figured "Hell, why not?"

I'm glad everyone was so patient. We had one drop-out due to lag, but I was surprised by the LACK of lag on our part mostly. Enemies did wind up popping in and out all over the place courtesy of the engine's rendering limitations. But overall, I'm glad people were so patient with me.

The huge success was likely due to the fact over half the team was /Dark, so Twilight Grasp got MAXIMUM efficiency and performance. Not to mention with two /Trap Bots and the one /FF using Power boost along with about 5 stacks of Maneuvers equaled about...135-138% in Melee, Ranged, and AoE defenses. Resistances weren't as high, but with BG mode it was laughable.

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Originally Posted by Psylenz Wow, all those seeker drones and photon grenades... what? ... what?

You think that was crazy? Do you even want to hear about the ludicrous burn patch shenanigans? Thugs + Bots = DoT overload. Cyclops and Minotaurs tried to pop Unstoppable and still melted like butter.

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Originally Posted by Comicsluvr 1) There's a MM channel? How did I miss out on this????? 2) I used to run an all-MM thing called MM Mondays because why should Tankers have all the fun? It was always a hoot. We all started at lvl 1-2 and switched the Diff up at lvl 6 and again at lvl 12. On slow nights I'd hold MM classes like 'Defensive/Follow FTW' and 'Yes...it's okay for MMs to attack no matter what other players say.' 3) I'd love to get in on an all-MM regular event if someone else can host it. My schedule is too hectic right now to organize it I'm afraid.

I wouldn't mind doing a regular all MM-event. Perhaps even doing so on the WSTs (Though something like Statesman/Lord Recluse might be incredibly difficult due to the final boss of the encounter). You'd think it would be bad having that many pets, but it went surprisingly well.

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Originally Posted by Paladiamors Bah! This group was missing Mercs! I am not pleased! Seriously though, good job!

Heh, we tried, but the one person on my list with a 50 Merc MM wasn't available at the time. I actually would preferred a few more Demons because Ember Shield stacking would've made the entire TF a joke.

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Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison I saw this being formed last night and I knew I was going to be missing out. You guys must have had a blast.

We did, with the exception of the false start, which was my fault for not informing the team properly that we were going to do an Master-Of run, it went ridiculously smooth. I was most impressed with the results. I can imagine we could do almost any of the TFs minus something like the STF or LGTF (Weakened Hamidon would be a pain) with all MMs and be assured of a good amount of success.

I hope to do this regularly if possible, encourage folks to actively use MMs more, as there were times I feared we wouldn't have enough people for a full team.